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Saturday, May 23, 2015
Page 5A - Malvern Daily Record
HOT SPRING COUNTY T-BALL
Arauco Ballers
Aaron’s Lucky Dogs
The Arauco Ballers are coached by Brent Wheatley and the team consists of Brody
Wheatley, Kevin Wedsted, Michael Maranto, Kimberly Lisenbey, Cayden Hibbard,
Avery Wheatley, Mark-Wesley Smith, Aubre Asher, C.J. Van Tyle, Blake Adams,
Canton Dyer and Joshua Haller. (Photo submitted)
The Aaron’s Lucky Dogs are coached by Barry Groomes and consist of team members Cara Crenshaw, Sophia Groomes, Belle Groomes, Baylor Groomes, Kyleigh
Garner, Whitney Draper, Phalcon Chaney, Nicholas Applegarth, Lyza Crutchfield,
Preston McCoy, Tucker Knight, Braxton Gray, Chloe Hughes and Jasper Carman.
(Photo submitted)
Edward Jones Bulls Sykes Grasshoppers
The Edward Jones Bulls T-ball team is coached by Gerald Black and Katie Black and
the team consists of Nehemiah Milton, Charles Milton, Sam Owen, Taryn Black, Davis
Black, Jaida Hunt, Kendall Watson, Braylen Clegg, Hayden Hanscom, Sarah Kinnu,
Jaecelyn Chadwick and Gavin Erwin. (Photo submitted)
The Sykes Grasshoppers T-ball team is coached by Jessica Womble and Chris
Stovall and includes the team members Makayla Stovall, Richard Matlock, Tyler Dean,
Michael Efurd, Eli Shinn, Tristen Christopher, Cathey Justus, Allison Smith, Aunnica
Priddy, C.J. Simmons, Tyrick Cooper, Aubrey Smith, and Mikael Bennett. (Photo submitted)
Kindy & Elliott/
History of T-ball
Young’s Health Mart
By ERIC MOORE
Editor
The Kindy & Elliot/Young’s Health Mart team is made of the players Deacon Weido,
Kanyon Cobb, Anthony Wyrick, Zaiden Tobias, Hunter Landreth, Elizabeth Sowell,
Jackson Farnam, Asher Graham, Payton Overturf, Cash March, Aa’Myah HollimanBarmore and Konner Meredith. They are coached by Jake Weido. (Photo submitted)
Hitting a ball from a tee
is nothing new for baseball
players, but as a sport itself, T-ball has been around
only since the 1960s.
Baseball players used
tees for years to help develop their swing during
“live-arm” games, which
allowed them to practice
alone or in a setting where
a coach could closely monitor the batter’s technique.
In the 1960s, Dayton
Hobbs, an elementary
school principal in Bagdad,
Fla. was coaching a group
of 14- and 15-year-old
baseball players on their
swings when he noticed a
group of younger children
outside of the fence watching the practice.
Hobbs’ older players
were hitting the balls off
tees in practice to hone
their skills and Hobbs realized the tee could be a
great equalizer for those
with the desire to play but
time.
It wasn’t long before
the game caught on at
U.S. Navy bases across the
United States, as well as in
Europe and Japan.
The sudden success of
the game caused Hobbs
to apply for a patent on
the name and the game in
1970, which happened to
be the same year that the
first T-Ball World Series
was held.
He also won the patent
on the four-ounce official
orange T-ball baseball.
The official rule book,
still in use today, is amended annually and reminds
the adults of a fact that
the children already know:
“this is nothing more than
a game of children’s baseball.”
It reminds parents and
other adults to not put
pressure on the kids playing the game, but rather let
them enjoy it to the best of
their abilities.
Good Luck Teams!
GREGORY KARL CRAIN
Attorney at Law
ROBERT’S LOCKS
Office: 501/332-4300
Fax: 501/332-4332
E-Mail: [email protected]
309 West 3rd Street • Malvern, AR 72104
the lack of skill to hit a
moving ball.
