Trophies News

Trophy news from Solihull, UK

Solihull Swimming Club made it three championship trophies in a row with a storming trophy win in the final of the Mercian Summer League at Pingles Pool in Nuneaton, overtaking Leamington in the final stages to finish just 7 points in front.

The league format produces very close racing in the final and this year was true to form with Leamington eking out a narrow lead in the early events, closely followed by Solihull and Nuneaton.
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Trophy news from Ontario, Canada

The Thunderbird Swim Club held their annual trophy banquet recently with several swimmers receiving multiple swimming trophies.

Team captain Jen Piper was awarded top swimmer of the year as well as the dryland training award. This is Pipers’ last year with the club after nine seasons. She will continue her studies and swimming career with Laurentian University in Sudbury. Other individual trophies for the night included: Mackenzie King, Sierra McCourt McCourt , Kylie Weber, Emma Hives, Gabriel Brind’amour Riffou, Jaime Udeschini and Mike Hives.

In group trophy awards, Jaimee Reynolds, Zeyana Laplante , Sydney Hughes and Jaydan Jackson were the most improved swimmers.
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Trophy news from Fort Wayne, IN

Before Wallen Baseball enters its second half-century, the league will take a moment to remember its roots. Wallen will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Diamond No. 2. Cleveland Indians manager Eric Wedge will attend as a graduate, team sponsor of Motivated Sports and award presenter. He will also be available to sign autographs as the Indians are off that night for the All-Star break.

“That’s where Eric learned to play ball,” said Nina Wedge, Eric’s mother. Wedge, 40, played catcher for regular and travel teams during elementary and middle school. He is one of four Wallen Baseball graduates to be selected in the Major League Baseball draft. A generation before Wedge, Wallen youth were just as devoted to America’s pastime.

With most families having only one car and Fort Wayne a long drive away, however, the kids had no opportunities to play in an organized setting, Itt said. That’s when Sal Madrid stepped in to establish Wallen Baseball in 1958. Madrid had played eight games for the Chicago Cubs in 1947 and settled in Fort Wayne afterward, participating in semiprofessional ball and competing for numerous baseball trophies.
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Trophies news from Salt Lake City, UT

McCurdy, Pioneer League president, presented the Orem Owlz owner, Jess Katofsky, with a towering baseball trophy that represented the team’s 2007 championship baseball title on Tuesday. The championship pennant was raised into the center field of Brent Brown Stadium and Katofsky declared that the trophy was finally home.

Following the ceremony was Opening Day as a record crowd of 4,211 watched as the Owlz and Raptors battle into the 13th inning, when Angel Castillo’s long, two-out single to right scored Darwin Perez from third base in the bottom of the 13th to give Orem a 6-5 win and the win.

For McCurdy, president since 1994, Opening Day was another reminder of the health of the league. Seven of McCurdy’s eight teams have refurbished their parks within the past six years.

“I always get a great feeling when I come to the ballpark early,” he said. “Even at the major league level, I get there for infield practice, there’s an energy.”

After a 45-year wait, Westwood High baseball can once again lay claim the state championship trophy.

As they had done all postseason long, the Wolverines pitched and slugged their way to yet another win, but this one just happened to come in the MIAA Division 3 state final as Westwood earned the trophy with a 12-6 victory over Frontier at LeLacheur Park.

At 8-8 and needing to win two of their last four games to just qualify for the postseason, the Wolverines went into the postseason with some momentum winning all four. They never lost again, for the most part facing little resistance in their seven-game run through the playoffs for the school’s first championship baseball trophy since 1963.

“It’s amazing, there’s no greater feeling,” said senior catcher Brian Morante, who was 0-for-1 but got on base in three of four plate appearances by walking twice and getting hit by a pitch. “This is something that we’ll remember for the rest of our lives. This is awesome.”