The Fresno A’s are proud to announce that former Fresno A’s coach TIM CULVER has now accepted the position of HEAD BASEBALL COACH at WEST HILLS COLLEGE. Congratulations, Coach Tim!
The Fresno A’s are proud to announce that our very own EDDIE AVALOS (RHP, Reedley College) has signed a baseball scholarship with SIMPSON UNIV. SU saw Eddie when we played at Redding Colt 45’s in July, then signed him weeks later. CONGRATS EDDIE! Great fit!
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The Fresno A’s are proud to announce that our very own Ethan Wenter has committed to continue his baseball career and education at Fresno Pacific University. Congratulations Ethan!
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The Fresno Athletics are heartbroken over the passing of former Fresno A’s college team player JJ Sanchez. A wonderful young man and a great pitcher. Rest In Peace, JJ.
We are proud to announce that we have hired Casey Wagnon to the coaching staff of our upper class elite showcase team. Casey is an assistant coach at York College in Nebraska. He won CVC Gold Glove awards for
@RCBTigers
in 2016 & 2017 and played in 2 NAIA regionals in 2018 & 2019
We proudly announce the Fresno A’s summer 2022 high school showcase team coach: current Liberty Ranchos assistant coach (for last 3 years) Satnam Grewal. He has coached for multiple high schools in the valley; prior travel/showcase experience. Highly recommended & energetic.
BREAKING NEWS:
THE 2022 FRESNO A'S SUMMER COLLEGIATE TEAM WILL PLAY ALL 21 SCHEDULED HOME GAMES AT CHUCKHANSI PARK!
Our schedule is 2nd to none. We will now begin building our roster. Please reach out and send us a DM if you are interested in playing.
The Fresno A’s are happy to announce that Bryan Welch will be our game announcer for summer college baseball this summer. Our plan is to have all games broadcasted online with play by play announcing for summer 2022!
READY TO ROCK: the 35 man roster of the 2022 Fresno A’s summer college team at their first day BBQ (5 players not present for photo). This team looks great! They will compete hard this summer against great opponents. Excited to open in Vegas this weekend!
The Fresno A’s are very proud to announce that our very own FERNANDO VALENTIN (2023, RHP) has committed to Dakota State University, where he has accepted a baseball scholarship. He has a great future ahead.
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WELCOME 2023 FRESNO A’S SUMMER COLLEGE TEAM. We have a few players still in post season college play, but what a talented and fun roster we photographed for this summer season! We are SO excited to start games on FRIDAY, MAY 26 at 8am at Chukchansi Park. THIS TEAM IS AWESOME!
Congratulations to FERNANDO VALENTIN of the Fresno A’s and Clovis High School on signing day, as he signs to become a Dakota State University Trojan today!
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@PathwayBB
The star of Game 1: Aiden Perry, 3-4 with 7 RBI’s in the Fresno A’s 16-4 win over Sacramento.
Great pitching from Martino, Hernandez and Alexander.
On to game 2 in 30 mins.
The upperclassman team wins 6-4 to advance to the semi-finals in Denver!
WP Zack Curtis
Orin Hirschkorn with a game-winning grand slam in the bottom of the 6th inning!
The Fresno A’s congratulate CAMERON DEMARIA (2021) on being selected to the ALL WEST REGION TEAM by
@BaseballFactory
Only the Top 30 players in each region of the US were selected.
What a great honor, Cameron!
Fresno A’s Orin Hirschkorn (2021, throws left/bats right) at batting practice killing the ball today. Exit velo 93mph before the summer season even starts!!!!
We are proud to announce Tim Culver as the head coach of our Fresno A’s Upperclassmen Team for the 2021 season. Tim graduated from FPU where he played baseball. He would later receive his MBA. Tim was head coach of our collegiate team for 2 seasons, & an assistant at West Hills.
Photo finish! Official game record of Fresno A’s summer college team ends at 23-23 on the year, with an absolutely unforgettable 7-6 game at Humboldt Crabs. So proud of these boys and our historic 2022. Our players have to be proud and excited for the future.
Here is Coach Alec DeMaria, founding and lifer Fresno A’s player who became a 4 year NCAA D2 college pitcher, photographed yesterday at Lake Madison, South Dakota, where he is now the Pitching Coach & Recruiting Coordinator at Dakota State University.
Orin Hirschkorn (uncommitted 2021 OF/LHP) with goes big fly in the 6-5 victory by our Upperclassmen team over the Four Corners Sox this morning in Arizona.
