Youth Sports

Diamond Girls: LAGSL softball players have shined right from league’s beginnings 49 years ago

February 22, 2012
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Diamond Girls:  LAGSL softball players have shined right from league’s beginnings 49 years ago

Los Al Girls Softball League begins it 49th season this weekend so I thought I’d trot out this article which was originally published in Local Sports in March 2002 (when the headline read “39 years ago”.  I’m in the process of up-dating it and as soon as I collect additional photos, etc.  I’ll post...

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LAYB to start “50th” season at base

February 22, 2012
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LAYB to start “50th” season at base

Youth Baseball begins its 56th season overall The Los Alamitos Youth Baseball league will toss the first pitch of its 2012 season with a slate of games at “the base” fields this Saturday that will supposedly celebrate the league’s 50th season at the base. The games actually mark the start of local youth baseball’s...

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So Cal A’s win 2nd straight Premier Fastpitch championship

August 11, 2011
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So Cal A’s win 2nd straight Premier Fastpitch championship

Before a crowd of about 1,500 at Bill Barber Field in Irvine, the So Cal Athletics rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to down the Worth Firecrackers 8-7 and claim the Premier Fastpitch League championship in a match pitting two of the historic travel ball teams. Both teams are...

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YOUTH SOFTBALL: LAGSL 10s, 12s open Nat’l all-star play next Wednesday

July 29, 2011
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The LAGSL 10&Under and 12&Under All-Stars will open their Western National Championship tournament with pool play games next Wednesday. The 10s will open against Rockville, CA. at 10am.  The other teams in their pool are the Santee Gold and Central Grizzlies. The 12s are in a 3-team pool, and open Wednesday afternoon against Woodland,...

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YOUTH BASEBALL: LAYB Mustang All-Stars in must-win situation

July 29, 2011
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LAYB Shetlands eliminated in World Series pool play The LAYB Mustang All-Stars are in a must-win situation at the Pony Mustang Zone Tournament being held this weekend at the LAYB Fields.  The locals lost their opener 20-9 to Blossom Valley on Thursday night and will play Charter Oak on Friday afternoon. The LAYB Shetland...

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AYSO: Crusaders take GU12 state title to culminate 24-0 season

July 28, 2011
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AYSO:  Crusaders take GU12 state title to culminate 24-0 season

The Crusaders, the Los Al Region 159 GU12 season champs, became the first Region 159 (Los Alamitos, Rossmoor and Seal Beach) team to win the California State Championship when it downed Pleasant Hill 4-2 at the Garden Grove Soccer Complex on March 12-13. The Crusaders, who qualified for the tournament by capturing the Area...

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Six local Pop Warner player earn Scholar-Athletes award

July 28, 2011
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Six local Pop Warner player earn Scholar-Athletes award

Six Los Alamitos Pop Warner Football players from the 2010-2011 season were recently named Second Team All-American Pop Warner Scholar Athletes. The award for the six players — Trevor Replogle, Bobby Curry, Brandon Wagoner, Josiah Norwood, Connor Cassedy, and Tanner Way —  put these players in the top 2% of approximately 410,000 players that...

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YOUTH BASEBALL: LAYB Shetlands qualify for SoCal World Series

July 18, 2011
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YOUTH BASEBALL:  LAYB Shetlands qualify for SoCal World Series

The LAYB Shetland All-Stars captured the Central Region, District 3 Championship in the Shetland  All-Star Tournament which was played July 2-3 in La Mirada. Under the PONY format champs at the regional format get to skip the section tournaments (which are basically second chance tournaments for the remaining teams).  The three District Champs were ...

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LAYB Pintos earn berth in Western Zones

July 16, 2011
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The Los Alamitos Pinto All-Stars rallied from a second round loss and came back to win five straight games and finish as the runner-up at last weekend’s Pinto Super Regional youth baseball tournament in Moreno Valley. With the finish, the LAYB Pintos earn a spot in the Pinto Western Zone World Series qualified for...

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Ah, All-Star season… baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and umpire controversies

July 14, 2011
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Sounds like things got a little chippy at an Youth baseball All-Star tournament in Garden Grove last night, when a Garden Grove Pony League Board member umpired a game pitting the LAYB “B” all-stars versus the Garden Grove all-stars in a losers bracket final.   After reportedly being up 6-1 going into the third inning,...

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