Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Jimmy O’Neill was born on August 21, 1992 in Bradenton, FL. Jimmy played many sports when he was young such as baseball, basketball, and soccer. His favorite was baseball. Jimmy has one brother and he was the person growing up who pushed him the most to excel. His parents Marj and Ed are a huge [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Casey moved to Bradenton at age 6 and started attending IMG baseball camps at age 10. By 14 he enrolled at IMG as an 8th grader and he has been at IMG now for 5 years. His achievements in baseball include a 3 time preseason all american 3 time season all american, an under armour [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Patrick Albrittain was born in Dunn Loring, Virgina at Fairfax Hospital on October 10, 1991. He played many sports throughout his life, baseball, basketball, soccer and football. However, his favorite was always baseball which is the reason he attends IMG Academies. He is the oldest of 4 kids from his parents Margaret and Chris Albrittain. He [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Chad Clifton was born in Nacogdoches, TX on December 23, 1991. He’s handsome at 6’4” with a muscular 200 pound build. He has been at IMG for one year and will be attending Texarkana Junior College in the fall and hopes to play D-1 baseball in the future. He is the son of Tami Clifton [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Richard Baerga was born in New York, New York on September 2, 1992. He has been at IMG for three years playing baseball. He is going to Siena College in Albany, New York next fall. He is going to play baseball there. They are part of the MAAC conference and make it to the regional [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Carlos Samoza was born in Houston, Texas but moved to Charlottesville, Virginia before coming down to the amazing IMG baseball academy. He has been at the extremely demanding Pendleton School for two years and it has been an amazing two years at that. He has met some of his now closest friends down here. Carlos [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Some might say that Gavin Patton is a quite, shy, not very out going kid. Well I thought the same thing when I first met him he quickly changed my mind after just a few days this year. Gavin is most likely the funniest man I have ever been around in my life and to [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 27, 2010
Being a student athlete is one of the most difficult things to do in the world in high school and in college. However this young man has mastered the student part and if it was not for a knee injury this season he would have continued to become a better baseball player. If you have [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: May 25, 2010
It has been a crazy year for many of us, particularly for me. I am very thankful that the year is almost over. Baseball here at IMG wasn’t as fun or the same as it has been in the past and the level of maturity in the academy went down drastically. The Varsity team underachieved [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: May 16, 2010
Last week the IMG Baseball Academy had the great opportunity to announce the signing of another one of it’s seniors. Richard Baerga has signed with Siena University in upstate New York, a big time division one school in the Northeast. Rich is from New York and I believe this school will be a great fit [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: May 2, 2010
A post-grad baseball player has the ideal life; a life that anyone would ask for. They wake up every morning around 11am, head down to the cafeteria to get lunch and make their way out to the field around 1.30pm for practice. Their day concludes with an evening lifting session or for many, University of [...]
Posted by: dk545 on: April 27, 2010
Can’t you remember the first day of school? Christmas seemed so far away at that point, but all of sudden Thanksgiving approached and no one realized how fast the year was going by. I felt as if I had not fully gotten used to my new schedule as apposed to last years’. After Christmas the [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: April 25, 2010
As the year winds down here at Pendleton and on campus, the IMG baseball academy is picking up the pace as we begin our own inter-squad tournament this coming Monday. There are nearly sixty kids in the Academy, all of which have been divided into four teams that will compete against one another on Monday, [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: April 25, 2010
For those of you that were here last year, you might remember the likes of; L.J. Mazzilli, Quinn Pippin, Adam Zabel, John Ryan Murphy and Jack Daru to name a few. After battling out their senior season here at IMG, they were ready to graduate and move on to the college and professional rankings. John [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: April 19, 2010
The 2010 Pendleton Panther Varsity baseball season has come to a close, but it wasn’t our storybook ending. The team ended up finishing 10 and 10 on the year, which is way down from the team’s 31 and 1 record last year. There are many fingers being pointed in different directions, but at the end [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: April 13, 2010
The Pendleton varsity team made their way out to California this pat week to compete in the National Classic, the most competitive high school baseball tournament in the country. The tournament guaranteed us a total of four games but the importance was on winning the first game, allowing us to move on to the championship [...]
