Welcome to

Longshots Baseball

Senior Division

Home of our 2009, 2010 & 2011 grads

travel baseball teams.

2008 Connie Mack World Series Team

2008 Connie Mack North Regional Champs

2008 CABA Midwest Regional Champs

2008 AABC State Champs

2008 Top Collegiate Tournament Champs

Senior Division Tryouts announced for Fall 2008 and Summer 2009 programs.

(Check updated information!! See menu & click on "Tryouts").

****************************************

Cam Verbeke commits to Illinois State!!
Alex Staehely commits to Creighton University!!
Zach Hirsch commits to the University of Nebraska!!
Mike McKinley commits to Indiana University!!
Kyle King commits to Creighton University!!
Danny Sheppard commits to the University of Iowa!!

*****************************************

2008's win Connie Mack North Central Regional in Battle Creek over Illinois Sparks & play in the Connie Mack World Series in Farmington, New Mexico!!
(click on 2008 Connie Mack).
****************************************

Some other summer highlights...

Hirsch, Morrissette, Sheppard, Staehely & Verebeke chosen to play on 2009 Team Illinois!!

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!

The Chicago White Sox draft Jonathan Weaver and Steve Sabatino!

**********************************************

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!!!

******************************************

untitled

Subject

User

News

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.

Downers Grove Weather Forecast, IL