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WCSLL - Excellence in LL Baseball

Home of 2008 11 Year Old Kentucky State Runners-up!

Home of 2007 11-12 Year Old Kentucky State Champs!

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Wednesday was a rough day for South baseball. After the elation of semi-final victories the previous evening and all the hopes for moving on to the State Tournament peaked, just like that - the season is over. Both the 9-10 year old all-stars and the 12 year old all-stars lost district championship games last night to East Daviess County and Logan County respectively.

Last nights event's should serve as a great lesson about just how fleeting success can be in the fickle game of baseball. There are many reasons to love it, but you can never be sure exactly what direction things can go. The South 11 year old all-stars got that lesson a little earlier in the weekend when a game that was seemingly under total control slipped away to the team that went on to win the District Championship.

South baseball put two outstanding teams on the field yesterday and in both cases it just wasn't their day. The ball didn't bounce their way. Fate favored the opponents.

After a no-hitter from Logan Bowen and a win over Franklin on Tuesday night, the 9-10 all-stars just couldn't get the push they needed last night. They lost 13-3 to East Daviess County. Though disappointing, this group will have several more chances at a district or state championship run.

Even more difficult to watch was the 12 year old championship. This group of players families and coaches have accomplished great things in our league. They exemplify team in a way that all of our other teams should emulate. It has never been about any one player with them. These players, coaches and families understand that we is greater than me. Together they have enjoyed great success as a team finishing as runner-ups in the state as 11 year olds. Their goal was to go back and get that state championship this season.

Logan County had other ideas and all credit goes out to them for a great game last night. Sometimes the stars line up and once in a while a great team comes together from outside of Bowling Green or Owensboro. This is that team for them. They rode a strong pitching performance and great discipline at the plate to the District Championship.

As we've come to expect, South never quit. They forced Logan County to utilize four pitchers in the sixth to record the final three outs. Adam Jones hit a three run shot, followed shortly by a two run homer from Chris House, who hit 7 homeruns in the post-season. Things got a little anxious for Logan County who had seemed totally in control of the game to that point. These South kids have never been out of a ballgame and they weren't out of this one either, not until the final out.

Our league will miss these players - they are examples to all who follow them. Jim King has been a terrific leader for this group and even through the difficult last weeks with the passing of his father, Jim has led this group valiantly. There could not have been a better fit of manager to team, or team to manager. Condolences of the entire South family were displayed during post-season with the simple display of "REK" on all-star hats, honoring the passing of Jim's father. Jim said last night in his post-game remarks that South baseball is in good hands. We all hope that's true and we'll do our best to continue a great tradition but the contributions of Jim King, his coaches, these players and these families cannot be overlooked. South baseball will miss you all - and we hope you'll remember your time in this league as fondly as the league will remember each of you!

The season may be over, and for these twelve year olds their Little League careers may be over - but them being an important part of the South baseball tradition will never be over! Wherever they go and whatever they do they will always be South baseball players! Thank you all for all the great memories you've left us!

GO SOUTH!

The South 12 year olds completed pool play yesterday in the District 1 tournament, going undefeated with a 3-0 record. They will move on to the single elimination portion of the tournament on Tuesday.

South fell behind early on Saturday when Owensboro Southern hit two first inning homeruns to take a 4-0 lead. As they tend to do, South responded with their steady assault and won the game 11-4.

Sunday, South used pitching by committee to dispatch Owensboro Eastern. The final score was 3-2 but the game never seemed at risk as South pitchers and hitters seemed to conserve a little energy for what's still ahead.

Great job by the South 12s!

GO SOUTH!

South 11 year olds opened the day with an 11-0 win over Franklin-Simpson. Grant Noble pitched a 1 hit shutout to take care of Franklin Simpson in the day's opening game. South bats took a couple of innings to get rolling but once they did they used 9 hits to score 11 runs while the stingy defense allowed nothing.

Second game of the day saw the 12 year old team dismantle BG East 13-0 in a game that wasn't as close as the score would indicate. Chris House led South off in the bottom of the first with a solo shot, later followed by a Cameron Shryock homerun. Several other South hitters rattled the fence in a strong display of offense.

The 9-10 year old team ended the day with a 5-4 victory over BG East that avenged an area tournament loss to the same group. Cathan Shryock and Russ Kerr combined on the mound to hold East bats at bay.

GREAT START for the South All-Stars who will all be in action again tomorrow.

