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Ti Little League readies tomorrow’s stars
Youth development key to high school success By Fred Herbst
fred@denpubs.com TICONDEROGA — Ticonderoga and Crown Point have dominated local high school baseball for a decade. The Ti Sentinels are seeking their 10th straight Section VII Class C championship this season. Crown Point won the Mountain and Valley championship last year with a 12-0 record and captured the Section VII Class D title as it went 15-1 overall. The core of each team played youth baseball in the Ticonderoga Little League. “We had the high school coach (Ti Coach Dan Dorsett) give a clinic for our players recently,” said Derrick Fleury, Ti Little League president. “He gives Little League a lot of credit for developing players.” Fleury is in his first year as league president, but has been a coach the past six seasons and has held several administrative positions. “I love to see the improvement in the kids,” Fleury said. “From the beginning of the year to the end, from one season to the next, they get better and better. I think we have a great program.” Ticonderoga Little League has 89 players, ages 9 to 12, on eight teams this spring. Teams include EMA, Kiwanis, Legion, Elks, Fire Police, Knights of Columbus, Wind Chill and Stewart’s. It also t e a m operates a threem i n o r league with 30 players ages 6 to 11. The only Little League in the area, the Ticonderoga loop has players from Ti, Crown Point, Hague and Putnam. Little League came to Ticonderoga in 1951 with four teams. Tom Malaney was the first league president. By the 1960s, more boys were interested and the league added two new teams to accommodate them. Games were played in the area where the town sewer plant now sits. A court challenge by women’s rights groups followed in 1974 to allow girls to play on boys teams. The girls won their landmark case and the rest is history. Today about one in seven little leaguers is a girl. In 1977, league administrators constructed a new field at the bottom of Rogers Street. It has remained the center of spring and summer baseball activity for the youth in Ticonderoga for the past 35 years. About that same time a minor league system was developed for younger players as well as those unlucky candidates 9 to 12 years old who were not selected by a major team. All the while, Ticonderoga rolled with the times and embraced the changes. Expansion took place in the early 1980s when two more teams were added from an overflow of the minor league division. The past 20 years, league officers have concentrated on field improvements. They installed business billboard signs for raising league funds and, with town assistance, an adjacent upper field was constructed to centralize minor league and Little League games. Renovations continued in the mid-90s as volunteers removed the old clay and sand infield surface and replaced it with a softer slate dust material. That was fol-
lowed by a purchase of an electronic scoreboard. By the fall of 2005, a bold new project calling for a grass and dirt infield surface was undertaken, including an irrigation system to maintain the health of the grass. Over the past 16 years the league has selected all-star teams to compete in area tournament such as Plattsburgh, Rutland, Glens Falls, Cambridge and Saratoga. Youth baseball has a long history in the United States. As early as the 1880s, leagues were formed for pre-teen children in New York, but they were affiliated with adult club teams and did not flourish. Children often played pickup baseball in streets or sandlots instead, and with substandard equipment. Cast-off bats and balls were taped and retaped, and catcher’s equipment in children’s sizes was almost nonexistent. In the 1920s, the American Legion formed a baseball program for teen-age boys that exists today. American schools also started baseball programs. But there was still a void for preteen boys who wanted to play in organized games. Other smaller programs cropped up from time to time, but did
2013 Schedule
Friday, May 10
Legion v. Elks 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 11
Knights of Columbus v. Windchill 10 a.m. EMA v. Stewarts 12:30 p.m. Fire Police v. Kiwanis 3 p.m.
Monday, May 13
Legion v. Knights of Columbus 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 14
Kiwanis v. EMA 5:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 18
Elks v. Stewarts 10 a.m. Windchill v. Fire Police 12:30 p.m.
Monday, May 20
Elks v. Windchill 6 p.m.
Tuesday, May 21
Legion v. EMA 6 p.m.
Wednesday, May 22
Knights of Columbus v. Kiwanis 6 p.m.
Thursday, May 23
Stewarts v. Fire Police 6 p.m.
Friday, May 24
EMA v. Windchill 6 p.m. not catch on beyond local areas. In 1938, Carl Stotz hit upon the idea for an organized baseball league for the boys in his hometown of Williamsport, Pa. Stotz had no sons of his own, but he often played ball with his young nephews, Jimmy and Major Gehron, and wanted a way to provide an organized program for them. Stotz gathered several of the neighborhood children and experimented with different types of equipment and different field dimensions during that summer. The program still did not have a name, and no games were played. In 1939, Stotz and his wife Grayce took the experiment a step further, enlisting the help of brothers George and Bert Bebble and their wives, Annabelle and Eloise, respectively. Carl, George and Bert were the managers of the first three teams: Lycoming Dairy, Lundy Lumber and Jumbo Pretzel. John and Peggy Lindemuth soon joined the group, with the eight volunteers making up the very first Little League board of directors.Carl also talked to his friends in the community and came up with the name: Little League. His idea was to provide a wholesome program of baseball for the boys of Williamsport, as a way to teach them the ideals of sportsmanship, fair play and teamwork. On June 6, 1939, in the very first Little League game ever played, Lundy Lumber defeated Lycoming Dairy, 23-8. From those humble beginnings, Little League Baseball has become the world’s largest organized youth sports program. In the space of just six decades, Little League grew from three teams to nearly 200,000 teams, in all 50 U.S. states and more than 80 countries. And the basic goal remains the same as it did in 1939, to give the children of the world a game that provides fundamental principles — sportsmanship, fair play and teamwork — they can use later in life to become good citizens. John Sharkey contributed to this article. He is a former Ticonderoga Little League player, coach and administrator.
