Sadly, I think this type of thing is happening more and more...everywhere.

http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/...ys_kirk_fredericks_victim_of_entitled_parents

Here are two commitments as reported by Tony Crivello:

Heritage 2016 LHP Austin Manning has committed to UC Santa Barbara.
Vacaville 2017 C Troy Claunch has committed to Oregon State.

Coaches,

Hercules is looking for one more FR/JV/VAR scrimmage game, one JV tournament or FR/JV only doubleheaders, and any FROSH tourneys(not Dec 17-19). Please contact me if you are interested or have tournament openings. Willing to play games from other NorCal sections as well.

Chris Russell
707-318-7639
crussell@srvusd.net

Franklin safety Lamar Jackson is visiting USC this weekend and will take part in a skills camp this weekend. The Trojans are near the top of the list for the 4-star prospect.

Del Oro WR/DB Trey Udoffia is up to 10 offers with Washington State offering yesterday.

Davidson has offered St. Ignatius/PHPS 2016 post Arash Poorsina, according to PHPS coach Lester Diaz.

Freedom tight end Giovanni Fauolo has been offered by UNLV.

Berean Christian 2017 WR Isaiah Hodgins has picked up his first offer from San Jose State.

There are always minor changes but this is the schedule that was sent out to coaches. Pool play Friday and Saturday leading to single elimination tournaments on Sunday.
Tickets reasonably priced at $5.00 per day for access to all sites.
GAME SCHEDULE FRIDAY, JUNE 12
IRON HORSE MIDDLE SCHOOL COURT 1
12pm: Monte Vista vs. Salesian
1pm: San Ramon Valley vs. Campolindo
2pm: Merrill West vs. Monte Vista
3pm: San Ramon Valley vs. Freedom
4pm: Albany vs. St. Mary’s
5pm: Franklin vs. Fresno Stampede
6pm: Albany vs. Vacaville
7pm: Oakland Tech vs. Fresno Stampede
8pm: Foothill vs. Oakland

IRON HORSE MIDDLE SCHOOL COURT 2
12pm: Merrill West vs. Rio Linda
1pm: Freedom vs. Montgomery
2pm: Rio Linda vs. Salesian
3pm: Campolindo vs. Montgomery
4pm: Kennedy vs. Vacaville
5pm: Oakland Tech vs. Washington
6pm: Kennedy vs. St. Mary’s
7pm: Franklin vs. Washington
8pm: Dublin vs. Modesto Christian

GALE RANCH MIDDLE SCHOOL GYM
12pm: De La Salle vs. University
1pm: Antioch vs. Bishop O’Dowd
2pm: St. Patrick St. Vincent vs. University
3pm: Antioch vs. Newark Memorial
4pm: El Cerrito vs. Irvington
5pm: Foothill vs. Modesto Christian
6pm: College Park vs. El Cerrito

WINDEMERE RANCH MIDDLE SCHOOL GYM
12pm: Sheldon vs. St. Patrick St. Vincent
1pm: California vs. Newark Memorial
2pm: De La Salle vs. Sheldon
3pm: Bishop O’Dowd vs. California
4pm: College Park vs. Liberty
5pm: Dublin vs. Oakland
6pm: Irvington vs. Liberty

2016 Washington State commit QB Ian Book won the camp MVP award. 2016 WR Kevin Kassis and 2016 WR Brock Martin each got offers by the SOU staff.

There is ONE OPENING remaining for a Girls Varsity Basketball Team for the annual Lady Cougars Basketball Classic to be held on December 28, 29, 30, 2015 at Newark Memorial High School, 39375 Cedar Boulevard, Newark.

The fee is $375 for a guaranteed 3-games. Open until filled.

For more information contact Coach Darryl Reina at darryl14r@aol.com or call (510) 917-4060.

Appreciate any info on their returners, strengths & all. I know they got Pittsburg. Hopefully they may get San Ramon Valley next year or renew with Deer Valley or another WCAL-CCS Team. Thank you!

Nebraska has picked up a commitment from St. Mary's-Stockton 2016 guard Mi'Cole Cayton. She was on a visit there this past weekend.

Homestead's Chuck Blair is retiring from coaching after 24 years in the high school ranks. He also spent time at Santa Clara, Cupertino and Lincoln.

http://prep2prep.com/prepcat/?p=7298

The first annual The Big One will be held Wednesday to Sunday July 15-19 at the new Misty May Treanor Sports Center in Irivne. This will be an NCAA certified event allowing Division I coaches to attend. Entry fee is a very low $495. For more information/registration contact Wayne Merino at 760-668-9252 or via email: deserthsg1@verizon.net, or Gerry Freitas at 408-998-1327 or via email: gerryfreitas@hotmail.com or Clay Mc Knight at 424-832-4176 or via email: uop2222@yahoo.com. Or visit the web site: thebigonetournament.com

Sacramento 2016 G Christian Terrell has been offered by Nevada.

