14 All-Stars, 15 All Stars

13-Year Old All-Stars
Regional Tournament
State Runners-Up
District 4 Champions

- Schedule - Game Summaries -
- State Tournament Results - District Tournament Results -

Playing at Eureka @ the Fairgrounds
An admission fee will be charged for all games.

Alameda's 2009 13-Yr. Old All-Stars

Raymond Cole Sean Cunningham Rory D'Alleve-Keane Stephen Giuntini Robert Hansen Drew Huie Kevin Kinney Perry Leong

Christian Leung Max Lozada Michael Perri Michael Plaisance Jim Ruck Joe Ruck Kenny Swain Weston Tolbert

Manager:  Pete Marino
Coaches:  Bob Hansen & Ken Arnerich

Back Row: Coach Bob Hansen, Coach Ken Arnerich, Raymond Cole, Christian Leung, Kenny Swain, 
Michael Perri, Max Lozada, Victor Verduzco, Coach Greg Dunn, Manager Peter Marino 
Front Row: Michael Plaisance, Drew Huie, Kevin Kinney, Rory D'Alleva-Keane, Perry Leong, Robert Hansen, Stephen Giuntini, Sean Cunningham
Not Pictured: Jim Ruck, Joe Ruck, and Weston Tolbert

A special thanks to Safeway
for donating $500 to sponsor our team!

Regional Tournament Schedule

Beyond Regional...

• World Series
  Murray, Utah, Aug 22

Game Summaries...

• GAME 1: WIN, 6 - 5 over Tooele/Utah (8 innings)
  On August 6, the Babe Ruth Pacific Southwest Regional Tournament in Eureka , CA for the 13 year olds started with Alameda facing Tooele. Alameda was down 3 – 0 going into the bottom of the 4th. Michael Perri led off the inning reaching base on a fielding error, followed Christian Leung’s fielder’s choice. A base hit off of the bat of Drew Huie, scored Perri and Leung. After going to second on a fielding error and third via balk, Huie scored on a ground out by Robert Hansen, tying the game.
  
  Tooele scored one in the 5th, but Alameda tied the game in the 6th when Perri led off the inning with a double and advanced to third on a throwing error. Perri scored when Leung grounded out to second.
  
  With the score 5 – 4 after 6 ½ innings, Max Lozada reached base on a fielder’s choice. Victor Verduzco came in to pinch run for Lozada. Pinch hitter Weston Tolbert singled to right, moving Verduzco to second. Kenny Swain walked, loading the bases for Alameda . Perri walked, scoring Verduzco and tying the game.
  
  Alameda held Tooele in the top of the 8th. In the bottom half of the inning, Huie singled to right and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Sean Cunningham was hit by a pitch, followed by Hansen’s bunt, loading the bases. With Stephen Giuntini at the plate and a 2 – 2 count, Huie scored on a wild pitch.
  
• GAME 2: WIN, 3 - 2 over Madera/CA
  Rory D’Alleva-Keane started on the mound for Alameda on August 7 and only allowed two hits in 5+ innings of work. Madera struck first in the bottom of the 1st and Alameda tied it in the top of the 6th. The Central California team scored the go ahead run in the bottom of the 6th. In the top of the 7th, Robert Hansen led off the inning with a single. Joe Riley came in to pinch run for Hansen. Stephen Giuntini followed with a single. Riley and Giuntini moved up a base on Victor Verduzco’s sacrifice bunt. On a bunt off the bat of Kevin Kinney, Madera tried to get Riley out at home, but he slid in safely to tie the game. Kenny Swain singled to right, scoring Giuntini and giving Alameda the lead for the first time in the game. Michael Perri came in relief and shut Madera down to secure the 2nd win for Alameda in the Regional Tournament.
  
• GAME 3: Loss, 2 - 9 to Tri-Valley
  On August 9, the first and second place teams in the Northern California State Tournament faced one another. Alameda scored two in the 3rd, but Tri-Valley’s pitching kept them scoreless. Michael Perri, Christian Leung, and Kevin Kinney went a combined 6 for 11.
  
• GAME 4: WIN, 12 - 1 over La Cresenta
  Alameda struck 1st in the bottom of the 1st scoring 10. Sean Cunningham, Robert Hansen, Drew Huie, Kevin Kinney, Michael Perri, and Kenny Swain singled in the inning, while Christian Leung tripled. With singles off the bat of Leung, Huie and Perri, and a fielder’s choice by Cunningham, Alameda added two runs in the 3rd.
  
• CHAMPIONSHIP GAME 5: Loss, 2 - 6 to Tri-Valley
  Rematch of the 3rd round game took place on August 11 in the Championship Game. Tri-Valley scored first with three in the 1st. Alameda was able to string together hits in the 7th by Sean Cunningham, Robert Hansen and Max Lozada, to add two runs to the board. But weren’t able to stage their 3rd comeback win in the tournament. Alameda finished in 2nd place in the Regional Tournament among teams from Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, and Utah, while Tri-Valley advances to the World Series in Murray, Utah.

13-Year Old All-Stars
State Tournament
District 4 Champions

Played @ College of Alameda
An admission fee will be charged for all games.

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State Tournament Schedule

Game Summaries...

• GAME 1 vs. Woodland:  Win, 6-4
  After being crowned the District 4 champions, Alameda ’s 13 year old All Star team faced Woodland on July 18 in the State Tournament at the College of Alameda . Going into the sixth, Alameda was down by one run. Robert Hansen started the inning with a single, followed by Stephen Giuntini and Michael Plaisance getting on base via hit by pitches. Pinch runner Perry Leong scored on Weston’s Tolbert’s fielder’s choice. Christian Leung and Drew Huie walked, scoring Giuntini and Plaisance respectively. The scoring was capped off by Michael Perri’s double, with Plaisance and Tolbert crossing the plate.
  
  Huie pitched a complete game. Kevin Kinney secured the win for Alameda when he caught a deep fly in left field to end the game.

• GAME 2 vs. Novato:  Loss, 6-9
  On July 19, Alameda played Novato ’s All Stars. Christian Leung, Drew Huie and Kenny Swain led Alameda going a combined 5 for 8, with three walks at the plate. Two double plays were recorded by Alameda , but they were unable to keep the bats of Novato quiet the whole game.
  

• GAME 3 vs. Vallejo:  Win, 13-12
  In their third game in consecutive days on July 20th, Alameda overcame a 12 – 3 deficit after 2 ½ innings to win 13 – 12 over Vallejo in nine innings. In the bottom of the third, Alameda batted around and scored six to close the gap to three runs.
  
  Pitching by Kenny Swain, Robert Hansen, Michael Perri, and Rory D’Alleva-Keane kept the Vallejo scoring to the first three innings and allowed Alameda to stage the comeback.
  
  Alameda scored one in the six and two in the seventh to force extra innings. In the bottom of the ninth, Christian Leung reached base on an error and Perri doubled. During an attempt to intentionally walk Sean Cunningham, a balk was committing allowing Leung to score the winning run.
  
• GAME 4 vs. Palo Alto:  Win, 5-3
  Alameda continued the road to the Championship Game through the loser’s bracket with a win over Palo Alto on July 21st. They were patient at the plate getting walked five times and getting seven hits. Sean Cunningham led Alameda ’s offense with two hits, one RBI and one run scored. Drew Huie pitched a complete game for Alameda.
  
• GAME 5 vs. Novato:  Win, 10-4
  On July 22nd, the game’s match up was the same as the game on Sunday, but ended with different results. Alameda ’s defense and pitching by Rory D’Alleva-Keane only allowed Novato to sco