Yankees Gameday 

.Manassas, VA ---Aug 14th, 2007

Abysmal performance

Prince William, VA ---Aug 12th, 2007

Masterful Pitching

The Yankees got on the board  as Somerindyke hit 3-2 pitch over the left field wall for a 2-run homerun in the bottom of the first to take a 2-0 lead. The Yankees struck again in the second as SS Tim Nargi doubled with bases loaded for 2 more runs and a Yankee 4-0 lead.

Somerindyke kept Ermi's off the score board until the 8th, Ermi's got back-to-back doubles from Stevenson and Fitzgerald and an RBI ground out by Pittman for their only 2 runs.

Ermi's got the tying runs on 1st and 2nd in the 9th but Somerindyke struck out 2 and got pinch hitter Lollie to ground out to end the game

Dale City, VA ---Aug 11th, 2007

Wasted pitching effort

David Beckner pitched a brilliant game, he scattered only 4 hits, struck out 5, walked none, unfortunately this was all wasted as the Yankees committed 3 errors leading to two Ermi's runs and supplied no offense whatsoever only managing three hits on the day thus dropping Game 1 of of the best of three series against Ermi's Baseball Club.

The Yanks; always resilient will bounce back tomorrow for Game 2 at Heritage Field 2 pm

Prince William, VA ---Aug 7th, 2007

"Wild" Wild Card game

An absolute battle took place at the Stadium tonight between the Potomac Hawks and the Prince William Yankees; both teams came out swinging the bat and made some big defensive plays as well. The Hawks jumped out 2-0 in the second with the big hit coming from Keith Vera who tripled and scored on a single by Mike Reategui. The Yankees answered in the 2^{nd inning with 2 runs on 4 hits coming from Steve D’Aquila, Tim Nargi, Barry Gauch & Jon Bybee.}

Moving into the 4th inning the Hawks took the lead again on a RBI Double by Cedric Richardson; in the 5th the Hawks looked like they were going to put the Yankees away as they plated 2 more runs on Mike Walkowiak’s 2-run single and moving the Hawk to a 5-2 lead. The Yankees did not fold; they answered with 2 of their own with 4 more hits coming from, Nargi, Gauch, Bybee and George Adam cutting the lead to 5-4 Hawks.

The battle continued as Steve Rodriquez singled for another run with 2 outs to give the Hawks a 6-4 lead. But once Again the Yankees answered with yet 4 more hits coming from D’Aquila, Robbie Kloehn, Logan Springer and Bybee once again and the Yanks tied the game 6-6 after six complete.

Both team failed to score in the 7th , moving to the eighth the Yankees took their first lead of the night as Jon Bybee with 2 outs and two on Doubled to right field to plate two runs. The Yankees retired the Hawks in order in the 9th and took this “Wild” Wild Card game at Prince William Stadium Tuesday Night 8-6.

Jon Bybee was the offensive star of the game going 4 for 5 with a double and 6 RBI's, The Yankees went through 4 pitchers before Steve D'Aquila shut down the hawks facing the minimum over the last three frames for the win

The Yankees now advance to the B&G Semi-Fianls and will face the number one seed Ermi's Baseball Club.

Prince William, VA ---Aug 5th, 2007

errors

The Yanks drop this one by a score of 2-1 by committing 2 errors to allow both Longhorn runs. The Yankee offense was non-existent wasting a great pitching effort by newest Yankee Pitcher Dan Eadie

Arlington, VA ---July  29, 2007

"socked"

The NV Red Sox destroyed the PW Yankees here Sunday  in what should have been a hotly contested game as the division title was on the line.  Yankee pitching got knocked all over the Park and couple that with no hits with men on base the Yanks were sent packing 11-1. Logan Springer was the lone bright spot for the Yanks knocking  out 3 doubles.

The Loss drops the Yankees to 2nd place and a Wild Card entry into the 2007 Blue & Gray Play-Offs.

Dale City, VA ---July  22, 2007

Springer tries for cycle

Logan Springer singled, doubled and tripled in yesterdays Yankee win over the Woodbridge Whitesox 7-2 Sunday at Freedom.  Dave Beckner improved his record to 8-4 picking up the win with 6 innings of work. In all the Yanks had 23 base runners but stranded 15 on the day or it could have been much worse for the Sox.

