2011 BYD Coaching Staff
8U Head Coach: Steve Malone
Assistants: Coach Sullivan, Coach Stewart, coach Spanbauer and Coach Beach
9U Red Sox Head Coach: Craig Serbenta
Assistants: Coach Hudson
9U Black Sox Head Coach: John Davis
Assistants: NEEDED
10U Head Coach: Nate Post 616-293-3924 npost@wyomingexcavators.com:
Assistants: Jeff Hoffman
11U Head Coach: Jerry Cardani 616-485-1587 jerry@vcl.com
Assistants: Coach Hancock, Coach Pratt, Coach Woern
11U Head Coach: AVAILIABLE. APPLY BY EMAILING gotitcovered23@yahoo.com
12U: Head Coach: Shane Beach 616-307-0026 shane@yourbackyarddreams.com
Assistants: Coach Perry, Coach Mankel, Coach Van Dyke
12U Head Coach: Scott Borowiak
Assistants: NEEDED
13U Head Coach: John Pollock 616-540-2606 john-pollock@comcast.net
Assistants: Coach Balke, Coach Smith
14U Head Coach: Toby Alderink 616-485-2483 tjwkaja@prodigy.net
Assistants: Coach Botruff,
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2010 BYD Game Results
13U 6-22-10. 13U played a great game offensively and defensively last night against the Flames and won 9 to 4. Kyle Friberg was solid at third and let nothing get by him as well as Jackson Shaver at shortstop, turned a double play and gunned a guy out at the plate. Great pitching from Anthony Alderink, Caleb Sleeman (12U), and the closer Austin Hoekstra also played a big part in the win.
6-13-10. Schools Out Backyard Blast CHAMPIONS. Defeating SS Portage Rampage 15-11 in Finals.
5-27-10. Jumped out to an 8-2 lead and coasted the rest of the way in route to an 8-6 victory. Jackson Shaver picked up the win while Austin Hoekstra and Logan Smith lead the hitting attach.
Middleville 11 BYD 4. Zeth Dean hit an inside the park home run Tuesday night.
Beats up on Arrow Dynamics 9-1. Loagn Smith goes the distance for the win.
11U July 24/25. Union City Field Champions. The 11's brought more lumber to Flint this weekend cruising to their 3rd tournamet Championship of the season. BYD dumped the Swarts Creek Dragons 11-2 and Saginaw Bears 15-3 on Championship Sunday to win it all. All players contributed to the 4 victories over the weekend. BYD 11U finishes the season 37-12-1 overall. Way to go guys! Great Season!!!!!!!!
7-14-10 at Grand Haven. BYD Swept a DH Weds night beating Grand Haven 8-3 and 16-4. Both games were close until the Dreams bats came alive in the 4th inning of each game before breaking both games open. Wosinski and Mankel pick up the wins on the mound with help from Malone, Liddle, and VanDyke. Ergang, Malone, VanDyke, Mankel and Beach lead the hitting attach as all Dreams players continue to pound the ball. Tyus Beach's steak of 8 consecutive hits ended in the DH. Going back to the Rebels DH, Beach had come to the plate 8 straight times collecting at least a single in every at bat.
7-13-10. at Rockford Rebels. BYD won the 1st game of a DH 8-4. Cooper Perry Picks up the win, Malone And Beach go for 3-3 at the plate. Game two, Tyus Beach hit in Joey Schaefer and the games tying run in the last inning to earn a tie before darkness ended the game. Kyle Liddle and Jake Wosinski pitched well for Dreams in game two.
7-11-10. Thornapple Tournament Champions 2010. BYD 11U ripped it's way throught the bracket beating Sparta 11-6, Garden City Sting 17-1, Okemos Chiefs 12-3 and The Flames 20-1. In the Champiomnship the 11u crossed over to face the undeafeated Troy Titans of Michigan an won the Champinship with a 6-3 victory. An incredible tournament domination in every aspect. Pitching, fielding and hitting were all on fire in this 3 day tournament. Top hitters were, Trevor Van Dyke, Jake Wosinski, Cooper Perry, Tyus Beach and Jack Malone. On the mound BYD got great peformances from Perry, Mankel and Wosinski. Key defensive plays made by Brayden Ergang in the outfield, Van Dyke at 2nd and Beach behind the plate all weekend. The Championship featured a go ahead over the fence bomb hit by Joey Schaefer that put BYD on top for good!
7-6-10. Swpet a DH from The West Michigan Outlaws 23-0 and 12-0 Tuesday night. All BYD players contributed to the blow out wins. Cooper Perry and Trevor VanDyke pick up the victories on the mound as 6 pitchers threw in the DHer allowing only 2 hits. The BYD defense had NO errors. Adam Smith had 4 hits, while Perry and Wosinski also had big nights with the bats. BYD begins play this Friday afternoon in the Thormapple Tournament along with the 9, 10, 12 and 13 teams as well.
