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TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME Nothing says springtime quite like the crack of a baseball, the snap of a sunflower seed shell and a trip to the snack bar at Valley Oak Park where for five decades thousands of kids have been passing time playing America’s favorite pastime. The sport is alive and flourishing in Arden and Carmichael with hundreds of children competing on area Little League teams from Eastern, Arden Park and Carmichael. Volunteer coaches, managers, organizers and groundskeepers keep a lot of balls in the air in the name of family fun, athletic development and friendly competition. How will this year’s teams stack up? They might follow in the footsteps of last year’s Arden Little League Majors players who became District 5 Champions, the first Arden Little League team to do so in 24 years. The team was comprised of nine first-year Major players and only two second-year players including Jack and Nick Little, Zach Schmidt, Coleman Dupre, Esteban Lee, Daniel Giberson, Andrew Condrin, Max Kitay, John Fuhrman, Dylan Dao and Will Heron. Steve Dupre managed the team with the help of assistant coaches Josh Schmidt and Jason Little.
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