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WELCOME TO BONITA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL BARONS BASEBALL
Use the Barons Team's link to view our team rosters and Barons history. Feel free to browse and enjoy your stay. Remember to please support the baseball program at all levels. Check out the Sponsors pages to find out how.
For information and the Varsity Schedule for the Bonita Vista High School Barons team and individual statistics and results in High School sports from coast to coast ,click on this link Max Preps.
Friday, October 16
Coach Samaniego Wants to Share his Knowledge with the Catching Community
Thursday, September 3
For ParkView Little League all-stars the dream comes true
South Williamsport welcomed more than 32,000 Little League fans for the 63rd Little League Baseball World Series championship game, which featured West champ Chula Vista, Calif., and Asia-Pacific champ Taoyuan, Taiwan. Click on the heading above for the local coverage of the 2009 championship game won by Park View Little League 6-3.
They are from Chula Vista and we couldn't be prouder...
Wednesday, August 5
Parkview Little Leaguers Western Regional Champions in the LL World Series
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| Parkview LL All-Stars 2009
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Bonita Vista Barons Baseball salutes the Parkview Little League All-Stars as they continue to advance in the Little League World Series.
Excerpt from SDUT article (to view the article in its entirity, click on the headline above.):
"In a nationally televised game on ESPN2 and in front of an overflow
crowd of 13,350, Park View erupted for eight runs in the final two
innings and buried the team from Granite Bay-Loomis outside Sacramento,
11-4, to win the West Region title."
Tuesday, August 18
First Baseball Club meeting of the year called for Thursday, August 20, 2009
The Barons Baseball Club meets in room 407 at lunch, five minutes after the fifth period ends. Bring your lunch and see what is in store for 2009-2010.
Car Washes +Weight-lifting +SWVLL site Fundraiser(s) + Agilities + Skills and Drills +YOGA = League Championships
See you there.
Tuesday, August 18
ATTITUDE
Attitude is everything
Saturday, September 5
Joel Zumaya (BVH 2002) -- 60 day DL
Joel Zumaya underwent season-ending surgery to remove the bone fragment from the stress fracture in his ailing right shoulder. Zumaya finishes the season with a 3-3 record, a 4.94 ERA and one save, pitching 31 innings over 29 appearances while walking 22 and striking out 30. Since pitching 62 games and 83 1/3 innings over a breakout rookie year in 2006, Zumaya has been limited to 78 games and 88 innings over three injury-shortened seasons.
For that reason, though Zumaya's timetable should allow him to be ready for next Spring Training after a full offseason of workouts, the Tigers can't assume he'll be back and healthy.
Saturday, September 5
Richard Zumaya, '07 Finishes Season in GCL
Richard Zumaya's adventures in the minor league's nears the end of his second season. Richard is still one of the youngest players in Detroit's system. After two season's in Lakeland, FL., He has struggled a bit and he has experienced success as he learns how to pitch professionally.
It can not be easy following in a big brother's footsteps but Richard continues to walk his own path. Barons Baseball is proud to call RZ family.
This off-season will be a test for the younger Zumaya as the system will decide where to send RZ in February, 2010.
Tuesday, August 11
Troy Smith -- BVH 2009 goes to Bellevue University
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| Troy Smith -- Heading to Bellevue, Nebraska
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Troy Smith agreed to attend Bellevue University in the fall. Troy led the Barons pitching staff (2009) to its deepest play-off appearance in years. The left-hander will attend Bellevue and play baseball for the Bruins. Bellevue University is 10 miles south-east of Omaha, Nebraska. Congratulations Troy and study well and play hard. The Bellevue colors are purple and GOLD! Stay Gold Troy.
