Weston, Massachusetts - Youth Baseball & Softball: Weston LL News

2010 WESTON BASEBALL SUMMER CLINIC WEEK

Run by Weston Varsity Coach Jon Beverly

Monday - Thursday, June 21-24

Details on Training and Development page

Opening Day Parade

May 2nd, 2010

Weston Town Green

2010 Baseball Division Alignment

A-Ball -- Is for 5 & 6 year-olds (as of 4/30/10).  This is the entry level T-Ball program.  Six-year-olds who have completed one season of A-Ball may play at the AA Level.

AA-Ball -- Is for 6 & 7  year-olds (as of 4/30/10).  This is Coach-Pitch baseball.  (Six-year-olds must have completed one season of A-Ball)

 2010 Winter Baseball Clinics at Weston Middle School

Register HERE 

3^rd, 4^th , 5^th and 6^th Graders

Hitting ***7PM HITTING IS SOLD OUT - 6TH GRADERS MAY SIGN UP FOR 8PM SESSION WITH 7TH AND 8TH*** (Tuesday – 1/5, 1/12, 1/19, 1/26, 2/2 from 7:00-8:00 p.m.) Come learn to hit the Weston way!  This 5-night hitting clinic run by the Weston High School Varsity Coaching Staff along with former and current Wildcat players will emphasize proper hitting mechanics to be successful at any level.  In the past eight seasons the Wildcats have had two Dual County League batting champions and seven others finish in the top three.  If you have a bat that you use regularly, please bring it. 

Fielding/Throwing/Pitching **SPACE AVAILABLE** (Thursday – 1/7, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11 from 7:00-8:00 p.m.) During this multi-faceted session your child will learn in-depth, technically sound ways to field, throw, and pitch.  This 5-night clinic will be run by the Weston High School Varsity Coaching Staff along with former and current Wildcat players.  The Wildcats are traditionally considered one of the better fielding teams in the Dual County League and have recently had three pitchers selected to the All-Star team.  Please bring your glove.    

7^th and 8^th Graders

Hitting **SPACE AVAILABLE - 6TH GRADERS WELCOME**(Tuesday – 1/5, 1/12, 1/19, 1/26, 2/2 from 8:00-9:00 p.m.) Come learn to hit the Weston way!  This 5-night hitting clinic run by the Weston High School Varsity Coaching Staff along with former and current Wildcat players will emphasize proper hitting mechanics to be successful at any level.  In the past eight seasons the Wildcats have had two Dual County League batting champions and seven others finish in the top three.  If you have a bat that you use regularly, please bring it. 

Fielding/Throwing/Pitching **SPACE AVAILABLE**(Thursday – 1/7, 1/21, 1/28, 2/4, 2/11 from 8:00-9:00 p.m.) During this multi-faceted session, your child will learn in-depth, technically sound ways to field, throw, and pitch.  This 5-night clinic will be run by the Weston High School Varsity Coaching Staff along with former and current Wildcat players.  The Wildcats are traditionally considered one of the better fielding teams in the Dual County League and have recently had three pitchers selected to the All-Star team.  Please bring your glove. 

 Register HERE

Do you shop at Thunder Sports in Wellesley?  Please show your Weston Thunder Advantage Card to the cashier and a percentage of your total purchase will be credited to the Weston Public Schools as Weston Boosters Dollars. Booster Dollars can be spent on PE equipment, uniforms and other needed items for our schools! It works for all levels, elementary through High School!  If you don’t have a Thunder card, simply say “Please credit Weston Public Schools” to the cashier before you check out and ask for your Weston Thunder Card while you are there. Support our athletes whenever you shop at Thunder!

Spring 2010 Junior Baseball (13-15) Registration is OPEN  HERE

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Wildcats Varsity Baseball Captures First DCL Small Championship Title In 53 Years 

Burchard Park looks great!!

Rockies Win 2008 Fall Cup Championship

Weston Three-peats as NELL 2008 Fall Champs

 WESTON- OCTOBER 26 - The Weston 10/11-year-old team won the NELL Fall baseball Championship with a 9-2 win over Newton Central LL, powered by the strong offense that scored 143 runs during the regular season. Clutch hits from Ben Hamblett, Ryan Doorandish, Jack Fleckner, Lucas Cramer and Sam Wisnia  put the game away in the late innings.  The victory marked the third straight year that Weston has won the championship in this exciting fall league.   This championship capped a perfect 13-0 season for Weston. Manager Bob Peatman said, “This truly was a team accomplishment in every sense. It took focus; commitment and hard work by each player to make sure you had no let downs during the season. We truly had a different hero every game.”  During a 10-0 regular season a strong pitching staff of Will Greenberg, Alex Awad, Chase Peatman, Brad Peters and Ben Hamblett combined for three no-hitters, and a 0.52 ERA.   With solid defense from the entire team including Jed Perler, Josh White, Miller Ward and Matt Paul the Seadogs made it very difficult for opposing teams to get on the board, limiting opponents to a stingy average of 1.0 runs-per-game.

