Sunday at 4:00

That's when the next fall ball workout for the varsity team will be held. We'll be at Malibu High, as usual.

Back on the Field

Malibu's varsity fall ball team will practice tomorrow--August 24--at 4:00 p.m. on the field at MHS.

SID at MHS

Coach Paul Gallo has been named Sports Information Director at Malibu High School. Among his first contributions in the new position was the creation of a blog to make information about about all of Malibu High's sports readily available. You can find the new blog at http://sharkssports.blogspot.com. (I'll be adding a permanent link soon.)

Congratulations, Coach.

Fall Ball Preview

The fall baseball season is just around the corner. Once again, Malibu will have both JV and varsity teams competing in the Westhills high school program. The season begins the weekend of September 24-25 and continues through December 4-5. (No games will be played Thanksgiving weekend.)

This fall, Steve Weinstock and Robert Williams will be managing the varsity team. Justin Vititoe will manage the JV team.

Please check back soon for information about upcoming practices.

JV for the JV

Also from Coach Gallo comes word that Justin Vititoe, a 2003 graduate of Malibu High and the first baseman on the Sharks team that made it to the second round of the CIF playoffs, will be coaching the JV team in the West Hills Fall League. Welcome back, JV!

Van Soelen's Catch

I'm not sure why he's still bothering to watch the Dodgers on TV, but Coach Gallo was and he sends along this observation:

While watching the Dodgers-Mets telecast on the National Fox feed, Malibu Shark Jamie van Soelen was on catching a foul ball. And it wasn't live, it was such a good catch, it was shown on REPLAY. Sitting in the first row of the Loge section, about half way up the third base line, Jamie reached over the railing quite a way, and snatched the ball out of the air, getting the praise of Steve Lyons. He was then shown smiling with his girlfriend, as he admired the ball. NICE CATCH!!!

Way to go, Jamie!

From the Archive: 1999 MLL Diamondbacks

Here's one from the archives. Anchoring the ends of the front row in this photo of the 1999 Malibu Little League Diamondbacks are current Sharks players Stephen Williams and Jared Weinstock.

The Diamondbacks seem to have been missing a few players on Picture Day. But on game day these guys came to play!

The End of the Break

After almost three weeks without blogging, I'm back. There's some catching up to do on the American Legion season. I'll try to post some season stats sometime in the next week.

Also coming up is some information on fall ball. Look for news about a couple of August workouts followed by information on the West Hills Fall League. Once again Malibu will have two teams--JV and varsity--in West Hills' league.