2019 Rover News


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Rover Baseball performs Community Service this Christmas Season
December 15, 2019

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Zoned Training January and February 2020
December 6, 2019

The Easton High School Baseball program is providing a unique opportunity once again to help your son train this winter in a professional indoor facility with top - notch instruction from people with professional experience and knowledge. Our program has been offered the chance to have the entire facility reserved for our boys 8 straight Sundays from 11:30am-1:00pm beginning Jan. 5, 2019. We had a tremendous experience in 2018 and 2019 at this facility.

We are looking to organize travel arrangements through EASD school bus. The trip is about 35-40 minutes from Easton. The Facility is called - Zoned Sports Academy and is located at 24 Kearney Street in Bridgewater, NJ….website is www.zonedinc.com / Phone # is 732-537-1770.

Players will receive on each Sunday instruction on all facets of the game. Pitchers and Catchers will receive specific instruction as well as infielders and outfielders. All players will hit and be instructed in batting cage work and also face live pitchers with the expertise of professional instructors along with members of the Easton coaching staff.

Most importantly – this opportunity will give all of our boys a chance to improve their skills in a no stress environment with all of their teammates in a non-tryout setting. Participation in this opportunity is NOT a guarantee of making any EASD Baseball team. Tryout periods in March are the official time period designated for EASD teams. This opportunity restricts no one by ability. All grades are welcome. Grades 8-12 are the range and we currently have limited spots remaining. There are 40 spots total and will fill quickly. Please contact Coach LaDuca at laducac@eastonsd.org if interested ASAP.

Cost of the program will be $200 per player for the 8 lessons made payable to" Easton Baseball Diamond Club". This payment must be made by Sunday Jan. 5, 2019.

Questions can be sent to laducac@eastonsd.org in email form.

Thank you!
Easton Baseball Coaching Staff

EAHS Baseball Christmas Cookies and Christmas Tree Fundraisers
November 25, 2019

Easton Baseball is offering a Cookie Sale Fundraiser for the Christmas holiday period.

Please see the attached order forms for details on price. All orders must be given to any baseball coach by Friday, December 6th. Pick-up scheduled for Thursday, December, 19th. Site details to be announced at a later date.

Any questions should be directed to Coach LaDuca at laducac@eastonsd.org

Click here to download the Cookie Fundraiser Product Details
Click here to download the Cookie Fundraiser Order Form


The Easton Area High School Baseball Team is selling Christmas Trees as a fundraiser this holiday season. Trees are sold right off the Easton High Baseball Field located off the Route 22 Exit Ramp and 25th street entrance to EAHS.

Douglas and Fraser Firs are available in various heights.
$35 for 6-7 foot trees, $40 for 7-8 ft. trees (Douglas or Fraser)
$50 for Douglas 8-10 ft. and $55 for Fraser Fir 8-10 ft. trees.

Hours: 4-8pm Week nights / 10am-7pm Weekends

Sale begins – Saturday - Nov. 30, 2019 until stock is gone.

Support the EAHS Baseball Team and have a great Holiday Season! Visit www.roverbaseball.com for details and news!

130th Anniversary of Easton Baseball - Apparel Sale
October 31, 2019
Easton Baseball Apparel Sale
2020 marks the 130th Anniversary of Easton Area High School Baseball.

@roverbaseball and www.roverbaseball.com are holding an Online Apparel Sale. All orders will be done for Christmas.

The store opens today and closes Nov 15th.

Click here to access the store.


Fall Baseball Schedule for the week of Sept. 3-6
September 2, 2019

Tuesday 9/3 - Varsity game versus Nazareth at 4pm at Home

Wednesday 9/4- Grade 8-9-10 practice on Main Varsity field from 4:00-5:30pm with Coach Bisco

Thursday 9/5 - Varsity Game versus Northampton at 4pm at Home

Fall Baseball Practice Begins Thursday
August 27, 2019

There will be a practice for Grade 11 and 12 Fall Baseball on Thursday after school at 2:45pm on the Varsity field. Practice will run until 4:30. All grade 11 and 12 players who signed up with Coach LaDuca should attend. Varsity First game - Tuesday Sept. 3 at home vs. Nazareth at 4pm.

