The Stamford Board of Representatives will be honoring the New England Regional and Connecticut State champion Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team, which is coming off a fifth-place finish in the Babe Ruth World Series, on Tuesday, Sept. 7 at the Government Center at 8 p.m.

The Stamford 15-year-old Babe Ruth All-Star team will be honored at Fenway Park, the home of the Boston Red Sox, for winning this year’s New England Regional championship.
“I think it’s a great thing Babe Ruth Baseball and the Boston Red Sox do,” Stamford manager John Calo said.
Stamford will be recognized on the field before Boston’s [...]

MONTICELLO, Ark. – The Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team’s run in the Babe Ruth World Series has unfortunately come to an end.
Stamford suffered a hard-fought 2-1 loss to Bryant, Ark., in eight innings in the first round of the single-elimination playoffs on Wednesday at Burlington Field.
The Stamford 15s took their friends and family on quite a [...]

MONTICELLO, Ark. – Phil DelMazio continues to work hard at the Babe Ruth 15-year-old World Series.
DelMazio has four new videos of the Stamford 15s in the World Series.
To view them, enter PhilDel44 in the search bar or click on the following links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhTdCThRblY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuaJf2F3COA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejTIJIti83A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnAOpEwb6aY

MONTICELLO, Ark. – The Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team has overcome several obstacles to advance to the playoffs of the Babe Ruth Baseball World Series.
After starting its final pool play game two hours behind schedule in a game originally slated for Sunday but was postponed due to weather, Stamford came through with a 10-3 victory over [...]

MONTICELLO, Ark. – The Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team got back to its winning ways on Tuesday with a 6-4 victory over Torrance, Calif., in a pool play game of the Babe Ruth World Series at Burlington Field.
Stamford (1-2) still has a shot to advance out of pool play and make the single-elimination playoffs but it [...]

MONTICELLO, Ark. – The Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team’s pool play game against the host team Monticello in the Babe Ruth World Series was postponed on Sunday due to rain and lightning.
The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on Tuesday. Stamford will play Torrance, Calif., at 10 a.m. CST at Burlington Field and [...]

Phil DelMazio has been gracious enough to provide video of Stamford on YouTube from the 15-year-old Babe Ruth World Series in Monticello, Ark.
In the DSC 06591 video, Stamford’s Greg DelMazio receives the Ron Tellefson World Series Player of the Game award for his performance against Hamburg, Ark.
In the DSC 05401 video, DelMazio hits a two-run [...]

MONTICELLO, Ark. – The Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team couldn’t get that big timely hit it needed in dropping a 9-3 decision to Hamburg, Ark., in a pool play game of the Babe Ruth World Series on Saturday at Burlington Field.
Read the full story at http://www.thestamfordtimes.com/sports/local/

MONTICELLO, Ark. – The Stamford 15-year-old All-Stars opened pool play of the Babe Ruth Baseball World Series with a 5-4 loss to Saginaw Valley, Mich., Friday morning.
It was Stamford’s first loss of the postseason. See full story at www.thestamfordtimes.com/sports/local/

All four of the Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team videos on YouTube, courtesy of Phil DelMazio, can be viewed by clicking the following link:
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Jeff Cortese wasn’t the only member of the Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team with a walk-off hit.
Kyle DiVico’s RBI base hit in the bottom of the ninth inning gave Stamford a 4-3 win over Cranston, R.I, in the winners’ bracket semifinals on Saturday.
Watch DiVico’s key hit on YouTube, courtesy of Phil DelMazio. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOx1BTtl9nY

By STEVE GEOGHEGAN
Times Sports Editor
QUINCY, Mass. — Jeff Cortese has a flair for the dramatic.
Cortese’s bad hop base hit plated Kevin Epp with the winning run as the Stamford 15-year-old All-Stars came through with a 5-4 victory over Leominster, Mass., in eight innings in the finals of the Babe Ruth New England Regional Tournament on [...]

The Stamford Babe Ruth 15-year-old All-Stars didn’t need any walk-off heroics to advance to the New England Regional championship game at Quincy, Mass.
Instead an 8-1 victory over Plymouth, Mass., puts Stamford into Monday’s final — one win away from the Babe Ruth World Series.
Click here to read The Stamford Times game story.

