Joe De Fina unleashes a fastball.
When American author F. Scott Fitzgerald said “There are no second acts in American lives,” he had obviously never seen the La Verne Little League 10-year-old all stars play, a team that defeated Glendora American 19-5 on July 5 at Henderson Field.
In the second inning of their game against the Americans, La Verne scored 11 [...]
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Trailing 6-4, the La Verne 11-year-old all-stars rallied for three in the bottom of the fourth and two more in the bottom of the fifth to defeat a determined Claremont team, 9-6, and claim the District 20 Championship at Marchant Park in San Dimas on Friday night.
After La Verne starter Anthony Cascarano surrendered a run [...]
The La Verne 12-year-old all stars didn’t wait for Independence Day to put on their own fireworks spectacular, exploding for 17 runs in five innings to defeat Glendora American, 17-6, on Thursday night at Pelota Park in La Verne.
Appropriately enough, it was Kurtis (Red, White and Blue) Redman who led the hit parade, going four-for-four, [...]
After their offensive display in the first inning against Pomona Southwest, maybe 11-Year-Old All Stars Anthony Cascarano, A.J. Woodall, Jr. and Nathan Schneider need to be playing not for La Verne, but for UCLA, which is now playing in the College World Series and could use the extra muscle.
The trio went back to back to [...]
Trailing 9-8 in the top of the fifth, Nick Peifer blasted a one-out two run home run with Andrew Berdugo aboard to help lift La Verne to 10-9 victory over San Dimas in the exciting opening round of the District 20 Little League 11-year-old all-star playoffs at Marchant Park in San Dimas. Piefer did it [...]
All the divisions of the La Verne Little League – from the tee ballers to the seniors – gathered one last time at Pelota Park yesterday to put the capstone on the outstanding 2010 season. Sponsors were recognized, the all-star teams were announced, and the skills competition winners took their bows in front of another [...]
Pipes Lopez fired away for the Cardinals.
La Verne Little League historians are running to the record books to learn if any other team in city history has ever gone 22-0 as did this year’s Major Division American League White Sox, who crowned their perfect season last night at Pelota Park with a 12-1 victory over [...]
Speedsters Ethan Valore (14.16 seconds), Ben D’ Aquila (14.50 seconds), and Luke Peifer (14.56 seconds).
La Verne Little League players were racing around the bases, smashing home runs and whipping baseballs around the diamond in a night of skills competitions last night at Pelota Park.
From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., Little League tee-ballers to the juniors, [...]
As usual, the undefeated White Sox in the American League Division of the La Verne Little League saved its best for last, scoring four runs in the top of the fifth to defeat the upset-minded Cardinals 7-4 on Tuesday night at Pelota Park.
Trailing 3-2 in the top of the fifth, the White Sox were six [...]
Down to his last strike Brandon De La Cruz poked an RBI single to right field to give the Yankees a dramatic 6-5 victory over the visiting Angels on Tuesday night in La Verne.
Entering the final inning, the Yankees were trailing 5-4 in a well-played game. Yankees clean-up hitter Tim Holden started the winning rally [...]
