Varsity Season Notes

Varsity Season Notes 2011

May 23, 2011

The Lancers wrapped up the regular season on Saturday at Bartlett. LP swept Bartlett 11-5 and 11-9 to finish the season at 22-13 overall and 15-10 in conference two games back of UEC Valley Champion Waubonsie Valley. The Lancers finished the season 13-4 and have a good bit of momentum going into the playoffs.

Congrats to Zach Tsiodras on a great UEC Career. Zach finished up at LP’s all time leading UEC Conference career hitter at .421 beating out Coach Dave Mikes who held onto the record since 1996. Awesome job Zach! Tommy Spear continued to extend his HBP total to 18 for the season. This is both a single season and career total record. Awesome job Tommy. Go get some ice!

Playoff Alert: The Lancers open up Regional play this Thursday at Geneva against UEC opponent Geneva. The game starts at 4:30.

Owen Kennedy update! Owen received his liver transplant and is recovering his strength. This is great news! His fundraiser at Impecca in Roselle is still on for June 2^nd at 7:00. See below for all of the details. Get well soon Owen! It was great to hear from you.

Camp information: See the LP website for summer camps. We have plenty of room left in pitching, hitting, and defensive skills. If you have a youngster we also are running a beginner camp for the 4-6 year old crowd.

May 11, 2011

Brandon Boyle!!! What a day for the senior shortstop yesterday. 5-6 at the plate. Three runs scored, two RBI’s, a double, and a HR. The Lancers won for the fourth straight time, 16-10 against East Aurora. The Lancers are now 15-11, 11-8 in the UEC Valley. We are still in the race for conference since South Elgin lost to Neuqua Valley. We are going to have to have a great week next week and get some help along the way. We play Geneva in a makeup that has the Lancers up 2-1 after two innings. We then play Waubonsie Valley for three and Bartlett in a double header. If we can play with some focus and the hitting can stay hot we should make it interesting.

Here is what the conference looks like currently

South Elgin 11-6-1

Waubonsie Valley 12-7

Neuqua Valley 8-6-1

Lake Park 11-8

May 10, 2011

Game Changer will have to wait until we can get someone with an unlimited data plan to log the games. Sorry if you have been looking to follow us live.

The Lancers are 14-11 currently after going 5-2 last week. We finished strong with wins against Bartlett and two against East Aurora.

In game one Saturday the Lancers were down 10-6 going into the bottom of the 6^th against East Aurora when Zach Tsiordras hit a two run home run to cut the lead. In the bottom of the 7^th Tommy Spear tied it at 10 with a home run of his own. The Lancers won it four batters later on a bases loaded walk to Ryan Castello.

Jeremy Olenek got the win in relief in game one throwing four innings. Eric Vatch threw a complete game for his fourth win of the season in game two. The hustle play of the day went to Brandon Boyle who turned a routine single into a double in game one. The other hustle play of the day went to all of the parents that helped put together a nice spread between games. Thanks!!!

The Lancers complete the series against East Aurora today at EA. We have added a couple of games this week. We will play Lake Zurich at home Thursday and will play at Addison Trail on Friday.

The Lancers will open the post season on May 26^th against Geneva in the Geneva regional. We were seeded 9^th out of 22 teams in the St. Charles North sectional.

May 3, 2011

Follow the Lancers live on www.gamechanger.io

I just signed up for the service and will have a player update the scores live. Please register for the site (it is free) and look for the Lancers. We will have a player, parent, etc update the game live as it happens!!

The Lancers have a big week ahead of them and got off to a great start as sophomore Mark Pall started his first varsity game. Mark went the distance giving up only one run on two hits to Metea Valley. Congrats Mark!!

Sophomore Eric Vatch was 2 for 2 with a HR and Double. Senior Zach Tsiodras got the Lancers on the board with a big two out single.

The Lancers play South Elgin today in the second of seven games this week. Go Lancers!!!

April 29, 2011

I would like to put a call out for help. Owen Kennedy father or two former Lake Park baseball players Steve and Matt is in need of a liver transplant. There is a fundraiser, which is detailed in the flyer below. If you cannot view the flyer I have also included the information below. If you can help, it would be going to a great cause. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide this family in their time of need.

