BTW Spring Alumni Baseball Game

April 22 (Saturday)
Start time: 10:30 ish
BTW Baseball Diamond (directly east of the Field House, park in Field House parking lot)
No admission charge (please see note below regarding BBQ)

Game 1
Alumni vs. Alumni (Orange vs. Black)
Teams likely to be divided between grads of odd-numbered years vs. grads of even-numbered years.

Game 2
Select Alumni (the ones still left standing) vs. Varsity

BBQ (most likely hamburgers and hot dogs) will be available to those wishing to help us raise funds for the baseball program at $10 per adult (children are free w/ paying adult) which will include soft drinks. The game is FREE to watch, the above $10 is for those wanting to eat something while at the same time assist with the needs of the program by eating! All BTW alums are more than welcome to attend, we had a very good turnout in October at the first alumni baseball game in DECADES!, as well as family members and anyone so interested to watch a bunch of older (and younger) guys make complete donkeysof themselves.

For those out of the loop, the baseball program at Booker T. is on the rise! Last year the team was one horrendous umpire decision from likely advancing to the finals to face Kelley for the state championship, a team Booker T had defeated only a few weeks prior. Regardless Booker T was easily one of the top 4 teams in 5A last season and moves up to 6A and will be competitive. There are Booker T grads currently playing juco and university baseball and one senior this year, Jeremy Webster, has already signed with Connors JC, which is a Top-5 juco baseball power (rated #1 last season almost the whole year) in the whole U.S., and K.D. Radford (in my opinion) has a good chance to get drafted. So they will be competitive this season as well.

Anyone wanting more info about the alumni game, a schedule of the varsity or JV teams, kindly contact Bobby Dozier at bobby(at)dozier(dot)org. Kindly replace the (at) and (dot) with appropriate symbols!

Kindly stay updated via this thread, as details COULD change. In case of inclement weather the game will either be rescheduled or cancelled.

Hornet Baseball Alums - We WANT you! Kindly take a look at this thread: Baseball Old Boys

Go to the BTW sports thread to see the latest baseball scores:

BTW baseball scores

PRACTICE


We'll be having a practice for the alumni this Saturday (4.15) at BTW's diamond at 1 pm.

Any baseball alums out there who haven't signed up, holla:

bobby(at)dozier(dot)org

replace the things in parentheses w/ appropriate symbols: @ and .

BTW Alumni Baseball Game / this Saturday 4.22 from 11 am

BTW Baseball Diamond (directly east of the Field House, park in Field House parking lot)
No admission charge (please see note below regarding BBQ)

Game 1 (start at around 11 am)
Alumni vs. Alumni (Orange vs. Black)
Teams divided between grads of odd-numbered years vs. grads of even-numbered years.

Game 2 (start time around 2 pm)
Select Alumni (the ones still left standing) vs. Varsity

BBQ (most likely hamburgers and hot dogs) will be available to those wishing to help us raise funds for the baseball program at $10 per adult (children are free w/ paying adult) which will include soft drinks. The game is FREE to watch, the above $10 is for those wanting to eat something while at the same time assist with the needs of the program by eating! All BTW alums are more than welcome to attend, we had a very good turnout in October at the first alumni baseball game in DECADES!, as well as family members and anyone so interested to watch a bunch of older (and younger) guys make complete donkeys of themselves.

The guys signed up thus far:

Odd (grad year) > in 1st base dugout

1 Ben McCoy 03
2 John Jones 99
3 Paul Dozier 77
4 Bobby Dozier 79
5 Jeff Webster 79
6 Rod Washington 01
7 Mike Moan 81
8 Joey Sanders 79
9 Anthony Mims 01
10 Jerry Price 05

Coach: Doug Hunter 81
Coach: Greg Goodwin 75

Even (grad year) > in 3rd base dugout

1 Shawn Nix 98
2 Jacob Gibby 98
3 Pat Montgomery 80
4 Ronnie Holloway 78
5 Kevin Berry 80
6 Marty Batese 78
7 Ronald Robinson (playing?) 74
8 Kurtiss Penrod 02
9 Jamie Nix 00
10 Shan Cox 78
11 John Whitaker 80


Baseball alums: It's NOT too late to sign up. Holla!

I wish I was back in T-Town for this event... All the best... Say hello to all the class of 1978 guys for me...

Hey guys. Sorry that I couldn't make the ball game this past Saturday. My board called a meeting to hire a new Athletic Director and I had to attend that. I would have rather been at the game. Quite a few folks showed up at the meeting to protest the fact that the person they wanted hired didn't get the job. This is stuff that I am supposed to read about in the paper - not stuff that I want to live through. Anyway, the board voted 7-0 for my recommendation. Alls well that ends well, I guess.

I am looking forward to the next ball game or get-together.