Archive for the ‘St. Thomas Aquinas’ Category

Quality programs throughout newly formed District 16-7A will give usual front-runners Nova and St. Thomas a challenge.

Shrinking support systems have left some Broward schools struggling to remain competitive, and in some cases simply in fielding a team.

The BCAA-imposed limit on the number of games its teams can play is continuing to hurt player development and put teams at a disadvantage.

The new classifications and district realignments have changed the playing field for teams across the Broward baseball landscape.

Broward County is represented with one of it former local players on each team in this 2011 World Series, which ensures that the county will have a World Series champion this year.

How does a team achieve excellence? Talented players is a big part of it, but having strong support and help from those players’ parents plays a huge roll in a team’s success.

The inaugural BrowardHighSchoolBaseball.com Senior All-Star game was a huge success, with the 1A-4A team defeating the 5A-6A team, 10-9 on Saturday evening.

The North team scored three runs in the top of the ninth to nip the South 9-6 in the BCAA Senior All-Star Game at Pat McQuaid Field at Nova High Wednesday night.

George Gugino was the ultimate five-tool player for Nova this season, and those tools led him to becoming the District 16-5A Player of the Year.

Nova pitcher Ronny Patella pitched a complete-game, two-hitter and the Titans defeated St. Thomas Aquinas 3-1 to win the District 16-5A Tournament Championship.

Douglas (17-3) outlasted host St. Thomas Aquinas (11-8) 19-14 in an offensive marathon that featured nine total home runs and 32 total hits.

On a night where the seniors were honored for St. Thomas, nine of them were in the starting lineup as they beat Cardinal Gibbons on Tuesday night in a non-district game.

Nova avenged their only loss of the season with a 3-0 win over St. Thomas Friday night. The shutout was the Titans eleventh in twelve games this season.

St. Thomas’ bid to make it an all Broward semi-finals in the Nova Spring Break Tournament fell short. Nova, Western, and South Plantation advanced with wins.

St. Thomas almost threw a no-hitter, then almost lost the game, in a classic battle versus district rival Nova. In the end, the Raiders prevailed 6-5 in eleven innings.

Flanagan picked up where they left off last season in their 2011 opener. The Falcons used the long ball several times en route to a 14-4, five inning victory over St. Thomas.