Arkansas Baseball Academy players make news

Arkansas Baseball Academy players (past and present) make news the weekend of April 16-18, 2010

Blake Leisenring had a good day at the plate for North Little Rock versus Bryant.

There was a misprint in the paper on Blaine Tanner's unbelievable hitting performance against Little Rock Central High. Blaine had an "inside the parker" homerun, but the paper emphatically stated that he hit "all singles." Unfortunately the person keeping the scorebook, scored the play wrong because the outfielder came charging into to try to catch Blaine's line drive hit, but missed played the ball and never put a glove on the ball. When the outfielder missed the ball by diving at the line drive, the ball rolled to the fence and allowed Blaine Tanner to get a rare "inside the park" homerun.

Former Arkansas Baseball Academy player (Chris Driedric) actually hit a homerun out of the park at Hendrix. Mitchell Powers had a phenomenal day at the plate as well.

Arkansas Baseball Academy makes exciting new partnership

The Arkansas Baseball Academy to partner with the Miracle League of Arkansas

The Arkansas Baseball Academy will help with volunteering with the Miracle League beginning this May. The staff at the academy believe this will fit in with one of the three mission statements, which is Team Building. The staff believes that this will become part of a way for the student-athlete to give back to the community with the understanding that we can't always take, but instead we need to give back.

Arkansas Baseball Academy Exciting Announcements

The Arkansas Baseball Academy Announces:

1. It's official! The Arkansas Baseball Academy is an LLC and is moving within the next month to become a Non-Profit organization.

2. Will start it's first "Inagural Summer Team" 18 & under. The team will be mainly comprised of the seniors from the High School League and underclassmen from high schools that do not play in the high school league during the summer.

Updates on the Senior Class of '10

Drew McMahan from LR Catholic committed to Coffeyville Community College

Jackson Lowry from Pulaski Academy committed to UCA

First Annual End of the Fall Season Banquet for the Arkansas Baseball Academy

On Monday, November 9, 2009, The Arkansas Baseball Academy held its first annual Fall Banquet for the players and parents of the Academy. It was a good event that was to bring everyone back together one last time for fellowship and thanks for the good times in the Fall.

Looking back on the Fall, it was one of the most trying for the Arkansas Baseball Academy staff trying to keep everything on schedule with one of the most "wet" Fall's on record. The Arkansas Baseball Academy only last one full weekend and that was the Louisiania Monroe Weekend, but the staff is determined to pick that tournament up next Fall.

If anyone has any questions or comments, please contact the staff at erabaseball5@gmail.com or erabaseball5@yahoo.com.

Trojan Showcase at UALR's Gary Hogan Field

The Arkansas Baseball Academy wrapped it's fall season with the Trojan Showcase at UALR's Gary Hogan Field taking the Arkansas Express and the Arkansas Select.

The Arkansas Baseball Academy had a successful weekend taking 3of4 in the tournament.

Sunday, October 25, 2009: Round Robin Tournament at UCA

The Arkansas Baseball Academy made a trip back to the University of Central Arkansas to play a round robin tournament against the Alabama Select and Arkansas Baptist Junior College Baseball team.



The day was a successful one for the Arkansas Baseball Academy as they swept the day from both ball clubs.

Next up is the Trojan Showcase at UALR's Gary Hogan Field.