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Roadrunner College Commitments!!!
The Roadrunners are pleased to honor the following players that have committed to play baseball at the collegiate level from the 2008 team: Connor Winn MIF Wesleyan 2008(Georgia Tech) Mason Forbis RHP Beech HS, TN 2008(University of Tennessee) Cody Stubbs 1B Tuscola HS, NC 2009(University of Tennessee) Chris Fritts OF Cypress Ridge HS, TX 2009 (University of Tennessee) Daniel Tuttle RHP Randleman HS, NC 2009 (NC State University) Luke Bailey C Troup Co HS 2009 (Auburn University) Cory Betterson OF Woodward Academy 2008 (East Tennessee State University) Trevor Walch RHP Eufala HS, OK 2009 (Oklahoma State University) Blair Springfield OF Macarther HS, IL 2009 (Illinois State University) Tommy Corbin MIF Woodward Academy 2009 (Samford University) Catlan Kendrick RHP Northgate 2009 (Kennesaw State University) Matt Plate RHP/OF Mount Pisgah 2009 (Furman University) Tanner Howell LHP Beardstown HS, IL 2009 (Wright State University) Jon Reed RHP Memorial HS, OK 2009 (University of Tennessee) Blake Barber MIF Troup Co. 2009 (Northwest Florida State College-formerly Okaloosa-Walton) Dusten Knight RHP Tahlequah HS, OK 2009 (Connors State College) Matt Helms C/3b Eufala HS, OK 2009 (Seminole CC) James Connell RHP Roswell HS 2009 (LaGrange College) Ian Graham C Greater Atlanta Christian 2009 * although Ian did not play with us last summer he is back for the 09 season*(UNC-Asheville) Robbie Payne 3b Kennesaw Mountain HS 2009 (Gordon College) Drew Duncan RHP Kennesaw Mountain HS 2009 (King College) Michael Joseph C DR Phillips HS, FL 2009 (University of the South-Sewanee) Jake Stephens RHP Lassiter HS 2009 (Northwest Florida State College-formerly Okaloosa-Walton Nick Boutwell RHP Northside Warner-Robbins HS 2010 (Young Harris College) Tommy Ferguson OF/Inf Creekview HS 2010 (Young Harris College) Congratulations to you all!!! Keep checking back as we will post additional committments as they happen. Friday, August 1 Roadrunners win the 18u Triple Crown Summer Nationals Championship!!! The Roadrunners finished up their 2008 summer with a BANG, by winning the 18u Triple Crown Summer Nationals at Myrtle Beach, SC!!! After going 3 - 0 in pool play scoring 29 runs and only giving up 3 runs the Roadrunners earned the #1 seed heading into the championship bracket. The end of pool play also meant that for the rest of the tournament we would be with out Luke Bailey, Cody Stubbs and Daniel Tuttle as they all headed to the East Coast Pro Showcase. Our first game in the bracket was against the Macomb Inferno which we won 11-1. The second game of the day and bracket was against the Eastern Shore Hurricanes with the score ending at 13-2. The Roadrunners now where headed to Friday and the semi finals. The final day of the tournament started off with a pitching duel witch pitted the Roadrunners with Jon Reed pitching against the Red Gamers. Jon was up to the task winning the duel 1-0. With that win the Roadrunners moved on to the Championship against Team Georgia. The Championship game would go back and forth between the two teams and would go to extra innings tied at 7-7. Due in large part to Tommy Corbin and James Connell. Tommy who had driven in 5 runs in the game including a bases loaded double off the center field fence to tie the game in the 4th. And James who threw 4 shut out innings and would eventually get the win. The Roadrunners would load the bases with 1 out in the bottom of the 8th. After a pitching change for Team Georgia and a pinch hitter for the Roadrunners the next pitch hit the Roadrunners batter to end the game on a HBP. The Roadrunners had a great tournament offensivly by scoring 62 runs. They also had great pitching as they only gave up 13 runs. Congratulations to the Roadrunners on finishing the year on such a great run! And for winning your 3rd National Championship in 4 years!!! Also additional congratulations to 2 Roadrunners who were honored by Triple Crown with Jon Reed getting Defensive MVP and Tommy Corbin getting the Offensive MVP of the event. Way to go guys!!!
Two current and two former Roadrunners were named to the Aflac All American Team Current Roadruners Luke Bailey and Daniel Tuttle were named to the AFLAC All American Team on 7/1/08. They both were introduced before the Braves vs. Phillies game at Turner Field. Where they received their AFLAC jerseys and meet several more of their team mates. They also got to meet the Honorary Chairman of the event, Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith. Also two former Roadrunners, Donavan Tate and Drew Steckenrider, were named to the team as well. They will travel out to California in August to play at Dodgers Stadium in the Alfac game. Way to go boys, we are all very proud of you and your accompishments!!! You can click on the headline for the link to the Aflac site. Saturday, December 29 Roadrunners honored The Roadrunners had 5 players that where named to be on the "All Prospect Team" at the Underclassman ... Friday, August 31 Roadrunners honored as All Americans Friday, August 31 Congratulations to Luke Bailey and Team USA Luke Bailey and Team USA just won the Gold medal in the Junior Olympics. Team USA defeated Brazil in ... Sunday, August 5 Roadrunners finish second in CABA World Series The Roadrunners finished up their 2007 Summer season with a 2nd place finish in the CABA World Series at East ... Roadrunners lose a family member The Roadrunners are grieving for the loss of one of our former players. Parker Jackson was killed on November ...
