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Welcome to Somerville Alibrandis Official Web Site
This the is the official site of the Somerville Highlanders Alumni /Alibrandis Baseball Team.
The team has become a dynasty in Boston's Yawkey Baseball League, winning the League Championship in 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 2005, 2006 and 2007. Conference Championships in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 made playoff apperances in 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 2004 ,2005, 2006, 2007 2008 and 2009 and won the league Stewart Memorial Tournament in 1991, 1992 & 1998. The team has also enjoyed National Recognition starting the 2003 Season as the 11th ranked team in the United States by the National Semi-Pro Baseball Association.
The team was founded in 1990 and in 2009 the team will be playing its 20th season as part of Boston's Yawkey Baseball League. In that time they have sent over 30 players and coaches to take part in the YBL's annual All Star Game at Fenway Park. Field Manager Mike Powers has managed 11 All Star Games(97,98-07) and the team has had the games MVP 7 times over the years.
The team has been sponsored by Alibrandis Barber Shop since 1994( see our sponsor section ).
The team is better know as "Somerville Alibrandis" ever since.
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Alibrandis Pitcher Derek Bates retires from the YBL
One of the best pitchers in the history of the Yawkey Baseball League, Derek Bates called it a career at the end ot the 2009 season by announcing his retirement after the playoffs. Derek was an impressive young pitcher when he joined the team. He fit right in with a staff of Shawn Nadeau and Marc DesRoches and after a few years began to stand out as one of the best pitchers in the league. This was confirmed when Derek was voted by the league mananger's as the Pitcher of the Year in three consecutive seasons( 2002, 2003 and 2004 ) and earning a start at Fenway Park in a YBL All Star Game. His final performance was one for the ages as he struck out the final 9 batters he ever faced in getting the victory of a must win game 5 versus AlThomas. His hard work and team first attitude will be missed and in his honor the team has retired his uniform #40.
3rd Annual Alumni Softball Game goes to "Current" Team, 26-22.
The 3rd Annual Somerville Alibrandis Alumni Softball Game was played at St Peters Field on November 1st and the team made up of players from the 2009 team defeated the Alumni Team 26-22. The victory put the Alumni down 2 games to 1 in the series. This is the highest scoring game of the series to date. Thanks go to all the took part in the game and to Marc DesRoches for helping get the permit for the field to Rob Nickerson for the food at Joe Sent Me....
20th Season end Somerville Highlander/Alibrandis Baseball Club in Semi Finals
The Somerville Highlander Alumni / Alibrandis Baseball Team completed its 20th Season in the Yawkey Baseball League by being defeated by the Malden Bulldogs 3-0 in the semi-final round of the 2009 YBL Playoffs. This trip marked the 14th trip to the playoffs in the teams historic past, after going 20-11-1 in the regular season. That was the 5th best record, but earned then the #6 seed in the tournament. In round 1, Somerville matched up with the AlThomas Athletics. AlThomas came off another impressive season winning their conference and earning the #3 seed. The series like their last meeting in the playoffs went the distance and in game 5 Somerville took the deciding game on the back of great relief pitching of Derek Bates who got out of a bases loaded jam with no outs in the 5th. Bates, in what was his final apperance in a YBL game struck out all 9 batters he faced. However the run for another league championship was not meant to be as Somerville ran into the best team of the regular season, the Malden Bulldogs who has a 25-6-1 record and the playoffs #1 seed. The sweep ended the 20th season, and also saw the end to the career of Marc DesRoches who after 14 years as the most decorated players ever in the YBL announced his retirement. The Somerville Alibrandis team ended with an overall record of 23-16-1.
Marc DesRoches Wins 2009 YBL Batting Title
Somerville Alibranids third baseman and pitcher, Marc DesRoches has won the 2009 Yawkey Baseball League Batting Title with a .470 average. Congratulations to Marc on this honor.
| Player |
AVG |
RBI |
AB |
R |
H |
2B |
3B |
HR |
SLG |
OBP |
OPS |
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Team |
| Marc DesRoches |
.470 |
26 |
66 |
13 |
31 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
.576 |
.561 |
1.137 |
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Join the Somerville Alibrandis Group on facebook.
The Somerville Alibrandis Baseball Team has set up a group on Facebook to assist in finding Alumni players over the 20 seasons. This will allow us to help communicate and network better with everyone has been a large part of this teams sucess over the years.
Please click on the headline link to get to the group and join the group.
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