Saturday, August 15
2007 Barons Alum receives post-season honors
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| Knudson -- All-American Closer
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The 3rd-ranked UC San Diego baseball team had four
student-athletes named to the 2009 National Collegiate Baseball Writers
Association D-II All-American Teams, it was announced on June 4. UCSD
head coach Dan O'Brien was named the NCBWA Coach of the Year, leading the
Tritons to two wins at the College World Series before the Tritons lost in the
national semifinals. Earning NCBWA All-American honors was Vance Albitz,
Josh Tanner, Tim Shibuya and Guido Knudson.
Saturday, August 15
Tre Dennis (2006) Shines in New England Collegiate Baseball League All-Star Game
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| Tre Dennis -- Long Beach State
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Six players, including a league-high four starters and the
designated closer, represented the North Shore Navigators in the 2009 NECBL All
Star Game. First baseman Ben Waldrip, second baseman Patrick Brady,
outfielder Tre Dennis, and pitcher Mike Gallo started at their respective
positions for the East Division All Star Team, while Chris Kowalski was the
designated closer and Navs strikeout leader Jeff Tardiff pitched in relief.
Tuesday, June 16
Remembering Andy Sanchez -- Metro Conference and SUHSD Loses an Ambassador
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| BB was his love --Golf was his passion
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Andrew Paul Sanchez died June 12, 2009. He was a great Ambassador to our community. There was never a time that Andy would not drop everything he was doing to help a friend. Andy had a lot of Friends!
Andy brought light into a dark room. Jovial, energetic, and wise. He is one of my sincerest inspirations and has been since the first time I walked in to the Castle Park gymnasium as a 7th grader and saw his name, picture, award, and poem about a lost friend in the trophy case.
Our small baseball community is a little bit dimmer now.
Our condolences go out to his family and close friends; Andy IS pure Gold!
Monday, July 13
Paul Reddick answers some recruiting questions
Watch and listen to Coach Reddick answer FAQs regarding college recruitment:
Wednesday, November 12
Recruiting Questions
THE RECRUITING QUESTIONS
Q: What do college coaches look ...
Sunday, June 21
HS Recruiting Timeline -- Homework for parent's and player's
Click on the headline above to goto the High School Baseball Web Site for listed timelines for parents and player's to get the word out to colleges and universities.
Monday, June 8
BARONS FINISH 2009 RANKED FOURTH IN DIVISION II
After finishing the season losing to Grossmont HS, 6-8 in the fourth round of the SD-CIF play-offs the Barons earned the high ranking with a tough schedule (including 4 games versus the two teams that played in the championships) and a strong finish to the season.
Junior Hector Montes and senior Paul Flippen joined First team all-Mesa returnee Oscar Sanay (junior) on the 2009 Metroconference elite team. Oli Lopez (junior) earned recognition on the second team and Troy Smith (senior) and Victor Munoz (junior) gained honorable mention status from the Mesa League coaches.
The 2009 play-offs included wins versus, Ramona, Pt. Loma, and Westview and the Barons were eliminated by the always strong Grossmont HS with two losses to the Foothillers.
The El Capitan Vacqueros defeated Grossmont in the one-game cahmpionships for Division II on Saturday, June 6, 2009.
Monday, June 8, 2009 is the Metro-conference Senior All-Star game at Southwestern College (4 PM). Three Barons seniors, Miles Morales, Paul Flippen and Troy Smith are scheduled to dress in Barons gear one last time to represent Barons Pride.
On June 13 and 14, Montes and Sanay travel to Mt. Sac CC to try-out for the North-South California state all-star team for Juniors. These two Barons will compete for spots on the South team to represent southern California in the two day event at Tony Gwynn Stadium on June 20 & 21.
Finally, this year concludes with the Junior Showcase on July 13 at Poway HS. Montes, Sanay, Oli Lopez, Victor Munoz and Jesse Hernandez will showcase their talents with the other juniors from around the county.
STAY GOLD!
Thursday, February 19
Jaeger Sports in the News -- Off Season Throwing Program
Alan Jaeger' s recently published article in Collegiate Baseball News about his thoughts on an off-season throwing program.