GO SOUTH! 

Every youth sports organization has a few flaws. South baseball is no different and one might say that maybe we take baseball just a little too seriously at times. We just can't seem to help ourselves, we love it and that's just the way it is.

As baseball junkies, what should we think about a manager who decides batting orders and substitution patterns by drawing numbers out of a hat? What about going out to compete with a commitment to changing pitchers every inning no matter what the game situation is? What about treating B-Team post-season play as a total developmental experience for the 13 players lucky enough to be on that team?

The South B-Team outscored BG East 8-4 last night at Kereiakes Park but won the game 5-4. South jumped on BG East early posting 4 runs in the top of the first only to see a BG East 3rd inning rally tie the game at 4. South dodged a bullet in the fourth as BG East loaded the bases with nobody out. South followed with a force at the plate, a strikeout and a groundout to the pitcher to thwart the BG East rally attempt. South plated one run in the top of the fifth and shut East down again in the bottom half. Top of the sixth saw another flurry by South B-Teamers who posted 3 more to push the score to 8-4 as inclement weather rolled in. BG East put the leadoff runner on board in the bottom of the sixth before the game was called for lightning in the area. With only half of the sixth inning completed the final game score reverted to the last completed inning, which was the fifth. South B-Team defeated BG East for the third time this post-season.

While this coaching approach is not something we should expect to see a lot, for this team and this post-season it's working. What we saw last night was a team that played together with different players in different positions every inning. Every one of these players understood that they had to do their job to support their teammates. The players had fun, the families had fun.....and guess what.....they beat BG East in the process.

Reach out and let these coaches know what a great job they've done. It takes some courage to go out and do things differently. They have put the importance of developing players and showing them what being part of a team means above wins and losses. They have had faith in their players to pitch, hit and make plays when they need to do so. The lesson here seems to be to focus on what's important and believe in your players and the wins and losses will take care of themselves. Is anybody out there paying attention on that? The formula works and people had better watch out for this group over the next few seasons. They understand team and we are proud to have them in South colors.

GREAT JOB B-TEAM! GO SOUTH!

In an Area B tournament prolonged a day by Friday night's weather, both South teams (12 year old & 9-10 year old) have secured spots in the District 1 tournament which begins Friday, July 3rd, 2009.

The 12 year old group completed Area B play undefeated, outscoring opponents 42-6 over the three game slate.

The South rode a strong pitching performance from Wes King on Sunday afternoon and a couple of long balls by Jacob Smiley and Cameron Shryock to an 8-3 victory over BG East. They closed things out Monday night with an 11-0 win over BG West with a combined 1-hitter turned in by a variety of pitchers and a grand slam by Joseph McIntyre. This group will seek to move on along the same path that led them to a state runner-up finish as 11 year old All-Stars a year ago.

They will begin Friday July 3rd at 11am against a familiar rival, BG East.

The 9-10 year old group dropped a tough game to BG East Sunday afternoon but rebounded to defeat WC North 12-2 Monday night to secure a runner-up finsh in the Area B tournament. That lets them move on to District 1 tournament where they will face BG East at 11am on Friday, July 3, 2009.

Congratulations to both teams on moving forward!

The South 11 year old All-Stars will get their post-season underway on Friday, July 3rd at 9am against Franklin.

Please get out and support the South All-Stars in their quests for some District Championships.

GO SOUTH! 

South All-Stars were wearing a little thin on only getting to compete with each other after two grueling weeks of practice in some sweltering June weather. It was time to put on the colors and show the return on that hard work.

South 11-12s wasted no time in getting to work Friday night at Pedigo Park. They quickly jumped on Warren County North with an offensive burst and went on to win 23-3. Their scheduled 2nd round game had to be pushed back due to a weather delay in the nightcap.

The 9-10 South All-Stars overcame a few butterflies and settled in quickly against BG West. Unfortunately their push to secure their first victory was delayed until Saturday afternoon because of a summer thunderstorm. They fell behind 1-0 early before rebounding to take a 2-1 lead into the overnight delay. When weather intervened it was the bottom of the 3rd inning and the South had bases loaded and nobody out. They resumed in that position Saturday at 5:30 and moved on to win 9-2.

Both teams will be in action Sunday afternoon at 2pm and 4pm facing crosstown rivals BG East.

GO SOUTH!

