Article Courtesy of the Mercury News
June 2013
School’s out for the summer, but vacation will have to wait for Little League all-star teams, which swung into District 44 tournament play this week.
Seven local leagues from Cupertino and Sunnyvale will compete in five age groups against each other as well as squads from Campbell, west San Jose, Santa Clara, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View. Teams are hopeful to reach the finals of the double-elimination tournaments, win a District 44 championship flag and advance to Section 5 tourney play against other district winners.
The major (11-12), junior (13-14) and senior (15-16) events are part of global tournaments. The most well-known is the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa., for the 11-12 bracket. The 9-10 and 10-11 age groups can advance as far as the Northern California Division.
All 14 leagues in District 44 have entered teams in the 9-10 and 11-12 tourneys. There are 11 leagues represented in the 10-11 category, seven in the junior event and just two in the senior division. Tri-Cities and Santa Clara Homestead will play a best of three series to determine which team will advance.
For complete scheduling and results of all tournament games, check the District 44 website at www.cad44.org.
Tri-Cities
Juniors: Manager Shawn Kimball, coach Eric Hersh, Lucas Banks, Zack Crawford, Ander Hersh, Jeremy Jang, David Kau, Matt Kelly, Matthew Kimball, Jarrod Kopczynski, Brandon Oliver, Payam Salabi, Dylan Thiel
11-12: Manager Steve Takaki, coach Todd McNair, coach Dan Cook, Justin Chow, Evan Cook, Garrett Geisler, Madison Lay, Trevor Malahy, Ryan Marks, Parker McNair, Hudson Park, Ajay Prasad, Mikey Robles, Omer Sasson, Brandon Takaki
9-10: Manager Don Phillips, coach Nick Long, coach Tai Kimura, Benjamin Kau, Ian Kimura, Sayf Hafidi, Jean Paul Herrera, Nicholas Hersh, Lukas Hoang, Nathan Hoang, Aaron Jew, Jonathan Leslie, Connor Long, Noah Moon, Adam Nobunaga, Dylan Phillips
Cupertino National
11-12: Manager John Koontz, coach Richard Park, coach Don Garber, Jason Koontz, Brett Park, Christian Chin, Hunter Chin, Jonathan Wang, Peter Heydinger, Samuel Yang, Jeffrey Tian, Christian Garber, Nitin Subramanian, Anuj Mahajan, Amogh Patankar
9-10: Coach Jeff Ng, coach Steve Damozonio, coach Terence Boynton, coach Ingu Chang, coach Rob Wheeler, Tate Boynton, Benjamin Chang, John Damozonio, Sachin Dasari, David Heydinger, Zhenda Hu, Rohit Kumar, Owen Lassa, Willy Liou, Brandon Ng, Alvin Tian, Lucas Wheeler
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