Shades Mountain Park

Here are the reported results from Metro tournaments over the weekend:

• The 8 YO American Black team defeated Mountain Brook Gold, 20-2, Oak Mountain#1, 7-2, Saturday and Mountain Brook Green, 9-5, Sunday. The American Black will play for the Metro title Tuesday at 5:30.
• The 8 YO National team lost to Mountain Brook, 9-4, Saturday, but bounced back Sunday with wins over Homewood, 14-2, and Hoover East, 14-3, and will play Mountain Brook again Monday in the early game with the winner advancing to the Metro championship in the late game tonight.
• The 9 YO National team defeated  Homewood, 19-1, Mountain Brook, 13-3, and Vestavia, 18-8, and plays an opponent to be determined in the championship game today at 7:30 p.m.  Veatavia and Mountain Brook must play at 5:30 to see who survives. The SMP 9 YOs are seeking their third-consecutive Metro title.
• The 9 YO American Black team defeated the American Orange team, 16-4, in the first game of the Metro tournament. Black also defeated Oak Mountain #1, 10-5, and Oak Mountain #2, 11-10, on Sunday to advance to the championship game against Mountain Brook tonight at 6 p.m. Cooper Prince’s complete game on Saturday, 6/18, lead the 9 YO Black to victory over Vestavia Blue (6-4) to move on in the Metro Tournament.  Great job Cooper Prince!

Good luck to all our teams this week. Let’s hang some banners! As always, please report scores to info@shadesmountainpark.org. Go Bucs!

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Here are the results from the opening of the Metro Tournaments.

• The 8 YO National team won its opening game, 11-0, over Oak Mountain.
• The 11 YO National team went 2-3 in Pool Play. SMP 11 year old National team went 2-3 in Pool Play.
  • SMP 3, Alabaster 2  – Reid Walker and Chris Dentremont combined on a great pitching performance.  Tied at 2 in the in the top of the 6th, Walker lined to left field and stole 2nd and 3rd and with two outs Gage Wilson single in the winning run.
  • Homewood #1 15, SMP 13 – Homewood was down to their last two outs down 13-3 in the 4th inning and battle back to win.
  • SMP 10, Homewood #2 4 – Brian Kinder pitched a great game and a good team hitting performance led SMP to a crossover pool victory.
  • SMP takes on Pelham at Mountain Brook today at 5:30 on Field 6.

To have your team’s results posted, send scores and any game info to info@shadesmountainpark.org. Go Buc!

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The 7 YO National team defeated Mountain Brook, 25-6, and is the No. 1 seed in this week’s tournament.

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Here are the reported scores from last night’s Metro action:

• The 8 YO American Black team won its cross-pool game against Vestavia Red, 23-1, and is the No. 1 seed in its upcoming tournament.
• The 8 YO American Orange team is the No. 3 seed in the same tournament after  defeating Oak Mountain, 20-16; Helena, 20-17; Oak Mountain #2, 22-7, and Homewood, 27-2. Orange lost to Mountain Brook Gold, 18-21, and Vestavia Red, 10-15.
• The 9 YO American Black team finished 2nd in pool play.
• The 9 YO National team is undefeated in pool play and will be the #1 seed in the Metro Tournament  starting Thursday at Hoover East.

We encourage all our teams to report their score at info@shadesmountainpark.org. Go Bucs!

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The 10 YO National and American tournaments will be held at SMP this week. We invite everyone to come out and support our teams. Here are some results from over the weekend:

• 7 YO National – defeated Pell City (18-12), Oak Mountain (18-9), Hoover East (9-8) and Helena (24-17). Play Mountain Brook tonight to determine No. 1 seed in tournament.
• 7 YO American Black – lost to Oak Mountain (3-15), defeated Mountain Brook Green, 16-15. Playing Vestavia Blue for 3rd seed in upcoming tournament.
• 8 YO National – defeated Hoover East (12-0), Helena (11-7) and lost to Oak Mountain (14-15) and Mountain Brook (6-7)
• 8 YO American Black – defeated Mountain Brook Green (19-16), Vestavia Blue (16-4) and Oak Mountain (30-13). The American Black team is undefeated in pool play and plays Vestavia Red Monday in cross pool play for the No. 1 seed in the upcoming tournament.
• 9 YO National – beat Helena (11-1), Homewood (19-2), Mountain Brook (11-1) and Oak Mountain (13-2)
• 9 YO American Black – lost to Vestavia Blue (5-17), Mountain Brook (1-8) and defeated Oak Mountain (13-5) and Vestavia Red (24-3)

As always, please send results to info@shadesmountainpark.org.

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Results from Thursday night that did not make the late SportsCenter:

• 7 YO – Vestavia Red 21, SMP Black 20
• 8 YO American – Mountain Brook Gold 21, SMP Orange 18
• 8 YO American – SMP Black 24, Hoover East 2
• 8 YO National – Oak Mountain 15, SMP 13
• 9 YO American – SMP Black 14, Oak Mountain 4
• 9 YO National – SMP 33, Pelham 4
• 10 YO American – SMP 8, Homewood 7

As always, we encourage all our teams to submit scores to info@shadesmountainpark.org. Go Bucs!

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If you have any suggestions for park improvements to be made this summer and upcoming offseason please send those to info@shadesmountainpark.org. We meet with the City of Hoover each year to set priorities. Thank you.

Also, here are some results from our Metro teams who reported their Pool Play scores to info@shadesmountainpark.org:

• 7 YO National 18, Pell City 12
• 8 YO National defeated Pell City, 16-3.
• 8 YO American defeated Oak Mountain, 22-7
• 10 YO National won 13-11.
• 11 YO National lost to Oak Mountain, 2-13

From the September 13, 1982 issue of Sports Illustrated:

“According to an SI poll of big league players, these words and phrases are the newest additions to the game’s lexicon:

When a struggling hitter pulls his average above .200, he has “crossed the Mendoza Line,” so named for former major-leaguer Mario Mendoza, whose career average (1974-81) was .216.

A “yakker” or an “Uncle Charlie” or the “yellow hammer” all describe a fine curve; “good cheese” is a blurring fastball.

A ball that “hits metal” has been misplayed by the fielder.

When a pitcher is “bridged” he has allowed a home run.

“If you’re waving at me, howdy,” is said to a player who strikes out swinging.”

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Most of our Metro “all star” teams begin Pool Play tonight. Good luck to all the Buccaneers! Here is a list of tournament locations for the leagues:

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Congratulations to all the SMP players selected to play in the upcoming Metro tournaments. A complete listing of players is available here http://www.quickscores.com/downloads/shadesmountainbaseball_SMP-2011-ALLSTAR-ROSTER.pdf. Good luck and go Bucs!

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If you are looking for a good camp this summer for your baseball player, consider the UAB Brian Shoop Camp. Camp will be June 6-9 and there is also a Father/Son Camp on July 17-20. For details call 934-5182 or visit www.uabsports.com.

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