Dale City, VA ---July  15, 2007

Yankees score 19, Kaufman leaves 13

The Yankees batted around twice in the 6th inning scoring 15 runs on 11 hits breaking open a tight 4-2 game at that point and rolled to a 19-4 victory over the visiting Novec Nationals. Jon Bybee led the Yankee offense going 5 for 5 with 4 rbi's,  Dave Beckner went the distance improving his record to 7-4.

Dale City, VA ---July  12, 2007

Yankee route

The Yankees took advantage of Lorton Phillies 6 errors and their pitching staff walking 9 as the Yanks routed the Phillies 16-4 at Freedom Thursday Night.

Prince Willliam, VA ---July  8, 2007

Yanks cut into Red Sox lead

The 1st Place Red Sox came to town with a game and half lead (3 in the loss column) over the Prince William Yankees, The Yankees cut that margin to ha half game jumping out to a 8-1 lead and cruising to a 10-7 victory at Heritage Sunday . George Adam, Jon Bybee, Ed Pearson and Logan Springer led the Yankee offense each collecting 2 hits.  The Yankees used 3 pitchers on the day in the 98 degree weather, with Logan Springer picking up the win with 4 quality innings of relief. 

Championship Title !!

The Prince William Yankees have captured their 3rd Cooperstown Championship defeating the Staten Island Bombers 6-4 at Double Day Field.

Will Somerindyke pitched a complete game for the victory, the Yankees got on the board first powered by a Chip Kislack Homer to left field. The Yankees opened up the 4th inning with a bunt single by LF Jamien Payne and a walk by SS Tim Nargi followed by 3B Logan Springers single, the big blow then came from C Barry Gauch who tripled to right and the Yanks took a 4-0 lead.  The 5th inning saw more power from the Yankees as DH Rob Pettigrue homered to left moving the Yankees ahead 5-0.

Staten Island did not lay down an mounted a 3 run 7th inning to trim the Yankee lead to 2, the Staten Island eighth saw a homer by Jay Parisi and the Yankee lead was only 5-4, Staten Island then put runners on 1st and 2nd when the Yankees turned an interesting double play to get out of the inning, Somerindyke fielded a grounder then nearly threw it away but shortstop Tim Nargi scooped it up and threw on to Jon Bybee at first who scooped the low throw and wend the Staten Island threat.

With the Yankee lead now trimmed to 1 run ion the 7th  Rob Pettigrue came through with a clutch 2 out 2 strike single to left giving the Yankees an insurance run and lead 6-4. Staten Island would not go away and mounted yet another threat in the 8th, with one out and 2 on a ground ball to 2nd baseman Matt Huff which looked like a routine double play nearly turned disastrous as Mat threw the ball wild to Nargi covering but he managed to dive and come up with the ball and get the out and end the threat.

Matt Huff  recovered and  got the final out of the game giving the Yankees their third Hall of Fame Classic Title.

The Tournament Officials named  DH Rob Pettigrue MVP for his 2 for 3 game including the homerun and clutch 2 out hit to secure the win, they named  SS Tim Nargi the Gold Glove winner for the above mentioned plays and several other stops he made denying Staten Island players singles.

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Springer Bombs Nats

Logan Springer hit his first homerun to put the Yankees ahead to stay in the 9-4 drubbing at Stonewall Tuesday Night.  Craig Kaufman led all Yanks going 3 for 3 as the  yanks had 11 hits in all. Dave Beckner improves his record to 5-4 with a 9 strikeout 5 inning effort.

Offensive !!

Once again the Yankees produced zilch at the plate managing only 1 run en-route to a 3-1 loss to the Fredericksburg Seminoles in front of their fans at Walker-Grant.

Anemic Offense

The Yankees only managed 6 hits against the Diamondbacks pitching and wasted a great effort by Yankee pitcher Dave Beckner who only surrendered 4 hits but still lost 3-2 at Freedom HS Thursday Night.

15 hit attack

George Adam went 2 for 3 with 4 rbi's, Steve D'Aquila went 3-4 with 3 rbi's and Jon Bybee and Barry Gauch each had three hits demolishing Nationals pitching as the Yankees won 11-5 at Heritage Saturday.

Beckner finds Form

Yankee Pitcher Dave Beckner regained his form Thursday Night shutting down the Virginia Diamondbacks.

Pitching the key

Jordan Lovell and Jon Bybee combined to strike out 11 Dodger batters and hold them to 3 runs as the Yanks edged the Dodgers 4-3 at Heritage Saturday. The Yankees were led by Barry Gauch and Craig Kaufman who each had two hits on the day.

