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Photo Courtesy of Megan Houpt Testa Akron Knights pay tribute to fallen teammate Rob Daigle before their game at JetBlue Park Sunday..

Akron Knights & opponent honor fallen teammate

By Glenn Miller Roy Hobbs Baseball

Anybody wandering into JetBlue Park at 2 p.m. Sunday knew something special was happening.

Todd Conduff and Tommy Evans of the Akron Knights walked solemnly to the pitcher's mound, holding #32 team jersey between them. The rest of the Knights gathered around the mound and removed their caps and then knelt. The opposing Pigs Heaven team respectfully lined up along the first base line and also knelt.

The Knights honored teammate Rob Daigle, who died Aug. 11 of ALS at the age of 51.

Public address announcer Brian Mullen read a statement prepared by the Knights.

"Ladies and gentlemen, today the Akron Knights would like to invite you to join them in honoring their teammate and dear friend Rob Daigle," Mullen said. "Three months ago, Rob, a pitcher for the Knights and long-time Boston Red Sox fan, lost his 16-month battle with ALS. Rob fought ALS with hope, grace, dignity and honor. He wore the Knights No. 32 with pride, passion and class."

His number has been retired and all Knights players are wearing a patch on their jerseys to honor Daigle. Knights pitcher John Hardesty suggested the patch.

"He was a great teammate," Conduff said of Daigle. Daigle played 8 years for the Knights, even after moving

from Ohio back to his hometown of

Newburyport, N.H. In addition, he played

for the New England Indians and the Kent

Mudhens.

Evans said his friend stood 6-foot-5.

"He had dominance on the mound

and about himself," Evans said. "But he

was a gentle giant. Just a good-hearted

guy. ... A perfect gentleman."

Daigle, who was an assistant baseball

Rob Daigle at 2015 RHWS

coach at his alma mater, Newburyport High School, loved the game

"He was a scholar of the game," Evans

said. "He was a mentor for hundreds of kids."

Daigle married his wife, Jenny, on Nov. 8, 2014. "He married

an angel on Earth," Evans said.

On June 5, 2015 the Newburyport News carried a story

about Daigle.

"I have extreme passion for my baseball, and I know that

I can't give everything I can, especially to the team," Daigle

told the paper. "I can't get out there and hit them fly balls or

hit ground balls. The energy level is very low and it's a death

sentence, I know that."

But he fought the death sentence as long as he could. On

Sunday, Rob Daigle was remembered and honored.

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Baseball & Brews Tour

The first annual Roy Hobbs Baseball & Brews brewery tour will be held Wednesday and Friday nights this week during the Veterans Division play.

The tours will run from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. from the Player Development Complex parking lot.

Cost is $45 per person, and Southwest Florida Brewery Tours will take 14 customers to 3 breweries for flights and samples of their beers.

The tours are limited to 14 people; however if 19 or more sign up 24 hours in advance, SWF Brewery Tours will add a second van.

Seats will not be sold at the time of the tour ... all reservations must be made in advance.

See Karen Marcinkoski at Roy Hobbs Headquarters or sign up on-line at world-series.

NOTEBOOK

RH Committee Will Determine AAAA Playoffs

The Roy Hobbs Advisory Committee will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Roy Hobbs World Series headquarters to determine the set up and seeding for the Veterans AAAA playoffs, which will be announced no later than 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Although all AAAA managers have been invited to participate on the committee, any interested managers are welcome to come and be involved too. Anyone interested in attending should contact Tom Giffen at World Series Headquarters.

Veterans play began Sunday with 12 teams in the AAAA hunt. The Committee will determine the 8 teams that remain in the AAAA double-elimination playoffs and then seed those teams. The Veterans AAAA double-elimination playoffs start Thursday.

The remaining 4 teams will be added to the general pool and play a fifth pool game Thursday. Those teams then will be seeded in the AAA or AA single-elimination brackets for Friday.

The seeding and scheduling for all AAAA playoff games will be posted at World Series Headquarters at the Player Development Complex and be available on world-series as well as being put on the Roy Hobbs message line: 239.533.7694.

Playoff pitching guidelines

For the record, here is a recap on the rules on pitching eligibility for the playoffs.