On Thursday June 2, 2011 at Impecca Restaurant 121 Main St. Roselle, IL. $25 Donations per person in cash or check. Light food buffet, cash bar and music at 9:00.

You may also donate to the Friends of Owen fund c/o Itasca Bank and Trust 308 W Irving Park Rd Itasca, IL 60143.

For raffle donations contact: friendsofowen@aol.com

April 28, 2011

It has been two weeks since I last posted. In this time, the Lancers have played just two games. We currently sit at 7-7 and play Neuqua Valley on the road today. We sure hope the weather changes so we can get some games in. It would be nice to play.

If the weather breaks there will be a lot of baseball over the next few weeks.

April 14, 2011

The squad is currently 6-6, 2-3 in the Upstate Eight. In the last week we beat Conant on a bottom of the 7^th single by Max Boryszewski, lost a tough one 4-2 to St. Charles North, beat Batavia in a very good game 8-2 with sophomore Christian Taugner getting his second varsity win. We lost a tough game to Hoffman Estates 4-1 on Saturday. On Monday the Lancer bats came alive in a 12-1 victory over Larkin. Kevin Steger pitched a complete game in the five inning game. Tuesday the Lancers ran into a tough St. Charles East team with their Div 1 pitcher and could not overcome a 6 run first inning by the Saints.

Overall our pitching and defense have been keeping us in most games. Our offense should heat up with the weather. We have some players that need to break out and have some of their hits fall in. This will happen. We have some very good hitters that should break out and when they do this will really help take some pressure off the pitching.

I have always said that we want to continue to get better on a daily basis. We are not satisfied with being 6-6. We know there are things we need to do to be better and we continue to work on those things.

Last night it was great to see the turn out at the Athletics and Activities night. Baseball had a great turnout at our breakout session. If anyone has any questions please feel free to email me at dcolucci@lphs.org

Today the Lancers play Elgin in a crossover Upstate Eight game. We hope to even our conference record today. Don’t forget to check out Maxpreps.com for updated stats and schedule.

April 6, 2011

The Lancers opened up the UEC schedule against Streamwood last night. The Lancers feel 4-3 in a very well pitched game. Jake Pygman was the hard luck loser. He threw 6 innings, struck out eight and walked only one. John Schram opened the scoring with a prodigious homerun off Streamwood’s DI pitcher. This was a good test for many hitters on our team since many have aspirations of playing collegiate baseball. It was a measuring stick for our guys. Baseball is a game of adjustments and as a player you must make the appropriate adjustments to be successful. As a team we need to be more aggressive in our approach. It appears to me that we are a bit tentative and afraid to fail. When a player plays that way they tend to not have the success they desire. We will continue working on this aggressiveness and will always work to get better on a daily basis.

Yesterday’s KJ HPOD went to Dean Kise for his hustle to back up 1B on a broken bunt play.

April 4, 2011

Spring break is over and the Lancers finished things up on a high note. Currently the varsity is 3-2. All of the stats and box scores can be found at http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/7bSFeh2xHUCtHxQglyorSw/lake-park-lancers/baseball/home.htm I will not be updating box scores here this year.

In game one the Lancers were defeated by Prospect 10-4. We hit the ball well, but pitching and defense were a bit behind. In game two we lost to Schaumburg 13-1 in 6 innings. It was closer than it seemed with the Lancers winning 1-0 into the 4^th inning. The 7 errors that we committed didn’t help us out.

On Friday we played Glenbard North and we were down 8-5 going into the last inning. The first four Lancers walked and with a bit of help we scored six times. Jeremy Olenek got the win and John Schram closed it out for the save. Jake Pygman hit the first homerun of the year for the Lancers. The Lancers committed only 1 error on the day which kept us in the game.

On Saturday we swept Glenbard East in two very well played games. Christian Taugner threw a complete game in the opener. He struck out eight and walked only one. The Lancers committed only one error in game one. In game two Justin Castello got the win in relief. He threw four strong innings giving up only one run. The Lancers played great defense with no errors.

We have been focusing on playing great defense and making the routine play. We have done a great job of throwing strikes and playing good defense during this three game stretch. We hope to have this trend continue.