Hobbs soon began promoting the game extolling
the values that T-ball offered, such as:
• inexpensive to play
• readily available help
• parent cooperation
• can be played in small
areas as opposed to large
baseball fields
• minimum equipment
requirement (adding only
a tee to the game of baseball)
• taught youngsters the
basics of baseball
• provided fun for both
boys and girls
His promotion of the
game led to him writing the first official T-ball
baseball rule book.
The game soon gained
worldwide
attention,
thanks to his association
with the United States
Navy and the popularity
of the game in Pensacola,
Fla., which was a hotbed
for naval aviation at the
i’m lovin’ it
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Saturday, May 23, 2015
HOT SPRING COUNTY T-BALL
Farmer’s Ins. Lil Farmers Southern Bancorp
Little Beavers
The Farmers Insurance Lil Farmers, coached by Josh Wilson consists of Jace Wilson,
Campbell Nivens, Blaze Crutchfield, Trevor Hodges, Isaac Tillery, Andrea Knight,
Kayden Chancellor, Sadie Brooks, Carson Looney, Callan Hignight and Asa Wilks.
(Photo submitted)
The Southern Bancorp Little Beavers are coached by Misty Sillivan, Amber Duboise,
Curtis McCauley, and Chris Smith. Team members include Gabriellla Sillivan, Brecker
Callison, Carter Cole, Jaivan Keisler, Hannah Kostelaz, Dallas McCauley, Zaden
Perryman, Brendan Duboise, Jessalynn Duboise, Logan Youngman, Lyla Smith,
Matthew Meredith, Brad Saling and Koby Edie. (Photo submitted)
City Termite & Pest
Little Critters
Little Ballers
Jeremy Johnson coaches the Little Ballers T-ball team with his players: Hayden
Jones, Seeley Johnson, Jeremiah Jimerson, Eva Boyett, Phoenix Hopson, Jillian
Keenan, Isabella McNeely, Jack Hixson-Robinson, Parker Johnson, Khonor Polston,
Dylan Ross, Braylen Ware and Hendrix Mavity. (Photo submitted)
The City Termite and Pest Control Little Critters team includes the players Payne
Puckett, Jaiden Newborn, Carmen Lealie, Ritter Jobe, Braxton Hall, Mylee Crow,
Graceylnn Adams, Carter Adams, Elise Doss, Jaxson Long, Dustin Freeman, Rhett
Spradlin and Cole Mattingly and they are coached by Andrew Jobe. (Photo submitted)
Good Luck, Teams!
Have a fun season!
1275 Willamette Rd. • Malvern, AR
501-337-9400
(Above photo) Members
o f t h e A u ro c o B a l l e r s
race each other to the
fence to be the first to
track down a base hit
during a game at the
Boys & Girls Club of
Malvern and Hot Spring
County earlier this season. (Photo by Matthew
Taber)
Williams Dentistry
Lil Drillers
The Williams Dentistry Lil Drillers is coached by J.R. Hathcock, Marcus Tatum,
Jonathan Henderson and Derek Philips. The team consists of Courtavious Rose, Zane
Hathcock, Tristynn Tatum, Mekhi Tatum, Delamar Phillips, Gunner Bozeman, Zoe
Robertson, Braidyn Gray, Kylie Barbary, Carli Gragg, Tyler Henderson and Easton
Reed. (Photo submitted)
We Love You,
Carmen!
Tracie & Co.
2109 S. Main St. • 332-8811
HAVE
FUN!
Saturday, May 23, 2015
Page 7A - Malvern Daily Record
HOT SPRING COUNTY T-BALL
Malvern National Bank Leopards T-ball to start
tournament
on Tuesday
By ERIC MOORE
Editor
The Malvern National Bank Leopards are coached by Tommy Ball, Bill Ziesmer and P.J. Hughes. Team members
include Konner Ball, Noah Zambrano, Landon Sealy, Nyden Saiz, Gavin Byrd, Jonah Guin, Hunter Hughes, Laiken
Hughes, Jayden Hughes, Khloe Lackey, Lauren Phillips and Abigail Lum. (Photo submitted)
Little Shockers
The Little Shockers are coached by Matt Smith, Matt Malone and Fred Browning and consists of Lane Smith,
Blayne Meek, Jasmine Marks, Isabelle Browning, Logan Malone, Skyler Henderson, Sarinety Golden, Connor
Wooldridge, Jake Stafford, Christian Taylor, Desiree Amos and Benson McElderry. (Photo submitted)
On Tuesday, May 26,
the Boys & Girls Club of
Malvern and Hot Spring
County will hold its annual
T-ball tournament, with 13
teams participating.
