Players line up to parade the field.
9′s, 11′s, and 13′s. These are all super NIT champions.
Your Chandler rangers…
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Parade
Posted by Scott
on July 31, 2011
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Elite 32
Posted by Scott
on July 31, 2011
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Here in Orlando.
Opening ceremonies streamed live at: Live Streaming
Games will be score cast live:
Tonights game will be scorecasted using iScore. The HTML (basic) website link is: http://data.iscorecentral.com/iscorecast/htmlplayer.php?c=F5C0213527
The fancy Flash Player is:
http://data.iscorecentral.com/iscorecast/player.html?c=F5C0213527
Off To Florida
Posted by Scott
on July 29, 2011
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This is the craziest Month for us with Baseball. First, there’s the Pitch, Hit, & Run stuff. Amazing. Matt’s run at the little league state title, (amazing).
And now we pack up the family and head to Florida, so the Chandler Rangers can compete in the USSSA Elite 32 World Series.
I’ll be tweeting updates @scottnovis of you can go to my twitter page and click on the follow me button.
Lots of Buzz
Posted by Scott
on July 14, 2011
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Ryan’s Catch was featured on a number of websites, including
Yahoo Sports: Big League Stew
MLB.com: Ball Boy Makes Sick Grab
Huffington Post/AOL: Kid Makes Outstanding Diving Catch
KMLE 108 Country: Ball Boy Makes Great Catch At Home Run Derby
WKDQ 99.5: Kid Makes Amazing Catch at MLB Home Run Derby
Ryan wins it all
Posted by Scott
on July 12, 2011
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And now we wait
Posted by Scott
on July 11, 2011
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The competition is done but they don’t name the winners until AFTER the home run derby.
Right now we are watching work out day – and it’s funny you have a bunch of all stars shagging balls for all stars.
Everyone booed prince fielder for not picking Justin Upton for the home run derby team. Those balls are $30 each (derby balls).
The fans are rabid for them.
Pitch Hit And Run National Finals
Posted by Scott
on July 11, 2011
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[this will be a live blog format. I'll just keep taking pics and entires on the end.]
12:30 it’s started. They are starting with the girls. At every level until the finals you have to hit a target – any part of it. But now they have to put it through a hole into a net and that is a lot harder
12:39 Lita hit 2 of 6. I was worried until the other girls in her age did the same. Girls are almost done.
12:46. Girls are done. Very last girl hit 6 of 6. Very impressive. She was like a machine just putting them in there. Nicely done.
7-8 boys are done. Now the 9-10s.
12:58. Ryan hit 6 out of 6! Way to go kid. The other two guys were 4/6 and 4/6.
They are now setting up for hitting.
1:15 the girls are done hitting. Best hit was about 198 on the tape. Wow that’s a long way to hit a softball. I’m a little nervous because they have to hit off a mat. That puts the ball in a weird spot.
You actually don’t want to hit a ball in the middle of the plate.
1:24 some 12 year old representing the nationals just set the 12 year old record hitting it 305 feet off the tee. Tyler – the player in front of Ryan had three real nice hits over 280 but they were a little far off the line. Ryan had one hit right on the line near? 300 it looked to me but it could have been more than 10 feet short. The record for 13/14 is 356 feet. That record is in no danger today.
Ryan was frustrated but I think he still has a chance. It’s the first competition where he hasn’t out driven everyone by 20 or more feet.
Now it’s time to run.
1:36 Boys are running now.
Ryan will be in the last group.
Ryan and Tyler tied for the fastest time with a time of 6.97. Luke trailed with 7.1
So now we wait. They don’t announce the winners until much later but I think Ryan has a shot to win it!
Pitch Hit And Run National Finals 12:25
Posted by Scott
on July 11, 2011
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All-star HRD 10:30
Posted by Scott
on July 11, 2011
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All Tivos set. Sure enough one of them had “gone gray” meaning the tuner card just stopped sending pictures. Nice. But ingot it fixed and I added time to every recording before and after. they should be good to go. I packed up a backpack. Time to head to the stadium. I’m not competing but why am I so nervous? Lots of texts from friends and well-wishers. This is so cool.
All Stars – Home Run Derby
Posted by Scott
on July 11, 2011
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10:00AM Rebecca is at grandmas. Matt is now off with his friends. Ryan is at the brunch by now. I need to meet them at the stadium by 11 am. I’m showered and mostly dressed. I got nothing done this morning. Expected to get some programming done but everything took longer than expected. Video camera is ready and charged. (I wonder if we will ever look at the pictures – I hope so). TiVo is programmed to record the Home Run Derby. I just pray Cox doesn’t crap out again. They don’t like TiVo and very often our cable card just stops working. Only shows gray. I better make sure all of them are set to record.
They can’t all go bad at once can they?