Prospect HPOD (Hustle Play of the Day): Nick Turner. Nick grounded back to the pitcher yet still ran a 4.1 to first base.

Schaumburg HPOD: Max Boryszewski for sprinting in from LF to back up 3B on a play putting him in perfect position for a possible overthrow.

Glenbard North HPOD: Bret Saracino on his ever constant cheering from the bench during a 40 degree, rainy, miserable day.

Glenbard East HPOD: Jake Pygman on his hustle double on a ball in the gap. He thought double out of the box and made it on a very close play at 2B.

Glanbard East HPOD: Kevin Steger on his hustle to second base causing a throwing error by the pitcher on a routine ground ball back to the mound.

Lake Park opens up the conference season tomorrow against Streamwood.

March 23, 2011

The season is only a week away and the Lancers continue to prepare their minds and bodies for the rigors of the season. We open up next Tuesday against Mid Suburban for Prospect and back that up with another Mid Suburban opponent Schaumburg. We finish the week with two DVC teams in Glenbard North and Glenbard East. We hope we can get out to play next week because practice is getting a little stale.

The field is starting to come together. It will still be a work in progress throughout the season I am afraid. The parents are organizing an effort to complete the dugout expansion and have received some donations from the community so far. Itasca Bank, Tree Guys Pizza, and Latoria Bros. Construction have donated to the cause. We would like to thank them for their generous donations.

February 28, 2011

Final Varsity Workout results!! Congratulations to Dean Kise and Brandon Boyle for their tie atop the Lancer Strength charts. Great off season work guys.

Name	Push Ups	Rank	Knee Lifts 15 lbs.	Rank	Dips	Rank	Standing Long Jump in inches	Rank	Pull Up Hang (sec)	Rank	Squat Max (chart)	Rank	Board down and back (x2)	Rank
Benhart	50	4	32	10	13	12	87	16	63.7	6	210	15	29.16	12	10.71
Boryszewski	49	6	29	13	13	12	83	18	67.3	3	240	12	37.00	20	12.00
Boyle	57	1	55	4	30	2	92	9	67.0	4	310	4	24.97	1	3.57
Chaidez	40	11	35	8	15	9	96	5	43.9	12	253	8	32.20	16	9.86
Dailey	30	16	30	12	NA	NA	102	2	36.1	16	NA	NA	28.72	10	11.20
Harvey	29	17	33	9	11	15	91	10	56.0	9	233	13	26.55	7	11.43
J. Castello	56	2	57	3	24	4	90	12	40.1	13	246	10	28.77	11	7.86
Kise	56	2	58	2	32	1	95	6	63.8	5	300	5	26.32	4	3.57
Latoria	50	4	28	14	23	5	83	18	36.7	15	300	5	34.20	18	11.29
McNamara	40	11	37	6	17	7	91	10	56.1	8	203	16	26.51	6	9.14
Olenek	45	7	60	1	13	12	93	8	49.9	11	241	11	25.86	3	7.57
Peterson	42	10	36	7	25	3	98	3	81.3	2	255	7	29.60	13	6.43
Pygman	31	14	25	16	15	9	98	3	52.2	10	NA	NA	27.07	8	10.00
Saracino	13	21	23	17	1	19	80	20	3.1	21	374	1	32.64	17	16.57
Schram	44	9	28	14	10	16	88	14	35.8	17	248	9	28.71	9	12.57
Scudder	31	14	16	21	1	19	80	20	18.8	19	176	18	30.54	15	18.00
Steger	45	7	23	17	17	7	110	1	38.0	14	NA	NA	25.28	2	8.00
Tsiodras	22	19	21	19	4	18	86	17	7.2	20	315	3	43.03	21	16.71
Turner	29	17	32	10	14	11	95	6	83.9	1	216	14	29.60	13	10.29
Weber	40	11	39	5	20	6	89	13	62.7	7	189	17	26.41	5	9.14
Zuffante	17	20	19	20	5	17	88	14	21.5	18	338	2	35.26	19	15.71

Average	38.86		34.10		15.15		91.19		46.90		258.17		29.92

Boyle	3.57
Kise	3.57
Peterson	6.43
Olenek	7.57
J. Castello	7.86
Steger	8.00
McNamara	9.14
Weber	9.14
Chaidez	9.86
Pygman	10.00
Turner	10.29
Benhart	10.71
Dailey	11.20
Latoria	11.29
Harvey	11.43
Boryszewski	12.00
Schram	12.57
Zuffante	15.71
Saracino	16.57
Tsiodras	16.71
Scudder	18.00

