Tampa baseball team eliminated from RBI World Series

Posted Aug 13, 2011 by Eddie Daniels

Updated Aug 18, 2011 at 02:51 PM

After going 3-0 in pool play during this week’s RBI World Series in Minnesota, Tampa Boys & Girls Club RBI baseball team was eliminated Saturday.

The team lost to Union League Boys & Girls Club/Chicago Cubs RBI, 6-0, Saturday morning during the elimination round of the playoffs.

To reach the playoffs of the series, Tampa beat New Jersey, 14-10, downed Cleveland, 7-4, and beat Harrisburg, 15-3, Friday.

The squad, coached by Team X baseball coach Kenny Norman, went 4-0 during the regional tournament, to qualify for the RBI World Series.

Making up the Tampa Rays are: Lenin Sanchez, Carlton White, Leon Cusic, Dexture McCall, Tyler Lawson, Sean Cramer, Eric Comstock, Juan Mercado, Jacob Lopez, James Herget, Jordan Keys, Tino Mention, Einar Muniz, Gabriel Selochan and John Safe.

Launched in 1989 by Major League Baseball, RBI was created to help increase the participation and interest in baseball and softball among inner city youth. Thus far, more than one million kids have participated in the program.

Current MLB players who are RBI alumni include: Carl Crawford, Covelli “Coco” Crisp, Jimmy Rollins, CC Sabathia, Yovani Gallardo, Justin Upton and Dontrelle Willis.

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