California Collegiate League

GLENDALE — The following are odds and ends from the local sports scene. ANGELENOS RELEASE PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE Glendale's and the California Collegiate League's newest baseball team, the Glendale Angelenos, have formed a preliminary schedule for their upcoming inaugural season. According to Tony Riviera , the coach and team president of the Glendale squad, a few more games will be added to the 50-game schedule. Nevertheless, the first game in Glendale Angeleno history will be a nonleague contest at home at Stengel Field against the East Los Angeles Dodgers.

GLENDALE — By midsummer, baseball games are usually already little more than a memory at Stengel Field. But when the summer of 2011 really starts heating up, local baseball will be just getting into full swing. The California Collegiate League, one of the premiere amateur collegiate summer baseball leagues in the country, announced on Friday that it will be expanding into Glendale, where its newest franchise will take up residence at Stengel Field. "Bringing a collegiate league to the city of Glendale is definitely going to be one of the best things to happen to this area," said Glendale Community College baseball Coach Chris Cicuto, whose team is one of the primary residents of Stengel Field along with the Crescenta Valley High baseball team.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — With a direct hand in five of the first six runs scored by the winning American squad, members of the Glendale Angelenos made sure their host status wasn't the only impact the first-year California Collegiate League club would have on the league's midsummer showcase. Its grandstands festooned with red, white and blue signs and balloons and the brick wall circling the backstop draped in stars and stripes bunting, Stengel Field opened its doors for the third annual CCL All-Star Game and Prospect Showcase and drew a crowd of fans, family, a horde of professional scouts and the cameras of Fox Sports West to get a look at the best from one of the top summer collegiate leagues in the country.

GLENDALE — When the California Collegiate League announced its intention in September to expand into Glendale this coming summer, the news figured to raise the profile of amateur baseball in the Jewel City. It's certainly had that effect on the Glendale Community College baseball program, according to Coach Chris Cicuto, who largely credits the arrival of the Glendale Angelenos with adding a respected Major League Baseball veteran to his coaching staff and an infusion of experienced players to his roster.

GLENDALE — The following are updates on area athletes at the collegiate level. Jesse Meaux (Glendale High, 2007) senior pitcher, UC Santa Barbara baseball: Meaux's lengthy ride through the 2010 National Baseball Congress World Series with his summer team, the Santa Barbara Foresters of the California Collegiate League, finished on Friday in Wichita with an 11-6 loss to the Seattle Studs in the semifinals, resulting in a...

I attended the recent Glendale Angelenos baseball game at Stengel Field and witnessed an exciting game as they played the SoCal A’s. These teams compete in the California Collegiate League, which is comprised of outstanding players from Glendale and other areas of the United States. The intimacy of Stengel Field, a real Glendale treasure, plus youth fans participating in on-the-field contests made for a real, old time, family ball game experience. Without a doubt this is the best baseball value in town.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — When Aaron Brown sent a two-run shot beyond the 380-foot center-field fence at Stengel Field, it meant more than just an exclamation mark on a Glendale Angelenos come-from-behind win. In securing the 11-4 nonleague victory Thursday night over South Bay, the Angelenos kept alive their hopes of becoming the first team in the history of the California Collegiate League to post a .500 record in their inaugural season....

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Serving as a formal groundbreaking for the California Collegiate League expansion team that will begin to call Stengel Field home in the summer of 2011, the press conference held on the venerated ballpark's infield on Wednesday afternoon was attended by officials from the league, the ballclub and the City of Glendale beaming proudly over a new partnership that promises to bring some of the best amateur baseball in the country...

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Though the members of the Glendale Angelenos lost their first California Collegiate League contest in front of more than an estimated 100 fans at Stengel Field on Friday night, a late-inning comeback attempt left them thinking positive for the remainder of their first league series. The Angelenos, a first-year team, struck out 14 times and left nine runners on base en route to a 12-7 loss to Team Vegas. "This was a game we didn't want to lose, but we will get this under our belts," Glendale Coach Tony Riviera said.

