Revolution Pony State Champions!!!!!

June 24-27, 2010

Rev on Quest to become the first Arizona Team

in history to win the Pony World Series!!!!!

The Rev went 5-0 and captured the Pony State Title at the Bronco Level.

Parker  continued being Magic going 12-17  .706  w/ a HR and playing flat out WIzard like defense!

Isaiah  was lights out on the hill- caught well and was  8-15 hitting  .533.

Cole was awesome behind the dish and  hit the living tar out of the ball going    17-20 batting .850 w/ 7 HRs .  

Damon was nothing short of amazing in the Championship Game on the hill, Crash was 5-14  hitting .357  and a HR.       

Quincy was awesome in the field and money at the plate going     10-19  hitting  .526 w/ 3 HRs       

Niko was on fire with the stick going    10-17  and batting .588 w. 4 HRs

Hank was filthy on the hill and hit a ball that may be still in orbit! Hammer was  7-14  batting .500    w. 3 HRs.

Shorty was a force to be reckoned with at the plate going 10-15 and hitting .750 w/ a HR -Elijah pitched great too.

Grant threw gas and dominated hitters -the big guy hit the ball well going  4-10 and hitting .400.

Drew pitched well and played money defense.  Drewbie had a great tourney. 

Lance made the most unbelievable catch in RF, Lancer batted .500  for the tourney. 

Nana brought good Karma to the Rev!!!!!

Ahwatukee Blue a Class Act!!!!!

 
 

Rev Goes Pink Floyd!!! Cooperstown Laser Show!!!

Outscoring Opponents 147-29 and 43HR's!!!

June 5-11, 2010

Rev highest seed from Arizona in Cooperstown History!!!

In an awesome display of power the Rev outscored their opponents 147-29 in  Week 1 @ Cooperstown.

The Rev went 6-0 in Pool Play and were the 3 seed going into Wed night. 

The Rev was 8-0 heading into the top 8.  The Rev ran into a buzzsaw in the elite 8 and was held to 4 hits against a

tough Nevada Wildcats Team with a ringer flown in from Utah to pitch against us in a hard fought 7-3 loss. 

Parker McKinsey led the team w/ 8HR's going 20-31, batting .645 and driving in 22 RBI's-from the leadoff spot!-

not to mention playing a Wizard like shortstop! 

Isaiah Leach was 13-26, batting .500 w/ 2 HR's-Zay also hit a rare Cooperstown Triple! 

Zay's work ethic and dedication are second to none!!

Cole Reasons batted .742 w/ 29RBI's leading the team in both catagories-

#7 was 23-31 with 7HR's-hard work in the cage has really paid off!  

Hank Bergquist batted .440 going 11-25 w/ 4HR's- The Hammer also played a Brooks Robinson 3rd Base. 

Damon DeVirgilio was a red hot 18-28 batting .643 w/ 7HR's and 19RBI's. 

Crash as always was a very tough out and played Sportscenter Defense! 

Niko Piazza batted .481 going 14-24 with 4 Bombs-the Pizza Man always delivers!!

Niko did the most remarkable thing the Rev has ever witnessed-a dinger from the left side!! 

Nick Castagna was a great addtion to the club batting .583 from both sides of the plate going 14-24  w/ 5 Jacks!!

  Nick gave gritty catching and pitcing performances too!! 

Tommy Riggs was nothing short of amazing!!

T-Dog was clutch hitting .556 with 4 Dingers-he was a huge reason for the Rev's success in Cooperstown!!

McCain Schellhardt pitched great and played a flawless 2nd Base- Bones hit .350 for the tourney going 7-20!!

Drew batted  a red hot .416, pitched great and was speedy on the bases-Drewbie was awesome in Cooperstown! 

  Lance batted .300 and is the most improved player  on the club-

The Rev is proud of Lancer's hard work and dedication to the game of baseball!!

The highlight of the tournament was Anne, Melissa and the team sending Tad's Mom-Cole's Grandma Flowers from the team- From the Bottom of my heart and Nana's. Thank You for your caring and generosity!!!

Boys-your coaches, parents and families are very proud of how you play the game and how you conducted yourselves off the field as well.  You represented your State with dignity and class. 

Hall of Fame Players, Parents, Families and Coaches

The Real Reason for the Rev's Success!!!

AZ Revolution National Champions!!!!!

December 30, 2009

Rev defeats the Lamorinda Monarchs to win Winter Nationals!!

Rev qualify for the Elite 32 World Series in Disney World!!

CARPE DIEM!!

March 16, 2010

9U REV Wins 1st Game of the Season!!

Rejoice O young man in thy youth...~Ecclesiastes~

But be not far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. Psalm 22:19

 

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Joey DeAcetis

July 23rd 2008 - November 29th 2009

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THE GREATEST TRIUMPH OF ALL TIME

Jesus said to her "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die." John 11:25-26

 

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THE GREATEST SACRIFICE OF ALL TIME

"For GOD so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

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   THE GREATEST MIRACLE OF ALL TIME

 

'if' by rudyard kipling

 

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

 

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master,
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

 

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

"The Man In The Arena"

T.R.
Speech at the Sorbonne
Paris, France
April 23, 1910

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself

in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end

the triumph of high achievement,

and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while

daring greatly, so that his place shall

never be with those cold and timid souls

who neither know victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt
26th President of the United States


Speech before Commons
June 4, 1940

"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds,we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Winston Churchill

The Gettysburg Address

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

November 19, 1863

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

We are met on a great battle-field of that war.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field,as a final resting place for those who here gave

their lives that that nation might live.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom --

and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Abraham Lincoln


"Glory is fleeting,

but obscurity is forever."

