2004 13-U AAU 3/27 MD TOURNAMENT RESULTS (An old vintage pic)
WINNERS OF POOL PLAY
POOL A Central Jersey Patriots
POOL B Delaware Angels
POOL C JERSEY DEVIL RAYS
FINAL STANDINGS
1 CJ Patriots
2 Delaware Angels
3 JERSEY DEVIL RAYS
4 Wilmington Warthogs
5 Delaware Dragons
5 Central PA Capitals
7 Cheers Sports Red
8 Columbia Cougars
9 Elmer Extreme
10 Vineland Cobras
11 All-Star Baseball Academy
12 Long Island Knights
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2004 13-U JERSEY DEVIL RAYS Take 2nd PLACE AT WT MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT (an old vintage pic)
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2004 13-U Rivershark Tournament Champions 5/14 (an old vintage pic)
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3/27/04 JERSEY DEVIL RAY TEAM PICTURE MD AAU NATIONAL QUALIFIER
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Big Jim Schramm "THE PICTURE MAN" newest black & white photo
Brandon, Beef, Alec, Tony and Jimmy
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Congrats to the Nationally Ranked Jersey Devil Rays 2005 14u & 2004 13u
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D Rays players came prepared to play!!!
D Rays came to play with great focus. All players arrived on time even with day light savings ready to go. After a quick warm up (do to the gates not opening to 8:15 am.) the D Rays were the home team and scored 3 runs inthe first and were batting in the bottom of the second and had scored three more runs with only one out when play was stopped.
Our coaches were proud the way you guys took the field and attacked the Rage with some real strong hitting.
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DOMINICAN INVITATION BY AMAURY TELEMACO
On October 4, 2004 I received a phone call from Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Amaury Telemaco's agent extending an invitation to play in the Dominican Republic in 2005. After I showed an interest, he had Amaury call me to discuss some options and he was really interested in our team playing in the DR. His home town is very close to the youth baseball programs near a 5 star resort. He would be able to schedule whatever games we would be interested.
It ended by Amaury giving us his direct cell number and home phone in the Dominican. We are to advise him on our intensions asap so he can start to make arrangements.
I understand this is a big undertaking for us. I have not committed us to anything. I would like everyone's feedback. Obviously there are many positives and negatives to this type of trip. If we decided to take on this project we could fundraise throughout the winter, etc. Let me know your thoughts and if you were interested would March 24-28 approximatley be good or after school is out.
Coach Mario
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FYI, Letter from the National Championship Tournament Director
Mario
Please accept this as your first official welcome to the AAU National
Baseball Championships, though we have had various communications with many
of you. Please carefully review all of this material and then print and copy
it for distribution to your entire travel group. Other important
communications will follow.
Your registration time, which was assigned randomly, is reflected in the
Registration attachment. There are 85 teams between the two divisions and of
course, very few registrants would volunteer for an early time. Accordingly,
we have assigned registration times randomly and deferred the start of
registration until 11:00am Friday, July 23 for your travel convenience.
The Registration time document and all other attachments are Word documents
so if you are unable to open them, we encourage you to forward the email to
someone with the ability to open and print Word documents.
Registration is scheduled for the Myrtle Beach Pavilion and directions are
provided below; the Pavilion is located on the oceanfront in Myrtle Beach
and we hope that you, the players, their parents and other members of the
travel party enjoy the uniqueness of registration and a picnic on the
oceanfront.
If your hotel registrations were made through our designated travel agent,
Myrtle Beach Trips, or if you registered directly with one of our host
hotels, each room reservation provides a parking pass for registration, four
free picnic passes, and four passes to your choice of three different
amusement parks. UPON ARRIVAL IN MYRTLE BEACH, YOU MUST FIRST GO TO YOUR
HOTEL AND PICK UP YOUR BONUS PACKET which includes all the passes described
above since you will need your parking pass and picnic passes and may elect
to use enjoy the amusement park adjacent to the Pavilion.
For those of you who have not previously secured picnic passes, they will be
available on site for $10.00; the picnic menu includes, all you can eat,
hamburgers, hotdogs, fried chicken, baked beans, potato salad, slaw and a
drink. "Combo" passes for the amusement park and the picnic are available at
substantial prices.
****Please remember to bring your state flag and team banner with you so
that you can display them during the "Presentation of Teams" at opening
ceremonies.
A preliminary Schedule of Events for the week is also attached and that
schedule includes the currently anticipated times for all events on Friday,
including the Parent's Orientation meeting and the mandatory Coaches
meeting.
Subsequent important email communications will follow so "stay tuned". We
look forward to seeing you soon.
MYRTLE BEACH PAVILION - Ocean Blvd. between 8th and 9th Aves. N.; From
"central" Myrtle Beach @ Grissom Pkwy and 21st Ave. N. Take 21st Ave. east
(towards the ocean) to Business 17 and turn right; then turn left on 9th
Ave. N. and park in the parking deck on the left. Walk down 9th Ave. N. to
the oceanfront and the Pavilion. There will be a number of signs.