February 23, 2011

In just a few days the 2011 baseball season will get off and running. It seems like yesterday when the Lancers were hoisting the Regional Championship trophy at Willowbrook. This is a new year, with new faces, and new challenges, but the goal is the same. We strive to create a highly competitive program to and to compete for the new UEC Valley division championship and to defend our Regional Championship. Many of the faces on the team will be different. We have lost 15 seniors to graduation. We will have a much smaller team this year (losing Beefy Matt Kaiser accounted for most of that). By smaller I am talking about numbers. We have many unanswered questions going into the season, but I am confident that through hard work and determination we can succeed. I am excited to get started I hope everyone else is too.

This year we are also selling helmets on www.bbksports.com. Click on Lake Park Spirit Wear and order one of two varieties, both are Navy. We will not be allowing off color helmets this year, or painted helmets. If someone does not want to buy their own we do have a supply of helmets to use.

Prospective ball players: Do not forget to get your athletic department receipt in before tryouts. NO TICKET, NO TRYOUT, NO EXCUSES.

I would like to wish all that are trying out next week the best of luck.

February 16, 2011

This is an excerpt from an email I have received from renowned international coach Pete Caliendo and I wanted to share it, with his permission of course. It is a good read into how other countries prepare to play this wonderful game baseball. Enjoy. The tryout schedule is posted on the Lake Park Athletic 2000 site. The Saturday slot for the freshman team is only if needed.

Japan is a great example of players that out work anyone in the world. No one works harder than the Japanese; they do not question but just do what coaches tell them to work on, is that a great system to coach in? They work hard on the fundamentals by just doing them over and over the correct way. No fancy gadgets, just studying the basic movements and over train them in the correct motions. There balance, strength and flexibility is the best according to size and weight of the athlete. This is why they can throw all the time with very few injuries. Japanese players who are not playing in a game are always swinging the bat and throwing long toss during the game.

High School players do 400 sit ups a day. They only have a senior team, 60 other players just practice all the time. If you had players in the USA that only trained all season, majority would quit. You have to earn your way to the starting lineup. The pitchers are not allowed to throw a 2 seam fastball till they can control the 4 seam fastball.

Pitchers will dry pitch with no baseballs for hundreds of times a day.

Pitchers are used to throwing BP and throwing it firm, not slow.

With a team we took to White Sox spring training to compete against their rookie teams, the Japanese team was age 21-28 year old, in one day pitchers would throw 15 minutes in the bullpen to work on their pitches with a hitter standing at home plate. Then 15 minutes long toss, really far, bouncing in the ball, then 15 minutes BP and finally pitch in a game 3 hours later.

All their hitters prior to the game, especially starting lineup will stand in front of the dugout and looking at the opposing pitcher in the bullpen, working on timing, release point and getting familiar with the pitcher prior to seeing him on the mound. Before they get to the plate they already know the pitcher well.

Pitchers working on a low release will lay a towel in front of the plate; hit the towel with 20-FB, 20 Curves and 20 Change ups. Catchers working on blocking.

When a pitcher is throwing a bull pen, a hitter will stand at home plate and at times will bunt live. The pitcher does not know when.

In BP they will always have a catcher working on framing, blocking and also calling balls and strikes, helping the hitter understanding the strike zone. Of course the catcher is working on framing, blocking, etc. Where else will he get this work, in a Game? I would assume that would be too late. In practice, that is ok but it’s not live.

Umpires prior to a game will go to the home team pitcher in the bullpen and call balls and strikes to show the pitcher their strike zone and seeing the pitchers pitches prior to the game so they are not surprised by a pitch.

The Japanese pay lots of attention to detail.

In bunting at the coaches clinic Paul Belo talked about bunting and not pivoting the back foot but leaving it the way it is and just turn the upper body, a very good technique. It creates better balance, you can reach the outside pitch better and also allows you to get low and behind the bat and ball, the Japanese are the best bunters in the world. This is one of the techniques they use for better balance and control.