Grades 8-9-10 will begin with practice next week and will be announced on this site within the next few days. First Game is Sept. 9 against Central Catholic at Home at 4pm.

2019 Fall Baseball Announcement
August 13, 2019

Easton will be participating in our annual 2019 Fall baseball league in conjunction with other high schools in the area starting in early September. Freedom, Whitehall, Bethlehem Catholic, PM East, and Central Catholic are a part to just name a few. Generally, it includes about 10 teams and the season runs through approximately mid October. Generally, the schedule will have us playing two games a week on average during school days from Monday through Thursday. We do not have any scheduled weekend games which allows players to play tournament ball on weekends if they so desire.

The league is not affiliated with Easton High School Athletics due to PIAA rules out of season. Therefore the league will charge a fee for each team and player to pay for Insurance through USSSA, Balls, Umpires, Shirts and other league costs. The cost is determined by the need for all of the listed expenses. Again - The school does not pay for anything related to this program in the fall. The league feels the costs to be very reasonable as the goal of the league is to provide players with an outlet to improve their game in an inexpensive way.

In the past a fee of $125 was charged - we would expect that figure to remain constant. This fee can be made out to Easton Baseball. Players will be expected to bring the fee to the first practice or school as school begins.

Players entering grades 8-12 in 2019-20 are welcome to participate. We will field two teams based on age and grade level and ability level as well.

Players interested in participating in the fall - should send Coach LaDuca their the following bits of information at laducac@eastonsd.org by August 20.

Email and Player Cell Phone Contact #:
Birthdate:
Shirt Size:
Full Name and Grade Level in Fall 2018:

Rovers Top Stroudsburg, Move on to 2nd Round of District XI Playoffs
May 22, 2019

By Shawn Suchy | Pocono Record Sports Writer

EASTON – With its season in jeopardy, Stroudsburg provided a late rally.

Unfortunately for the Mounties, it was too little, too late.

No. 5 Stroudsburg fell short 5-3 to No. 4 Easton in the District 11 Class 6A baseball quarterfinals at Charles Richards Field on Wednesday.

The loss marks the end of the Mounties season and the end for a talented senior class at Stroudsburg. Seven seniors contributed to Wednesday1s effort and Stroudsburg battled to the final out of the game.

"I love this group of seniors – I really do," Stroudsburg head coach Phil Stokes said. "They are competitors and I really enjoyed coaching them, that1s for sure.

"I mean, I1ve seen these guys since they were little."

With Stroudsburg trailing 5-0 in the top of the seventh, senior Luis Francisco entered the game as a pinch hitter and got the Mounties started with a rip to the left field wall for a double. Logan Sodl followed with a walk and senior Tyler Yarnall cracked a single through the left side to load the bases.

After an out was recorded on an infield fly, senior Ben Stokes brought in the first run of the game for Stroudsburg with a sacrifice fly to deep right field and after a walk to Danny Orrego, senior Owen Christy brought home two more runs with a single to left field.

But with the Mounties threatening with an epic comeback, Easton1s Dom Mayorca struck out Jordan Wenzel looking to send the Red Rovers to the district semifinal on Sunday against No. 8 Emmaus.

"We had our chances," Stokes said. "I mean at the end of the day, I think their kid pitched really well and got them out of jams and you know that1s baseball."

The Mounties loaded the bases three times in the game, but only capitalized on their last opportunity.

Easton1s Eric Gustofson started for the Red Rovers and struggled with command early walking Breithaupt, Stokes and Orrego to start the game. After a couple mound visits, Gustofson settled down and earned swinging strikeouts of Christy and Wenzel then escaped trouble with a check-swing putout of Benny Pembleton.

