Southern Indiana Spikes: Welcome
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Welcome to the Southern Indiana Spikes Website
A Youth Competitive Baseball/Softball Organization
The sole intention of our organization is to provide the youth of our area an avenue to participate in competitive sports. We will use this "tool" of sports to integrate, initiate and ingrain valuable life skills, both physically and mentally, that will benefit them well past their sports lives.
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Instructions to help you navigate the Spikes Website are at the bottom of this Home Page.
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The Spike Athletic Center is also available for use by teams and individuals that are not a member of the Spikes Organization. A variety & type of uses are possible. Examples: Team sport practices of Baseball, Softball, Soccer & Basketball, individual pitching, hitting, fielding & physical fitness workouts are some of the many possibities. Call if your specialty is not listed to see if it can be accomidated. Available time slots & rates can be obtained by contacting President Brad Fella. His contact information is listed in the “Contact Us” page of this website (see left menu).
To view a few images of the Spikes Athletic Center, click on the pictures link in menu!
Outside groups and individuals are encouraged and highly welcome !!!!
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The player sizing of uniforms for the 2010 season & team meetings are in "Full Swing". The coaching staffs of each Spikes age division are now getting this done. Your team either should have already completed this or have a date, time and location set.
Also, winter workouts for some teams will begin in January 2010 with the remainder starting in February. Be sure and contact your teams coach for the specifics.
Pitching and hitting lessons are also underway. Please contact President Brad Fella for more information.
Monday, October 19
THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING WITH THE UNCONTROLLABLE WEATHER WE HAVE HAD THIS FALL!
We hope everyone has an enjoyable time when the weather allowed!
Thanks again for your particpation in the Southern Indiana Spikes Fall Baseball program!
Monday, August 3
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The 12- U Spikes team recently won the Baseball Players Association World Series in Owensboro KY. The team participated in the four day event July 30- August 2nd. There were 21 teams in their age group from Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. The first game on Thursday morning was against the Michigan Beach Bums, a team that finished 5th in the Michigan State tournament; the Spikes beat the Beach Bums in 5 innings, 8-0. Tyler Ward and Ben Sellers teamed up to throw a no hitter for the game. Next up were the Midwest Gloves, a team that the Spikes played last year in Noblesville IN at the Midwest Championships. This time there was a different out come, the Spikes beat the Gloves 12-1. Next up was the Indiana Nitroz on Saturday morning. The Spike played great defense with a tremendous offensive outburst against a really high quality opponent beating them 16-3. Then the came the big show down in the semi finals against the Lids Indiana Bulls, a storied program that has been in existence since 1990. The Bulls produce a 12-U through 18-U program each year. This organization has produced 98 players drafted by professional baseball and over 260 collage players. The Spikes played one of our best games against the high quality organization beating the Bulls 4-1. This left only the Spikes and the Murray Bucs, these two teams have played three times this year with the Spike having the slight advantage 2-1. The game started well with Scoring 1 run in the first and 1 in the second. Jarred Luebbe pitched a one hitter for the complete game win 5-0.
For the tournament the Spike racked up 45 runs while only allowing 5, going undefeated 5-0. Defensively, they only committed 4 errors for the entire tournament. The Spikes end their 2009 season with a 30-9 record.
This is the second time that this team has won the B.P.A World Series. Previously they came through the loser’s bracket in 2006 to beat the Evansville Spikes twice. Six of these kids have been together since they were 8 years old. They have a record of 163 wins and only 51 losses, with two state championships as well. They have competed in 48 tournaments since 2005 and have placed 1st or 2nd in 38 of the 48 tournaments.
Wednesday, April 15
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| 2009 12U Spring Slam Champs! | |
BPA D&B SPRING SLAM
OWENSBORO, KY. APRIL 11, 2009
12-U Tournament Champions
The 12-U team played a Round Robin tournament format April 11th at Panther Creek Park in Owensboro KY. The team went undefeated to win the tournament. First beating their friendly rivals the Extreme 7-4. They played well and staged a late rally to make the game a little closer in the end with Tyler Ward pitching a complete game.
Next came the River City Rockers lead by Chad Sneider. The Spikes bats seemed to come alive for the first time this year against their long time friends from the South. Cody Seifrig hit his first career Grand Slam in the bottom of the second inning and the game finished 18-0 in three innings.
In the final game of the day the Spikes played the McLean County Cougars, a newly formed team with some familiar faces. The game ended in three innings with the Spikes winning14-0.
Way to go 12U !!!
