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4th of july
Independence day, all the players had the entire day to themselves with heir hosts. So far everyone I've bumped into has had a great day, enjoying the experience that is Independence day.
Everyone is in panic stations now pulling together the final pack before tomorrow's departure. We leave Redlands at 11am and have a few hours at Venice beach before we leave the airport at 930pm. Just in case: we arrive in Brisbane on Sat July 7th at 8:30am. It will take approximately an hour for the
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Redlands Training Clinic
Today we participated in a short training clinic at the Redlands High School. The clinic worked over the machinics behind baseballs' short game. Bunting, stealing, base running and PFP (Pitcher Feilding Practice). We finnished the clinic with a quick gorund ball session.
The day concluded with the closing cerimony at the Moose Lodge. Everyone had an amasing day and is looking foward to seeing the celebrations tomorrow.
Dan
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Redlands Game 4
Added by Dan Calder on July 3, 2007 at 9:33pm — 5 Comments
Redlands Game 3
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Redlands Game 2
Game 2
Everyone came out more positively for this game, and we were off to a flier taking the early lead. After a good fight back by Redlands and a solo homerun the game
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Redlands game 1
All the players were grateful for the reprieve that the late game provided from the hot weather. Everyone had a good game however we lost our momentum after a poor fielding innings. Final result 8-4 Redland 909er’s win.
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RedLands
Its me again, just letting you know we've had a great and uneventful day leaving from San Pedro. We said our goodbyes and headed out for CHICKS (a sporting goods store). Most players picked up some really great bargins and our wonderful tour director mannaged to get us all a 10% discount!! Way to go Dennise.
We arrived safly at Redlands in stifling hot weather. The players meet their hosts and left for the night.
Sorry about the lack of photo's ran into some technical d
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San Pedro Game 2
The last game in San Pedro went off, every player from both teams played their best resulting it a tied game at the end of the seventh. San Pedro scored in the overtime innings to finish the game making it 4 - 5. All the players were really impressed by the intensity of the final match.
After the match we had a bbq at the ground to celeb
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Training clinic at San Pedro
A training clinic for baseball, without the baseball? Yes that’s right not a single baseball was thrown today, the clinic worked us through drills. Drills to develop better pitching, catching, and faster feet. Everyone was feeling the ‘burn’ after working with medicine balls, aerobic balls, rope ladders and sprinting.
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Game 1 San Pedro
Due to some poor directions and estimations we got lost on our way down to San Pedro, and still arived over an hour early. We played the San Pedro High School Pirates and although all players played well we lost 5-0.
All the players went home with their hosts before returning to one of the coaches house for a BBQ dinner and party. All the hosts put in for a massive feast with ribs, steak and salads. Everyone was leaving early to get some sleep before the clinic tomorrow.
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UNIVERSAL STUDIO
We had a free day today to see the sites of Universal Studios in LA. The players enjoyed the day off and spent their time relaxing with the rides and shows on offer. Everyone on the team is well and we are all looking forward to the next series of game in San Pedro.
Dan
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Game 3 Anahiem - Rebels
OUR GAME AGAINST ANAHEIM REBELS
It was a very exciting game and played with a lot of intensity. In the first innings we scored 2 runs. Unfortunately the ability of the Anaheim Rebels (an All Star Team) was of a high standard and were able to stop us from scoring any more runs. T
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Game 2 Anaheim
Today’s Game against Loara high school resulted in a loss. None of the players gave up and were able to hold their heads high. They learnt valuable lessons to help them develop as players. The coach from the opposing team was rather impressed with a couple of our players and we are looking forward to our game tomorrow against the Anaheim Rebels at the Loara high school baseball ground. Coach Noel Shaw
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SAN DIEGUITO PONY/ COLT LEAGUE GAMES
Happy birthday to Michelle Shaw and Monique Longhorn from all the players and staff on the Expos tour.
SAN DIEGUITO PONY/ COLT LEAGUE GAMES AT SAN DIEGO
Game 1:
Expos VS Colts (average age 15 with a couple of 17 year olds)
This game gave us the opportunity for full participation and all players had at least half a game. Considering this was the first time all players were together as a team, they played extremely well, except for one innings where the whee
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Last Day
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Game 3
EXPOS WIN!!!!!
What a trilling game, against the u/19's. We won 5 - 6 with the go ahead run coming in the bottom of the last innings. We played a hard game with some questionable calls by umpires not helping. Its nice to have a win to finish the series in Encinitas.
The Players had the morning free with their host families, with some going to the county fair and once again being friendly with the locals.
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Game 2
The Expos spent the morning with their 'families', before coming to game 2 versing the under 14 team this time. We played well and held the game tight for a few innings. We lost 11-2 (Possibly the wrong score but we still lost). Niki pitched a great series of innings with Jack, George and Andrew all helping to close the game. Tex showed off with his part time catching relieving for me after the first four innings. Timmy, Nathen S, Jo
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First Game
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A Day at DisneyLand
Added by Dan Calder on June 18, 2007 at 5:04pm — 1 Comment
Day 2 A great fun day was had by all! 16/06/07
Day 2,
It was a long two hour drive in heavy trafiic to Dodgers stadium north of LA. The game was between the Dodgers and Angels, it was a fast game in hot conditions with Angels winning 3-0. This caused alot of heated rivalry between the two sets of fans. 56,000 in attendace a sold out game and the stadium was awesome.
Dinner was at ESPN Zone in downtown Disney, it was a great meal even the buffalo wings will be remembered. The arcade games upostairs included pitching,
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