6-29-10. Split a DH vs The Rebels on Tuesday, coming from behind to win game one 8-6 and loosing the nightcap 7-4. Adam Smith got the victory in game one. Perry, Beach, Van Dyke, Malone and Wosinski lead the hitters. Game two BYD got behind from the start, but continued to battle thanks to Kyle Liddle keeping the Rebels in check after coming in relief to shut them down. 11U is off for the Holiday and will resume game action next Tuesday vs the West Michigan Outlaws. 11U record stands at 23 wins vs 12 losses on the season.
6-27-10. BYD had a tough weekend at the Mayor Tournament, but did come from behind to in the last tourney game to get an extra inning victory over The Howell Huricanes 15-14. Jack Malone hit a walk off double in the 8th inning to score Tyus Beach who singled in the trying run in the previous at bat. Beach, Van Dyke, Malone and Wosinski lead the hitting attach.
6-22-10. 11U sweeps a DH vs the Rockford Rebels 10-2 and 10-5. Matt Beachler picks up the win in game one and Jack Malone gets the vicory in game two. Tyus Beach went 4-6 in the DH, knocking in 4. Trevor Van Dyke knocked in 4,and Jack Malone also added four hits with Jake Wosinski getting three.
6-13-10. Schools Out Backyard Blast Champions!!! Defeating Nile Shockers 1-0 in Championship game!
5-27-10. 11U beat DHW 8-1 on the complete game pitching performance of Cooper Perry. VanDyke, Wosinski and Malone lead the hitting attach. 11U improves to 8-2 in the GRABL and 10-6 overall. They travel to Niles, MI on Saturday for a twlight DH with a tough Niles Shockers team over the Holiday weekend.
BYD 6 Team Ram 3. Beachler and gets the win and Smith closes the game.
Finshed 1 and 2 in Kalamazoo this past weekend. Loses to West Michigan Mavericks and Niles Thunder on Saturday were over come with a nice 9-2 victory over The Mid Michigan Twisters on Sunday behind a nice pitching performance from Joey Schaefer, great defense by the whole team with many solid plays at short stop by Matt Beachler. Hitting was lead by Schaefer, Beach, Mankel and VanDyke. 11U currently stands at 6-2 in the GRABL and 8-6 overall.
11U Runs over Sparta after being down 0-2 we score 10 unanswered and win 10-2. Mankel, Beachler and Smith combine for the win on the mound while. Perry, Mankel, Beach and Ergang do most of the damage at the plate. They move to 5-1 heading into a weekend tournament in Findley OH wher they will be joined by the 10, 12 and 13U teams as well.
11U Improves to 4-1 after shellacking DHW 16-1. 5 BYD pitchers held the DHW bats in check while many hitters contributed to the 16 runs.
12U 7-6-10. Beat Rockford 21-15 in a shootout on Tues.
6-30-10. BYD 9 Flames 11. The boys played one of their best games of the year last night losing the the undefeated Flames. The score went back and forth throughout the game until a couple bloop singles won it for them in the last inning. Time limitation prevented us from getting our last at bat. I was very proud of them.
6-13-10 . Schools Out Backyard Blast. 2nd PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!
6-1-10. 12U split a doubleheader against Elit on Tuesday, winning the first game 6-5 and dropping the second 8-4. In the victory, Sam Balke went the distance on the mound and posted the game winning RBI in the bottom of the last inning. 12U is 9-10 on the season.
5-30-10. Wo both games against the Hickory Rattlers, 9-6 and 16-8. Gabe Steed was the star of game one coming on in relief with the bases loaded and snuffing out a Rattler rally by getting them to bounce into a 1-2-3 inning ending double play. Quinn Smith, Drew Struckmeyer, and Marcus Malling combined for the victory in game two. Caleb Sleeman lead the way on offense going 5 of 7 with 5 RBI’s on the afternoon. The 12U upds their record to 8-9 and is back in action Tuesday vs Elite.
5-27-10 BYD – 13 Rockford – 12. Connor Hamp (game winning) and Caleb Sleeman (game tying) capped a dramatic comeback with back to back doubles in the bottom of the 6th inning to beat Rockford by one.
BYD 11 Grand Haven 1. Noskey, Guinn and Pollock combine on the mound giving up only 1.
12U had a great Tournament in Lanisng this past weekend. "I was very happy with the way the boys fought. Sleeman and Balke pitched particularly well, and we fell just short of making the championship game." Coach Pollock
It should also be noted that the day before we lost to Howell by two. In the last inning of that game we had men on 2nd & 3rd - Caleb hit a one hop laser to rightfield and got thrown out at first to end the inning. If it wasn’t hit so hard, it would have scored both runs.
