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The year was 2002 and a young infielder (Kevin Kouzmanoff) from the University of Nevada came to the Valley League to play ball for the Winchester Royals.The 6'1 righty from Newport Beach, California returned to Nevada and was drafted in the 6th round by the Clevland Indians and made the bigs at Jacobs Field in 2006. Kouzmanoff is playing third base for the Padres this year after coming over to the National League. Today Kouz made a series of nice plays behind Greg Maddux as the professor went in search of victoty #351. The Padre offense is struggling this season and today was/is no different.Ryan Dempster has sparkled for the Cubs,limiting SD to just one hit into the sixth and the home team broke-up the 0-0 tie in the fifth to knock Maddux out of the game. Is there anyone out there from Winchester that has any fond memories of Kouz from his stay in the Valley? Check out the VBL site for a complete listing of all former VBL stars that have made it to the show!

A smarter person than myself might have thought thru sitting directly in the 90 degree Texas sun for 6+ hours but what can I say. Atleast the sunburn kept me awake for the 346 mile drive back to Dallas- Ft. Worth.Now, sitting on the airplane in a few hours could be interesting! It was hard to imagine a situation where so much Luray Wrangler / Valley League baseball could be on display 1800+ miles from home. The opener started at 1:00 p.m. sharp and the first thing you had to notice was the "artifical dirt" that covered the infield. I am sure they have a creative name for it by now but the only dirt on the diamond was on the mound. The stadium at Texas Tech (Dan Law Field)was beautiful but with school out for the Red Raiders there wasn't a large crowd at the park. Dallas Baptist (34-17) led the opener 2-0 before posting a four spot on the home team in the top of the seventh inning. Wrangler-to-be Clay Kelly laid down a perfect suicide squezze bunt during the rally to rea...

The weather forecast for today here in Lubbock is 90 and sunny and it is time to head over to Texas Tech for the 1:00 p.m. start of the double header between the host Red Raiders and the visiting Dallas Baptist University Patriots. Texas Tech is coming off a 12-10 victory yesterday over #8 Oklahome State in Stillwater despite spotting OSU an 8-0 lead. TT (22-28) will look to payback the team from DBU (33-16) for a 16-7 road loss last week back in Dallas. The tie into the Valley League for me today is the five former or future Luray Wranglers that play for DBU, including lefty reliever senior Wayne Dowling (Loveland,Co.). Dowling spent the second half of the season with our family in Luray last year and a made him a promise that I would make a trip to watch him pitch before the season was over. Things got pretty busy with trying to get the promotion off the ground and before you know it the last week of the regular season is here. 1,858 miles was the total for the journey down but a ...

I just received some great news from Friend of the Promotion John Llyod. John works for USA-Today and are history goes back a little over two years. John has always been 1st in line whenever we were in need of promo items and has been a backer of Crystal Clear Delivery since the early days. John has a love for baseball that runs in his family and his son John is pitching in the Big South Conference for Radford University again this season.For the past 3 years John and his family have made the trip from Northern Virginia down I-81 as often as possible to see their son pitch for the Highlanders and the junior had a HUGE week this past week that did not go un-noticed. The 6'3 lefty was named Big South pitcher of the week for his efforts and I have made an attempt to include the link to the story for everyone to see! Congrats to both John Sr. and John Jr. (Westfield High- Oak Hill, Va.). Lets see if I can get the link correct... click here !

It is not un-common in the Valley League for certain teams to build strong relationships with certain schools over the years. The Luray Wranglers have a pair of schools they rely on to fill their roster- one old one (Miami) and one new one (DBU Patriots). Head Coach Daniel Heefner is nearing the end of his fourth year at the helm of the DBU program and the Patriots (33-16 overall, 16-3 home) are looking for a post season birth. The team has a Tuesday double header at Texas Tech in Lubbock and a weekend series in San Francisco (3 games) against the USF Dons. The roster has five players with ties to the Wrangler franchise including seniors Wayne Dowling and Andrew Pirtle. Pirtle (.303 this season)has done the majority of the catching this season and Dowling (2-0,3.49 era, 17 apperances)has been strong coming out of the bullpen. Those two teamed to lead the 2007 Wranglers to a runner-up finish in the VBL last season. The two seniors can't return this year but the visit must of ...

We are now inside 3 weeks until opening night in Woodstock as well as four other exciting Valley Baseball Parks.We will open the season with one of the two cross-county rivalry games as New Market travels 19 miles north to battle the River Bandits for early Shenandoah County bragging rights! Staunton- Waynesboro offer up the other County Battle (Augusta County) but the league is not short on great rivals. Luray @ New Market (stop 7-June 6th) is always a great game anytime one of those teams crosses the Gap on US-211 and Winchester- Front Royal proved to be quite the match-up last season as the neighbors that share US-522 always look forward to facing each other. Here is the current (rain pending) list of stops we plan to make to complete the cycle: Saturday- May 31st- Woodstock home opener vs. New Market (70 miles) Sunday- June 1st- Waynesboro home opener vs. Harrisonburg (114 miles) Monday- June 2nd- Fauquier 2nd home game vs. Luray (88 miles) T...

Luke Carlin is a catcher from near-by Silver Springs, Maryland and boy will he have a story to tell his grandchildren. The 27 year old from Northeastern University made his major league debut Saturday night in San Diego. Carlin struggled at the plate against the Rockies (0-3, 3 K's) but shined behind the dish as the rookie started the night calling pitches for future hall-of-famer Greg Maddux (350 victories). Maddux scattered three singles over six innings before turning the ball over to the Padres bullpen.Clay Meredith and Heath Bell covered the seventh and eighth before the all-time saves leader Trevor Hoffman (530 saves) came in to close the 3-2 win out for the home team. Carlin was at a loss for words to describe catching two of the greatest pitchers of all time on his first night in the bigs. "I don't know what to say.It's kind of like all my dreams came true at once, I guess," Carlin said. "It was a privilege,an honor.I'm pretty much speechless....