Atlantic City Tournament Champions !

The Yankees have won the 28 Open Atlantic City Tournament defeating the Connecticut (Danbury) Rangers 7-2 behind a complete game effort by Will Somerindyke.

Yankees throw this one away

The Yankees committed 5 errors in one inning just giving the game to the Ermi's Baseball club at the Stadium Thursday night

Yankees sweep Hawks in Double Header

The First place Hawks came to Heritage Saturday only to leave looking up in the standing to the Prince William Yankees as the Yanks took 2 in this double header sweep.

Game 1:

The Hawks looked like the division leaders when they came in and took a 6-0 lead early on, the Hawks increased their lead to 7-3 as the Yanks came up for their last at bat. With one out the Yankees staged an improbable comeback with 5 runs in the inning and took the lead 8-7, the Hawks stunned went down in their half of the inning and the Yankees took game 1.  The Yankee were led offensively by John Bybee, Barry Gauch and Logan Springer all with 3 hits apiece.

Game 2 saw the return of Jordan Lovell to the hill for the Yankees, Jordan had an excellent 2007' debut going 5 strong inning surrendering only 1 earned run while striking  out 5. Logan Springer had 2 hits but the big blow came from Eddie Pearson just of the airplane,  with a bases clearing double.

Yankee pitching pounded

The visiting NV Red Sox came in and pounded out 14 hits including 4 doubles to easily defeat the PW Yankees 10-6 at Heritage Saturday.

The Red Sox were on base all day scoring in nearly every inning and the Yankee offense had no answer until the 9th with 3 runs but it was to little to late.

Big come from behind Victory

The Yankees down 6-0 scored 7 unanswered runs for a come from behind victory here at the Stadium last night.

The Yankees got into an early hole against the Potomac Hawks Thursday Night but Steve D'Aquila's 2 out RBI base hit completed the Yankee comeback in the bottom of the 9th to defeat the 1st place Potomac Hawks 7-6 and move the Yanks to within 1/2 game of the leaders.

Yankee starting pitcher Steve D'Aquila had a rough outing as Jose Pabon, put the Hawks up 2-0 with a mammoth homerun to dead center field over the 400 sign in the top of the 1st. Potomac struck for 3 more in the 2nd as Calvin Dent tripled, Chance Mistric and Clements singled to make it 5-0 Hawks. They tacked on another run in the 5th with 3 straight singles for Clements, Drake and Mike Walkowiak for a 6-0 Hawk lead and they looked like they were cruising to an easy victory. 

The Yankees were harmless at the plate through 4, but in the 5th Jon Bybee hustling infield single with 2 outs plated the Yankees first run of the night. Manager Tim Nargi went to the bullpen as D'Aquila gave way to Jon Bybee, Bybee gave the Yanks what they needed with a  1-2-3 inning in the 6th and 7th thus finally shutting down the Potomac offense.

D'Aquila started his revenge at the plate leading off the 7th with a double to center, CF Brian Tirch reached on an error, the Yankee 2B Robbie Kloehn drove home DAQ to cut the lead to 6-2, later in the inning Barry Gauch singled scoring Tirch and at the end of 7 the Yanks had halved the Hawks lead 6-3.

In the Yankee 8th RF Craig Kaufman double to left to lead things off, Steve D'Aquila picked up his 2nd hit and Kloehn walked to load the bases to set the stage for the comeback,  with 2 out SS Tim Nargi stepped up to the plate with the bases full and promptly singled to right for 2 RBI's cutting the lead to 6-5, Kloehn moved to third on the hit and he scored on the next pitch as shaken Hawks pitcher Mistric released a wild pitch.

The Hawks did threaten in the top of the 9th with a lead off double, but after a sacrifice to move the runner to third, Jon Bybee got Walkowiak to pop up to 2nd, Pabon was intentionally walked and Vera grounded out weakly to 2nd to end the threat, this set up the final revenge of the night for Steve D'Aquila.

Barry Gauch lead off the 9th with hit second hit of the night, Tirch ran for Gauch, and on a 0-2 count Tirch took off for 2nd and DH George Adam singled over the vacated shortstop position to move Tirch to third. Hawks pitcher Mistric did manage to strike out the next two Yankee hitters, but that's when Steve D'Aquila came to the plate and completed the Yankee comeback as he collected his third and biggest hit of the night lining the 1st pitch to right field scoring Tirch for a Yankee 7-6 victory.