The non-sanctioned South 9-10 B-Team is now 2-0 against other non-sanctioned All-Star teams. They have played 4 games in total running into some stout competition from some outlying sanctioned teams that do not have area tournaments to compete in. Even so they have played extremely well against these teams comprised largely of ten year old members. We are very proud of their efforts and look forward to seeing them in action Tuesday night, June 30 in round three against BG East. They have beaten BG East twice in some very competitive baseball games and will try to continue that sweep at Kerieakes Park Tuesday night at 7pm. They will move on after that to play in the Scottsville Tournament next weekend. We'll post times as soon as we have them.

Try to get out and support the B-Team Tuesday night!

GO SOUTH!

The South 9-10 B-Team played another great game last night. They jumped out to an early lead and led most of the way before falling 3-2 to Barren County. A pretty important side note is that this was Barren County's sanctioned 9-10 All-Stars. A break here or there and the B's would have had a big win under their belts. They'll bounce back into action this weekend in the Edmonson County tournament. We'll post times as soon as we can get them.

GO SOUTH!

The South 9-10 B-Team is our first group to secure a 2009 post-season victory. They defeated BG East in a slugfest Tuesday night at Griffin Park and came away with a 13-12 win. Way to go Killer Bs! It's especially sweet to begin by knocking off our cross-town rival. Keep up the good work.

Bs will continue their efforts this weekend in the Edmonson County tournament. We'll try to post times when we have them.

Both 12 year olds and 9-10 year olds get under way Friday night at Pedigo Park, 12's at 5:30pm and 9-10's at 7:30pm.

GET OUT AND SUPPORT THE SOUTH THIS WEEKEND!

We will plan to continue the good work that the B-Team started.

We had a large number of all-star families who braved the sweltering heat to celebrate the accomplishments of an outstanding group of players. South families are just the BEST!

It was a brutally hot Father's Day Sunday and as usual our players, managers and coaches were out working hard to get these teams prepared for tournament play. However, they weren't the only ones working hard. South families pitched in to provide an amazing spread of food for everyone to enjoy as practice wrapped up.

Please accept this special thanks to everyone who contributed time and effort to putting on this amazing picnic. As the players come together as teams and get ready to embark on our annual run in the All-Star tournaments, our families come together to support their efforts. People are always willing to pitch in and do whatever is needed to support these groups. It is so meaningful to have such great families and it becomes easy to understand why we have great players who are also great kids.

We'll post several pictures from yesterday for everyone to enjoy.

THANKS AGAIN TO EVERYONE FOR ALL YOU DO!

Each season we come to a point where situations become highly competitive and where we have opportunities as parents and fans to choose to act appropriately or inappropriately. We have reached that point in the last couple of weeks and we have seen both positive and negative actions.

We are proud to have what we feel are some of the best participants in Bowling Green and Warren County. Last week when we faced some potentially serious weather and had a lot of people at risk, our adult leaders banded together to ensure that everyone was as safe as possible. It was administrators, managers, coaches and parents all working together to ensure that everyone was taken care of.

Unfortunately, we've already seen a couple of actions that are not representative of behavior we want in our league. When we place the outcome of a baseball game ahead of the safety of our players, we may need to stop and think about possibly being out of line. When we personally attack a league volunteer with ignorant accusations in a letter under the cowardice of anonymity without having a single fact in our argument straight, we are definitely out of line.

The person that took this last action is an embarrassment to our league. The action is a clear Code of Ethics violation and should we find out who is responsible that individual and their child/children will be banned from our program. If any WCSLL participant has information about this action or who may be responsible please see a board member or a member of WCPRD immediately. Information you share will be handled with complete discretion.

The league will not tolerate such actions from our participants. We are all competitive and there's nothing wrong with that. We all want what's best for our player and there's nothing wrong with that. It's one element of what makes our league strong. Our managers, coaches parents and players want to succeed. However, it has to stop before it reaches the point of win-at-all-costs. We know what that looks like and that's not what we want to be. We want managers, coaches, parents and players that give their best effort in the attempt to succeed. That's all we would ever ask and we are satisfied with the results when that happens.

Season end, tournament play, all-star selections and post-season play are all environments where it becomes easy to lose perspective. Situations become a little more volatile, perceived injustices occur and everyone's nerves are just a little more on edge than they are early in the season. 

PLEASE remember that in the end this is all about young people learning and playing baseball and having fun.

Who are they learning from?

PLEASE keep things in their proper perspective and act appropriately.