Before the game tonight, the Fresno A’s organization retired their first jersey number in the program’s history.
#10
will no longer be worn as it will always belong to the life-long Fresno Athletic
@hepphepphurray
Thank you for your 13 years of work to help build this program!
In the Fresno A’s summer college team’s huge, 15 inning win last night at historic power Redding Colt 45’s, ending around 1am, ISAIAH CLARK (Fresno Pacific) launched a GRAND SLAM. Congrats, Isaiah.
We are so proud of DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY baseball for winning 13 games in a row. We are proud of all of our players in the Trojan program, which at last count was ranked number seven in the nation in pitching. Proud to be associated with these winners!
To all 2021 players: our offseason hitting and strength and conditioning will begin soon. Please be aware that, IF the CIF delays or cancels your 2021 high school season we WILL have a Fresno A’s spring showcase season to have you play games and be scouted and recruited.
Texting us at 8:03 AM that you aren’t coming for a 10 AM game is simply unacceptable. We have not missed or last-minute no-showed for a game in our 6-year existence. We will be more careful with who we schedule next year as our players, coaches, and parents don’t deserve this.
Orin Hirschkorn (2021) player of the game. 10-5 win to start pool play!
Hobbs (2020): 2.2 IP and gets the win
Geisler (2021): 1.1 IP, 2 K’s and gets the save.
Back at it tomorrow! 16u team about to start on Facebook live at 4:45 PM
The Fresno A’s are proud to announce that LUCAS LEONARD (2021, RHP) has committed to play baseball at Antelope Valley College. Congratulations to a great prospect and a fine young man with a bright future.
The Fresno A’s very own Aiden Rocha, playing today in Dallas, Texas, for Dakota State. We are so proud of Aiden and looking forward to a great summer season.
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And they’re off! The charter bus pulled out of Fresno at 6:45am, headed to Logan, Utah, for the four game series in the Rockies. Then a sight seeing day before busing over to Humboldt to finish against the Crabs. Long 13 hour drive underway. Great baseball when we arrive!
Orin Hirschkorn (2021 OF/LHP UNCOMMITTED) has hit some absolute bombs this year, and features a BAT SPEED of 81.6 MPH and a 60 YARD DASH of 6.62 seconds. His exit velocity off of the tee is 96+.
Dean McCurley P/MIF (2021) has sat mid 90’s off the tee for the past year. He has slowly been climbing and today he hit a new PR! We made him prove it too! 99 MPH
Fresno A’s Alum Orin Hirschkorn continues to be a spectacular successful. He is winning academic and athletic awards at Reedley JC and is playing outstanding baseball. The Fresno A’s Nation congratulates Orin and looks forward to what comes next.
Ready to play. Three UMC guys ready to take the field for the Fresno A’s in Hyrum, Utah, with Jackson Schneider’s parents. Tune in! Game starts in 15 minutes. Brody Sorenson (bottom left), Jackson Schneider (top left) Cameron DeMaria (bottom right).
Great time at the Edison High baseball dinner tonight. The last one for the great Coach Cliff Rold, who retires after 31 years. Many great Fresno A’s came through Edison. Our next dinner will be at Coach Rold’s beautiful retirement home in Tennessee. God’s speed, Cliff.
We are proud to announce that Wyatt Featherston will serve on the coaching staff of the Fresno A’s summer college team in 2022. An all-conference college player, he was drafted in the 34th round of the MLB Draft in 2016 and now coaches at Porterville College. See how bio, below.
Happy Birthday to Cameron DeMaria! A lifetime Fresno A’s player who is now blasting the ball at UMC! We love you Big Cam! At 6’8”, he is 19 years old today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
We dropped two games today…but had a some great moments. Cameron DeMaria squared one up to the 410 in left field with his maple wood bat, and Gannon Williams continues to be the best batboy in summer college baseball! Guess which is which, below.
Yes we did…Fresno A’s go 4-2 to finish 5th out of 21 teams in upperclassman division of Pathway AZ Fall Classic. Fun weekend and great play from the boys, taking a final game win on the Padres MLB spring training field.
The Fresno A’s are thrilled to announce that our own BLAKE DEMARIA has accepted a baseball scholarship and signed with DAKOTA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Blake played 4 years at UMary, received his BA, and will now obtain his MBA and play his final two years at
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Two great Fresno A’s were at it this weekend in college baseball. AIDEN PERRY and CAMERON DEMARIA, hot in action in South Dakota at Dakota State, both deliver GRAND SLAMS on the same game day in a sweep of Dickinson State. WOW!
