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Many Thanks to the Woburn Lions!

The Boston Renegades would like to thank the Woburn Lions club for helping to host a fun afternoon of beep baseball on September 18th. The Lions played for the 2nd year in a row and helped grow interest by recruiting players from the local Holiday Inn. Once again the score was lopsided as the Renegades prevailed. The sighted teams did score a run in the late innings when they were allowed to run and hit without blind folds on. There was no official score but everyone had fun and the Lions helped raise money to help the Renegades fund their program. The game was played in Woburn at the Joyce Middle School located at 55 Locust St. in Woburn.

Renegades Come up Short & finish 9th in 2010 World Series

Finish	Team	Record	Team Batting Avg	Defensive Stop %
1	West Coast	7-1	.524	59.3%
2	Taiwan	8-2	.523	55.8%
3	Kansas	5-2	.478	58.5%
4	Austin	5-2	.457	50.7%
5	Bayou City	7-2	.485	46.1%
6	Indianapolis	5-4	.383	44.9%
7	Chicago	5-3	.470	53.0%
8	North Carolina	2-6	.262	48.7%
9	Boston	3-4	.378	53.0%
10	Colorado	3-4	.412	51.0%
11	Lone Star	3-5	.204	51.4%
12	Tyler	1-6	.194	38.1%
13	Southwest	3-4	.315	40.6%
14	Minnesota	1-6	.254	40.8%
15	Wichita	0-7	.182	44.9%

Pictured to the left is Dino Vasile running the bases in the 2010 World Series. Photo taken by John Lykoswki

The 2010 World Series returned to Rochester, MN and the Renegades entered with more confidence than ever before after winning the Beast of the East in July. Boston would play one of the toughest schedules in the tournament. They lost games to Kansas, West Coast, Chicago and Colorado. Boston would get wins over North Carolina, Tyler and Colorado. Boston entered the tournament and finished the tournament in the 9 seed. Since the NBBA moved to its current World Series format, the Renegades have finished 9th three times (2007, 2009, 2010). They finished 10th in 2006 and 8th in 2008. Justen Cantan finished tied for 10th in the World Series with 3.86 stops per game. Boston finished the year with an 11-7 record which is the most wins and best winning percentage in team history For box scores and game recaps for the whole year, please visit this page.

Player	Avg	AB	PO	Player	Avg	AB	PO
S. Cantan	.529	34	17	Quintanilla	.389	18	3
Vasile	.433	30	12	Inkiala	.083	12	4
Haile	.480	25	1	Sajjad	.200	5	1
J. Cantan	.310	29	27	Duggan	.125	8	0
Zuccarello	---	0	12	O'Neill	.000	4	0
Ward	.391	23	2

Avg= Batting Average, AB= At-Bats, PO= Put-outs on Defense

World Series, Here We come!

The Renegades are heading to Rochester, MN for the 2010 Beep Baseball World Series. Boston goes with the most confidence it has ever had with 8 wins in 11 games in the 2010 season. The Renegades are on a 6 game winning streak and are clicking on both sides of the ball. The road is not going to be easy. Day #1 of the World Series has the Renegades playing two teams that have combined to win 3 championships in the past three years and one of these two teams has played for the title in every season since 2003. The Kansas All Stars are game #1 to be played on Tuesday, August 3. The West Coast Dawgs are Game #2 and the Carolina Pride round out the round robin portion of the World Series. Follow the team on facebook all week long for up to the minute information on the games. We will update the web site when we return from the Series

Here are the Pairings (With the Renegade's historic win loss record against)

Bracket A

1. West Coast Dawgs (0-3)
2. Kansas All-Stars (0-7)
3. Boston Renegades
4. Carolina Pride (1-1)

Bracket B

1. Taiwan Home Run (0-0)
2. Chicago Comets (0-4)
3. Wichita Sonics (1-0)
4. Lone Star Road Runners (0-0)

Bracket C

1. Bayou City Heat (0-3)
2. Indy Thunder (3-9)
3. Southwest Slammers (0-0)
4. Minnesota Fighting Lions (1-0)

Bracket D

1. Austin Blackhawks (0-3)
2. Colorado Storm (1-4)
3. Tyler Tigers (3-1)
4. (Bye)

Boston is the Beast of the East As They Sweep all three Games and improve to 8-3!

For more information on the Beast of the East including directions to the fields, information on the teams, rosters, Photos and stats, please visit our tournament page.

On Saturday, July 24th the Association of Blind Citizens hosted the 1st ever Blind Citizens Beep Baseball Championship at Lincoln Sudbury High school in Sudbury, Mass. This was the first time that 4 blind baseball teams have ever played together in one tournament in the New England area. The Renegades would start the day by defeating the Pennsylvania Wolfpack 8-1. The only team to beat them to date in the Beast of the East was New Jersey. The Lightning entered the game after losing a heart break game to the Long Island Bombers 13-12 and one of their starters, Paul Daye to injury. Boston jumped on them early and after three innings invoked the 12 run mercy rule and would go on to win 13-0. The last game was for all the marbles as the Long Island Bombers entered with identical records of 2-0 in the Blind Citizens Championship and 5-1 in the Beast of the East. Boston jumped all over them winning 13-3 to become the first ever winners of the Blind citizens Beep Baseball championship AND the Beast of the East.

When it came time to give out All Star awards. Boston would have two players on each side of the ball. Shayne Cantan would lead all players on Offense with a .710 batting average (22-31). Larry Haile would hit .500 (13-26) to finish 3rd in hitting after eye surgery kept him off the field till late June. On defense, Justen Cantan would finish 2nd with 21 stops and Guy Zuccarrelo would finish in a tie for 4th with 15 stops. This was the first ever awards for Zuccarello (playing since 2002), Haile (playing since 2005) and Justen Cantan (2nd year player).