Roy Hobbs requirement is that all pitchers who will be starters or closers in save situations (3-run or less difference in the 8th and 9th innings) qualify for the playoffs by pitching at least 2 innings ? 6 outs or 10 hitters ? during pool play.

AAAA qualifier teams may not add pitchers to their lineup on Thursday; however, Open Division teams may have pitchers arrive Thursday ? those pitchers much throw 5 innings or 25 hitters to qualify for the playoffs.

Finally, in the playoffs, those "non-qualified" middle-inning pitchers will come to the mound from their normal defensive

positions where they started the game. That is as important as the "spirit of the rule" that these non-qualified pitchers who are used as "inning-eaters" are players who ordinarily are playing other positions.

And, please remember that any players leaving the RHWS today (Monday) to return on Thursday MUST turn in their player ID Card and re-register upon their return. They must return before the quarterfinals of the playoffs, regardless of

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RESULTS

2016 RHWS

Veterans Division Sunday's Results

AAAA Division

Chicago Woodpeckers 9, New Jersey Twins 1 HPK Oilers 7, New Jersey Mets 4 Naples Athletics 6, Stars of Herrera 5 Stars Baseball Academy 16, Cape Diablos 2 Tidewater Drillers 17, Toledo Aces 1 Vukgripz Akron A's 12, RHINO Baseball Club 5

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Akron Cardinals 4, Americans Baseball Club 2 Americans Baseball Club 14, Chicago Dodgers 13 Baltimore Astros 15, Kodak Reds 5 Chi Sox 12, Detroit Dodgers 8 Chicago Knights 9, Tennessee Dirtbags 2 Detroit Dodgers 12, Tallahassee Lumberjacks 5 DRS Astros 9, Minnesota Bulldogs 4 Fort Myers Hooter's Owls 10, Pensacola Sharks 8 Fort Myers Hurricanes 6, Minnetonka Mustangs 1 Glass City Black Sox 15, Kodak Reds 8 JetBox 6, Miami Marlins 5 MaxBat 9, Pensacola Sharks 4 Miami Marlins 9, Cincinnati Colt .45s 3 Minnesota Web Gems 20, South Bend Cardinals 5

Greg Wagner Photo Pigs Heaven manager Egerton Maitland plays a little dodge ball..

NEO Angels 11, Fort Myers Hooter's Owls 4 Nova Scotia Alpines 12, Germain Ohio Aces 2 Nova Scotia Alpines 6, Chicago Knights 3 Panhandle Pirates 15, Chicago Dodgers 10 Pigs Heaven 12, Akron Knights 11 Pittsburgh Wild 14, Fort Myers Hurricanes 5 RusStar Baseball Club 7, Pittsburgh Wild 2 Tallahassee Sharks 4, Minnesota Bulldogs 1

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Veterans Division

Monday

9:30 a.m. Chicago Dodgers @ Tennessee Dirtbags, CP-S 10 a.m. Baltimore Astros @ Glass City Black Sox, CL6 DRS Astros @ Tallahassee Sharks, CP-S Germain Ohio Aces @ Panhandle Pirates, JB3 Kodak Reds @ Akron Knights, PDC5 Minnetonka Mustangs @ Pittsburgh Wild, PDC1 NEO Angels @ Fort Myers Hurricanes, CL2 New Jersey Mets @ Tidewater Drillers, CL4 New Jersey Twins @ Cape Diablos, PDC3 RusStar Baseball Club @ MaxBat, JB4 South Bend Cardinals @ Detroit Dodgers, JB5 Stars Baseball Academy @ RHINO Baseball Club, PDC4 Stars of Herrera @ HPK Oilers, CL-S Toledo Aces @ Naples Athletics, CL3 Vukgripz Akron A's @ Chicago Woodpeckers, PDC2 12:30 p.m. Akron Cardinals @ Chicago Knights, CP-S 2 p.m.