Monday, June 15
Barons Baseball 2009 Play-off run
Fourth Round Qualifiers
Thursday, June 11
NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE IDENTIFIES BVH
CONGRATULATIONS TO BARON STUDENTS AND STAFF!
This just in!
Every year Newsweek magazine ranks U.S. high schools based upon a formula devised by Jay Mathews that encompasses the size of the school, the number of students graduating, and the number of AP exams taken.
The rank is from #1 to #1500. This year BVH increased by over 288 points to a rank of #543. Last year, BVH's rank was #831.
The only other SUHSD schools that were ranked in the top 1500 were Eastlake at 729 , and Otay Ranch at 932. Once again, BVH dominates the South Bay in academics!
Tuesday, June 9
Junior Shortstop Earns San Diego UT All-County Selection
Congratulations to Oscar. He joins recent graduates Jake McClintock (2001), Tre Dennis (2005) and Guido Knudson (2007) as UT All-County selections.
The San Diego Union Tribune listed its' baseball All-County selections on June 8, 2009. The SDUT selected bonita Vista's shortstop Oscar Sanay to the second team.
Curiously missing is junior first-baseman Hector Montes. With this omission, pity the county in 2010 as Hector has more fuel to keep his fire burning. We will call 2010 the year of the SMACK-Down. Obviously the UT did not consult Grossmont, Westview, Pt. Loma, Eastlake, Chula Vista, Mater Dei, El Capitan, Ramona or anyone lese for that matter.
Note to Keith Gemmel and Bill Dickens of the UT sports department -- When the UT does come calling about Hector we will say, "Good Morning!"
Friday, April 10
BARONS WIN! 59th Annual Lions Tournament -- 5A Division
For Bonita Vista baseball the 2009 spring break is a milestone for the program. Since the school's inception, the baseball team had never won the spring tournament until junior Hector Montes scored the game winning run after senior Dan Scanlon singled to center in the bottom of the seventh inning of the championship game.
Dan Scanlon had sent a text to his coach the evening before with the program's signature motto, Stay Gold!, in his closing remarks. The text served as a foreshadowing of things to come. Danny's single stayed true to the motto as it skipped through the middle of the diamond, The Barons -- "Gold Zone".
The road to the championship hit a wall in game one versus Carlsbad. But in the pool play format BVH was awarded the semi-final berth by vertue of its runs allowed in the final two games of pool play. Ramona, Carlsbad and BV all finished pool play with two wins, but Bonita Vista allowed fewer runs total in the three games.
Playing Patrick Henry in the semi finals morning game, the Barons fell behind 3-1 before winning in the bottom of the sixth and holding on to victory in the seventh.
For more details on the championship game see the SDUT article highlighting Scanlon and the come from behind victory in the finals.
Thursday, April 30
County Rankings --MAXPREPS April 30 -- TOP 25
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League
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18-3
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6-0
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2
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15-4
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2-0
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3
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16-5
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4-2
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4
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13-4
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3-0
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5
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16-5
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2-4
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6
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14-6
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4-2
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7
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14-5
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5-0
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8
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14-3
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5-0
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9
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12-6
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0-3
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10
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16-3
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4-1
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11
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10-7
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1-0
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12
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12-6
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4-1
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13
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15-6
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6-1
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14
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11-7
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2-1
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15
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16-4
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3-0
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16
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12-8
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2-2
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17-4
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2-0
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13-7
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2-1
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12-7
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3-0
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12-9
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1-2
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11-7
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4-1
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8-9
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3-1
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13-8
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3-2
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12-9
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2-4
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14-7
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2-2
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Wednesday, April 22
Metropolitan Conference -- Mesa League Teams
Friday, April 10
JV earns runner-up in Spring Tournament
Congratulation to the 2009 JV team for placing second in the JV Spring Tournament that runs in conjunction to the varsity LIONS tournament. The almost pulled off the miracle, falling behind 10 to zero. The took the lead 11-10 before losing in the seventh. What a Battle!
