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The Cardinals are pleased to announce the signings of three new players to their 2010 line-up. Bryan Pereira, Pat Mastrogiacomo and Tom Robertson all bring their enthusiasm and talent to help fill some of the gaps that were created in the off season with the retirements of Greg Moore and Dave Kerr.

Bryan has been unofficially signed for the past 3 years as the younger brother of Cards Coach Russ Pereira had to wait until this, his 30th year to meet the minimum age requirement in BVB. Bryan brings another catcher into the mix, with a cannon for an arm, a big stick, 7 years of experience on the Burlington Brants, and as Russ says, excellent bloodlines. Pat joins the team with 10+ years of COBA experience with Brampton, Milton and Burlington. Pat is not unfamiliar with BVB however as he participated in the 2009 BVB Golf Tournament in Vaughn Wamboldt’s foursome who were affectionately nicknamed ‘Where 60lb’s of CC go to die’. Tom Robertson joins the Cardinals having most recently played 5 seasons with the Inter County Hamilton Thunderbirds where he played middle infield. Tom brings excellent speed and hitting to the lineup as well and will likely give Coach R. Pereira another solid option in the lead off spot. Tom is good buddies with Billy Lawrence and Andrew Schwalm, but the team saw past that and welcomed him to the fray anyway.

The addition of all 3 players gives an enormous amount of depth to the batting line-up and gives an already strong defensive team even more talent in key areas on the field. Each player will take some time on the mound as well which is always important over the course of a season to help maintain the overall health of the rotation.

The first practice is slated for later this week where a pool is being planned to guess the increased number of chins on the returning players. For those who didn’t get enough betting out of their systems over the course of Super Bowl weekend, the Cardinal’s team over/under on this is 16.5. Take the over.

front row (l to r) Jay Hodgson, Russ Pereira, Dave Kerr, Billy Lawrence, Rob Whittekker

Absent: Andrew Schwalm, Chris Cooney, Kent Barber, Tim Barnes

BVB GOLF TOURNAMENT

On Saturday July 11th the BVB hosted it’s 3rd annual golf tournament. Carlisle Golf Club played host this year to an excellent turnout of BVB players, friends and family. Despite forecasts for rain and thundershowers, the group was treated to sunshine all day. The Cardinals had 5 representatives this year with Jason Saker, Rob Whitekker, Vaughn Wamboldt, Jeff Gilleland and Steve Maher. The purpose of the tournament is first and foremost to have a good time, but it also serves as an excellent fundraiser for the league and the nationals program. Without question both goals were accomplished. Gilleland and Maher, along with friends Mike Harrison and Ryan Sgro were looking for the 3-peat but ended up 7 strokes off the winning score of -16. It was an impressive score for the winning team considering they would’ve had to play virtually the entire round from the black tees in extremely strong wind conditions. But since there were no KPMG auditor’s following groups around, we’ll have to take their word for it! On a serious note, many thanks have to be handed out to Jason Riesberry and Terry Wilkinson and all the volunteers for helping to make the day so successful. A ton of work goes into the event and it helps benefit all league members and in particular those that are involved in the Nationals program. As you see these guys around the diamond make sure you give them a big pat on the back for their efforts.