Strategy, they will play for 2 runs as soon as possible, man on 1^st and 2^nd, 1^st inning, best hitter up the number 3, they will bunt in the first inning in this situation, knowing they have a good chance of a defensive mistake and getting a hit, scoring two runs. They want to score the first run and know that their pitching and defensive will keep them in the game. In the World Baseball Classic the Japanese had this scenario in a regular game with Ichiro at the bat and he sacrificed himself to move the runners over in the first inning. If you or I did that we would be lynched in the town square.

In the World Baseball Classic out of 12 pitchers 11 were starters, they throw to certain locations to a hitter’s weakness, and their consistency is so good because they practice over and over till they hit those spots all the time. They do not worry if it is a lefty, lefty situation, and by the way they won the World Baseball classic twice.

They maximize their body size by working on the rotation of the lower body and holding of the upper body to create a torque situation so they can increase velocity, both in hitting and pitching. Include their flexibility and strength and you get a pretty powerful body.

All position players due to their quickness and agility can pretty much play any position. They all can catch, throw and field so well that the position they play does not matter. Because they work so hard with all their players on agility and quickness they are able to move their players around, Iwamura who was with Seattle was a 3^rd baseman in Japan who in less than a season moved to second and hit over 300.

They will soft toss from the side front of a net and do it hundreds of times in a row without hitting the guy tossing. High School players, if our guys even tried this they would drill the soft toss guy and you would be in court.

Cubans, have great athletes with very athletic bodies. If you ask them why they are so good, they will tell you they play a lot, whether it is scrimmage games, some kid of simulated games or regular games. But, they also practice all year round. They are very aggressive on the base paths; they practice very hard going first to third. They have shown that if trained properly you can go first to third and be successful 98 percent of the time. What they do really well is train in game situations. Here are some examples,

First, all their hitters have a slight inward rotation of their front knee as a load which allows them to have a no or short stride.

When they take ground balls they practice any situation you can think of, not just the routine ball, or forehand or back hand but also slow rollers fielded one hand and thrown on the run, behind the back feeds at 2^nd, balls in the whole and a jump throw and more. They are creating athletic movements in practice so when it happens in a game that player’s body and mind is familiar with the movements.

They practice dropping baseballs picking them up and making the throw. They bobble the ball get it and throw it. Backhand drop the ball, get it and throw it, this is in their throwing routine.

When they practice 1^st to third, they hit the ball to the right fielder and the play it live with sliding, tags, etc.

Pass balls to the back stop are live with an umpire, runner and tag at home with the pitcher.

PFP’s are all with runners, live. Hustle, no jogging, etc. They do not baby players, its live or its nothing.

Every situation you practice like ground balls to SS and throw to first they always has runners.

Infield outfield is hit without the outfielders knowing who the ball is hit to first, same in the infield. We have a routine and our guys know where we are going to hit the ball all the time, they keep their players in the game all the time.

Scrimmage games players umpire for two reasons, to help understand what it takes to be an umpire and also they know players will make a lot of mistakes so the players train to deal with bad calls, when would you practice for this?

The Cubans are mentally strong because they practice situations live and they have done it so much that when the real thing happens they have done it hundreds of times.

USA:

We certainly have a lot of great baseball coaches at all levels across the USA, this cannot be debated. We also have a lot of great players at all age groups. Having 300 plus million people and over 26 million amateur players in the USA helps and of course baseball being our national sport does not hurt. But, here in the Midwest, especially the state of Illinois we have always thought that we have been behind states like Florida, Texas, Arizona and other warm climate areas in number of games played. So, now players are playing more games and training less at the wrong time. But now especially in the summer (exceptions to this) we play games Monday – Thursday with our high School coach and then Friday-Sunday games with their travel teams. So when do they practice, or work on their strength, flexibility, agility and fundamentals? We know that the winter time training on fundamentals does not carry over to the spring and summer so we should be training the fundamentals during the season, especially in the summer when we have more time. I believe players are duplicating bad movements, throws; etc in real games and the correction cannot take place unless it is the off season because they are playing every day. So for a period of 5 months a player could be throwing wrong, pitching wrong and still is successful because of his athleticism. As baseball is a feel sport, the body has to feel when it is doing it in correct and when it is doing correct. When you are doing it incorrect then it takes lots of swings off the T and then front toss and then BP in order to understand the correct feel of the swing. This must be done in practice. If you watch the Japanese who train all the time, they all look alike when they field a ground ball, or how they throw or swing the bat, why? Because they practice over and over the correct way, the only thing they lack at times is their style, like your style in a stance, because they also all stand the same. But they do not lack the absolutes of all the basic fundamentals. This is what makes them such a good baseball players and they certainly lack the size and even strength of an American player, yet they have many players who can throw hard and accurate.

