Cannon Valley League baseball

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Welcome to the Cannon Valley League website!

State Tournament Schedule:

Saturday, September 5
Savage vs Hastings at Gaylord at 3:30 pm

http://www.minnesotabaseball.org/index.php/state-tourney.html
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Sunday, August 30
Shakopee 3, Savage 2
Hastings 11, Elko 2

Saturday, August 29
Savage 6, Cold Spring 2
Sauk Rapids 6, Elko 1

Saturday, August 22
Savage Outlaws 2, Rochester Royals 1
Elko Express 2, Austin Blue Sox 1

1st Round of State Tourney was Single Elimination and now it is Double Elimination.

Section 5 State Tournament Draftees: Elko - Schwartz(Bville), DeLaHunt(AV), Hauck(Lville)

Savage - Gretz(AV), LaShomb(IGH), Johnson(Eagan)

Playoff Scores:

Sunday August 2nd
4:30   #2 Seed Eagan 16, #7 Seed Inver Grove Heights 1
7:30    #3 Seed Burnsville 4, #6 Seed Lakeville 3
7:30    #4 Seed Savage 6, #5 Seed Apple Valley 3

Monday August 3rd
7:30    Burnsville 11, Lakeville 1, 7 inn. Burnsville advanced to Round 2.
7:30    Apple Valley 6, Savage 3

Tuesday August 4th at Alimagnet
7:30   Eagan 5, Inver Grove Heights 2. Eagan advanced to Round 2.

Wednesday August 5th
7:30 Savage 9, Apple Valley 3. Savage advanced to Round 2.

Sunday August 9th at Elko
Elko 3, Savage 2
Burnsville 6, Eagan 2

Monday August 10th at Elko
7:30    Elko 10, Burnsville 0, 8 innings. Elko qualified for State

Tuesday August 11th at Elko
7:30    Savage 14, Eagan 0

Wednesday August 12th at Elko
7:30   Savage 5, Burnsville 2, Savage qualified for State

Thursday August 13th at Elko
8:00 Elko 6, Savage 4
Elko A seed at State Tourney, Savage B seed at State

CVL 2009 Regular Season Champions are the Rosemount Black Sox!

2009 Cannon Valley League Standings

W

L

GB

Rosemount

13

5

-

Eagan

13

5

-

Burnsville

12

6

1.0

Savage

9

9

4.0

Apple Valley

9

9

4.0

Lakeville

7

11

6.0

Inver Grove Heights

0

18

13.0

Since Rosemount beat Eagan two out of three games this year, Rosemount holds the tie-breaker and took the 2009 CVL regular season title.

Go to the Schedule page and click on each of the Rosemount games for actual scores and stats of their CVL regular season games.

Click on the links to see great photos of the All-Star game by Rosemount Black Sox Lance Anderson!! Thanks also to Dave Verduzco of the Savage Outlaws for lending his lens! http://cannonvalleyallstargame2009.shutterfly.com/

Click on the following link to see the photos in an amazing Slide Show of players from all the CVL teams! Thanks Lance! http://cmd.shutterfly.com/commands/pictures/slideshow?site=cannonvalleyallstargame2009&page=cannonvalleyallstargame2009&album=26

CVL wins All-Star Home Run Derby, 6-5 over CCVL!

Rosemount Black Sox Loren Sjoquist hit 2 home runs, Alex LaShomb of the IGH Diamond Kings hit 2 home runs, Savage Outlaws Ben Braaten hit 1 HR in the derby and Apple Valley Millers Kyle Baran hit 1 HR.

CVL     110 003 040 0; 9 Runs, 14 Hits, 3 Errors
CCVL 052 200 000 1; 10 Runs, 10 Hits, 0 Errors

CVL Loses 10-9 In 10-Innings During Big Comeback Effort In Red Wing
by Tim Watts

The 3rd annual CVL-CCVL All-Star contest was another great game, even though the Cannon Valley League lost in extra innings by one run. Savage Outlaws Ben Braaten hit a home run in the 1st inning. The CVL put up one run in the 2nd by Rosemount Black Sox Loren Sjoquist to take a quick 2-0 lead, but the CCVL came back and scored five runs in the bottom half of the 2nd to take a 5-2 lead. The CCVL scored in pairs, four times before the 5th inning, to lead the CVL with a 9-2 score.

Derek Jacobson gets set to drive a lead-off single in the 6th inning.

In the 6th inning, the Cannon Valley League fortunes turned for the better. Lakeville Athletics Derek Jacobson took over at shortstop and started the 6th with a lead-off single to right. Eagan Bandits Brandon Paetznick"s walk brought Jacobson to 2nd and then a wild pitch advanced them to 2nd and 3rd. Jacobson and Paetznick scored on a two-RBI double by Inver Grove catcher Alex LaShomb. Center fielder Jon Gaylord of Lakeville reached on an error by the 2nd baseman who ranged too far wide to his right on a tough ball that probably should have been taken by the shortstop. Gaylord was left stranded at 1st, but the CVL plated three to cut the score to 9-5.

Jake Hauck gets ready to deliver a pitch during a hitless 6th inning.

Lakeville Athletics Jake Hauck came on to pitch in the bottom of the 6th and shut the door on the Classic Cannon Valley League, allowing no hits and one walk, while rolling up a groundout and two fly outs to end a scoreless 6th for the CCVL.

The last fly-out was an outstanding diving catch in center field by Jon Gaylord, who helped to strand the go-ahead run at 3rd.