Best Regards,
Bob Calliham
Chairman, Baseball At The Beach
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JERSEY DEVIL RAYS TAKE 2ND IN DEL VAL FALL BALL LEAGUE
D Rays put up a tough game vs the Arsenal in the Championship game. Tie ball game at 1-1 to the bottom of the sixth when the Arsenal scored 2 to go ahead 3-1. The D Rays had a chance to come back in the top of the 7th but weren't able to pull it out.
As I mentioned, you guys had a great and relaxed fall ball season. We batted everyone all the way through the whole season even in the championship game. Your efforts should be commended as well as your positive team spirit every game.
All of our coaches are proud! Thanks to everyone who helped out this fall including Bob Mucerino, Matt Mog and especially Coach Jeff Sheets who was relentless being there for the team.
Have a great off-season and we will be intouch soon to go over our plans for the 2005 season.
Thanks,
Coach Mario
856-582-0568
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JERSEY DEVIL RAYS take on teams from around United States updated 7/11
2004 AAU National Baseball Championship - 13:U 90
Burlington - Alamance North Carolina
Cape Riptide Massachusetts
Carolina Express North Carolina
Charlotte Royals North Carolina
Columbia Cougars Maryland
Crystal Coast Mustangs North Carolina
Delaware Angels Mid - Atlantic
Delaware Dragons Mid - Atlantic
East Coast Hurricanes Florida
EC Fireball North Carolina
Faith Jaycee Diamondbacks North Carolina
Frozen Ropes Massachusetts
Gulf Beach Hammerheads Florida
Hendersonville Hornets Southeastern
Jersey Devil Rays Mid - Atlantic
Mass Pride Baseball Massachusetts
New England Firebirds New Hampshire
New England Thunder New England
Palatka Stars Florida
Rhode Island Reds Rhode Island
Sarasota Prowlers Florida
South Shore Seadogs New England
South Wake Storm North Carolina
Tampa Bay Broncos Florida
Team Connecticut Connecticut
Tri - State Arsenal New Jersey
Vienna Mustangs Potomac Valley
Virginia Diamonds Virginia
Windermere Wildcats Florida
This page designed by Tomorrow's Solutions,Inc Copyright © 2004 Score-Klix. All rights reserved.
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Jesrey Devil Rays "2004 National Team Pin"
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PITCHING REVIEW
October 2, 2003 --
Steps
1 45 degree Transfer step
(allows pivot foot set without losing balance)
2 Pivot
(step down in front of rubber)
3 Lift and Load
(lift knee above waist and tork to get knee aligned with back knee, foot up)
4 Flex back leg & glide into break position
5 Start to drive
(hips start to turn, back knee starts to turn, back foot rotates)
6 Pull non throwing arm in, release then hip roll
7 Finished positon, ready for fielding
Practice these steps at home over and over so it becomes second nature. Also practice holding at the lift and load step to work on your balance.
Coach Mario
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CLUB LEVELS-STATS
October 21, 2003 --
Jersey Devil Ray's Fall Ball Club level -Stats announced!!!
Great statistics as a team.
Team Batting Average=.407
Team On Base %=.528
500+ Club Level (Batting Average)
"Will The Thrill" Will Marthins
"Rambo" Jon Reader
"Popeye" Brandon Sheets
400+ Club level (Batting Average)
"Moose" Andrew Mucerino
"Rip" Ricky Ponto
"Beef" Anthony Valori
"Big Steve" Steve Laraia
Congrats to evryone!!!!!!!!!!!! Coach Mario
Runs Scored Club levels
30+ Run Club level (Runs scored)
"Popeye" Brandon Sheets
20+ Run Club level (Runs scored)
"Moose" Andrew Mucerino
"Rip" Ricky Ponto
"Will the Thrill" Will Marthins
15+ Run Club (Runs Scored)
"Chipper" Mike Massaro
"J Money" Jimmy Schramm
"Beef" Anthony Valori
"G Man" Johnny Garozzo
"Big Steve" Steve Laraia
Congrats to everyone!!!!!!! Coach Mario
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"The Broken Bones Players" with their teammates
October 29, 2003 --
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Coach Jim in action after a game
October 30, 2003 --
Coach Jim reviewing all the good things we did in the game as well as reviewing the areas we need to improve on.
As always, he is being positive with the players and letting them know how much he enjoys helping them reach their potential as a team.
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JERSEY DEVIL RAYS RETURN HOME WITH HARDWARE FROM MD TOURNAMENT
March 28, 2004 --
WOW!!!! 3rd Place!! What a great start! Our staff is very proud of all the D Ray players and their efforts to try to bring home a championship. The bottom line was, we were in the running to win the tournament until late Sunday night. We rallied to pull within 3 runs of the Central Jersey Patriots but just fell a little short. What a fight our team gave them. It was HEROIC to see our team fight back and then have to hustle under the time constraints to play another inning in brittle cold weather in an attempt to move on. We should all be proud of our parents, players and coaches who showed team spirit and determination in an effort to pull out a victory. We gave it our best up until the last minutes of a long 2 day tournament.
