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ON DECK BILLBOARD
LWP MILESTONES
2012

Marty O'Brien
Renamed Assistant Manager

Mike Cech
Renamed Coach

Jon Horvath, Jim Patock
Named Coaches

Steve Korbel
Head Coach
Eight Straight

11U wins doubleheader Saturday to exceed 2011 season start with 8-0 record to begin 2012. Great job and true teamwork!
2012 Tournaments TBD

We will be traveling in and outside of the State of Illinois.

11U WINS GMB 3-RUN DINGER

Congratulations to our 11U squad who qickly learned what camaraderie and teamwork can produce when the team is placed first! What a nice way to begin your season, just have FUN and work on your skill sets each game.
2012 ROSTERS NAMED

 Congratulations to the players for 2012 and thank you to the players that attended workouts and tryouts! Great new families and kids!
2012 UNIFORMS RELEASED

 Our cool 2012 look is once again one of the finest uniforms sets taking the field for this season! Go orange!




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2011 Related Press:

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11U Wins 12U Tournament
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9U #16 In Nation
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11U Repeats at Tom Pell Memorial
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10U Wins Tom Pell Memorial
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9U Wins Tom Pell Memorial
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9U Wins 4th Tournament
New Lenox Patriot
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11U Shines at City of Lights
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9U Wins City of Lights
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11U 32 team Major Elite NIT
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9U Quad City NIT Champs
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9U USSSA Major Elite Champs
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New Lenox Patriot
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9U Quad City Championship
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New Lenox Patriot
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11U 32 Team Major Elite NIT
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DiANGI SIGNS WITH PROSPECTS AFTER WINTER TRYOUTS
Congratulations to Dominci DiAngi of Frankfort, IL, a District #210 student, who outperformed several players trying to depart current teams and hook-up with the Prospects' for 2012. This will be Domnic's first full time season with travel baseball, and we're looking forward to helping him learn, progress and understand the LWP mission on and off the field of play. Glad to have Dominic and his family, parents are Pete and Pam.

Coaches no longer on outside looking in - they wanted in the LWP system.
We're grateful to our dedicated staff of the past two seasons with this young team, but we're equally excited to act upon changes as put into motion as early as May 2011. We offered an existing 11U manager a role within the organization along with three or four players moves as expected and desired. This recruitment concluded with a friend of the program staying put and continuing to play up at 12U for 2012. We repect that, and agree with that. Coach O'Brien, Coach Cech and Coach Korbel were pleased to bring on Coach Jon Horvath, who had managed the Romeoville Spartans for several years, and Coach Jim Patock, who was a base coach for the New Lenox Rebels Red team for a couple of years. We happy to have the bolster our coaching staff with their knowledge and experience in competitive youth baseball.

Back-to-Back banner years for this team allows awesome changes!
What a great 2011 season, despite off-season non-baseball injuries to the team and a limited roster in April. The team went on to take the #1 seed at the CABA World Series, and played great. The Prospects' put the focus back on the player and on competitive travel baseball during the middle of the season which afforded an opportunity for change - and welcome change at that. A well-balanced team begins with more than just players - and we thank our great volunteers for serving the team well. All players released or moving on were easily placed on other teams, a great testimonial to the skill sets and development since 9U in our program. Congratulations to the players that made cuts from 23 2012 11U candidates, we're excited to have you improve our team.

Playing up and continue the challenge
We're looking to play an even tough schedule than the first two years that lead our area in competitive travel baseball play. We had a great mix of challenges in 2011, and some fun along the way, too. We will play up again versus some 12U competition along with our normal 11U schedule and tournaments.


TRUE, TRADITIONAL TRAVEL BASEBALL PROGRAM!
Beyond the field of play™

 2012 11U SEASON RECORD
8-1 vs. 11U
1-0 vs. 12U

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 2012 ROOKIE SIGNINGS
First year with LWP
11U:
Dominic DiAngi #26 (District #210)
Tyler Horvath #85 (Private Intent)
Jimmy Patock #2 (District #210)
Logan Phillips #21 (District #210)
Blake Samson #1 (District #210)

2011 VETERAN SIGNINGS
2-4 years with LWP
11U:
Martin Bender (District #210)
Tyler Cech (District #210)
Anthony Durling (District #210)
Corey Graham (Private Intent)
Marty O'Brien (District #210)
Justin Schackle (District #133)

SOME FACTS:
Bender, 3rd Year
Cech, 3rd Year
Durling, 4th Year
Graham, 2nd Year
O'Brien, 3rd Year
Schackle, 2nd Year

REPORT CARD CONGRATULATIONS!
 2012 Report cards continue to be outstanding!
 TEAM "A/S+" GRADE BATTING AVERAGE = .972
TEAM ACADEMIC SLUGGING AVERAGE = 3.250


PROSPECTS' PLAYERS WILL COMPLETE ALL SEVEN RUNGS OF THEIR 2012
CHARACTER NATION™ COMMITMENT!





COMMUNITY SERVICE

Over the past few years, the Lincoln-Way Prospects entire organization has presented over 6,000 gifts to Children's Memorial Hospital. On December 3, 2011. The players will earn their level/rung distinction from the Character Nation student-athlete leadership program and add to those numbers. These continue to be the "stats" that matter.

THIS SHOWS 2012 11U RESULTS

 GMB 3-RUN DINGER
 BMAC Complex (Bridgeton, MO)
3/31/12 - 4/1/12
11U: 1st Place Champions
3/31/12
LWP 8, Missouri Chargers 4
LWP 9, Bombers BC 6
Muckdogs, Knights advanced to semi-finals
4/1/12
Semi: LWP 5, Missouri Chargers 1
Championship: LWP 12, Bombers BC 1



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