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First Annual
Beef-n-Beer
When: Saturday July 31
Where: Palmer Fire House 7pm to 11pm
Cost: $20 a ticket
Music, Food and Fun, 50/50 and raffle
Come support the team
For more details please contact
Kelley @ 484.542.2822
MaryAnn @ 610.762.9984
Tom @ 610.462.5312 |
Get your Catz T-Shirts
The shirts will be gold, with Catz across the front in black lettering
and the signature black paw print on back centered at the top of the
shirt.
Sizes available are Adult M through 3XL and Youth S-L or XL. They are
$12.00 each. We would like to place order within next few days.
Contact Kim @ 610-217-7481 or Marianne @ 610-762-9984.
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Catz succeeding with mixture of local baseball talent
Thursday, July 22, 2010
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By MICHAEL LORE, The Express-Times
Browsing the Lehigh Valley Catz 2010 roster one notices the connections among the names.
Joe Bamford and Greg Terhune were both stars at Warren Hills Regional High School last season.
Phillipsburg is well represented with Mike Rossetti, Kyle Petty and Tyler Jones.
The Lafayette College duo of Alex Bechta and Sean McGrath play summer ball on the Catz together, too.
With all of these mini factions, you'd think the team would be cliquey, but it's far from it.
"I played with Kyle and Mike since middle school," said Jones, a sophomore at Long Island University. "We actually talked about it before this summer where we were going to play. We thought it would be cool to play one last season together.
"I think it influenced our decisions to play for the Catz."
Jones added he's played against Bamford and Terhune while with the Stateliners and even saw Bechta and McGrath since his time at LIU.
"It really helps team chemistry in the beginning with everybody not knowing each other, but we have a pretty good group of guys," he said.
Jones, a catcher, is hitting .317 for Lehigh Valley (14-13), which has a doubleheader at Quakertown at 5 p.m. today. The former 'Liner leads the team in home runs (3) and RBIs (17).
Petty, a freshman at California University of Pennsylvania, is batting .246 with 11 RBIs while going 2-2 with a 3.00 ERA on the mound.
Rossetti, the elder of the former P'burg players, is a junior at Blooomsburg. He is 2-2 with a 5.61 ERA.
"One of the unique parts of this is that the boys from P'burg weren't in the same (graduating) class," Catz coach Dennis Morgan said. "Maybe that has lent itself to getting to know everyone else. Mike has taken Kyle and Tyler under his arm."
Bamford, a freshman at Northampton CC, leads Lehigh Valley with a .383 batting average. Former (and now temporary current) teammate Terhune, a freshman at Seton Hall, is 1-1 with a 2.16 ERA for the Catz.
"Joey's success is because he does well the things he's capable of doing," Morgan said. "He's the best bunter on the team. I think he has a pocket full of bunt base hits -- maybe six or eight."
Bechta is having little trouble continuing his success locally for the Catz. Despite hitting just .204, the Leopards junior has eight runs and is 13-for-14 in stolen bases. McGrath, a sophomore pitcher, is 2-1 with a 4.42 ERA and 19 strikeouts for Lehigh Valley.
"Alex has a few more tools than most boys have," Morgan said. "He might get a chance to play beyond the collegiate level some day. The good lord has gifted him."
The Catz have won six of their last eight contests and currently sit in second place -- behind Quakertown (13-11) -- in the Wolff Division. Lehigh Valley is 12-5 at Hackett's Park this season, but with Wednesday's rainout, the Catz only have one game -- a July 28 contest against Jersey Pilots -- at their friendly confines.
"I think early on in the season our pitching wasn't set," Jones said. "We were throwing everybody to see what they could do. Now that we have a rotation planned out, we're going to be pretty tough to beat."
Michael LoRé can be reached at 800-360-3601 or mlore@express-times.com.
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Catz to play a pair tomorrow at Hacketts Park
Thursday, July 15, 2010
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The Lehigh Valley Catz will play a double header Friday, July 16th at Hackett's Park.
The Lackawanna Lumberjacks will come to Easton to face the Catz in a make-up double header from the Wednesday evening games that were postponed due to the weather.
First pitch is 5:30pm. The second game of the double header will begin approxiamtely 30 minutes after the conclusion of game 1.
Come on out and support the Catz.
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Catz Baseball Camp cancelled
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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Today's Lehigh Valley Catz Baseball Camp has been cancelled.
The session for Wednesday, July 14th at Hackett's Park beginning at 9am has been cancelled due to the weather.
Camp will resume tomorrow, July 15th at 9am.
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West tops East 4-1
Tyler Jones doubles twice
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
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The West All-Stars broke open a scoreless game in the top of the 4th inning, taking a 3-0 lead. 3 runs would be all the West needed to take the 2010 All-Star game and take a 4-1 decision over the East All-Stars.
The West collected 6 of their 12 hits in the top of the 4th inning. Nick Nolan (Staten Island Tide) led off the 4th with a single. Sean Gusrang (Staten Island Tide) followed with a single through the right side of the infield advancing Nolan to third. Zach Graczyk (Torrington Titans) smacked an RBI single to right field bringing in Nolan and placing runners at f
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