2024 East KY Cal Ripken State Champions
South Lex 12U,11U & 9 U all won their respective State Tournaments
Former SLYB Star to Play in Super Regional
Former SLYB all-star player Brendan Hord plays a significant role on the Evansville Purple Aces baseball team that won the Greenville Regional in college baseball’s 2024 Road to Omaha. Evansville, the 4 seed, battled through the winner’s bracket to win the Regional, upsetting host East Carolina 6-5 in the final game.
Hord played for legendary coach Donnie Warner on the South Lexington Cardinals in the major league from 2010 through 2013 and was a red team all-star for each of the four years. Brendan was a star on the 12u Cal Ripken World Series team that made it to the Final Four in 2013 in the Series played in Hammond, Indiana. Like he is today for the Purple Aces, he was the starting catcher for that South Lexington team.
Hord has blasted 8 Home Runs and driven in 39 runs for Evansville on the season. His team faces Tennessee in the Knoxville Super Regional and will advance to the College World Series if they beat the Vols in the best of three series.
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2023 11U Cal Ripken World Series Champions!
SOUTH LEXINGTON CAPTURES 11U CAL RIPKEN WORLD SERIES South Lexington’s 11u all-star team defeated last year’s 10u champions from Marlton, New Jersey in an exciting 3 to 2 victory in extra innings on Saturday in Ocala, Florida. Brady Tomazic got the scoring started for SL in the first inning. After singling to lead-off the game and advancing to third on a single by Jace Simmons, Tomazic scored from third on a pick-off attempt at first. SL added a run in the third inning. Houston Handshoe singled and stole second. Cooper Kearns drove him home with a two-out single. Grady Williams started on the mound for SL. He kept the New Jersey team scoreless until they scratched for a run in the 4th when they scored on a sacrifice fly. Earlier in the inning, right fielder Brady Kallop forced-out a runner at second on what appeared to be sure single that would have loaded the bases with no outs. SL went to the bottom of the 6th with a 2-1 lead. Williams was able to work out of a bases-loaded 1 out jam by coaxing a sacrifice fly to right that tied the game at 2, followed by pop-up to the mound to send the game to extra innings. In the top of the 8th, Handshoe and Simmons singled to put the pressure on Marlton. With no outs, the Marlton shortstop made a fantastic stop on a hard-hit ball by Kearns and turned a double play. However, the speedy Handshoe never slowed down after rounding third and scored the winning run just ahead of the throw to the plate from the first baseman. In the bottom of the 8th, with a 3-2 lead, Tomazic replaced Williams on the mound and needed just two pitches to induce a double play to record the save. Williams was awarded the star of the game in the championship game. He earned the win working 7 1/3 innings and allowed just 3 hits. The Cal Ripken World Series title is the fourth such title in South Lexington’s history which dates back to 1956.
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South Lexington Youth Baseball
We are a Cal Ripken Baseball affiliate located in Southern Fayette County and offer a highly competitive youth baseball league for kids starting at 4 years old and up to 12 years old. We strive to give the children of our community a safe and fun place to learn the game of baseball the right way and compete at the highest level.
SLYB prides itself in a great baseball tradition that dates back to the 1950's, winning 3 12U World Series titles and routinely sending qualifying teams to the 10 and 12 year old Cal Ripken World Series.
