Former Player and Head Coach Jeff Bowman and his wife Casey welcomed a New BABY BOY-JACK THOMAS BOWMAN on Thanksgiving Day!! This is also their First baby!! Congrats Jeff & Casey and hope it is Left-Handed to become as good if not better Pitcher than his Dad was and is!!
Former player Robbie Monderine graduated from the Coast Guard Academy and as usual he was awarded the "Leadership Award" of his class. Once again Robbie represented us well. The Horns wish him the best as he begins the new life of protecting all of us from enemies both domestic and foreign.
Former Player Justin Christian, who played for the San Mateo Bulldogs Summer Team in 1998 finally made it back to the Major Leagues yesterday and got a hit and started in Center field for the Giants. Justin played second base for us before we changed our name to the Nor Cal Longhorns. Justin had previously played some Pro Games for the New York Yankees. Rumors has it he might take Torres place in the OF next year. Good Luck Justin!!
The Nor cal Longhorns faced the powerful Palo Alto Oaks in Game#1 of the Regionals and won and advanced to the Second Round. The Horns then defeated the Solano County Blue Birds and advanced to the Super Regionals next week in Los Angeles. The Pitching for the Horns was superfulous as Craig Broussard and Matt Simpson each dealt with ease pitching for the Horns. It is the first time that they have advanced this far without hosting one of the tournaments and getting automatic bids. The "NEW ATTITUDE" in 2011 has been the difference with OLD SCHOOL COACHING MIXED WITH SOME UP TO DATE CHANGES!!! Congrats Horns and hopefully they make it to the World Series in Houston, TX.
The Nor-Cal Longhorns finished tied with the Walnut Creek Crawdads with a 15-5 Record this year in the SRL Stan Musial League. Playoffs begin this Saturday, July 16th at the Field of Dreams in Sonoma, CA. The Crawdads got the point since they beat the Horns 4-0 but The Horns finish as Co-Champions.
In other news, Veteran Matt Medina rejoined the Horns in the final days of the season and now has appeared in over 300 games for the Horns. So therefore because of his tenacity and his Blue Collar effort his number#6 will also be Retired this Weekend at The SRL Stan Musial League Championship Series. His ongoing effort and guidance has helped many of players who have donned the spikes and gloves for the Horns and the Bulldogs. Congrats are in order to Matt Medina. Always a GAMER and Always a Leader!!! More guys should play like him!!!
Congrats to Joe Biagini who pitched for the Longhorns in 2010 while rehabing his arm. He pitched in 3 games for the Longhorns. He was drafted in the 26th Round....
Today, April 27th, the Nor Cal Longhorns recognizes Pitcher Matt Simpson as having his uniform #13 retired. His dedication and his tenacity when on the mound has been unparallel by anyone. He has pitched 1-No-Hitter and 2-One-hitters. He has done everything a coach could ask for. He now has taken over the role as Pitching Coach for the Longhorns. He joins an elite group of now 4 of players who were "The Best Ever" this spans 38 years. Congrats to Matt and it is WELL DESERVED!!!!
The Longhorns are proud to announce the signing of a Second Generation Player-Nick Sanzeri. A Right-Handed Pitcher from the College of San Mateo who is Red Shirting this season. His Father, Skip, played for the 1983 Championship Team of Head Coach Lenny Vagt. They had a record of 19-3. Skip was an Outstanding Ball player that went on and played for Westmont College.
The Longhorns signs Catcher Shawn Walters from the College of San Mateo today February 25, 2011. He played his Freshman year at the University of Nevada-Reno and now catches for the Bulldogs. He is highly recruited by alot of D-1 and D-2 Colleges for his Junior Year. He is presently hitting .386 for the Bulldogs who are have won their Conference for the last Nine Years in Northern California.
The Nor-Cal Longhorns signed two players from Hillsdale College in Michigan.
Dan Rhodes-Pitcher
Scott Lantis-IF
The Longhorns also signed a Player from St. Gregory's in Oklahoma.
