September 2018 Richmond County Baseball Club 1400 Travis Ave. Staten Island, NY 10314 RCBC Newsletter If you have any interesting info or news you would like included in a future newsletter, please email to jim@rcbclub.com. Visit our website at: www.rcbclub.com RCBC Welcomes First 7U Team Richmond County Baseball welcomes its first 7U team, coached by Marc Yaverbaum. The boys are practicing hard this fall and gearing up for next year s tournament season. Inside this issue: 7U Nationals 1 Making The Grade 2 Tournament Update 2 September Champs Player Update PG Rankings 3 4 5 Coach DeFendis 6 Coach Lope New Balance Store 7 8 9 10 Please extend an RCBC welcome to the players, coaches and parents. Marucci Featured Item 11
Richmond County Baseball Club Newsletter Page 2 Making The Grade Following are the percentages of colleges that can recruit you based upon your GPA. 4.0 94% 3.5 72% 3.0 51% 2.5 21% 2.0 8% School s back on. Hit the books! Make a commitment to be a good student from the moment you start your high school career. Tournament Update In the PG Super25 Fall Mid Atlantic Fall Super Qualifier, US Elite National defeated the Bronx Bombers in 14U and Elite Squad won out over Legit Baseball in 12U. In the 17U, Northeast Fall Invitational, Diamond Jacks Gold took the title over US Elite National. Here s the remainder of our fall schedule: September 29-30 - PG Super25 Fall Mid Atlantic Super Qualifier (15U) October 6-7 - PGBA Northeast Fall Classic (10U, 16U) October 13-14 - PG Super25 Fall Northeast Super Qualifier (12U, 14U) October 13-14 - PGBA Northeast Fall Classic (17U) October 20-21 - PGBA Mid Atlantic Fall Classic (10U, 15U) October 27-28 - PGBA Mid Atlantic Fall Classic (12U, 13U, 14U) This concludes our 2018 tournament schedule. Look for our 2019 schedule in the coming months.
Richmond County Baseball Club Newsletter Page 3 September Champs 9U Nationals MACBL League Summer Champs 14U Nationals Diamond Nation Fall Invitational
Richmond County Baseball Club Newsletter Page 4 RCBC Player Update Congrats to 2020 grad Lukas Torres on committing to D1 Wagner College Congrats to 2019 grad Carlos Torres on committing to D1 Lehigh University
Richmond County Baseball Club Newsletter Page 5 RCBC Nationally Ranked By Perfect Game For the third year in a row, RCBC has teams nationally ranked by Perfect Game The 15U NJ Nationals under Coach Dan Rivera reached the quarter finals of this year s BCS National Championship in Florida. They were one of only four teams from the NY/NJ area ranked in the Top 50. The 16U Nationals under Coach Nick DeFendis had a strong performance at this year s World Wood Bat Championship in Atlanta, Georgia. They were one of only two teams from NY in the Top 125. Congrats to the coaches and players on achieving national recognition.
Richmond County Baseball Club Newsletter Page 6 Featured Article - By Coach Nick DeFendis Mastering Pressure Situations What pressures do you deal with? Before you can work to better yourself, it is important to first fully understand exactly what areas you are struggling with. Take a moment and list out the top 5 situations that make your palms sweat. These don t have to be solely reserved to on the field, either. Add in school scenarios and any other events that may make you nervous. Do your parents put pressure on you? Do you get a knot in your stomach when you compete against a particular player or team. You are not alone! Don t be afraid to spend time thinking of these stressors. Avoidance will cause you to feel more anxiety when the pressure situation does arise. Once you have your list completed, take some time and recall any moments where you performed well under any of these pressure scenarios. These moments serve as reminders that pressure does not dictate performance. Visualize each exception. If you re in a high pressure situation, think of the time you were in a similar scenario and proved your nerves wrong. It s time to do it again. Is there s a pressure situation that you haven t performed well in? Fantastic. You have the opportunity to create the exception. Make it your goal to seek out the moments that cause you to feel the most pressure. Master each pressure situation by proving your nerves wrong. Look at the next sweaty palms scenario as a great opportunity for success!