As we progress into tournament play, we know that there will be things that occur where we have to make a choice about how we respond.

As it is each season, somebody, somewhere will not be totally pleased with the All-Star rosters. Somebody can always debate that some player somewhere did not get proper consideration. It's simply not true. If you think about the selection process, every effort is made to ensure that each player has the opportunity to be considered. There is input on each candidate from those with the closest knowledge of their performance. The All-Star managers themselves have very little influence as to the final roster. They are handed 10 players. These players are chosen for them by players and other managers. Players cannot vote for teammates and managers cannot vote for their own players. That helps to keep the vote unbiased. A player has to have convinced players and managers from other teams that they are worthy in order to be voted on. At the end of that the manager can add players at his discretion to round out the roster. If there is a fairer way to select All-Stars, we don't know what it would be.

Umpires in tournament play are going to make calls we don't agree with. Players that played shortstop and batted fourth all season are going to bat once in the ninth position in the batting order and play left field for one inning in a certain game. We feel we have the best All-Star Managers available but they might make decisions we don't understand or agree with. All of these things are opportunities to make choices with our behavior. For our best chance at success we need to make good choices. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution. PLEASE keep things in perspective. Be a positive influence on the players and the team you are a part of. Try to exemplify TEAM (together everyone achieves more). Whether you are a manager, coach, parent, player or fan, be a positive part of what's going on! 

MAKE GOOD CHOICES! MAINTAIN PERSPECTIVE! PLEASE!

Last season we inadvertently established an event that we felt was important to our league and to our players and families that will devote so much time and energy into the post-season representation of South baseball.

We kind of discovered by accident that there was a night where all three sanctioned teams were at Phil Moore Park at the same time. We threw together a little picnic and all got to spend a little time together prior to tournament play getting started. That opportunity will occur again this season and we'll take advantage of it by having a cookout and pep rally following this Sunday's practices.

All sanctioned teams are practicing between 1-4pm this Sunday. We'll need a little assistance from each team's families to pull this together. We'll plan to begin cooking between 3-3:30pm so we can have food ready when players get finished with practice. We'll need some help with ensuring that we have an adequate number of grills to cook for approximately 48 families. WCSLL will provide burgers, dogs and buns. Each team's families should coordinate plates, napkins, side dishes, desserts and drinks for their group.

It would be helpful if each team manager could gather a head count for their team because our plan will be to feed players, parents and siblings and we need some idea of how many to expect.

Around 5:30 we'll take a few minutes to recognize our players from each age group. Our managers should be prepared with a few words about their teams/players. We'll close with a few congratulatory and a few cautionary words from WCSLL board members and recreate our group picture from last year. 

It is not our goal to disrupt anyone's Fathers Day plans but honestly we can't think of a better way to spend Fathers Day than to cookout with family and friends and have a little baseball thrown in for good measure.

All sanctioned and non-sanctioned All-Star teams and their families are welcome at this event. Our B-Team was not present last year but we hope to see them there this year.We are proud of our players and look forward to the chance to recognize and spend time with them. We hope to see EVERYONE involved with these teams out at Phil Moore Park this Sunday! As mentioned above we will also take a group picture like we did last season! That is a great picture of all of our All-Stars and coaches and we'd like to make that a continuing tradition in the South!

Again this season, WCSLL will be supporting a non-sanctioned 9-10 year old B-Team. Having this group of All-Stars allows more of our players to participate in some post-season play and has proven to be a developmental opportunity for future sanctioned All-Stars.

After receiving a few applications for the Manager position, the board has selected Jonathan McDaniel to manage this group. Jonathan served as Manager for the Minor League Nationals this season and has managed in South Major League as well as assisting with one of our sanctioned All-Star teams in the past. Jonathan will be assisted by Greg Linhardt, Manager of the 2009 Minor League Braves and Charlie Cunningham, Manager of the 2009 Minor League Rays. Please join us in granting best wishes to this great coaching staff.

We are pleased and excited to congratulate the following players on being named South 9-10 B-Team All-Stars:

Noah Burns, Nate Cunningham, Hunter Evans, Peyton Ferry, Scott Haley, Kirtley Lawrence, Seth Linder, Garon Linhardt, Cannon McDaniel, Matthew Mitchell, Jacob Miller, Granite Pare and Brandon Thrasher

Congratulations to these players on outstanding seasons and best of luck as you represent South baseball.