St. Joseph 2017 G Jade Smith has been offered by New Mexico.

Mitty 2017 SF Sebastian Much by been offered by San Diego.

Did any body go to Las Lomas Monday Morning to see who showed up and who the top performers were, Las Lomas is in the middle of the area so to speak and should have drawn some interest talent...I had to go to the Dentist and couldn't get out of it or I would have been on hand.....For the price, you could not beat the three hour session, especially if there was order.....

QUICK HANDLES BASKETBALL CAMP

Campolindo girls' basketball is hosting a 3-day basketball camp June 17th, 18th, and 19th at Campolindo High School in Moraga. Wayne Mendoza and his Quick Handles staff will be running the camp. Wayne and his staff have trained over 25,000 players over the last 25 years. They travel all over the country training player of all ages. The camp focuses on intense ball-handling drills & moves based on the concept of single-handed ball control. The goal is to complete between 3000-4000 reps a day based on the length of camp. Intensity, innovation & unique “skills are developed” that are built on the principle “CMT”–Combo-Maximization-Training! (For more information about the camp and the Quick Handles staff please refer to
http://www.quickhandle.com)

Camp details:
Dates: June 17-19 2015 (Wednesday-Friday)
Location: Campolindo High School
Address: 300 Moraga Road, Moraga, CA 94556
Time: 9:00am–4:00pm (campers should bring sufficient water, snacks and lunch to last the entire camp session)
Boys and girls are welcome (Grade 4th through High School)

Registration and payment:Complete and submit the attached registration form.

Cost is $135 if you pre-register and $145 at the door. A share of the proceeds goes to Campolindo Girls' Basketball.

Payment options: Check or PayPal
1. Checks: please make checks out to CC Hoops and mail with completed registration form to: Renata Sos, 345 Birchwood Drive, Moraga CA 94556

OR


2. PayPal payment (see link below) and mail completed registration form to: Renata Sos, 345 Birchwood Drive, Moraga CA 94556

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=AQS6H8EUFTNY8

If you have any questions contact Art Thoms (925) 878-5401


Please feel free to forward to any players that might be interested in the camp.

Congrats to Brittany, who started her third game with the New York Liberty (she plays for Bill Laimbeer, who older folks will remember well from the Pistons).

When New York born-and-raised Epiphanny Prince returns from her time with the Russian National Team, though, Brittany may not start any more, but still ... the WNBA is the best league in the world, and much better than most realize.

The three game series ended 1-1-1. The overall MVP was Dylan Carlson of Elk Grove. North MVP was Logan's Rogelio Reyes.

I know this story is NOT about Boys-Mens baseball but still ....

Stanford’s softball team recently completed the program’s worst season in 30 years. Though the Cardinal returned all nine starters from a team that narrowly missed the postseason a year earlier, they were sorely hampered by injuries to key pitchers and went 17-37. They finished last in the Pac-12 with a 2-22 record, and 15 of those losses were cut short by the eight-run “mercy” rule. On and off the field, the Cardinal vividly demonstrated the wisdom of Lincoln’s dictum: A house divided against itself cannot stand. Their plight underscores the intensity of high-level college softball and how things can go horribly wrong even for a team in one of the nation’s most successful athletic departments.

How divided were the Cardinal? First-year head coach Rachel Hanson found herself in “a poisonous environment — kids who hated each other,” according to Dr. Bill Ashby, father of infielder Erin Ashby. “There was a lot of animosity.” Essentially, he said, the team broke into two camps: players who had supported former head coach John Rittman and those who had pushed — successfully — for his dismissal. “The girls who liked John felt they were betrayed by the other girls,” he said. Under Rittman, Stanford reached postseason play 16 straight times. Had things gone according to plan, the Cardinal would have been shooting for a 17th such trip in 2014 with the help of heralded freshman pitcher Carley Hoover. Instead, Hoover — the nation’s top recruit in 2013 — was limited to five appearances by a stress fracture in a rib before being shelved for the season. Stanford finished eighth in the Pac-12 and failed to reach the postseason. Since then, things have gotten much worse. Rittman did return to the postseason this year, but as the associate head coach at Kansas. Hoover did pitch in the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, but for LSU. Rittman was ousted by Stanford after the 2014 season, as were two assistant coaches and a trainer. Partly as a result, Hoover transferred. How it all unfolded is subject to dispute, but some things are clear.

