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Welcome to

Longshots Baseball

Senior Division

Home of our 2008, 2009, 2010 grads

Downers Grove, Illinois-based

 travel baseball teams. 

This week's highlights (copy)

Danny Sheppard commits to the University of Iowa!! 

2008's win the Connie Mack State championship and head to Battle Creek!! ...their 2nd State championship this year!!

2009's win the Top Colliegiate Prospect Tournament!! The Longshots program goes 10-1 vs many of the top programs in the Midwest!!

Kaiser 09 All Star Game players:

Gelwicks, Hirsch, McKinley, Sheppard & Staehely.

Both the 2008's (Northwestern) & 2009's (Fun in the Sun) finish 2nd this weekend! Great efforts by both!!

Danny Sheppard named to the Area Code team!! 

2008's win 2nd straight tournament, earning the CABA Midwest Regional Championship! 

Joe Turek goes 4-6, with a bomb, in the HS East-West All Star game!! 

12 of our 09's participate in Stevenson, Plainfield, Silver & Black and Area Codes! 

2008's win the SI Bullets Invitational! 

Jared Culver commits to Heartland!!

The Chicago White Sox draft Jonathan Weaver and Steve Sabatino!

Post Season Honors:

08's 

Reid Rooney & Jonathan Weaver make the All Sun-Times Team!!

 

Alex Beckmann, All Conference (3-time)

Jared Culver, All Conference

Tyler Deetjen, All Conference

AJ DeMarco, All Conference

Billy Dillon, All Conference

Sean Flanagan, All Conference (2)

Josh Folgers, All Conference

Phil Kaiser, All Conference (2)

Jim Kollker, All Conference

Tom Lilja, All Conference

Reid Rooney, All Conference

Steve Sabatino, All Conference (2)

Jonathan Weaver, All Conference

Casey Webber, All Conference 

09's 

Pat Gelwicks, All Conference

Zach Hirsch, All Conference (2)

Mike McKinley, All Conference (2)

Dan Sheppard, All Conference 

Alex Staehely, All Conference

Jordan Williamson, All Conference

 

Check the menu for:

College commitments 

PBR rankings

Pitching Starts

(click on the team, 08's or 09's, then click on Pitching Starts in the menu)

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Congrats to our players who led their HS teams to Conference and Regional championships...

Benet, DG North, DG South, Fenwick, Leyden, Lockport, & Neuqua Valley 

Congrats to our Fenwick, Leyden,  Lockport, & Neuqua Valley players for leading your HS teams to the IHSA final 16!!

And Neuqua to the Championship game!!!

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IHSA Basketball


Congratulations to BILLY DILLON (DG South), ZACH HIRSCH (ST. Charles North) and REID ROONEY (Fenwick) who helped lead their teams to the IHSA Regional Championship title game. All three played key leadership roles on their respective teams.

And more props to REID as he was a winner in the Regional 3pt point shoot out.

He moves on to the Sectional Championship at Proviso East Tuesday, prior to the start of the Oak Park vs. Whitney Young game.

Illinois HS Hockey


Congratulations and good luck to ROBBIE BAK, as the Fenwick Hockey team plays for the Chicago Catholic Champiopnship (the Kennedy Cup) after beating Brother Rice in the Semi's. Fenwick has won the Kennedy Cup five years in a row!

ROBBIE and his teammates have also moved to the quarterfinals of the Illinois State Championships.

Good luck ROBBIE! Go FRIARS!

CONGRATULATIONS!


MIKE SPIDALE, Major League Baseball's Pitch & Hit Club of Chicago 2006 Chicago Area Minor League Player of the Year, is currently in the Philadelphia Phillies spring camp.

Mike was a 12th round pick of the White Sox in 2000 and made Class A and AA All Star teams.

He hit .345 with the Phillies organization in 2007.

Those that know Mike, or have seen him play, know what Longshots players are all about.

ALUMNI BEAT 2008'S


The 2nd annual Longshots Alumni game between the 1998 16U AAU National Champs and our 2008 team proved to be an interesting turn of events, with the Alumni winning 7-3. The Alumni seemed to be more agressive this year as they took a stunning late inning defeat in 2006, 4-3.

The highlight of this year's game was ORLANDO DIAZ's (IWCC, Jacksonville U, San Diego Padres) first inning 425' line drive 3-run homer (WITH A WOOD BAT!).

Independent League star, KYLE KMIECIK, rejoined his teammates to bolster the roster and MLB free agent MIKE SPIDALE stopped by as well.

As the Alumni regained their confidence, they reminded our 2008's that soon they would be Alumni and that these games were serving as tryouts to make THEIR team.

As in last year's game, TRADITION was the real winner here.