Greater Akron AA Baseball League: Welcome
Greater Akron AA League Mission Statement
The Greater Akron AA Baseball League is a non-profit organization operating to enrich the experience of 18 & over baseball players in the Greater Akron area. Providing an affordable and competitive playing atmosphere for aspiring, college, ex-college, and ex-professional baseball players that want to continue to play baseball at the highest level. Offering teams and players the opportunity to compete at the local, regional, and national level. While at the same time, the AA League administrators, teams, managers, and players will continue to carry on the rich tradition and history of our predecessors.
Welcome to the Greater Akron AA Baseball League website. The AA League spawned from the Akron A League and Akron Industrial Leagues and dates back to the 1920's. The AA League has an immense amount of history, tradition, and a long standing reputation for competitive baseball. We are proud to carry on this Akron tradition and pass it on to another generation of baseball players.
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Congratulations to the 2009 Greater Akron AA Baseball League Champions
Akron Lasiks
July 27, 2009 -- Tonight, Monday, July 27, 2009, the Akron Lasiks defeated the fourth seeded Northern Ohio Hurricanes, 8-1, in the championship game of the Greater Akron AA Baseball League tournament at The Ballpark at Hudson in Hudson, Ohio. With the win, the Lasiks improve 26-10 overall and have won their second consecutive league title. With the loss, the Northern Ohio Hurricanes fall to 19-13 overall and finish in second place in just their second season as a team.
Akron would fall behind in the top half of the first inning as the Northern Ohio Hurricanes took a 1-0 lead using a hit batsman and two singles, including an RBI single that yet again blooped down the right field line. The rally was stalled when second baseman Kevin Brown threw out the second runner at the plate attempting to score.
In the second, the Hurricanes put together another rally, but righty Dominique Rodgers worked out of the jam without allowing a run. After a walk and a single, an out was recorded, just before a groundball took a horrendous hop at second base to load the bases. However, Rodgers forced the next two batters to beat the ball into the ground getting force outs at the plate and at second base to thwart the rally.
From that point on, Rodgers was relentless, allowing just one hit while facing the minimum the remainder of the game. On the evening, Rodgers (6-0) earned his sixth win of the season while tossing seven complete innings, allowing just one earned run on four hits and one walk, fanning six; he also hit one batter.
Akron would finally get on the board in its own half of the second, nodding the score at 1-1. Third baseman Allen James tripled to lead-off the inning before being thrown out at home during a groundball off the bat of first baseman Ryan Petrusky. Catcher Anthony D’Attoma singled through the right side and right fielder Rob Beahn walked to load the bases. Left fielder Nick Jones would then come through with a sacrifice fly to left field to score Petrusky from third.
In the third, Akron would go ahead for good as center fielder Jamie Matvey used his speed to beat out a hard hit ball to second base. After a wild pitch moved Matvey to second, Brown used a groundball to the right side to move him to third with just one down. Designated hitter Casey Jirsa then singled through the left side to score Matvey for the 2-1 advantage.
The Lasiks’ big inning was the fourth as they scored five runs on six hits to take a 7-1 lead. Petrusky doubled and scored on a triple from D’Attoma, who subsequently scored on a line-drive single to left from Beahn. Jones then singled and moved Beahn to third, but before being thrown out trying to stretch the single into a double. Shortstop Anthony Longhitano singled in Beahn just before Matvey again used his speed, this time to produce a two-run inside-the-park homerun (3) to complete the scoring.
Akron picked up an insurance run to make it 8-1 in the sixth when Brown singled in Jones, who had led off the inning with a double.
Offensively for Akron, all nine batters had at least one hit, while Matvey, Jones and Longhitano each had two hits.
James was one-of-three in the game, extending his tournament hit streak to four games and winning the Dave Layton Award given to the tournament’s Most Valuable Player, as he was six-of-12 (.500) with three doubles, two triples, one walk, five runs scored and three runs batted in.
The Greater Akron AA Baseball League has announced it's award winners for the 2009 season.
Frank Garcia MVP Award - Danny Campfield, Portage South Black Squirrels & Craig Knott, Canton-Akron Legend
Dave Young Pitcher of the Year - Brian Lonjak, Northern Ohio Hurricanes
Don Lombardi Rookie of the Year - Craig Knott, Canton-Akron Legend
All-Star Game MVP - Danny Campfield, Portage South Black Squirrels & Todd Blackmon, Alliance White Physical Therapy
The AA League Tournament Most Valuable Player award has now been renamed the Dave Layton Award starting in 2008.
Results:
Sunday, July 19th
Northern Ohio Hurricanes 10, Canton Crew 1
Monday, July 20th
Sharon Center Cox Painting 2, Alliance White Physical Therapy 1
Portage South Black Squirrels 6, Team Diesel 1
Akron Lasiks 8, Randolph Reds 0
Northern Ohio Hurricanes 5, Canton-Akron Legend 2 (10 inn)
Tuesday, July 21st
Team Diesel 11, Canton Crew 1
Wednesday, July 22nd
Canton-Akron Legend 9, Randolph Reds 8
Team Diesel 12, Alliance White Physical Therapy 5
Friday, July 24th
Akron Lasiks 2, Sharon Center Cox Painting 0
Northern Ohio Hurricanes 6, Portage South Black Squirrels 1
Saturday, July 25th
Sharon Center Cox Painting 9, Canton-Akron Legend 8
Team Diesel 6, Portage South Black Squirrels 5
Sunday, July 26th
Akron Lasiks 5, Northern Ohio Hurricanes 2
Sharon Center Cox Painting 15, Team Diesel 11
Northern Ohio Hurricanes 2, Sharon Center Cox Painting 1 (10 inn)
AA League Championship Game - July 27th
Akron Lasiks 8, Northern Ohio Hurricanes 1
Allen James (Lasiks) was named the Dave Layton Tournament Most Valuable Player.
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Silver Creek Bats
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Ritchie's Sporting Goods is offering a discount to AA League players on all in-store merchandise. When visiting Ritchie's just let the cashier know that you play in the Greater Akron AA Baseball League and they will give you a 25% discount. |
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| Stash Sports - Gold Star Sponsor of the AA League |
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Friday, May 6
For those that aren't familiar with the history and tradition surrounding the AA League, we will be posting information about past teams and players from time to time to help newcomers to the AA League familiarize themselves with the men that came before us.
A new history tidbit is in the works... update coming soon!
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