This was a character building weekend for our team. As I mentioned in the past. It is the team who improves the most from preseason that is going to bring home the most championships. We are headed in that direction for sure. I'll post game recaps later.
Again, great job! I'm proud to be your coach and the other coaches are as well. Let's stay focused and get prepared for this Saturday and Sunday, opening day and the Rivershark tournament.
Coach Mario
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2005 JERSEY DEVIL RAYS AFTER HITTING PRACTICE AT HIT DR
February 9, 2005 --
Front Row-L to R
Carlos Sepulveda, Alec Mog, Will Marthins, Brett Danifo, Andrew Mucerino and Matt Barr
Back Row-L to R
Coach Justin, Coach Jeff, Anthony Valori, Ricky Ponto, Tony Messina, Brandon Sheets, Jimmy Schramm, Tyler Cox and Coach Mario
Missing in the picture are Matt Seybert, Jeff Lynch and Mike Milward.
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GREAT JOB WITH THE SPONSORS RECENTLY!!!!!
April 21, 2006 --
Go to D Ray Links to see all of our recent sponsors. Whenever you can use one of our sponsors, please tell them the JERSEY DEVIL RAYS sent you.
Thank you very much to all of our sponsors. Our players are striving to compete at the National Championship in late July, 2004. Your contributions help with our budget and are greatly appreciated. Remember we are a bonafide 501(c)3 organization and your donation is fully deductible as charitable contributions.
Thanks again, Coach Mario
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2/12 Pitching Camp with Hit Dr Instructor Bob Shannon and Coach Justin
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Jersey Devil Rays - Will Film each player this winter
October 2, 2003 --
This winter we will film batting practice and have individual consultations with each player.
We will point out the fundamental areas of concern for each player. It is this type of focus and hard work that each player needs to concentrate on in order to reach their fullest potential as a hitter.
Listed below is a list of the basics that each player should become familar with as well as a list so each coach can uniformaly discuss the correct material so that the player only hears one set of instructions. I'm sure this will help.
RELAX_STEP AND THROW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STANCE
1 FEET AT SHOULDER WIDTH
(front foot even with back corner, distance set up for proper plate coverage.
2 KNEES FLEXED.
3 WEIGHT BALANCED
(keep weight between your heel and toes).
4 CORRECT BAT POSITION IN HAND
(2nd digit knuckles of both hands aligned correctly, don't squeeze bat to tight-
don't choke it !) CONTINUED, NEXT ARTICLE
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PITCHING
October 2, 2003 --
Go to Ray Practice review and follow all the steps to be able to do them on command.
Every night before bed(or other times)give me at least 25 straight thru and 15 with a 5 second delay at the lift and load position.
Coach Mario
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CONTINUED - BATTING LISTS- RELAX STEP AND THROW !!!!!!!!!
October 2, 2003 --
STANCE CONTINUED-
5 SAY "RELAX" to yourself
(focus in on the pitcher, looking at his release point).
STEP
1 STEP TOWARDS THE PITCHER
(land closed on your front of your foot-tip toe, slow speed on the step)
2 KEEP LEG STRAIGHT
(keeping your body & head still and back)
3 HAVE LIVE HANDS
(Keep hands cocked and back, move at same time as step)
4 SAME STEP EVERY TIME
(no matter if inside, outside or down the middle).
5 WEIGHT STAYS BACK
(until you throw your hands QUICKLY at the ball!
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CONTINUED (2) BATTING LISTS- RELAX, STEP and THROW !!!!!
September 2, 2003 --
Relax, step and throw !
THROW
1 ALWAYS THROW YOUR HANDS AT THE BALL.
2 TAKE THE KNOB STRAIGHT TO THE BALL
(keeping the barrell up while you throw your hands, keep your hands above the ball. Don't drop your barrell)
3 ALWAYS HIT DOWN AND ON THE MIDDLE OF THE BALL
4 AT CONTACT
(your front wrist is uncocked and stiff at contact).
5 FOLLOW THRU
(after contact, your top hand will roll over the ball).
6 ROTATE BACK FOOT
Coach V.
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J&M Shore Properties
January 28, 2004 --
Link to J&M Shore Properties to see great vacation rentals for 1 or more families in North Wildwood, Wildwood and Wildwood Crest. All properties are new and in excellent condition.
Just click on the D RAY Links on the left margin of the welcome page. J&M Shore Properties can be reached at 1-267-784-0600 and ask for Matt. Tell him the JERSEY DEVIL RAYS sent you and they will make a donation to our team.
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D Rays showing good sportsmanship after beating the Arsenal
Once again, the D Rays showing good sportsmanship after trying to shake hands after the game with their opponent. D Rays beat the Arsenal for the Del Val Championship!
We finally learned ..........................of the.......... coaches. Some of them ....................after their loss.
We, the staff and parents are proud of our D Ray players for always showing good sportsmanship, win, lose or draw.
Way to go D Rays! You did STACK IT UP! and played like true champions throughout the whole season. Way to stick together as a team!
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