The White Rock Tritons Baseball Club is pleased to announce that Joe McAuley will be joining the club as an assistant to 16U Head Coach Mike Bird for the upcoming season.

A Port Coquitlam native, Joe played baseball for Poco Minor, Coquitlam Little League and Coquitlam Big League during the 90’s focusing mainly on pitching.  In 2000 he was part of the Midget AAA Provincial and Western Champion Tri City Indians.  Over the past number of years Joe  has coached both Bantam and Midget AAA baseball, highlighted as a assistant to coach Bird on the 2009 Bantam AAA Western Canada Champion, Tri City Indians. In addition, Coach McAuley has served  as an instructor for Fred Sabatine, the owner of  the Bullpen Baseball School.

With his addition to our coaching staff, rejoins 18U Head Coach Smithson as yet another former head coach of the Tri Cities Indians, after being appointed to that position just last year by Tri Cities owner, Kyle Williams.

Coach McAuley’s contact information will be posted on our “Contact Page” soon.

We are happy to report the City of Surrey has finally started work on the surfacing project for our infield and warning tracks.

The new playing surface  is scheduled to be ready for the start of our fall season.

Further updates will be posted as the work progresses.

The White Rock Tritons Baseball Club is pleased to announce information regarding the 2010 fall ball. The fall season will kick off September 1, and go until mid October. Both Jr and Sr teams will participate in approximately 18-20 games as well as 15 practices. Each team will play in tournaments as well, the Sr team is in the midst of finalizing a showcase tournament in Florida.

Upon conclusion of the fall season, the Tritons will move inside to the WRSSBA Training Centre which will include weekly instruction by Alan Mauthe former hitting instructor of the Boston Red Sox. Joining the list of guest coaches will also be  Brent Crowther, a former Colorado Rockies AAA pitcher, and former Toronto Blue Jays intern and University of Minnesota grad, Jake Elder who will be the Tritons Strength and Conditioning coach.

Any players from South Surrey/White Rock, Cloverdale, Newton and Tsawassen are welcome to come play for the Tritons. Players outside those areas are required to contact their home association to request a release.

Fees for all returning Tritons are $50 and new Tritons $250 for the fall season. New players are asked to  register on line , please make sure you include your hat  and shirt size.

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Any questions should be forwarded to Sr. Head Coach Russ Smithson.

Parents are reminded to settle any outstanding amounts as soon as possible.  Information is posted on the Parents Page for those wishing to use their PayPal accounts.

Thank You!

SMITHSON BECOMES 8th HEAD COACH IN THE CLUB ‘S 18 YEAR HISTORY

The White Rock Tritons Baseball Club is pleased to announce that current 16U Head Coach Russ Smithson will assume the duties and responsibilities of the 18U team effective July 20th 2010. However in the case  the Tritons 16U season will continue past this date,  Coach Smithson will then assume full duties  on the completion of the teams season.

Current Assistant Coaches Ladoucuer and Sidhoo will be remaining with the senior club in their current capacities.

We are also happy to announce that current 16U Assistant Mike Bird has accepted the Head Coaching position vacated by Coach Smithson. We are very pleased that we are able to fill  these key positions  from within our organization. Coach Bird will assume his responsibilities on the completion of the 16U season.

As we move through the transition process,  all inquiries concerning the senior club are asked to be directed to Mike Joy until further notice. Finally, further additions to the club’s coaching staff  will be announced as they are confirmed.

The 2010 MLB Player Draft continues Today with rounds 2-30 and finishes Wednesday with the remaining 20 rounds.

Congratulations to Langley’s Kellin Deglan on his first round selection. Deglan was selected 22nd overall by the Rangers. To follow the news….go here

Head Coach Brent Swanson has announced he will be resigning his position as Head Coach of the White Rock Tritons 18U club effective on the completion of the club’s 2010 schedule.

Coach Swanson has sited a required commitment to his new business venture and impending marriage next year as the reason he is unable to fully commit to the program for next year. Coach Swanson completes his fourth year as member of the club’s coaching staff, 3rd as the Head Coach.

We wish to take the opportunity to thank Coach Swanson for his contributions to the Tritons program over these past years. We wish him the very best with his future endeavours.

The announcement for Coach Swanson’s replacement will be made later in the week.

Requests for information or related matters for the club should be directed to Mike Joy as Coach Swanson is unavailable for approx. 1 week.

This week’s schedule for both clubs is now posted.

Point Loma advances to Semi versus Cumberland , L-C State Eliminated

2006 Grad Ian MacMaster and his Point Loma Sea Lions  move onto to face Cumberland (Tenn.) for the right to to move into the NAIA World Series finals, scheduled for Thursday. In Tuesday’s  action Point Loma beat Oklahoma City  8-5 ……for more go here!

The other side of the draw saw the top ranked  Lewis- Clarke State Warriors, owners of 16 World Series titles eliminated yesterday by No. 7 Embry-Riddle (Fla) 10-7. Embry-Riddle now moves on to face No. 4 Lee University(Tenn.) in the other semi-final game.

In others news from the JUCO World Series,  CSN defeated Iowa Western  as Bryce Harper went 3-for-5 with two home runs and eight RBIs to help the College of Southern Nevada to a 12-7 victory  in the third round of the Junior College World Series.

CSN moves on the face top ranked San Jacinto in quarter final action today….more