Current B-Team schedule is as follows:

6/23 - 6-8pm @ Griffin #4  WC South v BG East

6/26-6/28 - Edmonson County Tournament - times yet to be decided

6/30 - 7-9pm @ Kerieakes Park WC South v BG East

7/2 - 7/4 - Scottsville All-Star Tournament - times yet to be decided

Please get out and support our B-Team! See you at the park.    

The Area Tournament for 2009 will be held at Pedigo Park and schedules for our WCSLL All-Star teams will be as follows:

11-12 Year Old All-Stars

Friday, June 26 - 5:30pm @ Pedigo Upper Field - WC South v. WC North (H)

Saturday, June 27 - 5:30pm @ Pedigo Upper Field - WC South (H) v. BG East

Sunday, June 28 - 2:00pm @ Pedigo Upper Field - WC South (H) v. BG West

9-10 Year Old All-Stars

Friday, June 26 - 7:30pm @ Pedigo Lower Field - WC South (H) v. BG West

Saturday, June 27 - 7:30pm @ Pedigo Lower Field - WC South (H) v. BG East

Sunday, June 28 - 2:00pm @ Pedigo Lower Field - WC South v. WC North (H)

The 10-11 Year Old All-Stars will begin play on July 3rd in the District Tournament in Franklin. 

Little League allows official release of 2009 All-Star rosters beginning today. We want to congratulate the following players on selection as 2009 South All-Stars:

2009 11-12 Year Old All-Stars

Jacob Smiley, Lucas Holland, Alex Biggs, Noah Edmonson, Chris House, Adam Jones, Wes King, Joseph McIntyre, Cameron Shryock, Everett Taylor, Sam Cundiff and Sam Dralle

2009 10-11 Year Old All-Stars

Grant Noble, Jacob Lewis, Kieffer Baxter, Cameron Brown, Griffin Heltsley, Michael Hicks, Trey Kirtley, Austin McElwain, Taylor Perdue, Alex Stackhouse, Landon Bybee and Jacob Page

2009 9-10 Year Old All-Stars

Russ Kerr, Hunter Stone, Dylan Beckham, Max Benningfield, Logan Bowen, Josh Floyd, Drew Gregory, Cole Haller, Cathan Shryock, Dylan Taylor, Chauncey Greer and Adam Smiley

Practice will begin tonight for these teams.

While we are very excited and pleased to congratulate this group of players, we recognize that we have some players who may be disappointed that their names didn't appear on this list. We care about all of our players and we encourage you to keep striving for excellence in baseball and other endeavors. Never accept less than what you want. We hope each player in our league will continue to seek success. That's what makes our league a great place to play. Even those not listed above have contributed by competing and making the players above better. We all play a part in what goes on in WCSLL. Thank you to all our players for participating during the 2009 season.   

After a busy week WCSLL teams played their hearts out through a steamy Saturday to show everybody what they had left in the tank.

The Jamboree brackets are attached with final results.

In our Major League Division we had the most competitive season we've ever had with all teams beating up on each other all season. We had three teams finsh the season with 9-6 records. All had beaten each other, so to divide that would involve some ridiculous mathmateical formula. Hardly fair to let math decide who the champion was so we decided to award co-champion trophies to all who tied for best record. The league finshed as follows:

1st Place - Cardinals, Cubs, Rockies (co-champions)

2nd Place - Yankees

3rd Place - Phillies

4th Place - Diamondbacks

In the Minor League Division our players faced some unbelievable challenges in getting their rainouts made up. They did an amazing jop of demonstrating toughness and desire. They've shown early that they are going to make great players in the South. Regular season finished as follows in Minor:

1st Place - Reds

2nd Place - Indians

3rd Place - Red Sox

GREAT JOB EVERYONE!

SOUTH SIDE - STRONG SIDE!!! 

STILL TRUE

After all is said and done and with more patience from our managers and participants we hope to wrap up the 2009 WCSLL Jamboree and close out our regular season today. It's a busy day with teams playing on all fields.

All regular season and jamboree trophies will be presented as teams complete their games today.

A HUGE THANKS GOES OUT TO ALL WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN A GREAT 2009 BASEBALL SEASON!

We had one of the best Major League seasons in memory with every team being as good as the next. Our Minor Leaguers fought through a lot of adversity in getting their rainouts made up but they've proven that they belong in South Little League. We do what it takes to get the job done and they survived a baptism by fire over the last 10 days. Way to go Minor Leaguers!

