Charles W. Flanagan High School Baseball

 

 

ABOUT THE AWARD
The Falcons baseball program decided to take a page out of the FAU playbook and start its own "Iron Falcon" award.  Its goal is to encourage team camaraderie, while at the same time making sure each individual player understands what is like to compete on a daily basis against not only his teammates but himself as well. It is our goal for each player to try and reach their highest-potential as a student, a person and as baseball player. 

The award indentifies the strongest Falcon baseball player - both mentally and physically. A series of events where held throughout the fall season that tested each student-athletes' physical strength, knowledge of the game and academic performance.

Each event and category was graded and a running total of each player's rank was kept by the Falcon coaching staff.

EVENTS

800m track run

Team Murph

Baseball Knowledge Quiz

Obstacle Course

Tire Flip

GPA for the Second Quarter

Black and Green Series

Cross-fit Olympics

 

 

The winner of the Inaugural 2011 Iron Falcon Award was David Sarmiento with 183.4 points. The top five finishers with their total scores were as follows:

1. David Sarmiento - 183.4

2. Andres Rios - 172.2

3. Oscar Rodriguez - 167.64

4. Christian Nelson - 161.46

5. Casey Torres - 148.5

 

The Fall conditioning came to an end with the Cross-fit Olympics. Adrian Garces won the event and with that a free month of training at Cross-fit Affliction in the future. 

Julio Daniel Martinez got the call up from the Houston Astros on July 29th after the National League Central team traded away one of their top players in Hunter Pence to the Philadelphia Phillies. The move opened up the door for the franchises top outfield prospect. JD made his professional debut the next night blasting a one hop RBI double to centerfield at Milwaukee's Miller Park as a pinch hitter in the 8th inning. He would launch his 1st HR off of former Marlin Dontrell Willis at home 3 days later.

JD graduated from Flanagan High School in Pembroke Pines, FL, where his team won consecutive state titles... achieved Second-Team All-Broward County honors his sophomore, junior and senior seasons...drafted out of high school in the 36th round of the June 2006 draft by Minnesota but did not sign.

Later drafted after his junior season at Nova Southeastern University in Davie, FL...hit .428 as a junior with 15 home runs and 57 RBI, while setting Nova's all time record in runs scored (73) in a single season...owns the program's career home run record... selected by the National College Baseball Writers Association as a 1st-Team All-American in 2009... selected by Houston in the 20th round of the June 2009 draft...signed by Astros scout Greg Brown ... Has been labeled as the Astros No. 6 overall prospect by Baseball America entering the 2011 season.

Signed to a minor league contract, Martinez was invited to Major League Spring Training on Jan. 12, 2011.

First tournament will be 8/15-8/20, 2011. It will be the 18U Wood Bat Championships. All tournament information will be on the website soon. Check the link in the coming days. Spots will fill up fast, as we can only take 10 per event, so don't hesitate and get your team signed up ASAP! .

Andres Sanchez and Mike Melendez performed at a high level all season. Tuesday morning at the Herald All-Broward Breakfast they recieved top honors for their performances throughout the year. Flanagan Head Coach Ray Evans recieves Coach Of The Year honors as his Falcons post a 22-3 record winning the District 12-6A Championship and advancing to the Regional Final for the 7th time in 8 years. The Falcons reached as high as #2 in some National Polls this season.

The Broward County Hitter of the Year went to Junior 3rd baseman Andres Sanchez who boasted a .500 batting average with a county leading 17 HR's breaking the school record of 15 set by major leaguer Mike Napoli in 2000. He also broke the school RBI record with 51 previously held by Miami Hurricanes asst. coach Roger Tomas who set the record at 47 in 2002.

Senior left hander Mike Melendez was named the Broward County Pitcher of the Year after posting an 8-3 record. The Nova Southeastern commit had a 1.69 ERA with 66 strikeouts in 62 innings.

1st Team ALL-BROWARD (HERALD)

3B-Andres Sanchez, 1B/P Mike Melendez, SS-Ricky Santiago, OF-Robert Collin

1st Team ALL-BROWARD (SUN-SENTINEL)

3B-Andres Sanchez, P-Mike Melendez, SS-Ricky Santiago

SUN-SENTINEL Large Schools COACH OF THE YEAR

Ray Evans