February 11, 2011

The baseball season is right around the corner. I am finalizing our tryout schedule. The weather seems to be cooperating with us (NOT!). Unless something drastic changes in the weather we will be trying out indoors starting February 28^th. All levels will start then. Tryouts will conclude with final cuts on either Friday or Saturday depending on the level and the number of players that are trying out.

Players must be cleared to play through the athletic office. Each player prior to tryouts must get a receipt showing they have an updated physical, athletic code signed, and an emergency card on file. NO RECEIPT, NO TRYOUTS, NO EXCEPTION!!!!

January 28, 2011

In about a month the Lake Park Baseball season will begin with tryouts. The tryout schedule will be made available prior to tryouts. February 28, 2011 is the official start date.

Please visit http://www.bbksports.com/c-64-lake-park-baseball-spiritwear.aspx to order any Lake Park Baseball Spirit Wear. We will close the store on February 6^th to get orders in prior to tryouts. We will also be able to order items right after tryouts for a delivery prior to the start of the season.

I hope everyone is well and ready to defend our Regional Championship from 2010!!

GO Lancers!!!

November 9, 2010

We have completed our pre testing and here are the results and the Power Rankings for all of the players that have tested. The power rankings of each player are given below. The lower the number the better. The overall power ranking adds up each players ranking for each category and divides that number by the number of categories they were tested in. Some players did not pre test in every area due to injuries.

Name	Push Ups	Rank	Knee Lifts 15 lbs.	Rank	Dips	Rank	Standing Long Jump in inches	Rank	Pull Up Hang (sec)	Rank	Squat Max (chart)	Rank	Board down and back (x2)	Rank
Benhart	28	12	26	18	4	22	83	22	82.2	5	185	20	30.40	11	15.71
Boryszewski	30	8	28	16	8	18	85	18	62.3	12	203	16	40.80	20	15.43
Boyle	43	1	51	3	25	2	88	14	86.9	3	273	6	23.80	1	4.29
Chaidez	NA	NA	36	6	NA	NA	90	8	55.2	14	234	14	NA	NA	10.50
Dailey	24	17	25	19	11	14	102	3	42.2	17	203	16	33.00	15	14.43
Harvey	31	7	30	8	10	15	90	8	54.5	15	265	8	27.20	6	9.57
J. Castello	15	22	58	1	10	15	88	14	92.2	1	237	13	29.80	10	10.86
Kise	43	1	53	2	25	2	89	11	73.2	7	300	5	26.90	4	4.57
Latoria	35	6	30	8	19	19	89	11	51.2	16	247	12	33.40	16	12.57
McNamara	30	8	29	14	14	14	82	23	67.4	10	180	21	31.00	13	14.71
Muller	27	13	29	14	20	5	75	25	20.7	22	273	6	65.00	22	15.29
Olenek	30	8	30	8	10	15	90	8	65.5	11	203	16	30.60	12	11.14
Peterson	25	14	40	5	13	11	97	5	92.1	2	259	11	33.60	17	9.29
Pygman	25	14	30	8	13	11	100	4	68.1	9	NA	NA	28.00	8	9.00
R. Castello	21	21	24	21	8	18	85	18	25.2	20	NA	NA	NA	NA	19.60
Saracino	10	23	15	25	1	23	80	24	6.2	25	344	2	35.70	19	20.14
Schram	22	20	20	23	7	20	87	16	32.0	19	176	22	32.10	14	19.14
Smith	38	5	45	4	22	4	85	18	56.1	13	324	3	27.00	5	7.43
Steger	24	17	25	19	12	13	105	1	36.6	18	234	14	27.70	7	12.71
Tsiodras	24	17	24	21	7	20	87	16	11.3	24	308	4	41.60	21	17.57
Turi	40	3	33	7	30	1	95	6	86.4	4	265	8	25.60	2	4.43
Turner	25	14	28	16	15	8	92	7	81.9	6	203	16	34.00	18	12.14
Valldeperas	40	3	30	8	19	6	105	1	22.7	21	357	1	26.70	3	6.14
Weber	30	8	30	8	14	9	89	11	68.2	8	167	23	28.40	9	10.86
Zuffante	10	23	17	24	1	23	84	21	15.8	23	263	10	94.80	23	21.00