Napoleon Bonaparte

 

"If a man does his best,

what else is there?" 
General George Patton Jr

 

 

 

Cast all your anxiety on him

because he cares for you.

1 Peter 5:7-14

 

 

MAY 16, 2010

USSSA BEST OF THE WEST CHAMPS!!

WINNING 3 STRAIGHT ON SUNDAY!!

APRIL 3, 2010

REV  CHAMPS!!

BEATING THE HEAT 13-0!!

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     The Revolution scored 11 runs in the third inning Saturday evening and beat the AZ Heat 13-0 in the 12u title game of the USSSA Easter Classic baseball tournament at Victory Lane.

      The Revolution quickly, taking a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first when Isaiah Leach scored on an RBI by Cole Reasons, who was driven in by Hank Bergquist.

      The Heat tried a spirited rally in the third. Jose Lopez walked and stole second and third. Nacho Estrada singled and stole second. But the Revolution kept the Heat off the scoreboard.

     In the bottom of the third, the Revolution broke open the game.

Parker McKinsey started the inning off with a double and scored on Leach’s RBI single to center. Bergquist drove in two more runs with a single to left, making it 5-0.

      Bases were loaded when McCain Schellhardt stepped up and singled, driving in Niko Piazza. The Revolution scored four more times before Bergquist hit a three-run homer to finish off the game by run rule.

Cole Reasons pitched  for the Rev and gave up  only 1 hit. 

DECEMBER 30, 2009

REV NATIONAL CHAMPS!!

WINNING USSSA WINTER NATIONAL!!

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2009 Winter National MVP

Damon DeVirgilio

REV CHAMPS!!!

Mike Castagna Memorial Tournament

CABA AZ

12U Champions

Dec 12-13, 2009

 

10/4/2009

REV ARIZONA STATE CHAMPIONS!!

WINNING USSSA ARIZONA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP!!

DEFEATING THE BLAZE 16-3 IN THE

CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!!!!!

 

REVOLUTION BASEBALL

The Revolution is a 501 (c) (3) non profit organization. 

We are based in the Greater Phoenix Area and

welcome talented players from across the Valley. 

We play at the highest level 12U National- Majors. 

September 2009 is the debut of the 9U Revolution. 

We believe in, hardwork, teamwork, leadership and sportsmanship.

 We stress skills development through teaching baseball fundamentals. 

WE BELIEVE IN PUTTING THE TEAM 1ST AT ALL TIMES

                             

"We must hang together gentlemen...else,

we most assuredly will hang separately." 

Benjamin Franklin

If your son is interested in playing for the Revolution, please contact Manager Tad Reasons at 480.659.7565 or tad@tadreasons.com

 

Sept 12, 2009

9U Rev Win Debut as Revolution!

Keep up the great work boys!

 

Oct 4, 2009

12U Rev Wins the first 3 Majors Championships of the new Season!!!!

Rev Wins AZ State Chamionship!!

Rev Ranked #1 in Arizona!!

AZBN & USSSA Rankings!!

Rev Ranked #3 in the Nation USSSA!

 
Team Highlights

Oct 4, 2009

Rev AZ State Champs!!

Winning USSSA

AZ State Championships!!

The Rev won their 3rd consequtive majors tourney for the new season-beating the Blaze 16-3 in the Championship Game. 

Sept 20, 2009

Rev Back to Back Majors Champs!!

Winning USSSA Fall Classic!!

Sept 7, 2009

Rev Wins USSSA Labor Day Classic!!

Outscoring Majors Opponents 50-16!!

 

JULY 29, 2009

Cole Reasons wins USTBA WS HR Derby!!

Hank Bergquist takes 3rd!! 

Damon DeVirgillo takes 2nd in throwing!!

Tristen, Parker, Shorty and Damon

take 3rd in Around the Horn!!

Hammer, TR and Cole with Luis Gonzalez after the HR Derby. 

 

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Favorite Rev Quotes
    

"Luck is the residue of design."

Branch Rickey

 

"We are never defeated unless we

give up on GOD."

Ronald Reagan

 

"Never, never, never, never give up."

Winston Churchill

 

"I swing big with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big.  I like to live as big as I can."

George Herman Ruth

 

"There is no limit to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care who gets the credit."

General George C Marshall  

 "Winning isn't everything, wanting to win is." Jim"Catfish"Hunter 

 

"Today we did what we had to do.  They counted on America to be passive.  They counted wrong."  Ronald Reagan

 

"Discipline yourself so no one else has to."

John Wooden   

 

"I think that both baseball and

the country will endure." 

John Kennedy

 

"Next to religion, baseball has

furnished a greater impact on American

life than any other institution." 

Herbert Hoover  

"All that is necessay for the triumph of evil

is for good men do nothing." 

Edmund Burke 

"Those who would give up essential liberty

for temporary security,

deserve neither liberty or security" 

Benjamin Franklin

 

 

PRIOR,PREPARATION PREVENTS,POOR,PERFORMANCE

Global Suspense

The trick of faith is to believe in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

by Philip Yancey

In a German prison camp in World War II, unbeknownst to the guards, the Americans built a makeshift radio. One day news came that the German high command had surrendered, ending the war—a fact that, because of a communications breakdown, the German guards did not yet know. As word spread, a loud celebration broke out.

For three days, the prisoners were hardly recognizable. They sang, waved at guards, laughed at the German shepherd dogs, and shared jokes over meals. On the fourth day, they awoke to find that all the Germans had fled, leaving the gates unlocked. The time of waiting had come to an end.

And here is the question I ask myself: As we Christians face contemporary crises, why do we respond with such fear and anxiety? Why don't we, like the Allied prisoners, act on the Good News we say we believe? What is faith, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse?