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This past week city officials broke ground for Challenger Field, the first phase in the development of Estuary Park. Challenger Field will be a synthetically surfaced field which will become the home of Alameda Little League's Challenger program. The Challenger program originated in 1989 and enables boys and girls to enjoy the game of baseball. Alameda's Challenger completed its second season this year. Follow the below links to learn more about Challenger and read Alameda's press release.

Little League Baseball's Challenger program

Alameda Recreation and Parks Estuary Park Project Page

Alameda Sun News Article

Keep tabs on Little League Baseball's World Series by clicking here. The tournament runs from August 18 to 28 in Williamsport, PA. The site features live scores and the full schedule. In the International bracket, Latin America from Aguadulce, Panama and Asia Pacific from Seoul, South Korea are undefeated. In the United States bracket Mid-Atlantic from Endwell, New York the Great Lakes team from Bowling Green, Kentucky are both undefeated. This is a double elimination tournament.

Download the 2016 World Series Bracket .pdf file here.

The Alameda 12 YO All Star team was able to bring home the Championship of the 4th annual Buckeye Classic hosted by Lafayette. The boys battled through 5 games often in temperatures over 100 degrees! The format of the tournament features the boys swinging wood bats which puts pitching and defense at a premium. Alameda was able to get key pitching performances from Zack King, Justin Leung, Jerick Griego, Eli Jones (struck out 9 in the Championship game), Jonathan Schnoebelen and Emmitt Phinney. Emmitt earned MVP honors by pitching in 4 of the 5 games and contributed all around including a championship clinching grand slam in extra innings. Key defensive plays by Jacob Price, Zachary Hayward, Sam Davis and Dayron Ricabal helped Alameda stay in tight games all week!

The Alameda 10-year-old All-Stars and the Alameda 12-year-old All-Stars defeated the Lafayette 10 and 12-year-old All-Stars in the championship games of the Buckeye tournament held in Lafayette.

July 18: The Alameda 12 Year Olds were eliminated from the Section tournament with their second loss on Sunday. The boys made an impressive post-season run. The league is proud of what you accomplished. Congratulations on your season.

July 11: The Alameda 12 Year Old International All Stars won the District 4 Championship on Monday, July 11. They were defeated on Saturday by Lafayette. But, since this was a double elimination tournament, Lafayette needed to beat them twice. This would not be the case as Alameda came from behind to win 13-9. Congratulations boys!

Next up for Alameda is the Section Tournament which runs Saturday, July 16 through Thursday, July 21. Section Tournament games are hosted by Rincon Valley LL, 1365 Baird Rd Santa Rosa, 95409. Saturday's game is at 11:00AM vs. Napa National, the winner of District 53.  

District 4 Tournament
6/28: Alameda - 12 vs. Pinole Hercules - 2
6/30: Alameda - 17 vs. SOLL - 2
7/05: Alameda - 15 vs. Lafayette - 8
7/07: Alameda - 19 vs. Antioch - 2 (Alameda advances to Championship game)
7/09: Alameda -  3 vs. Lafayette -13 (1st Championship Game due to Alameda's first loss)
7/11: Alameda -  13 vs. Lafayette - 9 (Alameda District 4 Champions!)

2016 All Stars Schedule

Section Tournament - all games hosted Hosted by Rincon Valley LL, 1365 Baird Rd Santa Rosa, 95409
7/16: Alameda 10 vs. Napa National 13 - (Winner of District 53) 11:00AM. Alameda to elimination bracket
7/17: Alameda 7 vs. Tiburon Peninsula 11 (Alameda Eliminated)