SUMMER 2008

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Congrats to the Spring 2008 Champions!

 Summer/Fall 2007 Champions

Weston 10's repeat Champions of NELL Fall League!

Octber 28th - WESTON - With a combined 12-0-1 record, the 10's defeated teams from Newton, Brookline, Needham and Belmont to capture the overall championship in the competitive NELL Fall travel league. Congrats to Manager Jeff Tocci and Coaches Mead, Peatman, Chapman and Bloom. Weston had a total of four teams in this league with three of them qualifying for the playoff rounds!

Tom Skenderian, 60, top collegiate ballplayer known for loyalties

By Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff | April 6, 2006

People still talk about two of his home runs. There was the drive they say that Tom Skenderian hit in the 1960s, while playing for Chatham, that flew about 500 feet before bouncing off the roof of the fire station, far beyond the right-field fence.

And there was the shot that cleared the lights at Murphy Field in Jamaica Plain and the rooftops of the three-deckers across the street. The ball was not found. 'That's still in the air, I think," said his longtime friend Ed Sherman, of Readville.

Thomas E. Skenderian, whose baseball exploits as a youth and young man were matched by his devotion to family and friends, died Monday of cancer. He was 60 and had lived in Weston with his wife, Dusty Rhodes, and their six children. 'This guy could hit the ball, but while he was good, he wasn't an egotist," said his brother, Donald of Millis. 'I think he was pretty humble about his feats." Mr. Skenderian was far more interested in his children and his friends. He remained close with several friends since they were boys together in Readville 50 years ago.

'His devotion to his family is legendary," said Sherman, who recalled that a couple of years ago Mr. Skenderian summoned him three days after returning home from surgery on his brain. He pulled on a baseball cap to cover the lengthy scar and asked Sherman to drive him to his children's sports events, where Mr. Skenderian would ask each coach if there was anything he could do to help out. 'I think we went to four games that day," Sherman said.

The youngest of four children, Mr. Skenderian was born in Boston and lived in Jamaica Plain, down the street from Doyle's pub. While in elementary school, he moved with his family to Readville and formed friendships that would last a lifetime. Last year, he traveled with six of those friends to watch the Red Sox during spring training in Florida. He graduated from Hyde Park High School, where he was captain of the baseball and hockey teams and an all-star in both sports.

At Brown University, he was the college's first baseball player to win the Ivy League batting championship and was awarded the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League Cup in 1966 for finishing with a .514 batting average. Mr. Skenderian was inducted into Brown's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1975.

He did not rely solely on his keen hand-eye coordination. Sherman recalled that as a youth, Mr. Skenderian set up a mirror in his family's basement so he could study his batting stance and would swing a lead-weighted bat more than 200 times every evening.

Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles after his sophomore year, he chose instead to finish college and was drafted by several teams after graduating, including the Red Sox. But during a summer off from Brown, Mr. Skenderian was batting in a Boston Park League game when he was hit by a sharp foul ball. 'It was a fluke pitch that struck at a very odd angle," said Bob Welby of Osterville, a friend from Readville who was at the game. Mr. Skenderian was wearing hard-lens contacts and the glass shattered into his left eye.

After Brown, he played a short time with the Red Sox affiliate in Jamestown, N.Y., but realized that his ability to see the stitches on a pitched ball had faded. 'The baseball sometimes appeared as big as a balloon," he told The Boston Globe in 1980, but he said it was no longer easy to hit.

Shaking off the disappointment, Mr. Skenderian started working in sales of Oriental rugs and formed his own company, Balloon Tycoon, which sold decorations for events for 25 years. As a father, he coached all of his children, encouraging each to fulfill his or her potential.

'He was as good as it gets," said Mr. Skenderian's oldest child, Thomas of Weston, known as T.K. 'Everybody looked up to him. So much of what we learned from him we try to exemplify every day."

Mr. Skenderian was first diagnosed with melanoma about 14 years ago, his brother said. The cancer metastasized several years ago and again more recently. 'Obviously his cancer bothered him, but it bothered him more that he wanted to see his girls through high school," his brother said. 'He outlasted everyone's expectations with this disease. He had a fighting spirit that carried him through -- he just had a passion for living," his son said.

Welby was with his friend when he died Monday. 'He was unconscious, or we thought he was, and I saw a tear come out of his right eye," Welby said. 'I'll always believe that he knew we were there and said, 'I've reached my point and this is it. I've fought the good fight and it's time now.' " In addition to his wife, son T.K., and brother, Mr. Skenderian leaves two other sons, Tucker and Tyler, and three daughters, Taylor, Turner, and Tanner, all of Weston; and two sisters, Rosemary Reynolds of Hampton, N.H., and Johanna Shaghalian of Narragansett, R.I. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Peter Episcopal Church in Weston. Burial will be in Linwood Cemetery, Weston. © Copyright 2006 Globe Newspaper Company.