Meeting with AD - Two days after the 2014 season ended, 15 people — five active players (two of them starters), five former players and five parents — met with athletic director Bernard Muir. In a four-hour meeting that became emotional at times, they aired an array of grievances against Rittman and his staff that centered mainly on their perceived favoritism toward some players. Ex-player Tegan Schmidt called the softball program “a breeding ground for negativity.” In a transcript of the meeting obtained by The Chronicle, former shortstop Jenna Rich, the school’s career leader in RBIs, said she went through “misery and agony”” as a result of criticism by the coaching staff. “It makes me sick to my stomach to think anyone could go through the same thing,” she said. Rittman did not return messages requesting comment and Muir declined to comment, according to a university spokeswoman. Hanson was not made available for comment to discuss the season, according to an athletic-department spokesman. Judging from the transcript, the meeting was long on opinions critical of Rittman, his staff and the medical treatment some players received, but short on examples of the coach’s shortcomings. There was vague talk of coaches bad-mouthing players, urging players to change class schedules for practice needs and overworking pitchers. Players described feelings of depression and disputes with coaches over financial aid. At times, the discussion bordered on the trivial: Rich and others said the coaches made a point of greeting some parents at games and ignoring others. One unidentified player was said to have come to a game “drunk or hung over” but didn’t receive punishment or help. Third baseman Hanna Winter, however, told The Chronicle that the player was neither drunk nor hung over, but the coaches spent a lot of time talking to her about drinking, and she apologized to the team for arriving with alcohol on her breath. Most of the players and parents interviewed for this story said most of the grievances were untrue, exaggerated or taken out of context.

Three weeks after the meeting, the school announced Rittman’s resignation in a three-sentence release. His departure was widely considered a firing, and a subsequent statement by a school official made it all but official. The release mentioned his 18 years and his work as an assistant coach with the U.S. national team, including Olympic gold and silver medals it won. It didn’t mention that he was one of the most successful college coaches in the country — he led Stanford to two World Series, compiled a 750-351-3 record and produced 15 All-Americans.

Mixed feelings
Many of the players not at the meeting were shocked by his ouster. Their parents were appalled, but they held their tongues because, as Dr. Ashby and others said, they didn’t want their daughters to face retribution if the parents publicly criticized the university. Sixteen of them finally signed an April 9 letter to Stanford President John Hennessy and Provost John Etchemendy blasting Muir for a superficial investigation that resulted in Rittman’s “forced resignation.”

The letter charged that Muir “allowed a small group of well-organized disgruntled parents, angry about the lack of playing time for their daughters, to take control of the leadership of the team.”

Bettina Winter, Hanna’s mother, told The Chronicle that Muir “handled this very poorly. In my opinion, somebody who reaches that level in an administration should be a lot more diligent in investigations of accusations people make against other people.”

Skip Sorenson, the father of designated player/pitcher Kylie Sorenson, said Muir should be fired. “It was completely inappropriate what he did,” he said. “From all the information I’ve heard, it seemed like a witch hunt. ... There was only one side of the story that was listened to.”

Muir “needs to be held accountable for the way it was handled,” Dr. Ashby said. “John deserved better for his years of service. They threw him out like yesterday’s news.”

During the meeting with the disgruntled group, Muir asked how many active players were not in attendance. According to the transcript, Schmidt said, “There are only five that did not support this (group) here.” However, the parents who wrote the angry letter in April represented nine of the 2014 players. Some of the pro-Rittman parents and players said they didn’t know about the meeting; others said they weren’t invited.

Support for Rittman
Some of those who signed the letter said that when they found out about the meeting, they tried to reach Muir in order to defend Rittman, but didn’t get a call back.

One of them was Bettina Winter. She said it was a shame that Rittman was ousted from his dream job. “He used to say he had to pinch himself because he had such terrific kids to work with,” Winter said. When he left, “he was very upset. They gave him and his family 30 days to get out of university housing. It was nasty.”

week, several players and parents said. As a result, the team reportedly was limited to 17.5 hours a week for most of this season, although neither the NCAA nor Stanford would confirm the sanction.

Read more at:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Coach-s-ouster-created-schism-in-Stanford-6325754.php#photo-8144908

Fullerton starter John Gavin (7-3) took the loss. The freshman left-hander out of St. Francis-Mountain View gave up two earned runs on five hits while walking one and striking out two in 2 1-3 innings.

“I thought John Gavin got caught way up in it,” Vanderhook said. “He just couldn’t do much early, then they took advantage of a lot of things.

“I think his tail’s probably between his legs, let’s be honest, he didn’t get out of the third inning. He was tired, he was racing, he had no command, those aren’t the things that mix very well.”

Due to the restriction of contact camps, a lot of us are looking to see more passing tournaments this season. If you know of any that have happened already (i.e 06/13 Palo Alto tournament) or coming up, please leave a date and or time here. Even if it is just 2 teams go ahead and post it here if you hear of anything.