Americans Baseball Club @ Germain Ohio Aces, JB4

Chicago Woodpeckers @ Stars Baseball Academy, PDC3 Cincinnati Colt .45s @ Minnesota Web Gems, CL6 Fort Myers Hooter's Owls @ RusStar Baseball Club, JB5 HPK Oilers @ Toledo Aces, CL4 Miami Marlins @ Chi Sox, CP-S Minnesota Bulldogs @ Baltimore Astros, CL-S Naples Athletics @ Tidewater Drillers, CL2 New Jersey Mets @ Stars of Herrera, CL3 New Jersey Twins @ Vukgripz Akron A's, PDC4 Pensacola Sharks @ Minnetonka Mustangs, PDC2

Pigs Heaven @ DRS Astros, JB3 RHINO Baseball Club @ Cape Diablos, PDC5 Tallahassee Lumberjacks @ South Bend Cardinals, JB6 Tennessee Dirtbags @ Nova Scotia Alpines, PDC1 6 p.m. JetBox @ Cincinnati Colt .45s, CL-S

Tuesday

9:30 a.m. Pittsburgh Wild @ MaxBat, CP-S 10 a.m. Akron Cardinals @ Chicago Dodgers, PDC5 Cape Diablos @ Chicago Woodpeckers, PDC3 DRS Astros @ Akron Knights, TP-S JetBox @ Minnesota Web Gems, JB6 Minnetonka Mustangs @ NEO Angels, CL-S Panhandle Pirates @ Americans Baseball Club, CP-S Pigs Heaven @ Kodak Reds, PDC2 RHINO Baseball Club @ New Jersey Twins, PDC4 Stars Baseball Academy @ Vukgripz Akron A's, TP3 Tallahassee Lumberjacks @ Chi Sox, JB3 Tallahassee Sharks @ Glass City Black Sox TP4 Toledo Aces @ Stars of Herrera, TP2 12:30 p.m. Detroit Dodgers @ Miami Marlins, CP-S 2 p.m. Akron Knights @ Tallahassee Sharks, TP3 Baltimore Astros @ Pigs Heaven, PDC5 Chi Sox @ Cincinnati Colt .45s, JB3 Chicago Knights @ Germain Ohio Aces, TP2 Glass City Black Sox @ Minnesota Bulldogs, TP-S

MaxBat @ Fort Myers Hooter's Owls, PDC3 Minnesota Web Gems @ Tallahassee Lumberjacks, CP-S

Naples Athletics @ New Jersey Mets, CL-S See SCHEDULE Next Page

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STANDINGS

Veterans Division

Chi Sox Pigs Heaven

1

0

1.000 8

1

0

1.000 11

AAAA Division W L

Pct.

RA

Chicago Knights

1

1

.500

8

Chicago Woodpeckers 1

0

1.000 1

Miami Marlins

1

1

.500

9

Tidewater Drillers

1

0

1.000 1

Pittsburgh Wild

1

1

.500 12

Stars Baseball Academy 1

0

1.000 2

Fort Myers Hurricanes 1

1

.500 15

HPK Oilers

1

0

1.000 4

Americans Baseball 1

1

.500 17

Vukgripz Akron A's

1

0

1.000 5

Detroit Dodgers

1

1

.500 17

Naples Athletics

1

0

1.000 5

Ft Myers Hooter's Owls 1

1

.500 19

Stars of Herrera

0

1

.000

6

Minnetonka Mustangs 0

1

.000

6

New Jersey Mets

0

1

.000

7

Cincinnati Colt .45s 0

1

.000

9

New Jersey Twins

0

1

.000

9

Tennessee Dirtbags 0

1

.000

9

RHINO Baseball Club 0

1

.000

12

Germain Ohio Aces

0

1

.000 12

Cape Diablos

0

1

.000

16

Akron Knights

0

1

.000 12

Toledo Aces

0

1

.000

17

Tall. Lumberjacks

0

1

.000 12

South Bend Cardinals 0

1

.000

20

Overall Division W L

Pct.

RA

Minnesota Bulldogs 0

2

.000 13

Nova Scotia Alpines 2

0

1.000 5

Pensacola Sharks

0

2

.000 19

Panhandle Pirates

1

0

1.000 1

Chicago Dodgers

0

2

.000 29

Tallahassee Sharks 1

0

1.000 1

Kodak Reds

0

2

.000 30

Akron Cardinals

1

0

1.000 2

RusStar Baseball Club 1

0

1.000 2

SCHEDULE

DRS Astros

1

0

1.000 4

MaxBat

1

0

1.000 4

NEO Angels @ Pensacola Sharks, CL6

NEO Angels Baltimore Astros Jet Box

1 1

0 0

1.000 4 1.000 5

Nova Scotia Alpines @ Panhandle Pirates, JB4 South Bend Cardinals @ JetBox, JB6 Tennessee Dirtbags @ Akron Cardinals, PDC2

1

0

1.000 5

Tidewater Drillers @ HPK Oilers, PDC4

Minnesota Web Gems 1

0

1.000 5

6 p.m.