The Area B tournament will begin on June 26, 2009 at Pedigo Park here in Bowling Green. Schedules will be posted Monday. We hope that all of our South participants will show league pride and come out to support the South 9-10 and 11-12 All-Stars as they compete for an opportunity to move on to the District Tournament in Franklin. We hope both teams will join our 10-11 All-Stars who begin play in Franklin. All-Star rosters will be released Monday, June 15 and published here on our website. Please support those who have been selected to represent our league in post-season play.

THANKS AGAIN FOR A GREAT 2009 SEASON!

First and foremost we are hoping all of our participants found their way home safely last night. There were some pretty scary moments and we appreciate everyone that helped to herd our players and families to safe locations during the storm. Fortunately there was no serious damage that we are aware of. At worst, it looks like we lost a little time on a few baseball games and we'll gladly accept that as opposed to anyones safety being at risk.

We'll try to move forward with our jamboree games tonight, weather-permitting. The revised brackets are attached. Please make careful note of game time and location changes. We may have to continue to adjust on the fly and we don't want anybody in the wrong place at the wrong time. Best course of action is to destroy any brackets you may have downloaded and printed previously. Make sure you have this version for reference.

Also, please remember, we hope we can play our jamboree to completion but these are bonus games. They are just so we can play a little longer and have a little more fun. We plan to play as much as we can but if the weather doesn't cooperate we may need to cancel the balance of the games at some point. We'll try to avoid this, but please be patient and understand if this happens.

Here's hoping we get good weather and are able to spend more time with all of you over next few days.

If weather forces an abrupt end to our season in the next couple of days, we appreciate everyone who played baseball in the South this season. Best wishes to those who are graduating from our league and we hope to see all who are eligible to return again next season!

Minor League wrapped up tonight at Phil Moore # 2 as the Minor Leaguers got a chance to play where the big boys play. The Indians defeated the Braves 7-4 in the 5:30pm game completing an amazing run to win 5 games in 6 days and secure 2nd place for the Minor League regular season by a slight half game margin over the Red Sox who also had a terrific season finishing in 3rd place.

IMPORTANT NOTE - completed Minor League Brackets are attached.  

BRACKETS REVISED SINCE THIS AFTERNOON

The Yankees win in the nightcap at Phil Moore #2 allowed them to leapfrog the three teams they were tied for fourth with based on head to head victories over the other three. Bad information had the Rays posted as the #4 seed earlier today. We did not realize that could change or we wouldn't have posted it. That created a logjam for the #5 seed that could not be broken by head to head because the teams had all beaten up on each other. Seeds #5, #6 and #7 were determined by runs allowed for all thirteen games played. The Rays are the #5, the Dodgers are the #6 and the Diamondbacks are the #7.

PLEASE CAREFULLY CHECK ATTACHED BRACKETS FOR TIME AND LOCATION THAT YOUR TEAM PLAYS.

We will begin jamboree Thursday night and play as much baseball as we can play! See you at the park!

Our Major League wrapped up on Tuesday night with a closing game that was called after four innings because of lightning in the area. The Cubs defeated the Yankees in 3-2 in four innings in the weather-shortened contest. It was another great game and unfortunate that it was ended early by weather, but the safety of our players is far more important than the outcome of any game.

The Major League will recognize three co-champions for the 2009 season. We want to show our appreciation to all of our Major League teams for what has been a dream season. Our co-champions include the Cardinals, the Rockies and the Cubs. Last night's loss drops the Yankees into a second place finish. The Phillies and Diamondbacks finished third and fourth respectively. Any team could literally beat any other team on any night and it was an enjoyable season because of that parity. 

The Major League Season End Jamboree is set to begin Thursday night weather-permitting. The brackets are attached. If we run into weather issues, we will push games to next day and play as much as we can play.

WCSLL Board, Major League and Minor League managers met last night to count player votes and to nominate and select all-stars for the 2009 post-season. The rosters will be released officially on June 15, 2009 and published here.

In a presidents meeting yesterday in Franklin, tournament pairings for Area and District tournaments were set. The District 1 administrator advised that Major League all-star rosters could not be formally announced until Monday, June 15. It is the decision of our board to hold the official release of the Minor League roster until the same date for consistency sake. Our plans to recognize all-stars at conclusion of our season end jamboree games had to be cancelled.

It may be necessary for all-star managers to communicate with some players and families prior to official release date to ensure that their rosters are completed and firm. We would appreciate all efforts to keep any all-star conversation to a minimum. We will announce as soon as possible.