Snakes and Rain

The Yankees held of the pesky Diamondbacks 6-4 in 10 innings Saturday ion sometimes heavy rain behind Dave Beckner's complete game effort.  Dave struggled on a rain slicked mound but still managed to strike out 13.

With poor field conditions the D'backs capitalized on a few Yankee errors to tie the game up in the 7th when the heavy rains came causing a 30 minute delay, the Yankees went quietly in the 8th and 9th, but the Diamondbacks threatened in both innings but Steve D'Aquilas spectacular play saved the game for the Yankees.  Wth D'Backs on 1st and 3rd with 1 out, the runner at first broke for 2nd for an attempted steal, the batter hit a rocket up the middle but 2nd baseman Steve D'Aquila was able  to smoother the ball tag the runner on the way by and throw onto first to complete the double play and not allow the D'Backs to take the lead.

In the 10th the Yanks struck twice on Logan Springer Double, D'Aquila single down the line followed by a George Adam Double.

Defenseless; 9 errors nuff said

The Yankees defense booted 5 grounders a dropped fly ball and threw a couple away along with the game to the visiting Longhorns dropping the game 6-5. The Yankees out hit the Longhorns 12-8 including a triple by George Adam, and Doubles by Yonnie Ezring, Barry Gauch and Craig Kaufman, but the errors proved too much as the Yanks gave up 4  unearned runs and dropping their second in a row

Yankees drop 10 inning thriller

The Yanks started out strong scoring 4 times behind Barry Gauch's 2 hits and three RBI, but the Blues never gave in scratching a run in the 4th and 5th.  With the Yankees out in front 5-2, the Blues mounted a rally in the eighth scoring 3 times to tie the game.  It was finally decided in the extra frame as Blues Brandon Cole singled over a drawn in infield to plate the winning run in the bottom of the 10th.

Yanks pound out 18 hits

The Yankees were rude to their host in an 18 hit barrage and left with a road win 12-4 here Saturday.

Barry Gauch got things started in the Yankee 4th with a lead off triple helping the Yanks score 3 times in that frame.  The 5th inning is when the flood gates opened up as the Yankees sent 13 batters to the plate scoring 8 times on 7 hits.

Beckner picked up his second win of the season going 5 innings.

Yanks will stay on the road visiting the First Horizon Blues at the Stadium Thursday Night 7:30 pm

D'Aquilas' blast lifts Yanks

The Yankees down 3-1 in the fifth when Designated Hitter Steve D'Aquila served up a 2-2 pitch over the left-center field wall for a 3-run home run and the Yankee lead 4-3 on Opening Day at Heritage. The Yankees tacked on two more in the 6th and went on to defeat the Skagit Longhorns 6-3 Saturday.

David Beckner picked up  the win going 6 allowing only 2 earned runs, D'Aquila pitched a scoreless 7th and 8th and the right side of the dual Yankee closers, Logan Springer, shut down the Longhorns in the 9th for the save and Yankee 6-3 win.

Beckner named Yanks' Opening Day starter
David Beckner  was officially announced as the Yankees' Opening Day starter on Saturday. Dave was a 10 game winner for the Yankees in 2006 and won both Championship games to secure the Yankees title last year.

Yankees sign pitcher Sherman
The Prince William Yankees announced today that they have signed free agent left-handed pitcher Tommy Sherman to a one-year Blue & Gray League contract. Sherman played last season for the now defunct meadows Farms.

Loaded Yankees have one goal in mind
Injuries hit the Yanks' pitching staff late last season, but those concerns are all but gone for 2007 and in fact Prince William is once again a bonafide title contender. With a loaded lineup and an improved bullpen, Yankees fans should be in for an exciting ride in 2007.

Yankees sign fan-favorite DH Shadbar
The Prince William Yankees announced today that they have signed Designated Hitter Dave Shadbar to a one-year Blue & Gray League contract. Dave just completed a 7 year contract with the Yankees and was not sure if their was a roster spot open for 2007, however the Yanks worked out a deal and Dave signed on for his eighth season

Yankees sign outfielder Brown
The Prince William Yankees announced today that they have signed free agent outfielder Matt Brown to a one-year Blue & Gray League contract. Brown played last season for the Yanks in a limited capacity because of injuries.