QUINCY, Mass. – Kyle DiVico’s RBI single to right field plated Louis Lopez with the winning run to lift the Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team to a 4-3 victory over Cranston, R.I., in nine innings in the winners’ bracket semifinals of the Babe Ruth New England Regional Tournament Saturday at Adams Field.
It was the second walk-off [...]

For those not lucky enough to have been there, Jeff Cortese’s walk-off two-run single for the Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team in the New England Regionals has been posted on YouTube. The video is courtesy of Phil DelMazio.
This is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo84R2Oi5HU

The Stamford 15-year-old All-Star team had its game on Friday against Cranston, R.I., in the winners’ bracket semifinals of the Babe Ruth New England Regionals postponed due to rain.
The game was rescheduled for Saturday at 11 a.m. at Adams Field in Quincy, Mass.

The Senior Babe Ruth Baseball New England Regional Tournament concluded on Monday with Eastern Massachusetts beating Housatonic Valley 14-12 in the championship game at Cubeta Stadium to earn a berth to the World Series.
Even though the Stamford team failed in its bid to capture the New England Regional crown, the City should be proud of [...]

FAIRFIELD – Louis Lopez pitched six innings in relief and the Stamford 15-year-old All-Stars erased a 3-0 first-inning deficit on their way to an 8-5 victory over Ridgefield in the Babe Ruth State Championship on Monday at Kiwanis Field.
Lopez took over for starter Danny O’Leary, who had to leave the game in the second inning after [...]

STAMFORD — Ryan Walsh pitched a two-hitter with 17 strikeouts to carry the Stamford 16-18 All-Star baseball team to a 2-1 victory over Maine in an opening-round game of the Babe Ruth New England Regional Tournament on Thursday night at Cubeta Stadium.
Walsh was perfect through three innings before allowing a one-out walk, his lone free [...]

The Stamford Babe Ruth 13 and 14-year-old All-Star teams had their respective state tournament games postponed on Monday due to inclement weather.
The 13-year-olds, who fell into the losers bracket after dropping their opener to South Windsor 3-2 on Saturday yet bounced back to beat Shelton 15-2 on Sunday, play Fairfield on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. [...]

Whenever you go to a ballgame, you never know what you’re going to see or in this case, not see.
What I’m referring to happened at the Babe Ruth 15-year-old District 1 championship game when Stamford took on Darien on Thursday at Darien High.
In the latter stages of Stamford’s victory, the sun was setting right over [...]

DARIEN — The Stamford 15-year-old Babe Ruth All-Star team jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning on its way to an 8-2 victory over Darien in the finals of the District 1 Tournament on Thursday at Darien High.
Lefty Shawn Crowell earned the win, scattering three hits over five innings with one strikeout, [...]

DARIEN — The Stamford 15-and-under All-Star team pounded out 11 hits and scored in every inning on its way to a 13-3 win in five innings over Darien in the winners bracket final of the Babe Ruth District 1 Tournament on Tuesday at Darien High.
Kevin Epp got the job done on the mound and at [...]

It’s official.
Stamford Babe Ruth will be hosting the 2010 New England Babe Ruth 16-18-year-old Regional Tournament next summer at Cubeta Stadium, according to SBRL President Rich LoRusso.
This year’s Stamford squad placed third in the New England tournament and returns many players from that team in looks of making it one step beyond — the Babe [...]

Summer is ending. Football is heating up. Fall sports are about to start. And The Stamford Times seems to touch a variety of bases in this week’s edition.
Football-wise, we tackle New York Giants wannabe lineman Cliff Louis, the Westhill High School product to grew so much as a player and a person at Morgan State [...]

The dog days of summer are here and sports news is at a premium. Our student-athletes are taking their last final few days of R&R, are hitting their last weeks of sports camps, or just taking the first few steps of getting in shape so they can get in shape once their fall sports season [...]