"The way the brackets lined up here, we played the Cobras twice – and got hammered by them on Saturday. To face them the next day and keep it tight made us pretty happy. " Coach Pollock
Lost a tight game to Rockford 5-3 on Tuesday as BYD hit into two double plays killing rallies.
9U 5-26-10 Won both 14-5, 10-7 vs Middleville. "The Kids came alive for a complete game solid pitching, defense and hitting. It was great to see their excitement and most importantly their confidence grow" Coach Post
Lost a couple of heartbreakers last night, 9-7 & 7-4 to Hastings 10U team
both 5 inning games.
Game 1 - Struckmeyer pitched 3 strong innings and we had a 7-3 lead going
into the bottom of the 4th inning. Bottom of the fourth Lafler got 2 outs
from the first three batters, Hastings started to hit and went into win 9-7.
Game 2 - Nawrocki pitched 3 strong innings and the kids kept battling back
but came up a little short. Zackery pitched the bottom of the fourth.
Faced four batters and only through 13 pitches.
Strong defense in both games including 2 caught pop flys in the outfield,
and an impressive play with a ball hit to Zack (1st base) under hand toss to
Struckmeyer (pitcher) covering the bag on a full sprint to get the out.
Faced strong pitching in both games. Kids are starting to hit the ball and
gain confidence at the plate which is good to see.
8U Black Sox Split their 1st DHer vs the Lansing Tigers this past Sunday. Loosing the 1st game 0-3 and winning the second in extra innings 3-1. Many great efforts were put in by the Blacksox. Ben Davis had a strong day pitching, hitting and making a nice double playin the field. Grant Pratt and Noah Smith we solid brick walls at catcher. Aiden Malone and Rohan Dixon had nice hits and did Matt Sullivan along with playing a great 1st base. Dawsen Beach scored the teams 1st ever run, knocked in a run and had a couple hits and the and closed out the game pitching.
8U Red Sox 6-13-10. Schools Out Backyard Blast 2nd PLACE!!!!!!!!!!
Lost 0-2 and 3-7 to Great Lakes Baracudas
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2010 Backyard Dreams Rosters
8U Head Coach: Steve Malone
Assistants: Liz Pratt, Shane Beach
Players: Dawsen Beach, Aiden Malone, Grant Pratt, Terrick Stuart, Noah Smith, Rohan Dixon, Nolan Cusack, Matt Sullivan, Brett Spanbauer, Sage Solomanson, Bryce McCune, Ben Davis
9U Head Coach: Nate Post 616-293-3924 npost@wyomingexcavators.com:
Assistants: Jeff Hoffman
Players: Zachery Post, Ian Villarreal, Evan Villarreal, Gavin Hoffman, John Luc-Richmond, Nick Struckmeyer, Ian Milton, Brandon Nawrocki, Noah Brown, Nic Blundy, Jayden Lafler, Robbie Schneider
10U Head Coach: Jerry Cardani 616-485-1587 jerry@vcl.com
Assistants: Joe Hancock, Liz Pratt
Players: Joseph Hancock, Addison Buckhius, Avry Mutschler, Casey French, Channing Perry, Charles Hays Garrett Pratt, Jacob Rau, Jason Woern, Josh Hackstedt, Reese Milton, Luke Hamilton
11U Head Coach: Shane Beach 616-307-0026 shane@yourbackyarddreams.com
Assistants: Kirk Perry, Steve Malone, Chad Battle, Jim Mankel
Players: Tyus Beach, Cooper Perry, Kyle Mankel, Brennan Battle, Matt Beachler, Jack Malone, Trevor Van Dyke, Jacob Wosinski, Brendan Aurand, Brayden Ergang, Adam Smith, Joey Schaefer
12U Head Coach: John Pollock 616-540-2606 john-pollock@comcast.net
Assistants: Bill Balke, Brent Smith
Players: Anthony Pollock, Sam Balke, Quinn Smith, Carter Noskey, Conner Hamp, Kellen Guinn, Gabe Steed, Ryan Stevens, Caleb Sleeman, Drew Struckmeyer, Marcus Malling
13U Head Coach: Toby Alderink 616-485-2483 tjwkaja@prodigy.net
Assistants: Dwayne Botruff, Dave Van Noord, George Smith, Tim Berry
Players: Anthony Alderink, Brandon Botruff, Collin Van Noord, Jake Berry, Zeth Dean, Walker Aurand, Austin Hoekstra, Jackson Shaver, Kyle Friberg, John Keenoy, Logan Smith
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13U Head Coach: John Pollock 616-540-2606 john-pollock@comcast.net
Assistants: Coach Balke, Coach Smith
14U Head Coach: Toby Alderink 616-485-2483 tjwkaja@prodigy.net
Assistants: Coach Botruff,