July 5, 2009

Lions Continue to be Boys of Summer

Reid and Carls with the Grizzlies

Brett Halstead at the plate

Several members of the Vanguard Lions baseball team continue to play the game of baseball after the collegiate season has concluded.  VU's Jordan Oseguera (RHP, Taylorsville, UT), Jordan Wishmyer (RHP, Newport Beach, CA), Brett Siegmund (RHP/IF, Diamond Bar, CA), Brett Halstead (OF/1B, Redondo Beach, CA), Brian Carmona (IF, Whittier, CA), Jake Wood (OF, Lancaster, CA), Chris Carls (RHP, Windsor, CO), and Bryce Reid (LHP, Lake Elsinore, CA) are among those extending the baseball season into the summer as they compete in various collegiate baseball leagues across the country, with many hoping to increase their opportunity of pursuing a professional baseball career.

Carls and Reid, pictured to the upper right, are competing in Wyoming together for the Cheyenne Grizzlies of the Mountain Collegiate League.  Oseguera, Wishmyer, Siegmund, and Halstead (pictured at right) are playing more locally for the So Cal Bombers in the Southern California Collegiate League.  Carmona is also in the Southern California  Collegiate League, playing for the East Los Angeles Dodgers, while Wood was hitting .365 with 5 RBIs for the for the LA Cardinals of the Stan Musial League.

Use the following links to follow these participating Lions with their respective teams in their summer baseball leagues.

Cheyenne Grizzlies: http://www.cheyennegrizzlies.com/
Mountain Collegiate League: http://www.mcbl.net/welcome.html

So Cal Bombers: http://www.socalbombers.org/

East LA Dodgers:  http://www.eastladodgers.org/
SCC Baseball League:  http://www.sccbaseball.com/index.html

Chris Carls Cheyenne Grizzlies	Bryce Reid Cheyenne Grizzlies	Brian Carmona East LA Dodgers	Jake Wood LA Cardinals
Jordan Oseguera So Cal Bombers	Jordan Wishmyer So Cal Bombers	Brett Siegmund So Cal Bombers	Brett Halstead So Cal Bombers