Hawks Baseball Club, Japan: Welcome
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2009 Season starts soon!!!!!!
Spring Training begins FEBRUARY 22nd
Opening Day is temporarily scheduled for MARCH 15 (possible change to March 8).
As 2009 begins, there are 4 Autumn/Spring league games yet to be played, pluss possible playoffs. due to last year's sucess at the GBN Minor League, the Hawks were promoted to the Major League, Top Class; a daunting task on paper, but with a little persevearance sucess can be achieved.
The franchise also returns to Summer Sstrong League, 1st class.The Hawks have a chance to become the first team since Strong League's inception in 2001 to qualify for a league playoff tournament in 6 out of 8 leagues entered. (2006 sunday Summer-DNQ; 2007: Sunday Summer-SemiFinalist,. Saturday Summer-SemiFinalist, Aut07/08Spr Saturday-1st rd; 2008: Sunday Summer-1st rd,. Saturday Summer-DNQ; 2009: Aut08/098Spr Sunday-???, Sunday Summer-SemiFinalist-???)
Check out Hawks Yakyuu Club for all our up to date scores and stats.
KANPAI!!!!!!
Hawks Yakyuu Club
Centerfield by John Fogerty
Tuesday, February 24
2008 Award Winners:
2008 GOLD GLOVES-
Catcher/1B - RYAN HENDRICKS...25 Putouts, 2 Assists, 1.000 fielding pct
Other nominees: Chip Mohr (.850fldgpct), Doug Harper (.815).
Infield/Pitcher - JESSE ZISKIE...38 Putouts, 27 Assists, 2 Errors, .970 fielding pct
Other nominees: Zane Whetstone (.949), Sean Schloss (.941), Kazu Sato (.911)
Outfield/1B - KEN ALSTON...13 Putouts, 2 Assists, 1 Error, .938 fielding pct
Other nominees: Sekine (7PO,1.000), Bill Jokela (.897)
Voting for the final 3 categories by Sean Schloss, Bill Jokela, Zane Whetstone, Chip Mohr;
2008 BATTER OF THE YEAR--
KAZU SATO...21 runs scored, .490 OBP, .350 Avg, 4 Doubles, 3 Home Runs, 10 RBI, 17 game
(Tiebreaker vote by Steve Harrell, Tokyo Eagles Baseball Club):
Kazu Sato-2 votes
Jesse Ziskie- 1 vote
Trent Anderson- 1 vote
Donnie Wilburn- 1 vote
2008 PITCHER OF THE YEAR--
JESSE ZISKIE...7 games started, 43 1/3 IP, 3.39 ERA, 36 Strikeouts, 20 Walks, 37 runs allowed, swept voting
2008 MOST VALUABLE PLAYER--
JESSE ZISKIE...batted .302, with 3 home runs and 11 RBI; .605 Slg, .444 OBP, Won Pitcher of the Year Award.
Jesse Ziskie- 3.5 votes
Donnie Wilburn- 1.5 votes