Jon Gaylord steps to the plate before pounding a double in the 9th inning.

Gaylord walked in the 8th and scored on single by Billy DeNet from the Eagan Bandits. Jacobson picked up his second hit of the game, only to be left stranded at 1st, but not before the CVL tied the game with four more runs by Apple Valley Millers Josh Nelson and Jason Novack as well as Savage Outlaws Anders Engberg.

In the top of the 9th, with two outs, Gaylord stroked a double down the left field line that somehow stayed fair to give the Cannon Valley League a chance to go on top. Josh Nelson of Apple Valley then hit a shallow fly ball to right, but a hesitant right fielder got a poor read on the ball before making a diving catch for the 3rd out.

The Classic Cannon Valley League led off the bottom of the 10th with a strikeout looking and then a hard to handle infield base hit to the left of the pitchers mound. A stolen base put the runner into scoring position, with a hit to right scoring the winning run.

All-Star Game Roster (in alphabetical order by team name)
Catchers:
# 5 Alex LaShomb, IGH
# 4 Matt Tschida, Rosemount

First Base:
# 25 Jason Grimm, Burnsville
# 22 Tony Peterson, Savage

Second Base:
# 17 Roddy Hjort, Burnsville
# 3 Billy Denet, Eagan

Shortstop:
# 18 Derek Jacobson, Lakeville
# 9 Loren Sjoquist, Rosemount

Third Base:
# 10 Jason Novack, Apple Valley
# 8 Scott Lindner, Burnsville

Utility:
# 2 Josh Nelson, Apple Valley
# 29 Brandon Paetznick, Eagan
# 9 Ben Braaten, Savage

Outfielders:
# 24 Kyle Baran, Apple Valley
# 5 Steve McGuiggan, Apple Valley
# 20 Tony Johnson, Eagan
# 1 Jonathan Wulff, IGH
# 19 Jon Gaylord, Lakeville

Pitchers:
# 19 Nick Karlovich, Apple Valley
# 28 Jeremy Liebherr, Eagan
# 6 Matt Johnson, Eagan
# 17 Jake Hauck, Lakeville
# 11 Ben Lemke, Rosemount
# 2 Justin Wallace, Rosemount
# 21 Travis Pugliese, Savage
# 3 Brandon Walczak, Savage
# 4 Anders Engberg, Savage
# 34 Ben Turnwall, Savage

HR Derby
# Alex LaShomb, IGH
# 9 Loren Sjoquist, Rosemount
# 24 Kyle Baran, Apple Valley
# 5 Steve McGuiggan, Apple Valley
# 9 Ben Braaten, Savage

Head Coach: Travis Peterson, Savage

Take a look at the drop-down menus on the Standings page for CVL non-seeding and seeding games as well as Section 5 Division games. The following are non-seeding games:

6/23  Savage       Eagan
6/23  IGH            AV
6/27 Rosemount IGH
6/30 IGH            Burnsville
7/7    Eagan        Burnsville
7/7    Savage      AV
7/9    AV            Eagan
7/9    Lakeville    Savage
7/12  Lakeville     Rosemount
7/12 Burnsville    Savage
7/15 IGH           Savage
7/16 Lakeville     Burnsville
7/18 AV             Lakeville
7/19 IGH           Lakeville - moved to 7/11
7/26 Eagan        Lakeville
7/27 Burnsville    AV
7/28 Rosemount AV

The State Tourney in Arlington and Gaylord is coming up! For more information, click on http://minnesotabaseball.org

CANNON VALLEY LEAGUE ADDS A NEW TEAM
Inver Grove Heights Diamond Kings Are Newest Addition To League

The Cannon Valley League is growing in 2009 with the addition of a new team to the league. Inver Grove Heights will join the CVL this season as the Diamond Kings. One of the new members of the team will be former 2008 Lakeville Athletic, Jon Wulff, who is from the Inver Grove Heights area. His father, Bill Wulff, will be General Manager of the new club as well as the CVL Secretary/Treasurer. The Diamond Kings head coach will be Steve Lashomb.

Lakeville’s head coach Doug Johnson has been named as the new president for the Cannon Valley League. Johnson succeeds CVL past President Dudley Olson from Eagan. Johnson was named at the January 18th league meeting in a vote amongst league representatives. Johnson will serve a one year term with the option to renew for a second.

Apple Valley Millers head coach and CVL Vice President Josh Wigley will serve as the Minnesota Amateur Baseball Section 5B Commissioner.

The Elko Express will join Section 5B in the playoffs this year. The Express were the Minnesota Amateur Baseball State Champions last year in Class C and have been moved to Class B for the 2009 playoffs. The Express will remain in the Dakota, Rice, Scott League this year and will also play each of the Cannon Valley League teams twice during the regular season. The CVL teams play each other three times in the regular season. Two teams from Section 5, Class B will qualify for the Minnesota Amateur Baseball 2009 State Tournament. The State Tournament will begin August 20 at Gaylord and Arlington.

Click on the Photos page to see great All-Star photos by Lance Anderson of the Rosemount Black Sox!! More photos can be found by clicking on the following link: http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=1MYsnLVqxeC



On the Standings and Sponsors pages, when you see a team or sponsor in blue lettering, you can click on that link to visit their websites.

Click on column headings on the Standings page to sort by that column. For example, number of runs scored per team.

We look forward to seeing you at the games!