Average	27.92		31.44		13.25		89.68		54.24		247.96		35.09

Goal	33.50		37.73		17.23		98.65		65.09		297.55		28.07

Name	Overall Rank
Boyle	4.29	1
Turi	4.43	2
Kise	4.57	3
Valldeperas	6.14	4
Smith	7.43	5
Pygman	9.00	6
Peterson	9.29	7
Harvey	9.57	8
Chaidez	10.50	9
J. Castello	10.86	10
Weber	10.86	10
Olenek	11.14	12
Turner	12.14	13
Latoria	12.57	14
Steger	12.71	15
Dailey	14.43	16
McNamara	14.71	17
Muller	15.29	18
Boryszewski	15.43	19
Benhart	15.71	20
Tsiodras	17.57	21
Schram	19.14	22
R. Castello	19.60	23
Saracino	20.14	24
Zuffante	21.00	25

Congratulations for Brandon Boyle for being the fittest Lancer in the pre-test. It is easier getting to the top than it is staying there though. You now have the bull’s eye on your back.

November 4, 2010

This week the varsity started the testing portion of our off season conditioning program. I will post the initial results as soon and everyone is finished with testing. In our pre conditioning meeting I talked to the players about what we as coaches look for in a prospective player’s character.

Here is our list in no particular order:

1. Dedicated

Hard Working
Trustworthy
A good student (grades and behavior)
Coachable – willing to learn from the coaching staff
Wants the LP program to succeed
Inspired and inspiring to others
Mentally tough
Fearless (not afraid to make mistakes)
Gives time to the LP program to help with field work etc.
Respectful
Goal oriented
Positive
Fun
Focused
A great teammate
Unselfish
Being responsible

Of course we expect our players to have the physical tools necessary to compete at the high school level. I have seen many players with exceptional ability not achieve the level of success to match their physical ability and I can point to their lack of one or more of the above areas. I have seen many players maximize their athletic ability because of the characteristics above. To maximize your level of talent you must also be able to work on getting better in the above areas as well your baseball skills.

October 25, 2010

On Friday and Sunday many players and parents helped prep the batting cage areas for artificial turf. I would like to thank Scott Koehn, Mike Ostrowski, the Mueller men, Mr. Ruud, the Saracino family, the entire Tsiodras family, Ted and Tommy Spear, Jake Pygman, Dean Kise, Brandon Boyle, Nico Chaidez, Tom Weber, Kevin Steger, Chad Harvey, the Schram Boys, Dylan Blanchard, Coach Bahn, and especially Coach Johnson. If I missed anyone let me know so I can give you the recognition you deserve!

Here are some pictures of the work in progress.

We are almost done with the first cage and should have both done in a week depending on the weather.

October 15, 2010

It has been a long time since I last posted, but a lot has happened with Lancer Baseball. Years ago we (KJ and I) had a vision of what we wanted for the baseball field. This year the program was lucky enough to have the Lake Park Booster Club step up and fund many projects.

Here is the progress report on the press box: It is currently under roof and the siding is being installed. It looks great and is huge! Props go out to our maintenance department for the build. Larry, Roger, and Steve have done a great job. Bob Ungaro is the general.

We also have a new 9 inning scoreboard:

We are also going to be installing artificial turf in the batting cages!

The senior class of 2010 also donated the following which has been installed forever on the home dugout. Special thanks goes out to Mike Ostrowski and Brett Cosman for the installation.

The 2011 Lancer team will begin their preseason workouts in the next few weeks in preparation for the upcoming season. Thanks to everyone that has supported Lake Park Baseball in the past, and thanks to those who currently support.