Stroudsburg loaded the bases again in the third, but Gustofson once again was able to work out of it. Easton1s starter went six innings allowing four hits, struck out six and picked up the victory.

The Mounties countered with junior right-hander Dylan Budhai. Budhai got into trouble himself in the first inning, but the Red Rovers were able to come up with the big hit.

With the bases loaded, Nick Yannuzzelli had a two-run single and a third run came in to score after the ball was thrown to the back stop. Easton added two more runs in the third inning after a two-run single from Brett Stewart.

"He1s had a heck of an end to the season," Stokes said. "He got the win against Liberty, he got the win against Pleasant Valley and if it wasn1t for us throwing the ball away against Liberty, he had a shutout.

"He threw shut-out innings against Pleasant Valley too and you know I thought he gave us a chance."

With a runner on first with one out in the third inning, Ben Stokes came on to pitch and shut the Red Rovers down the rest of the game. Stokes saw 11 batters and retired all of them which included seven strikeouts.

Stokes, a second-team All-Conference selection as a pitcher, added to his impressive resume on the mound this season. Stokes, who is also a first-team selection at shortstop, struck out 64 batters in 40 1-3 innings this season and only allowed 22 hits.

Easton only had four hits in the game, but timely hits with runners in scoring position was the difference for the Red Rovers.

Stokes, Breithaupt, and Pembleton also had hits for the Mounties. Pembleton1s would-be-triple in the sixth inning was wiped out when the senior, who appeared to slide under the tag at third, was called out.

"Down to the last at bat, they competed and that1s what I really would say about our group of guys," coach Stokes said. "They worked hard and won our division and I1m just proud of the way that they conducted themselves on the field. "

Parkland baseball saves itself with double play to hold off Easton
April 23, 2019

Photo courtesy of Kyle Craig | lehighvalleylive.com.


By Kyle Craig | lehighvalleylive.com

Photo courtesy of Kyle Craig | lehighvalleylive.com

It wasn't exactly the play that Parkland coach Kurt Weber had in mind, but it got the Trojans out of a bind and across the finish line on Monday afternoon. Parkland, ranked second by lehighvalleylive, turned a 3-6-3 double play to end a bases-loaded threat in the seventh inning and defeat No. 3 Easton, 4-3, in an Eastern Pennsylvania Conference game at Richards Field.

Weber and the corner infielders had talked about throwing home on a groundball. But when Easton slugger Luke Storm smoked a ball to first baseman Adam Smith, the senior went to second and then caught the relay to end the contest.

"It was not the play that we were expecting," Weber said.

It wasn't the ending Parkland was expecting at all, really. The Trojans were cruising with a 4-0 lead and Smith, the team's ace, on the mound.

Easton (9-3) finally got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the sixth inning. Cam Hubbard drew a walk and scored on an error; Nick Yannuzzelli smacked an RBI double to left-center field; and Matt Happel added an RBI knock to cut the deficit to 4-3.

Smith fanned Keegan Stem to escape the frame.

Koby Staivecki entered to close the game in the seventh, but the Red Rovers loaded the bases thanks to a pair of one-out singles and a walk. Then, the Trojans extinguished the threat with the double play.

"We'll take our chances any time we have that situation with Luke or any of those guys at the top of our order," Easton coach Carm LaDuca said.

"Adam just kept calm … You have to stay calm and that's what we did," said Trojans sophomore Jack Giovenco, who was 3-for-3 with a triple.

George Jenkins registered an RBI fielder's choice to get Parkland on the board in the second inning, against Easton left-hander Eric Gustofson, and Matt Ervolina cracked a run-scoring double in the third to make the score 2-0.

"I feel like almost every team that we play throws a lefty against us," Giovenco said. "It's just something that we have to get used to. He missed a few pitches and we exposed them throughout the game."

