The MC Renegades, a 13U travel baseball team playing in the Central Jersey Area, is seeking quality players, especially pitchers and catchers. Players must be born after May 1, 1995. The team will be having indoor winter training workouts starting in January and then will play in a spring travel baseball league, including tournaments. The team is looking for dedicated players.

A few slots are still available. If interested, contact Les Kramsky at 732-239- 6767 or lesrkramskyesq@yahoo.com

The Manalapan Flamethrowers U-11 travel baseball team took to the fields in frigid cold weather in the hopes to add two more wins to their already impressive undefeated 10-0 season. They needed to first win their semifinal game, and then it would be on to the championships. The Flamethrowers did just that, by first defeating the Manalapan Cyclones, 7-1, in Saturday's semifinal game.

Marc Goldstein, the winning pitcher in that semifinal game, struck out seven, walked four, allowed no hits, and gave up one unearned run in five innings. Then Jake Kupfer came in the sixth, striking out two of the four batters that he faced, and shut the door to finish the game. Goldstein was also one of the hitting stars of that game, along with Kevin Tress and Thomas Malik, who strung together a couple of hits each and RBIs, along with Christian DeVito getting a key hit and doubles coming from Jake Kupfer and Steven Knable.This was just what they needed to move them into the championship round.

Now the Flamethrowers (11-0) were right where they wanted to be — in the National League Championship game against Hamilton Gold (9-2). The Flamethrowers called on Thomas Malik to pitch in the championship game. This would be Malik's first time back on the mound, after a two-month layoff due to injuries. With Malik on the mound throwing strikes, the Flamethrowers would jump out to a 9-0 lead in the first two innings. They had great defensive plays from William Meany, Kyle Glickson, Steven Knable and an outstanding inning-ending diving catch in left field from Jake Kupfer, as well as a key put-out at second base from catcher Jordan Gonzalez, up to this point.

Thomas Malik, the winning pitcher, would go 3 1/3 innings to this point, not allowing a hit, striking out two, and walking one, before his defense failed him, and allowing Hamilton to come back and score seven runs in the top of the fourth. Now the Flamethrowers would have to dig deep, after this devastating inning and see if they had the character, skills, and heart, that it would take to hold the lead and finish this game, and to take home the championship. To this point, William Meany and Nick Sigismondi each drove in a couple of pairs of runs. Other key hits came from Thomas Malik, as well as walks from Kyle Glickson and Marc Goldstein, to add to the scoring, along with RBIs from Jordan Gonzalez, Kevin Tress, Christian DeVito, and Jake Kupfer. In the bottom of the fourth, the Flamethrowers would put up another run, to make it 10-7.

They would now call on Jake Kupfer, the team's lefty, to start the fifth inning, and moved Malik to first base. Kupfer would stay in and throw the last two innings and get the save. But in the fifth, Hamilton would threaten again as they would score one run and have men at first and third and one out. Malik then made an outstanding save-theday, inning-ending double play, doubling up the runner at first, to stop Hamilton's rally. Kupfer would go again in the sixth inning to finish the game and end the perfect season with a final-game-winning strikeout, defeating Hamilton 10-8.

The Flamethrowers succeeded in attaining an undefeated season of 12-0, and winning the USABL National League Championship.

Former Rutgers All-American and current St. Louis Rams running back Brian Leonard returns to campus December 4 to sign copies of the Rutgers University Football Vault, a collaborative book detailing the extensive history of the Rutgers football program.

Leonard will join author and Rutgers archivist Thomas J. Frusciano for the two-hour signing of the unique tribute to Rutgers' gridiron history from 2-4 p.m. Dec. 4 at the RutgersUniversityBookstore. The event will take place hours before the Rutgers football game against Louisville at 7:30 p.m. at Rutgers Stadium.

The bookstore is located at One Penn Plaza, Ferren Mall in New Brunswick. For more information, contact the bookstore at (732) 246-8448.