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Thursday, April 16
The 11U Spikes team had a successful first tournament for 2009. They played Easter weekend at the Spring Slam in Owensboro, Kentucky. They went 3-1 in the tournament and finished runner-up overall in the 11U division. In their first game, they defeated the Southern Indiana Rookies 13-3. In game two they defeated the E-town Shock 4-1 and in game 3 they defeated the rookies 11-0. In their final game they lost to the Shock 11-2. The team had several good hits and plays throughout the day and the team really enjoyed themselves. It was good weekend!
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| 11U Spring Slam Runner-ups! |
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A champion seeks to quench the thirst for victory on the field of play, in the classroom and in the game of life. A champion makes sacrifices that others will not, both on and off the field. A champion, without exception, never stops trying -no matter what the score, situation or circumstances. A Champion is a model person on the "team", in the classroom and in society. A champion is a team leader -always leading by example. If you're looking for examples of these real champions, then look no further than our current 2010 Spikes Players and the 100's of past veteran Spikes players. They are our finest examples!
Good Luck & Good Sportsmanship to all of the Spikes teams particpating in the upcoming 2010 baseball season & tournaments! ...and remember...always "Be A Champion" no matter what the "score" and keep up the great Spikes Traditions !
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Some of the most recent folks utilizing the Spikes Athletic Center.... in 2009 !
*All the Spikes Youth Boys Baseball Teams
*Huntingburg Youth Soccer Teams
*Perry County Bobcats Baseball
*Heritage Hills Patriots Baseball
*North Spencer Fever Girls Fastpitch
*All Students of Pitching CLasses
*All Students of Hitting Classes
*North Spencer Baseball
*Heritage Hills Cub Baseball
*Santa Claus Baseball
*Southern Indiana Sluggers Jr. Legion
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The newly designed 2010 Spikes vehicle window decals are now available !
They are $8 each. See your team manager to get one.
Also, check out the on-line sportwear on the link in the left menu. There are hundreds of NEW items and The spikes logo is now available on many of those items !!!!
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| Spotlight Site Trophy |
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Congratulations!!!
The Southern Indiana Spikes Website has just been chosen as an eteamz Spotlight site of the month!
Eteamz is host to over 2.5 million teams worldwide. To be named a spotlight site for the month of March out of all of those sites is a great honor. Thank you eteamz!
If you are visiting our Spikes website for the first time and due to this Spotlight Site award, please leave us a note in our guestbook and the name of your site so we may come visit you too!
The Southern Indiana Spikes website is also included in the Spotlight section of the main eteamz Website, just click on the following link to go there:
www.eteamz.com/company/spotlight
What is eteamz.com?
Since 1998, eteamz has been connecting coaches, players, families, friends and fans from teams in over 120 countries. Our resources and customer focus have enabled us to become the Team Sports Web Site Leader. eteamz is home to over 2.5 million teams and is the official online community of Little League Baseball and NFL Youth Football. This is just the beginning. Get in the game at www.eteamz.com today!
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| Jon & Jay Answer Questions From Spikes Players |
Everyone in attendance had a very memorable night at the Spikes Athletic Center.
(Click on "Pictures" in the left menu for more photos from the evening)
Certian pages of the Spikes website are password protected, this is, you must be approved before being allowed to visit those webpages. Access to those pages is exclusively for Spikes players, coaches, parents or guardians. If you are one of the aforementioned people, just follow the directions after clicking on any secured page. If you don't have an e-teamz account, you must first set one up. Just follow the step by step directions. The Webmaster will be notified of your request and will respond in a timely manner.
The athletic field is where the kids learn the lessons of life and have fun. They learn that winning isn’t as important as preparing to win… They learn never to give up… They learn to lose with dignity… They learn to win with honor…They learn that you can be whatever you want to be if you work hard enough at it… They may never be first-team or all-state or an all-American, but the important thing is that they try…They learn to be good citizens… It’s better to be a good American than an all-American.
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Please take a moment to let us know you spent some of your valuable time with us at our site. We look forward to hearing from you about your visit.
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These are instructions to help you find any Spike team's webpage, whether the current season or past seasons. Look at the menu on the left hand side of this page and click on "Find a Spikes Team". Then, on the next page that comes up, select the year (the current season year or any past season's year) of the team you are looking for on the right side of the screen. Then find the age division of that year on the left and click on it. That will arrive you at that team's individual webpage.
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If you have something you would like considered to be added to our Spikes website, such as a picture, news article or just information, just contact your team's (age division) website administrator (you can ask your Head Coach whom that is). That person can present it to the website team, and if it can be used, it will be added to the site. (We have to watch how much[and what] we add to the website as we are limited on storage space)
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