Dakota Haines-IF
Returning Players who have signed are:
Donovan Edelstein(P)-Undecided College
Jessie Madrid(P)-Patten University
Blake Paisley(P)-Williamette University
Brett Montague(OF)-College of San Mateo
Congrats to Robbie Monderine
Former Longhorn Player Robbie Monderine was Inducted into the United States Coast Guard today. He will make a fine Soldier and will defend all of us in a Longhorn way we taught him. We won't have to worry about when we are in a FOXHOLE WITH HIM AS HE WILL ALWAYS HAVE OUR BACK!!!!
LOGO CHANGED!!!!!!
I received a FED-Ex Letter from the University of Texas Attorney's and they have forced us to changed our Logo and remove the Longhorn because they have a Trademark on it. So therefore you will see a new Logo on all of pages on the Website and we will no longer wear any hats with the Logo having the Texas Longhorn on it. We will go back to our first year hats with the NC-representing Nor Cal and have Longhorns spelled out on the back. The good news is that they will let us keep our name "Nor-Cal Longhorns". Just a FYI to all of our alumni and present players and friends.
Post Season Awards for 2010
Horizon Air League
2nd Team-Barney Evans and Chris Schindler
Honorable Mention-Tyger Pedersen
For Complete winners go to links on side of webpage and click on Horizon Air League
The 2010 Season comes to a close and had a disappointing season with a final record of 17-30-1. After losing 14 games in a row at the start of the season the Longhorns played .500 for the balance of the season. In the Western Regionals the 'Horns lost two heartbreakers 1-0 and 2-0. The horns like all season couldn't get timely hitting. They stranded 12 runners the first game and 10 in the final game. Their Pitching was phenomenal. The opposition scored 3 runs in 15 Innings. In the last 4 Post Season games the Horns have given up 7 runs. Any Coach would love that Pitching effort. The 110% Club saw 2 Pitchers and 1 two-way player enter the Elite cluib. They are Adam Koontz, Dan Rhodes and Jesse Madrid. Congrats are also forwarded to Matt Simpson who was picked up by the Palo Alto Oaks to go to the World Series in Houston, Texas.The Horns are excited about 2011 because there will be some major changes in both the Organization and Players.
CALVIN MARSHALL
World Premiere October 2009
A poignant comedy about Calvin's misguided dream to play college baseball and the people in his life who want him to succeed.
35mm feature stars Alex Frost, Michelle Lombardo and Steve Zahn. Premiering at the 2009 Austin Film Festival.
Website and trailer coming soon.
Former Bulldog Gary Lungren's Movie to premier in October. Go see it.
Former player Joe Mc Kane's album just came out-
Album-Audiodub's "Daytime TV" ---Featured Song "Save Your Soul"
Look out for "Calvin Marshall"
Former player Gary Lungren is a good Writer and Producer and has just finished a movie called "Calvin Marshall"-This you can't miss per Gary. It's all about a Junior College player who finds another avenue in his life. Is this Auto-Biographical? I remember when Gary and Brad Wickman shared my three Bedroom Apt in Belmont. I also remember the night we all went to Pier 39 and the three of us did a trio of two hit songs. I still have the tape and one of the songs was " Jack and Diane"
Hope this movie is a hit Gary!!!!!
The team originated in 1981, and was first called the San Mateo Condors 1981-1983. From 1984-2003- We were the San Mateo Bulldogs. Then the COA passed a rule that you couldn't have the same team colors, nickname & other similar identities so we changed our name to the Nor-Cal Longhorns. Now the Univ. of Texas attorney's in 2010 forced us to change our LOGO and remove BEVO from our LOGO because of trademarks but they did allow us to keep our name-NOR-CAL LONGHORNS!! This team is made up mostly of players from the Coast and Golden Gate Conference in the California Community College Baseball Leagues. In the last nine years, we had to recruit Division I, II & III & NAIA players in order to compete against the other Summer Collegiate teams we play. 