Richmond County Baseball Club Newsletter Page 7 Coach Lope s Baseball Thoughts In This Issue - 2018 At RCBC - Success And Achievement!!!!!!!! mikelope19@aol.com Quote of the Month - Longtime Chicago Bears Coach and former Yankee George Halas once said What make s a great coach? Complete Dedication. Any way you want to analyze it, it was a great summer for Richmond County Baseball. Only the temperature was as hot as our baseball teams!!!! Nine different age groups captured tournament championships. All together, RCBC teams collected 19 championship plaques and trophies (17 tournament and 2 league) which clutter the press box at the complex. My monthly quote had Hall of Famer George Halas saying the key to good coaching (besides star players) is Complete Dedication. At RCBC, that is a given. Following is a list of our coaches that spent the summer smiling when the championship photo was taken: 8 year old coach Mr. Vincent Nichilo, 9 year olds Mr. Joseph Rubino, 10 year olds Mr. Michael Grippo, 11 year olds Mr. Vincent Pontieri, 12 year olds Mr. George Quinn and Mr. Paul Marco, 13 year olds Mr. George Quinn, 14 year olds Mr. John Giakas, 15 year olds Mr. Frank Amadeo and 16 year olds Mr. Nick DeFendis. All of these coaches had able assistants that did their part in the Richmond County strong-point of developing its players. You finish the summer as a much better player on Labor Day than you were on Independence Day. Let s give a special tribute to the 14 year old Nationals that captured FOUR tournaments. Coach Giakas developed a juggernaut that barely lost a game
Richmond County Baseball Club Newsletter Page 8 mikelope19@aol.com Coach Lope s Baseball Thoughts In This Issue - 2018 At RCBC - Success And Achievement (Continued) when the squad returned from Florida. There is a laundry list of other achievements that made it a special summer for RCBC: - Three players that RCBC helped develop divided their time this summer between our organization and the Little League World Series. Greg Bruno, who will have the lifetime memory of tossing a Perfect Game before the entire county, plus Chris Cancel and Robert Cavalieri, all were part of the Mid Island LLWS roster under Mr. Joe Calabrese. - Three former RCBC players, who spent a number of years at the complex, moved a step closer to being drafted. Ricky DeVito, Anthony Prato and Danny DeGeorgio all saw action in the prestigious Cape Cod League. All were teammates at Richmond County for a number of years, and it cannot be denied the development that they received here. DeVito was one of the ERA leaders on the Cape and was also Pitcher Of The Year in the Big East. It s predicted Ricky can be a high draft choice. Prato is also expected to be taken while DeGeorgio was on the Big 10 All Freshman Team. - Shamus Connolly committed to Wagner in the NEC. Andrew Cordero heads to Molloy College. This summer, Lukas Torres, still a rising junior,
Richmond County Baseball Club Newsletter Page 9 mikelope19@aol.com Coach Lope s Baseball Thoughts In This Issue - 2018 At RCBC - Success And Achievement (Continued) verbally agreed to Wagner College, Senior Carlos Torres will be a 2019 recruit at Lehigh College and Gus Sosa gave a verbal yes to Rutgers. - Joseph Russo graduated Tottenville and then played in the annual Autism Awareness senior game where re received the One-On-One Physical Therapy Scholarship Award. - The 16 year olds had a pair of excellent Southern trips. At Perfect Game in Georgia, Coach DeFendis team lost just 1 of 7 games, while at the Marucci World Series in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the Nationals won 4, lost just once and had a tie. - Say hello to Mr. Dan Rivera. RCBC has expanded to New Jersey. Coach Rivera s 15U team was part of our organization the latter part of the summer and will be here for all of 2019. This was the Summer That Was at RCBC. I m sure I left out some highlights. I apologize. At Richmond County Baseball, the motto is We Teach The Game; We Play The Game. But at RCBC, we also Win Plenty Of Games!
Richmond County Baseball Club Newsletter Page 10 RCBC New Balance Store Reminder - If you plan to order New Balance baseball shoes in Columbia (baby) blue, orders must be submitted online by October 1 to ensure delivery for spring 2019. This is a special color and must be pre-ordered for next season. If ordering royal blue, those orders can be submitted at any time for immediate delivery. Go to the RCBC New Balance store on www.rcbclub.com (under Pages dropdown menu) and enter passcode rcbcnb.
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