Jeff Cortese has a lot to live up to when it comes to his family’s athletic exploits. After all, his two brothers — Vinnie and Nick — are two of the best athletes to ever tear up the Trinity Catholic athletic arenas.
On Tuesday night, though, Jeff Cortese got something neither one of his brother was [...]

The Stamford Babe Ruth 16-18-Year-Old All-Stars are one more win away from the chance of playing Cape Cod again for the New England Championship.
First, however, the boys in blue will have to get past either Granite State (again) or the host Paul Johnson Babe Ruth All-Stars from Worcester, Mass, site of this year’s New England [...]

Baseball: It’s all about pitching and hitting, right?
Just ask the Granite State Big Blue Alll-Stars, who left the opening round of the New England Babe Ruth Baseball 18-year-old All-Star Regional tournament feeling very, very blue after Stamford took a well-deserved 8-2 win.
Stamford got pitching and hitting from two big time sources.
Connor Garrity fired six and [...]

When you see them before a game or at practice they are just you’re normal looking high school/soon-to-be college guys. They look like they would be having fun cutting it up with their friends or should be at a skateboard park trying out some new X-Games type of stunt if not in a baseball uniform.
They are [...]

With apologies to John Steinback (though he is right) “The best laid plans of mice and sportswriters often go awry.”
Today I was shot down by both modern technology and by life itself and there was nothing I could do.
The goal for today was simple: A road trip to Worcester, Mass, for the first round of [...]

Butch LaMotta, one of the coaches with the Stamford Babe Ruth 16-18 All-Star baseball team sent me an interesting link today.
It’s the Web site of the Granite State Big Blue, Stamford’s first-round opponent in the New England Regional Championship on Friday in Worcester, Mass.
Click here to see what the Stamford All-Stars will be up against.
The [...]

A couple of things:
First, holy cow, it’s pretty much August already.
The second: To all those wondering why the cover of this week’s Sports Section of The Stamford Times is a reaction shot of the Stamford Babe Ruth All-Stars losing their state title game, when just 60 or so miles to the northeast, the Stamford 18s [...]

The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day
— From Casey At The Bat

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After having attended many youth and high school baseball games this spring and summer, I’ve come to the realization that this sport can’t even kill itself. We are all taught the love of the game expressed in the immortal [...]

Sal Sciarretta’s eyes were still red with emotion as he talked about the Stamford Babe Ruth U-13 baseball team — his team, his boys; one of them, literally, the rest, figuratively.
They were on the short end of a 6-3 loss to West Haven on Wednesday, a defeat which ousted them from the state tournament with [...]

“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked [...]

If it’s summer in Stamford then it must be the season of championships. Somewhere, it seems, there’s always a ball game being played for a championship and there is oftentimes a Stamford-based team involved.
Take last week, for example. There were three of them.
The Stamford Babe Ruth Softball U-12 team went up to Hebron and came [...]

When it comes to the history of Babe Ruth baseball, the city of Stamford can pretty much stand alone.
So it should come as no surprise the with three District 1 tournaments put out to pasture for the summer that a pair of Stamford Babe Ruth teams — the U-13s and the U-15s — have wrapped [...]

The wait is over.
Due to holiday deadline issues a week ago, The Stamford Times sports section couldn’t bring you our coverage of the Westhill High School softball team’s special trip to Yankee Stadium on June 30.
Until now.
This week, the Vikings memorable journey is recapped courtesy of three pages of coverage in this week’s edition of [...]

The night was not perfect and the game is not yet what it was first imagined to be, but as Stamford American Legion Manager George Ducanic said it shows that the emphasis of youth baseball in Stamford is back where it belongs — on the players.
Trinity Catholic’s Sammy Kosterich slapped a single to right-center field and [...]

Summer is finally here and we’re not horsing around when we say that.
The Little League All-Star season is about to start and talk of a high school girls hockey team coming somewhere down the line is even starting to warm up slightly … and we have a story about a young lady who doesn’t horse [...]

All is quiet on the high school sports front as the state playoffs are over, many students are wrapping up finals and summer is fast approaching.
That doesn’t mean the sports news stops around the city, however.
Our cover girl this week is former Stamford High softball star Melissa Giordano, who over the last month has racked [...]