Haziel Mcdonald’s Texaco Pirates from Man-O-War Cay in the Bahamas:
Steve Mullaley
Jason Hill
Kyle Magnusson
Fred Sweeting
William Weatherford
Don Garvey
Louie Joglar
Andrew Albury
Alexis Hernandez
Grant Albury
Edward {Cheno}Lamb
Darrell Joy
Rob Schweyer P
Sean Cleary P
Rob Scheller P
Haziel Mcdonald Manager
The Pirates made it to the Elite Eight last year, falling to eventual finalist Team Minnesota in the quarterfinals. They’ll have to compete in Pool G with one of last year’s Final Four teams, the NY Gremlins (Knights), along with the Manor Dirt Bags of Texas, and the Brewers of Venezuela.
Pool G
1. Gremlin Knights – NY
2. Texaco Pirates – Bahamas
3. Manor Dirt Bags – TX
4. Brewers de Venezuela
Haziel Mcdonald’s squad was the AAU Consolation winner back in 2004, the first year that Fastpitchwest and Maddysphotos traveled to Orlando for the big event. They have continued to build their roster by adding talented ISC level players, including many of the big names on the year’s squad, while retaining the core nucleus of the team who live on Man-O-War, Willie Weatherford, Grant Albury, Andrew Albury, Fred Sweeting, and of course, the skipper, Haziel Mcdonald. (picking up the 2004 Consolation Bracket trophy from tournament director, Alex Linares)
The Bahamian squad was featured in a 2007 Softball Magazine feature about their first Bahamas Invitational Tournament, “The Real Pirates of the Caribbean“. Click here to view, but note that it is a large PDF file, with color photos, so give it time to load on your computer.
Lots of Pirate pics in Gallery 8 of last year’s set of photos here.
And last but not least, for those of you in “snow country” day dreaming about playing ball in warmer locales, click here for a look at the home, and home field of the Texaco Pirates on Man-O-War, Bahamas.l
* Managers of Manor Dirt Bags, and Brewers of Venezuela – need your rosters, please send to us at jim (at) fastpitchwest (dot) com. We’ll post and forward to Al Doran. You’re next up in the “Pick the Winner” poll.