Parkland (10-2) jumped on the Easton bullpen for a pair of insurance runs in the top of the sixth inning, as Smith and Alex Oliver drove in runs.

"We did a pretty good job of hitting," Weber said. "He didn't do a really good job of situational hitting in the middle innings. We could have broken the game open and given us a little bit more of a lead. We didn't do a good job there and that let them hang around."

Smith struck out seven, including six in a row, over his six innings of work. He also surrendered an earned run for the first time this spring.

"He's a quality pitcher," Weber said of the All-Area first-teamer. "He's going to battle; he's going to make you earn it. I thought he did a good job."

The game was originally suspended on April 9 and then rescheduled multiple times. The Rovers started Monday's action in the first inning with Hubbard on second base and no outs, but failed to bring the 2018 EPC Co-MVP around to score.

"(Smith) was very sharp early. I'm a little disappointed we didn't get that runner over (in the first inning)," LaDuca said. "We had a little bit of an advantage there, to knock that run in and maybe take a lead. But, (Smith) threw the ball really well; give him a lot of credit for that. They're a tough team. We were really proud, as a coaching staff, of the way the boys fought back."

Easton has a rugged week ahead with Northampton, Stroudsburg and Liberty on the schedule.

Parkland is thankful that the weather finally cooperated and let the Trojans collect a big win.

"When we got here, it was raining," Giovenco said. "… I was really glad we got to play it today and it feels great winning … I feel like, right now, we can beat anyone if we play our best."

Morning Call EPC Steel Division Preview
March 20, 2019

The Morning Call has posted a preview of the EPC Steel division on their site.

Click the link below to read the article

Click here to read the Stephen Miller article at the Morning call.


Rover Baseball Apparel Sale
March 12, 2019
Easton Baseball Apparel Sale
Rover Players, Parents, and Supporters - if you are looking for 2019 Rover Baseball Apparel please click on the link below to see various choices of Rover clothing!

The Easton Baseball Apparel Sale runs March 1 to March 14th

The sale is completed through Schuykill Valley Sporting Goods in the Palmer Mall. Information is available on the SVSG link. If there are any questions regarding the sale - please contact Coach LaDuca at laducac@eastonsd.org.

Click here to visit our store.


2019 Cleat, Turf, and Helmet Package
March 7, 2019

2019 Cleat, Turf, and Helmet Package - See the attached link below - This Store Closes First Round Order on March 13th. A Second Round sale will be held later next week but those who order now should see their shoes prior to game 1. Waiting will delay delivery. Anyone is eligible to purchase the spikes even if they do not make a team. The sale is direct through SVSG.

Varsity - Required Red Spike and Black Turf - Those who do not have a helmet need to have one.
JV - Required Black or Red Spike - Choice - Turf Optional - Helmets Optional
Freshmen - Optional Spikes and Turfs - Helmets Optional

Team will provide helmets for JV and Freshmen for those who do not have one - but we recommend each player has their own Matte Red helmet - Coach Approved - no tutoned colors.

Click here to access the 2019 Cleat, Turf, and Helmet Package


Thursday Practice Schedule - 3/7/2019
March 6, 2019

2:30 - Grades 10-11-12

3:45 - 8th Grade Pitchers and Catchers Report - Gym Lobby - to Pitch Room

4:30 - Rest of 8th Graders

No Grade 9 Practice Thursday

Practice Schedule - Wednesday, March 6, 2019
March 5, 2019

Grade 8 - No Practice - Possible Practice time on Thursday - watch Twitter!

Grade 9 - Pitchers and Catchers - 2:35 in Pitch Room
Grade 9 Position Players report to Aux Gym at 3:15pm

Grade 10-11-12 Position Players and Non Pitch Day Pitchers - report at 4:15pm- Practice Begins at 4:30
Group 2 Pitchers and Catchers Report for Bullpens in Pitch Room to begin at 4pm

Practice Schedule Tuesday March 5, 2019
March 4, 2019

March 5 - Tuesday - Practice time is is 5:15 - to Main Gym for Grades 10-11-12.