The first game will begin
at 6 p.m. and will feature the
Family Practice Association
Panthers taking on the Sykes
Grasshoppers. The game will
be played on Field No. 2
Game 2 will be between
the Little Shockers and the
Aaron’s Lucky Dogs, which
will also begin at 6 p.m. on
Field No. 4
The City Termite and Pest
Control Little Critters and
the Malvern National Bank
Leopards on Field No. 1 at 6
p.m.
The fourth game at 6
p.m. will match up the Little Ballers and the Southern
Bancorp Little Beavers. That
game will take place on Field
No. 3.
The final game of the first
round will be played at 6:50
p.m. on Field No. 1 between
the Farmers Insurance Little Farmers and the Arauco
Ballers.
The winner of Game 1
(Panthers/Grasshoppers)
will advance to play Xtreme
at 6:50 p.m. on Field No. 2,
while the loser will fall to
the loser’s bracket to play at
6 p.m. Thursday, May 28 on
Field No. 3.
The winner of Game 2
(Little Shockers/Lucky Dogs)
will move on to the second
round of the winner’s bracket
on Field No. 4 at 6:50 p.m.
Tuesday to face the winner
of Game 3 (Little Critters/
Leopards). The losers of both
games will fall to the consolation bracket and will play
again on Tuesday night. That
game is at 7:45 p.m. on Field
No. 2.
The winner of Game 4
(Little Ballers/Little Beavers)
will take on the Edward Jones
Bulls in the second round of
the winner’s bracket at 6:50
p.m. on Field No. 3 on Tuesday, while the loser of that
game will fall to the loser’s
bracket and play at 6 p.m.
Thursday on Field No. 4.
The winner of Game 5
(Little Farmers/Ballers) will
move on to face the Williams Dentistry Lil Drillers
on Field No. 1 at 7:45 p.m.
on Tuesday. The defeated
team will drop to the loser’s
bracket and play at 6 p.m. on
Field No. 4 on Thursday.
Because the tournament
is double-elimination, teams
that fall to the loser’s bracket
can only lose one additional
game before they are eliminated from the tournament.
The tournament will continue through Friday, May 29,
with a championship game
between the undefeated representative from the winner’s
bracket and the one-loss team
from the loser’s bracket.
The championship game
will be played at 7:45 p.m.
on Friday on Field No. 2. If
the team from the consolation bracket defeats the team
from the winner’s bracket,
another game will be played
to declare a champion, which
will begin at 8:40 p.m. on
Field No. 2 on Friday.
Family Practice
Xtreme
Association Panthers
Tina Norwood coaches the Panthers T-ball team, which includes Preston Tedford,
Zoey Terry, Brent Hardwick, Ryder Dickerson, Chase Unruh, Joey Conklin, Evan
Cloud, Colton Mabry, Dylan Markowski, Bentley Ross, Cali Hamrick and Easton
Coached by Danny Hedges, Xtreme consists of Kate Hedges, Hannah Crutchfield,
Reed. (Photo submitted)
Jada Joynt, Lydia Villas, Braelyn McEntire, Tayla Tanaka, Mailynn Tanaka, Addi White,
Preslee Teel, Hattie Davis, Rachel Kate Newton, Jaylen Brakebill, Madison Coggins,
Kiptyn Brakebill, Anna Kate Honeycutt and Brynlee Crutchfield. (Photo submitted)
Large crowds routinely show up to cheer on the players in the Boys & Girls Club of
Malvern and Hot Spring County T-ball league. (Photo by Matthew Taber)
Have A Great
Season!
Malvern
River Park Plaza
337-9485