Glass City Black Sox 1

0

1.000 8

Fort Myers Hurricanes @ RusStar Baseball Club, CL-S

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Greg Wagner Photo Pigs Heaven Pitcher delivers in win over Knights.

RHWS Bat Regulations

The Roy Hobbs Baseball bat policy for the Roy Hobbs World Series is as follows: a. All Bats must be solid wood, single-unit construction and

cannot be hollow. b. Bats with wood barrels and handles of a different com-

position or design are prohibited. (Laminated wood bats are approved as long as they meet the 100% wood and non-hollow specs above.) Single-unit turned bats with handle treatments are approved. c. There are no requirements that bat companies certify their bats, unless the bat is challenged and Roy Hobbs officials cannot make a determination of the bat's construction with data at hand. On Challenged bats during a game, event playing rules take precedence.

Roy Hobbs Rules / 5.04a Sanctions for violations on nonapproved bats.

5.04a.1 First offense: Reported during the at-bat, warning issued, bat confiscated, get another bat and play on; If discovered after at-bat and before first pitch to next hitter, batter is out, dead ball & bat confiscated.

5.04a.2 Subsequent violations with same batter: Batter called out, ejected, bat confiscated.

5.04a.3 All confiscated bats delivered to RHWS; bats returned to owners once last game of division is completed.

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NOTEBOOK

From page 2

division. Managers should email a list of their qualified pitchers to

Roy Hobbs in case of rg@ by 7 p.m. the night before their playoffs begin.

Tickets needed for Veterans Pairings Party

The Veterans Division Pairings Party will be held Thursday night at Chicago Boys Bar and Grill at 7 p.m.

Tickets will be required for admission to the party. Those tickets are free and available from Karen Marcinkoski at the RHWS Headquarters inside the front entrance to the PDC building.

Tickets are limited to 3 per team through Tuesday. Whatever tickets are not picked by closing time Tuesday will be available to all comers on Thursday.

The party will start at 7 p.m. and will include finger foods and a cash bar. This is NOT a dinner or a meal, but rather a social gathering with snacks. Chicago Boys is located at 2245 Winkler Avenue, Fort Myers.

Cups and Patches

Roy Hobbs Baseball offers its sincere apologies for the late arrival of both the 2016 RHWS souvenir cups and uniform patches. And we thank you for your patience.

Greg Wagner Photo Akron Knights runner scores against Pigs Heaven.

We anticipate both arriving no later than mid-day Tuesday, but we remain at the mercy of the shipping company. The manufacturers, who were delayed for unknown reasons, say the items have been shipped to us here in Fort Myers.

The Cups and Patches will be available at the T-Shirt outlet in the screened-in patio at the Player Development Complex. You will need your Player ID card to get the missing items.

See NOTEBOOK, page 8

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Tom Giffen Photo Check the lean of the Chicago runner as Alpines lefty Christian Tomsich starts his pickoff move toward 1st. Yes, we have an out.

NOTEBOOK

From page 7

Picking up T-Shirts ...

The tournament T-shirt is available through Friday only for all registered players outside the Roy Hobbs Store in the screened in patio at the Player Development Complex. No Shirts will be given out on Saturdays.

Hours to pick up the Tournament T-shirt are from Noon to 6 p.m. With the shirt, each player will get a tournament patch.

Players will need their RHWS ID card to get their shirts, no exceptions ? No drivers licenses needed.

No Beer sales at PDC this year

New guidelines have eliminated Roy Hobbs' opportunity to provide beer for sale at its Player Development Complex clubhouse headquarters this year.

Meaning, there will be no beer sales at any of the complexes. Roy Hobbs respectfully requests that players and fan remember that beer in the parking lots is a violation of Florida alcohol consumption statutes, and Roy Hobbs is committed by contract to policing that behavior. Such violations can lead to suspension from the tournament and expulsion for repeat offenders, and that's before we get to the municipal fines. Please help Roy Hobbs out with these guidelines.

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