Aside from going independent after severing ties with the California Collegiate League last winter, the Glendale Angelenos didn't change a whole lot about their approach to fielding a summer collegiate baseball team. Most of the frontline players from last year's inaugural season are back and General Manager and Coach Tony Riviera has continued to heavily mine talent from Glendale Community College's ranks to fill in the rest of the lineup. "Probably the most important part of baseball is consistency, so what I wanted to make sure of is that we had the opportunity to put up a really talented season," said Riviera, whose team will once again play its home games at Stengel Field, where it opens the season at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday against the EastL.A.

GLENDALE - Though it didn't produce a winning record in its first year of existence, members of the Glendale Angelenos said expectations were largely met. On and off the field, the season, which began in late-May and concluded Sunday, proved to be a challenge for the baseball team that finished 24-26 and 11-25 for sixth place in the competitive California Collegiate League. The original roster began to turn over almost immediately after a bevy of players left the Angelenos after they were selected in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in early June.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE - Infield singles are rare for Chad Nacapoy. If he hits one, he's running with his head down while chugging to first base. Nacapoy, a catcher on the Glendale Angelenos, came across that situation in the bottom of the ninth inning with the bases loaded and two out. Nacapoy hit a hard grounder to third and just beat the throw to first base to give host Glendale an 8-7 California Collegiate League victory against the Major...

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — When Aaron Brown sent a two-run shot beyond the 380-foot center-field fence at Stengel Field, it meant more than just an exclamation mark on a Glendale Angelenos come-from-behind win. In securing the 11-4 nonleague victory Thursday night over South Bay, the Angelenos kept alive their hopes of becoming the first team in the history of the California Collegiate League to post a .500 record in their inaugural season....

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — With a direct hand in five of the first six runs scored by the winning American squad, members of the Glendale Angelenos made sure their host status wasn't the only impact the first-year California Collegiate League club would have on the league's midsummer showcase. Its grandstands festooned with red, white and blue signs and balloons and the brick wall circling the backstop draped in stars and stripes bunting, Stengel Field opened its doors for the third annual CCL All-Star Game and Prospect Showcase and drew a crowd of fans, family, a horde of professional scouts and the cameras of Fox Sports West to get a look at the best from one of the top summer collegiate leagues in the country.

GLENDALE — Glendale Angelenos Coach Tony Riviera can sense the buzz leading up to the third annual California Collegiate League All-Star Game. The best that the CCL has to offer will flock to venerable Stengel Field, where there will be plenty of local ties on hand with the Fox Sports West cameras rolling. The exhibition contest will begin at 6 p.m. today and will feature 72 players. "There's a lot of excitement and hopefully it will be the first of many being held at Stengel Field," said Riviera, who will be a part of the National team's coaching staff.

I attended the recent Glendale Angelenos baseball game at Stengel Field and witnessed an exciting game as they played the SoCal A’s. These teams compete in the California Collegiate League, which is comprised of outstanding players from Glendale and other areas of the United States. The intimacy of Stengel Field, a real Glendale treasure, plus youth fans participating in on-the-field contests made for a real, old time, family ball game experience. Without a doubt this is the best baseball value in town.

Glendale Angelenos outfielder Sako Chapjian was added to the California Collegiate League All-Star team over the weekend following a big game on Friday night. After slugging two home runs, including a walk-off grand slam, in the Angelenos' 10-7 win over the Conejo Oaks, the former Hoover High and Glendale Community College standout was a last-minute addition to the rosters released Friday morning by Commissioner Pat Burns. TRhe game will be played at 6 p.m. July 13 at Stengel Field

GLENDALE — Stengel Field will be the home of the 2011 California Collegiate League All-Star game and the team that calls the venerable ballpark home the rest of the summer — the Glendale Angelenos — will be well-represented at the July 13 exhibition, with a total of nine players selected. The CCL Americans will host the CCL Nationals in game's third annual installment, which will be televised live at 6 p.m. on Fox Sports West, and Angelenos can be found on both squads' rosters, as compiled by CCL Commissioner Pat Burns and released on Friday.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE — A well-placed single with the bases loaded by Sako Chapjian might have been all the Glendale Angelenos needed to score two runs and win Friday night's California Collegiate League game against the Conejo Oaks at Stengel Field. Instead, the Angelenos got a towering, walk-off grand slam from their right fielder out of Glendale Community College by way of Hoover High that won the game, 10-7, and could just be the rallying point the first-year CCL club needed to spark its slow-starting season.