(Photo: Gerald Muizellaar, regarded as one of the best pitchers in the world, shown pitching for Team Minnesota at the 2006 AAU, where they took 2nd among 28 teams)

Last Year’s Runner-up to Return to AAU

Team Minnesota is pleased to announce it’s roster for the 2007 AAU International Tournament. Team Minnesota is looking to improve upon it’s Runner-Up finish in last year’s event, losing to Team USA in the Championship Game. Team Minnesota returns 10 players from last year’s team and adds four players for next month’s event in Orlando, Florida. Additions to the 2007 roster are Chad Boom and Frank DeGroat, Jr. (who were members of the 2006 AAU Championship team, Team USA that beat Minnesota), as well as BJ Boom and Tony Kunka.

Editor’s notes: Team Minnesota was unknown to many at the 2006 AAU, though their players were not. Certainly anytime Gerald Muizellaar takes the mound, you are capable of beating anyone. The 2006 squad was a combination of veterans like Roman Foore and youngsters like the Goring brothers, Zach and Lucas. Fiore launched what may have been the longest home run ever hit at the Disney complex in Orlando at the 2006 tournament, a towering, moon-shot that cleared both the regulation and slo-pitch fence. In 2006, Team Minnesota knocked off an ISC World class Hallman Twins team to reach the finals, and look to be among the pre-tourney favorites to do so in 2007, adding two members of last year’s championship TEAM USA squad, Chad Boom, and Frank DeGroat, Jr. Boom is perhaps the most consistent hitter on Team USA, a veteran of several ISF campaigns, while DeGroat, Jr. was a one-man wrecking crew, earning Most Valuable Player at last year’s tournament.

Team Minnesota’s full roster can be found online at http://www.teamminn.minnesotafastpitch.com

Roster
Pitchers shown in bold

# Name Pos. B – T
1 Zach Goring Uti R – R
2 Lucas Goring OF L – R
4 Scott Deutsch DH L – L
5 Gregg Cascaes SS L – R
7 Jason Wandler IF L – R
8 Frank DeGroat, Jr. C R – R
10 Gerald Muizelaar P R – R
16 Chad Boom Inf R – R
18 Rick Lang P R – R
21 Chris Diethert IF L – R
31 Tony Kunka 1B, OF L – L
36 Kevin Kammueller P R – R
41 BJ Boom Uti R – R
44 Roman Foore 1B L – R

12 Darrell Goring Manager
33 Brett Bresnahan Asst. Coach

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