Blazers News and Notes
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Quakertown takes on Lehigh Valley
The Blazers (6-7) will be taking on their local rivals, The Lehigh Valley Catz (5-6). Tomorrow's game will mark the foruth meeting between the two teams with the Catz holding a 2-1 advantage in the series. The Catz and Blazers squared off twice last week with each team taking one game. The game will be at the legendary Quakertown Memorial Stadium with the first pitch coming at 7 pm. For directions to tomorrow's game please click here.
Also be sure to mark your calendars for Saturday July 4th (click here for the days activities), as the Blazers take on the Rockies at 6 pm. What better way to spend the holiday then watching America's pastime at Quakertown Memorial Stadium?
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Pilots drop Blazers in a close loss, 6-5
The Blazers were not able to stop the first place Jersey Pilots and dropped their game tonight 6-5. The loss moves the Pliots firmly into first place with a .5 lead over the Rockies while the Blazers drop back down to fourth with a 6-7 record. The Blazers will return to action on Thursday July 2 at 7 pm as they take on the Catz for the fourth time this season. The Catz lead the series 2-1 put the Blazers will be looking to even the series at 2 apiece after their game on Thursday at Quakertown Memorial. Check back on Thursday for a complete pre-game story and up to date season stats.
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Weekend Wrap-up: Blazers go 3-1
The Blazers came out of their two weekend double-headers with a 3-1 record against Northern NJ (5-11). The Blazers split on Saturday with the Eagles at Quakertown Memorial taking the first game 3-2 before losing the night cap 7-2. Quakertown then traveled to NNJ and took both games with a 6-1 victory followed by a hard fought 2-1 W. With the three wins the Blazers were able to put themselves at .500 and move from fourth to third place in the Wolff Division. They are 2.5 games back of the Division co-leading Pilots (8-3) and Rockies (9-4). The Blazers return to action today with a game at Jersey slated to start at 1 pm in North Plainfield, NJ. For directions to todays game click here.
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Blazers edge Catz 7-5
The Blazers will be taking on the Northern Jersey Eagles in todays double-header at Quakertown Memorial. The Blazers are coming off four straight games from earlier in the week where they went 2-2 against the Rockies and Catz. Overall the Blazers are 3-5 and are looking to pull to .500 with two wins today. For directions to todays game click here.
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Make-up games announced
With all of the recent rain many of the Blazers games have been forced to be postoned and made up at a later date. Below are the games that are being made up:
June 4th at Jersey Pilots – moved to Sunday, July 5th, and now scheduled as game one of a
doubleheader. Start time: 5 PM
June 11th vs. Kutztown – moved to Friday, July 17th. Start time: 7 PM
June 13th at Jersey Pilots – second game of a doubleheader now scheduled for Monday,
June 29th. Start time: 1 PM
June 16th at Peekskill – moved to Wednesday, July 22nd, and now scheduled as game one
of a doubleheader. Start time: 4 PM
June 18th vs. Jersey Pilots – moved to Tuesday, July 7th and now scheduled as game one
of a doubleheader. Start time: 5 PM.
You can also check out the Schedule Page for all updates.
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Former Blazers Drafted in MLB 2009 First-Year Player Draft
The top 2007 ACBL prospect, RHP Ryan Buch (Blazers, 2007) landed with the White Sox in the eighth round and LHP Darin Gorski (Blazers, 2007 and Rockies, 2008), the top ACBL prospect in 2008 by Baseball America, was chosen by the Mets in the seventh round.
Other past Blazers selected in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft:
Vin DiFazio (2005,08) 12th round Texas Rangers
Kyle Davis (2006) 27th round Chicago White Sox
Greg Folgia (2008) 40th round Cleveland Indians
Mark Angelo (2006-08) 44th round Seattle Mariners
Congratulations to these six players as well as the 21 other former ACBL players to be drafted this year.
To see all the players selected that played for former ACBL teams click here.
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