Friday, March 6
BARONS OPEN SEASON v. CATHEDERAL CATHOLIC -- No. 1 Ranked team in San Diego Co.
Opportunity knocks early for the Barons varsity. Opening the season versus the number one rated team in the county, Cathederal Catholic, and following up versus El Capitan (#8) and Rancho Bernardo (#6) within a few days afterword.
Cathederal Catholic boasts 7 Division I college prosepcts and the professional scouts will be watchful as well. This is a meaty challenge for the Barons but one that is very exciting as well for our boys to make staements of their own early in the season.
The Barons 2009 schedule has 10 games scheduled against teams selected as pre-season favorites in the SDUT-- Top Twenty.
Below is the CIF San Diego Section enrollment numbers to compare the BVHS competition for this season. 12 teams will make the play-offs of the 22 listed directly below. The MESA league champion receives an automatic berth into the play-offs while the rest of the league will be selected at-large by Dennis Ackerman of the CIF offices and the baseball play-off committee.
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Grossmont |
| 2377 |
Westview |
| 2353 |
Helix Charter |
| 2341 |
Hilltop |
| 2335 |
West Hills |
| 2328 |
Lincoln |
| 2317 |
Oceanside |
| 2308 |
Orange Glen |
| 2303 |
Mt. Carmel |
| 2298 |
Bonita Vista |
| 2279 |
Scripps Ranch |
| 2228 |
Southwest (I.V.) |
| 2189 |
Hoover |
| 2185 |
San Ysidro |
| 2147 |
El Cajon Valley |
| 2126 |
Valhalla |
| 2111 |
Serra |
| 2089 |
Steele Canyon Charter |
| 2046 |
Ramona |
| 2024 |
Point Loma |
| 1976 |
Mount Miguel |
| 1934 |
El Capitan |
MESA LEAGUE |
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| 2784 |
Otay Ranch |
| 2687 |
Chula Vista |
| 2416 |
Eastlake |
| 2298 |
Bonita Vista |
| 2341 |
Hilltop |
| 735 |
Mater Dei Catholic |
Friday, February 20
Click Here for SUHSD Community Service Forms
The link takes you to the required forms (2) for Sweetwater Union High School District Community Service. Every SUHSD high school student is required to complete thirty hours of community service to fulfill this community service graduation requirement.
Sunday, February 8
Summer Camp Dates Set
All 2012 athletes through 2013 athletes (Grades 7-9) are invited to the Barosn Baseball Summer Camp. This 8 day camp intorduces the high school staff to the future Barons and serves as the placement camp for the summer, fall and Winter travel teams.
Handout:
Barons Baseball Camp June 29-July 2 & July 6-9, 2009
Saturday, December 6
Barons Alumni Game
Alumni wins 8-3
Thank you to the following alumni that attended the game:
Steven DiStefano, Tyler Arciaga, Rowdy Arciaga, Bobby Vidal, Joe Butler, Lorenzo Lopez, Tre Dennis, Guido Knudson, Jared Purkey, Chris Moody, Liam Sharkey, Alex Mangubat, DJ Shields, Christian Mua, Brian Fischer, Yataro Sanay, Zach Bowman, Ace Morales, Moses Betech, and many other friends of Bonita.
this was a great kick-off for Barons Baseball's six-week winter season.
Thursday, November 13
Barons Baseball Club -- Hitting School fundraiser
HITTING SCHOOL Fundraiser
November 2009/December 2009/January 2010
Meets: Wednesdays
Sessions:
Choose one of the following sessions:
A (11/4; 11/11; 11/18; 11/25)
B (12/2; 12/9; 12/16; 12/23)
C (1/6; 1/13; 1/20; 1/27)
Location: Bonita Vista HS hitting facility 751 Otay Lakes Rd., Chula Vista, Ca 91913
Times for All Sessions
All sessions meet from 3:30-4:55
**Donation rate: $200
$55 NON-RE-FUNDABLE DEPOSIT REQUIRED TO RESERVE ONE OF THE EIGHT SPOTS.