Grade 9 will practice from 4:30-5:30 in Aux gym only - then use Main gym at 5:30-6:00 - report at 4:15pm.
Grade 8 will not practice Tuesday.

Please check Twitter daily for any last minute changes. The Twitter feed is in the lower right hand side of our website if you do not have Twitter.

To all 2019 Baseball Candidates and Participants
March 3, 2019

The first day of tryouts will be held on Monday March 4, 2019. Due to weather issues and snow on the ground we will practice indoors. However, all players should be prepared with warm weather gear - sweatshirts, etc in case some activities can be conducted outdoors and for conditioning purposes.

With the impending storm this evening - there is the possibility of a school delay or closure. In the case of closure there will be no practices held. In the case of a delay - a normal routine of scheduled practice will be held.

March 4 - Monday - Report Time is 5:40 - Stretches and Pre Practice will be held in gym lobby

Practice time is 6:00-7:30 in both gyms for Grades 10-11-12 only! Grade 8-9 will NOT practice!

March 5 - Tuesday - Practice time is again 6:00-7:30 in both gyms. Grades 10-11-12 should report.

Grade 9 will practice from 4:30-6:00 in Aux gym only - report at 4:15pm.
Grade 8 will not Practice!

Please check Twitter daily for any last minute changes. The Twitter feed is in the lower right hand side of our website if you do not have Twitter.

Junior High Baseball Sign Up Meeting
February 12, 2019

Due to inclement weather the 8th grade sign up meeting will now be held:

When: This Thursday February 14th
Location: 7/8 building faculty cafeteria (near gym)
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM

All paperwork regarding physicals, when parent meeting is held, and along with other important docs will be given out during this meeting.

Any questions email Coach Bisco at biscoj@eastonsd.org

Easton Diamond Club Purse/Jewelry Bingo - Sunday April 7, 2019
January 23, 2019
Easton Baseball Diamond Club
The Easton Baseball Diamond Club is sponsoring our annual Designer Purse Bingo on Sunday April 7, 2019 in the EAHS Cafeteria.

Parents and supporters,
Please see the Business Donation Letter link and Save the Date link reminder for the event!

Please consider helping us to make the day a successful one for the Baseball program.

Thank you always for your support!

Click here to download the Save the Date reminder.


Click here to download the business donation letter.


Diamond Club Meeting
January 8, 2019
Easton Baseball Diamond Club

The Easton Baseball Diamond Club will meet for the first time for the 2019 baseball season on Wednesday evening January 16, 2019 in room C111 at EAHS at 7pm. The room is located through the gym entrance near the Athletic Office.

Topics for Discussion will be The Bingo fundraiser and Coaches Update on upcoming information for tryouts and the season.



  • Next Meeting
    Wednesday, August 16th
    EAHS Library
    7pm
  • Next Meeting
    Wednesday, August 16th
    EAHS Library
    7pm
    
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 203/25Stroudsburg W 8-7

Freshmen

 303/28 @ Palisades
 303/25@Stroudsburg L 7-6

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04/04Pocono Mt. East4:00 PM
04/08 @ Liberty4:00 PM
04/10Parkland4:00 PM
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04/18 @ Nazareth6:30 PM
04/19 @ E. Stroudsburg N4:00 PM
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04/13 @ Central Catholic11:00 AM
04/15Northwestern Lehigh4:00 PM
04/17 @ Whitehall4:00 PM
04/23 @ Saucon Valley4:00 PM
04/26 @ Bangor4:00 PM
04/27Phillipsburg10:00 AM
05/03 @ Moravian Academy4:00 PM
05/04 @ Catasauqua11:00 AM
05/07Notre Dame G.P.4:00 PM
05/11West Chester East5:00 PM