Lister Field played host to the Rockville Centre Little League as four teams — Team Dunphy, Team Nilsen, Team Lam and Team Schwartz — played two games on a beautiful Saturday afternoon.
Team Nilsen and Team Schwartz matched up against each other, while Team Dunphy and Team Lam played in the second game of the day.
As this was the last Saturday game of the fall season, the “winners” earned bragging rights after facing off with their friends in a pair of fun-filled games as a send off while they await the spring season.
The RVC Little League fall season was 10 games and got under way after Labor Day.
These games offered the kids an opportunity to experience the love they have for baseball.
This season offers more of a laid back version of the spring with none of the playoffs but all of the baseball fun.
With multiple elementary schools throughout the district, these games allow kids to connect with peers from across the village they might not necessarily have the opportunity to become acquainted with.
Similar to many other Little League, RVC divides its teams into different age brackets such as Baseball Mort Geller for 7- and 8-year-old; the Minors for 9-year-olds; American for 10-year-olds. The National has the 11- and 12-year-olds; and the Juniors are 13- and 14-year-olds.
In softball there are the Munchkins for 5- and 6-year olds; Machine pitch for 7- and 8-year-olds; the Minors, where the players start pitching, is for 9- and 10-year-olds, the Majors for 11- and 12-year-olds and the Juniors are 13- and 14-years-old.
There is also an additional baseball group for 6-year olds to learn the game called Little Sluggers.
As the baseball equipment is packed away until spring, the players might take part in the winter sports, but real baseball fans are most likely thinking along the lines of old time St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Rogers Hornsby: “People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
For more about the league, go to RVCLittleLeague.org.