Ø Make checks payable to Barons Baseball.
Ø Mail to: BVHS Baseball, ATTN: Vincent Gervaís, 751 Otay Lakes Rd., Chula Vista, Ca 91913
**Note: approx. 6 hours of instruction. Rate is equivalent to $35 per instructional hour. Compare to 44/Hour (Southwestern College), 60/hour (DelMar), 70/hour (MVP), 74/hour (JP), 98/hour (Valley), 98/hour (Batter’s Box), to 104/hour (Dave Smith)
Contact: Vincent Gervaís
858-603-2913
coachgervais@yahoo.com
BARONS BASEBALL
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Clinic
AGES 8-14
COMING January 19, 2009.
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Barons Baseball Clinic -- MLK, Jr. Day
Saturday, January 5
How to get the Scouts to Notice you
COLLEGE ...
Monday, May 26
Varsity and JV 2008 Mesa League Champions
Mesa League Banners
Congratulations to the Barons Baseball program in 2008. The junior varsity won its third championship in a row, while the varsity shared the league honors with Eastlake High School.
Senior's Christian Mua, Marc Hartman and sophomore Oscar Sanay selected by the coaches to the All-Mesa League First Team.
Senior's DJ Shields, Alex Mangubat, and sophomore Jesse Hernandez made second team; while senior's Liam Sharkey and Brian Fischer were named as honorable mention.
Friday, June 27
Junior Oscar Sanay Selected to Play in the 2008 Under Armour Showcase
This year will mark the 14th year that Team One has held its prestigious Team One West Showcase. The 2008 Team One West Showcase will be held from June 29 – July 1 at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. The event will feature 100 of the top high school rising juniors and seniors from across the west coast. Day one will consist of each team participating in a pro-style workout. Days two and three will feature each team in a showcase game. Giving college coaches and scouts the opportunity to watch Oscar perform in a live game. We are excited about Oscar's opportunity.
Thursday, August 7
The Importance of the J-Bands
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The arm is the most important tool for every ball player. 21st century technology has revolutionized the arm prep for action (practices and games). Today's players are smart to make the "pre-hab" workout a part of their everyday prep. Its better to pre-hab than it is to re-hab on the disbaled list. Barons Baseball legend Joel Zumaya adopted and endorces the Jaeger methods.
Baseball trainer Alan Jaeger explains how to build arm health, strength, velocity, endurance and improved recovery period through the Jaeger Sports throwing program. This video addresses the main ingredients to the program including arm circles, a workout with J-Bands surgical tubing, long toss throwing and post-throwing conditioning.
For more information visit www.jaegersports.com
Copyright 2008, Jaeger Sports
Surgical tubing is available for purchase through coach Gervais ($25) or from the Jaeger Sports web site.
Wednesday, June 25
Increase your bat speed
Video replays of drills to improve your bat speed.
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Please change the home page to www.goodsearch.com on your internet Internex Explorer/FireFox application. Add Bonita Vista Senior High as the charity you are searching for. and hit verify before you start your search. Every time you make a search you will be giving one penny to Bonita's baseball program. Pass the word around and have EVERYONE that you know use this engine. If we get 50 people to search 10 times a day we give $5 to the program every day. Instead of making money for Google or Yahoo make money for our program. Please make the change today!!!
REMEMBER TO MAKE YOUR HOME PAGE: goodsearch.com and make Bonita Vista Senior High your charity of choice!!!!!!!
Friday, March 3
Three Barons Baseball Rules
Play Catch! Throw Strikes! Put the ball in play!
Be a gentleman at all times.
Be respectful to the game and its parts.
Play aggressively!
Be quick but do not rush (John Wooden).
Play the "game" of baseball.
Have a two-strike plan.
Hit with a purpose (Artie Monroe).
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