Posted by: dk545 on: April 13, 2010
Can you believe two years ago Jason Hayward was just in high school? Bell believe it because he is now a starter for the Atlanta Braves! Hayward was known as the best minor league prospect for this years season. Some people said he was to good to be true, meaning he wasn’t what all [...]
Posted by: dk545 on: April 13, 2010
This years Pendleton Varsity baseball team traveled to California to play the nations most elite competition in the National Bat Classic. The first day we wake up around 2:30 a.m, to take a charter bus to tampa because our flight was around six. After we all get settled on the plane and land in Houston [...]
Posted by: dk545 on: March 24, 2010
Earlier this afternoon the Pendleton Panthers faced Dunedin High School from Tampa Florida. In the second inning Dunedin scored one run on two hits off of Jimmy Oneill. Soon enough on the bottom half of the inning, Casey Mullhalland hit a towering fly ball over the left field fence to tie the game up at [...]
Posted by: jmgreen93 on: March 4, 2010
Pendleton Baseball has another win under their belt. Coach Elias also has a couple more inches added to his mustache. A previous deal made before the season started stated that if the team goes five and zero, for the first five games, then Coach Elias must grow out his mustache until they lose. Being six [...]
Posted by: jmgreen93 on: February 24, 2010
After all the dreaded 75′s ran, after all the bunt defense drills, and after all the first and third play practices, the Pendleton JV team has gone 4-0 with somewhat of a swagger. Like last year, there is plenty of talent but something is different. It seems as though people are not pressing, nor are [...]
Posted by: jmgreen93 on: February 22, 2010
As the clouds started to cover up the sun, and the temperature faded back down to the low 60′s to upper 50′s with the wind blowing around 15 mph, the Pendleton JV team took the field with Hector Ponce on the mound. Defeating a team from New Jersey at Al Lang field, and Bishop Verot [...]
Posted by: dk545 on: February 18, 2010
In the Semi Final match the Pendleton School versus Lake Wales highschool was one for the ages. Jimmy O’Neill took the Hill for the Panthers, and did a splendid job to say the least. He pitched 6.2 innings while only giving up two runs. It may sound as if he did not pitch well but [...]
Posted by: dk545 on: February 9, 2010
The 2010 Pendleton Varsity team makes debut on Thursday night against Clearwater, in Clearwater Florida. In 2009, the team was almost unbeatable, they had pitching, plenty of offense, and amazing defense. Although that is hard to follow, the 2010 team has the opportunity to do so. Jimmy O’neill is on the hill for the Panthers [...]
Posted by: dillonmoyer on: October 14, 2009
On Wednesday, the IMG Baseball Academy walked (literally) over to the campus of State College of Florida to play the manatees. The Baseball Academy played SCF earlier in the year and lost 8-2 so they were looking for a win in their rematch. The game started out pretty close but SCF is one of the [...]
Posted by: lrogersimg on: September 25, 2009
Baseball is a great sport and it has been played for over 200 years. There have been a lot of great players that have played throughout the years. It is one of the hardest sports to play, because the game of baseball is so challenging. There are a lot of teams in the MLB. There are two divisions [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: September 23, 2009
Hard throwing right-handed pitcher Blake Perry will make his official visit to the University of Kentucky this weekend. Perry committed to Kentucky over the summer and is very excited about the situation on and off the field, commenting, “UK has the best academic support system. Obviously school is the main thing, not baseball. You have [...]
Posted by: dillonmoyer on: September 22, 2009
The IMG Baseball Academy started their fall season this past weekend at the World Wood Bat Qualifier. This tournament consisted of many teams trying to qualify for the World Wood Bat tournament later this fall in Jupiter, Florida. To win this tournament a single team would have to win seven games in four days. The [...]
Posted by: mwmbaseball23 on: September 22, 2009
The IMG Baseball Academy made it to the quarter-finals of the WWBA Florida Qualifier in Ft. Myers, Florida. In our first game on Friday, we played the World of Baseball Angels. We faced a few good left handed pitchers and only managed 3 runs. However, our pitcher, Jimmy O’Neill, pitched really well and we allowed [...]
Posted by: imgandrew99 on: September 14, 2009
The IMG Baseball Academy gets ready for the tournament in Ft. Myers. All of our players are getting prepared for the World Wood Bat Tournament this weekened. In our coaches’ minds, they will figure out who is going to play in this tournament. Well, I don’t know who’s going and not going, but I know that [...]