Great Article on the Renegades and Beep Baseball in the MetroWest Daily News

Check out the latest article on the Boston Renegades from the MetroWest Daily News from July 25, 2010. Here you can see some great photos and they created a good youtube video that you can see to the right that features JJ Ward. JJ was instrumental in helping the Renegades find Licoln Sudbury High school as the home for the 2010 Blind Citizens Beep Baseball Championship.

Click this link to read the article

Thrown Bats and Rain Bring Stop to the Philly Hall of fame Classic. Boston Improves to 5-3 on the Season.

Boston Traveled to Haddonfield, New Jersey to participate in the Philly Hall of Fame Classic as part of the second leg of the Beast of the East tournament. The first game was played in heavy rains for the entire game. The rain fell heavy and the Boston bats were mighty. In a game in where Boston hit the ball hard and far, their opponents, the Pennsylvania Wolfpack played amazing defense. A hard fought battle left the Renegades on top 5-2. In the other match up of the day, the Long Island Bombers defeated the New Jersey Lightning 9-7. With heavy rains making the fields unplayable the umpires also stopped play due to the fact that three bats flew out of the hands of different players with one of them hitting the Captain of the Wolfpack, Greg Gontaryk. No more games were played. This leaves the standings for the Beast of the East at

Boston 3-1
Long Island 3-1
New Jersey 2-2
Pennsylvania 0-4

Shayne Cantan is pictured here at the plate right before the game was called in a 1-1 tie in the bottom of the first inning

Renegades Win 1st leg of the Beast of the East

Larry Haile gets a base hit against Long Island on his way to a 7 for 12 day and a .583 batting average, 2nd best in the tournament behind teammate Shayne Cantan

The Renegades took 2 out of three games in New York to win the Long Island Classic for the third year in a row. The Renegades got off to a slow start dropping their first contest to the New Jersey Lightning 11-6. The team rebounded to score 10 runs in two innings against their rival, the Long Island Bombers on their way to a 16-8 win. This would be their largest margin of victory against the Bombers in the history of the rivalry. The last contest of the day was against the Pennsylvania Wolfpack which the Renegades won 15-5. Boston won the tie breaker which was based on run differential.

Boston 2 Wins and 1 Loss
Long Island 2 Wins and 1 Loss
New Jersey 2 Wins and 1 Loss
Pennsylvania 0 Wins and 3 Losses

For more information on the Beast of the East, please visit the tournament web page

For more information on these games visit our results page

Renegades Kick off season with a 2-2 start

The Renegades started off the 2010 season in Bolingbrook, Illinois on the weekend of June 12th. This was their 7th year participating in this tournament. The Renegades would play 4 games over two days and battle the elements as well as the other teams. Boston lost game #1 to the Indy Thunder 15-8. They then played a tight match against the Minnesota Fighting Lions and they clung to a 7-5 victory. The third match of the day was against the Kansas All-Stars. The game was suspended in the 4th inning due to rain and picked up at 7:00 am on Sunday morning. With a chance to go to the championship game or potentially play for last place (due to a tie breaker scenario) every run mattered for the Renegades. The 13-7 loss to Kansas caused them to finish one run behind Minnesota in run differential and sent the Renegades to the 7/8 game against the Cleveland Scrappers. Boston defeated Cleveland 8-6 to take 7th place. Click here to see box scores and read more about those games

Left to right front row: Evan Silver, Guy Zuccarello, Sengil Inkiala, Justen Cantan, Dino Vasile, Aqil Sajjad, Joey Buizon
2nd row: Aaron Proctor, Ron Cochran, Shayne Cantan, Rob Weissman, JJ Ward, Bryan Grillo, Darren Black, Matt Nippins

Shayne Cantan with his All star award flanked by his catcher and picther, Rob Werissman and Ron Cochran

Shayne Cantan earned an All-star award for his piece of NBBA hardware as he hit .625 in the 2010 Bolingbrook tournament. He is pictured with his catcher, Rob Weissman and pitcher, Ron Cochran

Duggans Dig in to Help Renegades

On June 5th a team of 11 friends and family of Joey Duggan came to Watertown to take on the Renegades in a charitable game. The game raised $500 for the ball club and opened the eyes of all participants. The game faced a few challenges including losing a field in Franklin, a knee injury to Joey Duggan (who would be unable to play) and weather reports that screamed "cancel the game". Team Duggan was fantastic. They waited till the last possible moment and everyone decided, game on! Mother nature gave us a window of good weather to play the game and cook out. As soon as the food was packed away, the rains came! The final score of the game was Boston 8 and Duggans 0. Though the Duggans did score a few runs after the game hitting and running without their blindfolds on! A great time was had by all.
The Duggan family

Joe, Joey and Terri Duggan
There were two highlites of the game. On the Renegade side, Joey O'Neill made a stop on a ball in deep left field which hit him in the leg then stopped beeping and the beep later came back to life when he scooped it up for his first ever defensive stop in a Renegade uniform. On team Duggan, Joey's mom, Terri was the only player to put a ball into play with a blindfold on.

On offense for the Renegades, JJ Ward and Guy Zuccarello paced the offense with two runs each while Dino Vasile, Joey Buizon, Evan Silver, and Justen Cantan scored once. On Defense Vasile led the way with three stops. Zuccarello (2), Shayne Cantan, Aqil Sajjad, Buizon and Silver each had a stop as well.