2 Roadrunners asked to tryout for USA Junior Team
Good Luck boys! Friday, August 11 Roadrunners repeat as National Champions! The votes are in and tallied and the Roadrunners have repeated as the National Champions. USASportsrankings.com, a national poll which is voted on by coaches, parents and administrators released their final national rankings with the Roadrunners as the Champions. Like wise when Travelballselect.com, a scouting site for travel baseball who covers travel baseball across the country, released their final rankings the Roadrunners were on top again. This is the second year in a row that the Roadrunners finished on top of both polls. Way to go Roadrunners! Tuesday, August 1 Roadrunners season recap 2006 The Roadrunners finished the season with a 48-9 record. The Roadrunners scored 492 runs (8.62 runs per game) while allowing 175 (3.07 runs per game) and throwing 15 shutouts. The team finished with 4 tournament championships under their belt, winning the Seminole Slugfest (Co-Champs), Northeast BCS Qualifier, Midwest BCS Qualifier (Cincy Flames Classic), and now the Perfect Game BCS National Championship. The Roadrunners also had an impressive 5th place finish at the Junior Olympics. They played in two 16u events (Junior Olympics and the Perfect Game WWBA WS) going 10-3 respectfully. They also had two second place finishes in the Triple Crown North Atlanta Open, and the USSSA State tournament. The Roadrunners played 42 different teams in their 57 games while trying to find the best competition they could from around the country. It would have been much easier to stay around Atlanta and compete against the same teams week in and week out, but we chose not to. The team started the year with the goal of defending our 2005 National Title, I think that they did just that! Tuesday, August 1 Roadrunners Win Perfect Game BCS National Title The Roadrunners set off to Jupiter, Fl. AGAIN! This time we would be going to try and make it two consecutive ... Friday, July 21 Roadrunners in the news Some of the Roadrunners made their local papers recently. Donavan Tate was named as the only freshman on the All County Team. While Adam Thurman was listed as an Honorable Mention. You can go to the following link to see the complete article http://www.daily-tribune.com/NF/omf/daily_tribune/archive_display.html?[rkey=0038729+[cr= Miles Head also made the news in Fayette county as the "countys top baseball newcomer". You can go to http://www.neighbornewspapers.com/articles/2006/06/21/344/10222401.txt for the complete article. A new addition to our players in the news is Cale Elam who has pitched very well for Oktaha HS this fall. Go to http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/sports/local_story_265214033.html for details. We are proud of all our players. It is nice when they get recognized by their communities for their efforts and hard work. Keep it up boys as I am sure we will be reading a great deal about more of you in the future. Wednesday, May 31 Roadrunners have great run at the Junior Olympics The Roadrunners traveled down to Jupiter Florida to participate in the USA Baseball Junior Olympics. We were not ... Monday, June 19 Roadrunners fall short at USSSA State The Roadrunner competed in the USSSA State tournament last week. We started out pool play with the 14U East Cobb Astros. With not a lot to gain but every thing to lose the Roadrunners came out and won 8-0 behind the strong pitching of Jordan Cooper. In the second game of the night the Roadrunners played the East Cobb Panthers, who had just won the BCS Qualifier the weekend before at East Cobb, and won 15-0. Cale Elam pitched the 4 inning game with no hits allowed. That was good enough to give the Roadrunners the #1 seed and pitted us against the East Cobb Slammers in the opening round of the double elimination tournament. The Roadrunner would cruise to an 8-0 win in that game as well with Daniel Tuttle and Cale Elam combining for the shut out. The next opponent was the East Cobb Eagles with the Roadrunners allowing their first runs of the tournament but still winning 12-2 with Bennie Keys getting the win. The next opponent was the East Cobb Astros. The Astros would come away with the win 10-7, knocking the Roadrunners to the losers bracket. Our first game on Sunday was against the STaF Yankees, who had fought long and hard to get to that game as that was their 9th game of the tournament. Anthony Bazzani took the ball and threw a 75 pitch complete game no hitter. The only runners to get on were HBP. Way to go Anthony! That put us in the championship against the Astros again. Trevor Walch took the hill and was pitching well until he had an apparent arm injury in the 3rd inning. We all hope and pray that it is nothing serious. With Trevor coming out and Cory Betterson spraining his wrist the Roadrunners were able to pick themselves up and come away with a 4-2 win forcing the "what if" game. The Roadrunners pitchers for what ever reason had a hard time throwing strikes as we allowed 10 walks in the game and got down as much as 10-2 before the Roadrunners came storming back in the 6th and 7th innings. The Roadrunners displayed what they are capable of offensively with some blistering line drives and two home runs one by Brennan May in the 6th and one TOWERING shot by Bennie Keys in the 7th to get the score to 10-9. In the 7th Daniel Tuttle came up with one out, he got one strike then hit a booming shot that was foul. The next pitch was well off the plate and the umpire rung him