Saturday, May 25
Kiwanis v. Elks 10 a.m. Legion v. Fire Police 12:30 p.m. Knights of Columbus v. Stewarts 3 p.m.
Friday, May 31
Kiwanis v. Fire Police 6 p.m.
Saturday, June 1
Windchill v. Knights of Columbus 10 a.m. Stewarts v. EMA 12:30 p.m. Elks v. Legion 3 p.m.
Monday, June 3
Windchill v. Stewarts 6 p.m.
Tuesday, June 4
Legion v. Kiwanis 6 p.m.
Wednesday, June 5
Fire Police v. EMA 6 p.m.
Thursday, June 6
Elks v. Knights of Columbus 6 p.m.
Friday, June 7
Stewarts v. Legion 6 p.m.
Saturday, June 8
EMA v. Knights of Columbus 10 a.m. Windchill v. Kiwanis 12:30 p.m. Fire Police v. Elks 3 p.m.
Monday, June 10
Windchill v. Legion 6 p.m.
Tuesday, June 11
Kiwanis v. Stewarts 6 p.m.
Wednesday, June 12 EMA v. Elks 6 p.m.
Thursday, June 13
Pire Police v. Knights of Columbus 6 p.m.
Friday, June 14
EMA v. Kiwanis 6 p.m.
Saturday, June 15
Knights of Columbus v. Legion 10 a.m. Fire Police v. Windchill 12:30 p.m. Stewarts v. Elks 3 p.m.
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Elks
The Ticonderoga Little League Elks team includes Connor Yaw, Brayton Malina, David LaPointe, John Wright, Clayton Spaulding, Riley Guay, Ronald O’Neill, Alex Russell, Austin Stacy, Kiran Weller and Carson Reeves. Coaches are Chris Spaulding, Nate Yaw, Ron O’Neill and George Reeves. Photo by Nancy Frasier
EMA
The Ticonderoga Little League EMA team includes Bobby Condit, Jeremy Fuller, Noah Peters, Connall Tierney, Dylan Schlogel, Steven Barnaby, Noah Bogart, TJ Bilow, Jacob Fuller, Thomas Clarke and Corey Lender. Coaches are Brad Peters, Jeremy Fuller, Phil LaPerle and Chris Bogart. Photo by Nancy Frasier
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Fire Police
The Ticonderoga Little League Fire Police team includes Matthew Maneri, Kenneth Hayes, Cameron Harrington, Trystan Rabideau, Zack Taylor, Owen Stonitsch, Garret Dedrick, Jake Ladeau, Robert Alkinburgh, Jerratt Banish and Jerimiah Scharr. Coaches: Sam Rabideau, Jim Banish, Matt Maneri and Tom Dedrick. Photo by Nancy Frasier
Kinghts of Columbus
The Ticonderoga Little League Knights of Columbus team includes Andrew Pelkey, Caleb Pike, Brett More, Dylan Sours, Gavin Sours, Russ Gallo, Nicholas Gallo, Hunter St Andrews, Austin Gijanto, John Reale, Cody Crammond and Cade Debrobander. Coaches are Dave Pelkey, Tom Pike, Todd, Debrobander and Jon Crammond. Photo by Nancy Frasier
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Kiwanis
The Ticonderoga Little League Kiwanis team includes Tristen Carey, Adrian Paige, Nathan Trudeau, Noah Spaulding, Monty Benedict, Liam Davis, Raleigh White, Terence Benedict, Derek Joiner, Tony Martucci and Zachary Spaulding. Coaches are Rich Trudeau, Don Paige, Warren Spaulding and Terry Benedict. Photo by Nancy Frasier
Legion
The Ticonderoga Little League Legion team includes Reese Celotti, Collin Besnahan, Tim Huestis, Noah Ahern, Carter Dedrick, Thomas Woods, Cian Bresnahan, Nick Robarge-Greene, Ashton Gilbert and Tyler Wranosky, Conner Robarge-Greene. Coaches are Chris Bresnahan, Steve Woods, Dayton Dedrick,and Tom Wranosky. Photo by Nancy Frasier
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The Ticonderoga Little League Stewarts team includes Ali Nauman, Jesse Clark, Michael Fitzgerald, Austin Barnao, Garrett Ross, Gavin Ross, Carl Rice, Gavin Fleury, Andrew Dushane, Michael Dushane and Ben Riper. Coaches are Dean Dushane, Derrick Fleury and Dwayne Dushane. Photo by Nancy Frasier
Windchill
The Ticonderoga Little League Windchill team includes Bryce Gautreau, Jack Grinnell, Colton Huestis, Ross Thomas, Riley Quigley, Brendan Lauzon, Chase Greene, Brock Huestis, Michael Stipo, Zachary LaBarge and Shane Bertsche. Coaches are Eric Grinnell, Rob Gautreau and Todd Huestis. Photo by Nancy Frasier
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