This year, Glenwood Little League will take a new approach to fall baseball. Instead of committing to a full schedule of games against other leagues, we will be doing a Sunday-only training and scrimmage program.

Who Can Play: Baseball players age 9 and above as of May 1, 2010. (Players who are 8-years old as of May 1, 2010, have at least one year of Pee Wee experience and are considering moving-up to Minors next year may also participate.)
What It Is: Baseball instruction and scrimmage games
Where It Happens: At GWLL
When It Happens: Sunday afternoons in September and October
Why It’s Good: It improves players skills and is FUN!
How It Works: Players meet for about 3 hours every Sunday (weather permitting) for about 8 weeks in September and October. The first 90 minutes or so are dedicated to instruction from Glenwood coaches; the remaining 1-1/2 to 2 hours is reserved for intramural scrimmages. Some interleague scrimmage games may be scheduled.
Cost: $30
Mail-In Registration Only: Send this registration form plus a check for $30, payable to Glenwood Little League, to GWLL, PO Box 820702, Vancouver, WA, 98682-0016.

Interested softball players should contact Billy Staley via our Board page.

Minors Softball

Abby Allen
Erin Blacker
Abby Campbell
Hannah Foster
Jessica Gotfredson
Natalie Hodges
Emily Kellems
Emily Seekins
Ashley Shelton
Abby Sloan
Virginia Vaughn
Lorena Villa
Shaylie Westmoreland

Manager: Roger Allen
Coach: Ken Shelton
Coach: Lisa Shelton

Majors Softball

Katie Abendroth
Shaelynn Bell
Alyssa Dannis
Cierra Dean
Maria Erwin
Audi Garcia
Bridget Guiney
Erika Keller
Ashley Perrin
Logan Sanchez
Noel Trujillo
Chelsi Walter
Madison Walter

Manager: Mark Walter
Coach: Keith Keller
Coach: Eddie Haselton

Junior Softball

Jordan Adams
Jenna Brodahl
Taylor Bunnis
Katie Deganhart
Mary Hall
Lauryn Hull
Lillie LaFine
Mickey Mathis
Kaitlyn Michaelson
Ashley Potts
Jamie Ripley
Jessica Ripley
Dani Rupp
Olivia Staley

Manager: Jason Blacker
Coach: Bill Staley
Coach: Mitch Michaelson

Minors/AAA Baseball

Jacob Alvick
Taylor Beaupre
Boston Clark
Devin Clevidence
Colton Dalia
Michael Gradwohl
Michael Hall
Sam Lauderdale
Josiah Nickel
James Phillips
Blake Robb
Skyler Verity
Taryn Yarnell

Manager: Keith Dalia
Coach: Tom Talmadge
Coach: Michael Verity

Majors Baseball (12 year olds)

Gregory Bernash
Cory Bryan
Brendan Callaway
Bryce Gould
Michael Guenther
Tyler Hellman
Benjamin Hill
Conner Janini
Noah Johnson
Nolan Molt
Will Ortner
Blane Robb
Will Stockman

Manager: Robert Janini
Coach: Ken Callaway
Coach: Jeff Bernash

Majors Baseball (11 year olds)

Brennan Dickens
Andrue Elam
Dakota Keyt
Jacob Lamont
Ryan McAbel
Tanner McDaniel
Payton Monda
Austin Morrison
Ian Osgood
Andrew Schreiner
Austin Verity
Alex Williams
Dallon Zinszer

Manager: Andrew Dickens
Coach: Matt Hancock

Junior Baseball

Jordan Archer-Halverson
Benjamin Baxter
Jason Bracken
Keegan Foster
William Garcia
Adam George
Rick Allen Gordon
Garett Loghry
Jordan Moore
Jordan Marti
Zachary Schoolfield
Joel Worden
Kyle Yenne

Manager: Bill Foster
Coach: Ken Loghry
Coach: Alan Yenne

2010 GWLL All-Star Rules here

Glenwood Little League To Update Rain Outs Through Twitter

Starting this season, Glenwood Little League will be adding Twitter updates to our communications channel. Our members will have four ways to get up-to-date information regarding rain-outs.

1. Call our answering service at 360-573-9903.
2. Look at our website for INSTANT UPDATES. (You can see them at the top left-hand corner of the page.)
3. Visit our Twitter page.
4. Receive Twitter updates on your phone:

If your device is already added to Twitter, just send ‘ON GWLLInfo’ or ‘FOLLOW GWLLInfo’ (case-sensitive but no quotes) to 40404. If you’ve not yet added your device to Twitter, go here for the instructions.

When appropriate, we’ll use Twitter for other late-breaking updates.

A perfect day for local Little Leaguer
Paul Danzer: Community sports

Little League season is less than a week old, but one area player has already experienced the game of a lifetime.

I am hesitant to highlight individual efforts from youth sports. As a general policy, we at The Columbian don’t write about youth sports events until the locals are competing at a state-level or higher. But Michael Guenther’s first game of this baseball season is worthy of an exception.

The 12-year-old struck out all 18 batters he faced in pitching a perfect game in the Glenwood Mets’ season opener on April 7.

Little League games last only six innings. That’s 18 outs. Sixteen of the batters Michael pitched to last Wednesday went down swinging. Two were called out on strikes.

“My two-seam fastball was working,” Michael said.

Michael said he didn’t realize what he was doing until after the fourth inning. “He knew what was going on,” Mets manager Mike Hellman said. “He kept saying, ‘Let me keep pitching. Let me keep pitching.’ ”

The plan, as is often the case in Little league, was to have several players pitch. But Hellman wasn’t going to deny Michael a shot at perfection. “It was pretty neat to watch,” Hellman said. Only twice did the count reach three balls. In the fifth inning,
Michael’s first three pitches to one batter were balls. But he recovered for the strikeout.

In fact, the biggest threat to Michael’s 18-strikeout day was his own team’s offense. In the fifth inning, the Mets were threatening to add to their 9-0 lead, which would have ended the game under Little League’s mercy rule.

Little League rules limit pitchers to 85 pitches in a game. Michael needed only 73 to set down 18 opponents — and then was dogpiled by teammates.

Additional information is available from the Brain Injury Association of Washington website.