up taking the bat right out of his hands. Miles Head then came up with 2 away, Miles had a great day at the plate and in the field. The Astros pitcher quickly went up 0-2 then Miles hit a line drive to right that the right fielder laid out and caught. It was a great rally that unfotunatly just came up a little short. We are proud of the "TEAM" for hanging in there and continuing to play hard. We continue to get better every week. Some interesting stats from the tournament are in 8 games we went 6-2, scored 71 runs and gave up 24, threw 4 shut outs and had 2 no hitters. I think that those are pretty impressive numbers! Lets keep our heads up and get ready for the Junior Olympics in Jupiter, Fl next week. Sunday, June 4 Roadrunners win BIG in Big Apple!!! Click on the headline to go to the Perfect Game write up about the tournament. The Roadrunners got on ... Tuesday, May 30 Roadrunners named Co-Champions of the Seminole Slugfest Roadrunners finish the season as #1!!! The Roadrunners have been named the #1 team in the nation by USASportsrankings and Travel Ball Select! Way to go guys!!! What a year it was. You should all be very proud of yourselves. Tom Haire named Coach of the Year! 2003 Highlights Roadrunners in 2003: We had a very exiting year in 2003. We traveled far and wide and played quite a few ball games. This is a recap of what happened for the Roadrunners in 2003. Overall record for spring/summer: 65 Wins, 21 losses, and 3 ties. Tournament results for 2003: South Georgia Volcanoes Winter Classic 2nd Place, we were 3-0 then the rains came and washed out the final day. Battle of the Bats (Kennesaw) Champions Sandy Plains Invitational Champions AAU Super Regional at East Cobb 3rd place, again the we were 3-0 and the rains washed out the final day. Alabama Vipers Rocket City Classic 2-0 when once again the rains came to wash out the rest of the tournament. Northwest Ga Select Division Tour. 2nd place AAU State Tournament 3rd place Cooperstown Dream Park Week 2 2nd place. The Roadrunners were undefeated in pool play going 8-0, we had to beat a very good Utah Mudcats team to advance to the semi-finals. Where we faced the Ocee Stars the game went to extra innings tied 0-0. The Stars hit a homerun in the top of the 7th. The Roadrunners responded getting runners to 2nd and 3rd with 1 out. The tying run was balked in and was followed by a walk off 2 run homerun. We went to the finals against the North Alabama Vipers, who were also undefeated in the tournament. The Vipers prevailed 3-2. We had runners at 2nd and 3rd when the last out was recorded. What an incredible week of baseball! USYBA World Series: Knoxville, TN 2nd place Super Series World: St. Louise. MO Consolation Champions In the fall the Roadrunners success continued going 20-4, and winning 3 out of 4 tournaments. Roadrunner Classic I 3rd place Triple Crown Qualifier at East Cobb Champions CABA Qualifier at Ben Gilbert Field Champions Roadrunners Classic II Champions _____________________________________________ Check out the news page to see how the Roadrunners 2004 Highlights 5 Tournament Championships 3 second place finishes, not including second place in 2 World Series events (NABF World Classic, and Super Series "American" National Championship) 3 final fours Final 8 at the Battle in the South According to USAsportsranking.com finished as the #4 ranked team in Georgia and the #23 ranked team in the nation 2005 Highlights 5 Tournament Championships this includes 1 USSSA Super NIT the Clash of the Champions the BPA State Title and the USSSA Elite 24 National Championship Runner-up at USSSA State and the IBC World Series Semi-finals at IBC Winter Nationals and another USSSA Super NIT Named as the #1 team in Georgia and the Nation by USASportsrankings.com Named as National Champions by TravelBallSelect.com Had 4 players named to the Travelballselect All-American Team What will 2006 bring??? I can't wait to find out! GO ROADRUNNERS!!!
The future looks bright for the Roadrunners, as the 7u Wills Park Slammers won the Dizzy Dean State Championship last Saturday. Tommy's little brother Luke plays on the Slammers. As many of you may not know the current group of Roadrunners started out in the same fashion when they were 6. The current Roadrunner roster has three players that started playing together at that age together. With the current Slammers team there is a very good core group of players that will surely start up another generation of Roadrunners in the near future. The Slammers just finished playing in the Dizzy Dean World series and finished in 3rd place out of 42 teams. Some interesting stats from the season, the Slammers outscored their opponents 361-180! The Slammers played in four tournaments winning two and coming in third in the others. Their final record for the season was 26-7! Way to go Slammers!!! Roadrunners Win Elite 24/National Championship Well, after much anticipation the seasons last tournament arrived for the Roadrunners in the form of the toughest ... Roadrunners honored as All Americans Four members of the Roadrunners were honored by Travel Ball Select as All Americans. We would like to congratulate the following young men who have earned their spot with some of the best players in the country. Consensus All Americans: Bennie Keys Brennan May First team All Americans: Luke Bailey Cody Stubbs For a complete list of the All American teams go to Travelballselect.com. Congratulations again, we are very proud of you all. |
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