Pairings will be posted here in the near future.

WCSLL completed 20 more baseball games this past weekend and we hope to complete 12 more tonight and tomorrow night, weather-permitting. There is a chance of showers each day, but let's hope for the best. If we can complete our regular season on Wednesday, that will be AWESOME, considering how far behind we were just three days ago.

In watching a lot of games over the weekend it appears the players are having fun and that's what LL baseball is all about. We know our Minor Leaguers have faced a tough schedule trying to make up all the rainouts but they are doing great! Heck, what's better than playing a lot of baseball?

Stay tuned here for updates as season winds down.

WCSLL Board of Directors and team managers will gather this Sunday, June 7, 2009 to select the 2009 WCSLL All-Star teams.

This is a closed meeting. Only board members and team managers are to attend. No assistant coaches, parents or others will be allowed. At times, information shared in these meetings can be of a sensitive nature and we make every effort to be as discreet as possible.

Official roster release date is Monday, June 15, 2009 and those selected will be posted here on that day.

This is always a difficult process. There are lots of players to consider and a lot of time and effort goes into our process. WCSLL is proud of all of our players and we wish that everyone could be selected as an all-star. However, representing our league in post-season play is an important consideration. Some of the best baseball in the state of Kentucky is played right here in District 1. WCSLL has made a habit of competing for Area, District, State and even Central Region titles. This representation helps to shine a positive light on our league. The WCSLL board makes every effort to ensure that our managers take the process seriously, and that we attempt to place our highest performers on these rosters.

We would ask that parents please understand that all-star rosters are normally comprised of 10-12 players. The exact number is a choice that's up to the team manager, they can option up to 14. However, the more players you take the more difficult the job becomes because Little League play time regulations require that every player, play in every game.

It is a common occurence that some players who may be deserving just don't end up on the roster. Nobody takes this lightly. Every effort is made to ensure that the best of the best are selected. That is necessary to allow us the best opportunity for post-season success.While our board and managers may not get this exactly right in 100% of the cases, our record of success shows that we have chosen pretty well over the years. We would ask that parents keep in mind that your players are participating in a rich talent pool. Teams from Bowling Green have often outperformed teams from Louisville, Lexington and Owensboro. Players that don't quite meet all-star criteria here could very well be all-stars almost anywhere else they would play. All of our players are good players and we care about them all. 

In an effort to help with understanding we always like to publish for all participants how the selection process works. There are three steps to placing our all-stars.

Step 1 is that our players select the first two all-stars. Each player votes for who they feel are the top 3 players in their division that they've played against during the season (you do not have the option to vote for yourself or others on your own team).

Step 2 allows each team manager to nominate and support those players on his team that he feels are worthy of consideration. After all managers have done this, the ballot is created. Each manager then votes for the top 8 players from the ballot that have played against them during the season (again, managers do not have option to vote for their own players).

After these two steps are complete 10 players have been placed on the roster.

Step 3 allows the team manager to select any additional players that he wants on his team. The managers selections are done at the sole discretion of that manager. They could be players that were on the ballot, or he may select a player/players from off the ballot. He fills the remainder of the roster as he chooses.

The players selected then must go through a validation and verification process that clearly establishes their eligibilty for participation. This can go quickly or take a few days. The 2009 official rosters will be released to the public on Friday, June 12 and will be published here on the website. We would request that all participants avoid probing for information and participating in gossip related to inclusion/exclusion until those rosters are published. The release date is mandated by Little League rules and we release officially at the earliest possible time allowed. 

If anyone wishes to order additional pictures you may do so by visiting the JVZ photo website.

Here are the viewing instructions:

Go to www.jvzphoto.com and enter the site by clicking on the main front page photo.  Find the menu tab labeled Warren Co Baseball.  Click the hyperlink on that page and use password:  wcsll    

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Go to www.myleaguephotos.com and use password: wcsll

Order WCSLL products by clicking the "Sportswear" tab at the left of the home page. Prep Sportswear offers over 400 products. Most products come in multiple color options and the primary design art can be customized to your liking. You can add player names and or numbers. You can also pick products specifically designed for moms, dads, league officials, grandparents, etc.. These items are perfect for supporting your favorite player or team or just to show league spirit.

This opportunity is simply a source to purchase gear. WCSLL receives no financial benefit from the sale of these products.