Sunday, August 7, 2011
Wilmette put three teams in the finals of the Lake Shore Feeder Baseball League playoffs.
If history is the best predictor of future results, New Trier and Loyola Academy have a lot to look forward to six or seven years down the road. Wilmette’s 9A and 9B teams both made it to the championship games of the Lake Shore Feeder Baseball League playoffs this summer. In the 9A division, Wilmette lost a thrilling 7-6 game to Deerfield while the 9B team came through with a victory over Glenview Blue, 6-3. “We almost didn't make it out of the first round,” said Daniel Douaire, coach of Wilmette’s 9B team. “We had an extra-inning thriller against Kenilworth-Winnetka. Down by three in the bottom of the sixth – the game’s last inning – Danny Pugliese and Thomas Schafer each hit home runs to tie the game and Wilmette scored three runs to …
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
The Wilmette Baseball Association held a Memorial Day gala at Roemer Park with numerous all-star games.
For more than 50 years, Roemer Park served as Wilmette's premier little league baseball facility. And after its most recent rennovation, the Wilmette Baseball Association is looking to keep it that way. Although the baseball season started in April, Memorial Day served as the unofficial Opening Day for little league baseball in Wilmette as three all-star games were played at Roemer Park. "It looks pretty much the same as it did back [in 1955] so our restoration kept pretty much all of the old stuff," said Sid Tepps, the president of the Wilmette Baseball Association. "I compare it with Wrigley Field and Fenway Park in that you can go there and know that all the great players played in that park." After Sunday's rainstorm dropped a couple …
Sunday, April 10, 2011
After giving historic Roemer Park a face lift in the winter months, Wilmette's little league baseball teams started its spring league.
Saturday marked a particularly special opening day for Wilmette's historic Roemer Park. After nearly 60 years of little league games, the park underwent renovations in 2010 that included improved dugouts, concessions and fences. Local kids tested out the improved facilities as they kicked off the season. "We started this process two or three years ago to think about restoring the park," Wilmette Baseball Association Commissioner Sid Tepps. "The park was getting old and tired, the wood was rotting, things were falling down." The league put together a plan and set out to raise $600,000. They primarily sold commemorative bricks and plaques that would be placed around Roemer Park and have raised $400,000 so far. Tepps hopes that the park will…