We would like to congratulate a life-long Fresno Athletic, Cameron DeMaria, on his recent commitment and signing his NLI to play baseball at the University of Minnesota Crookston
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Congratulations on graduation to Isaac Ayon. 4 former/current Fresno A’s together in this picture: Alec DeMaria, UMary ‘19; Isaac Ayon, Oregon ‘24; Cameron DeMaria, Caruthers High ‘21; Blake Demaria, UMary ‘23.
Good luck at Oregon Isaac!
We will be announcing our roster for the 2023 summer over the next month. The first player we would like to welcome to the Fresno A’s for the 2023 season is Aidan Perry! Aidan is a freshman middle infielder from
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Fresno A’s summer college team reporting day is just 4 days away. On May 23 we will have our team welcome bbq and we can report that the pool water is 86 degrees! Players and guests: bring your swim suits! It will be a great time.
Holy Cow! Fresno A’s summer college team beats the mighty Medford Rogues, at Medford, 5-4. CAMERON DEMARIA 3-4, 2b, R; AIDEN ROCHA is WP; TRE WILLIAMS (Hold); RYAN KRONK (SV). Aric Anderson great behind the plate. One of the best wins in years for our program! Exiting game!
Fresno A’s KAMERON BRYANT in college action: 3..2..1..take-off! Big Kam (lifetime Fresno A’s) with the HR during the Dakota State Univ sweep of DWU on a beautiful day in Sioux Falls, SD. This is why we want you to experience college baseball!
Baseball was back today and it was great! A doubleheader against the Reno Astros for our summer collegiate team! The boys are back in action next weekend.
A final goodbye from Fresno A’s alum Eddie Rios, who played his last college game and will graduate from Simpson University. Congrats, Eddie. It was a great run.
We are proud to announce that Braden Hobbs has committed to continue his baseball career at the Univeristy of Minnesota Crookston for this 2020-2021 school year! We have loved having Braden with us for the past few years. He deserves this! Congratulations Braden!
Our biggest Fresno A’s fan, little Diamond DeMaria, passed away. Here is a photo of her in the team van, where she travelled with the team to so many games. She was so very happy and loving and she loved to be with the A’s. Her family loved her and will miss her always.
OUR SUMMER COLLEGE TEAM ROAD SCHEDULE IS FINAL.
Fresno A’s play 33 HOME GAMES AT CHUKCHANSI PARK (see photo) this summer, and 4 road trips against the best opponents/best stadiums, AT:
Sonoma Stompers
Redding Colt 45’s
Medford Rogues
Humboldt Crabs
Best schedule around!
Emotional day for the 2021 Fresno A’s families! It seemed so far off, but it’s their senior year and time to close this chapter. Through the years, we’ve made incredible memories with special families. We ended with our final game in Tucson with an undefeated week. See full ⬇️
We would like to welcome Fernando Valentin to our 2023 summer collegiate roster! Fernando has played on our high school showcase teams for years. He is committed to
@DSU_Baseball_
for the fall of 2023.
5-5 in top of 5th. Great start from Cronk. Martinez and Anderson homers. Brody Sorenson strikes out back to back strike outs with bases loaded to keep the tie.
Incredible ending tonight. Brody Block hits a walk off in the bottom of the 10th, with two outs, in his first game since signing with the A’s, to win 11-10. Enjoyed Cary League night and our bat boy, Cooper
Back at it tomorrow. DH at 4pm at Chukchansi Park/Grizzlies Stadium
The Fresno A’s Upperclass team beats USA Prime Hormann 5-4! Braden Hobbs gets out of a 0 out-bases loaded jam in the last inning. A huge diving 9-6 double play from Bobby Staley, and Aviram Ramirez with a diving play for the last out at 2nd! The team is 2-0 in pool play!
NEWS FLASH:
The Fresno A’s just signed a new contract to confirm our 34 home game dates at Grizzlies Stadium/Chukchansi Park in 2024!
21 evening home games, 13 weekend day home games this summer!
Best stadium in summer college baseball. Our video:
Fresno A’s players also in college baseball action this past weekend: DEAN MCCURLEY made his first college pitching appearance at Fresno City College (this kid will be a star) and STEVEN MARTINEZ had the game tying rbi single for University of the Southwest (very proud of him).
Congrats to DAKOTA STATE UNIV BASEBALL, on a 22-9 start and a 7 game winning streak. DSU recruits CA Cen Cal players: with a Fresno A’s player on this year’s team and another recruited for next year’s team. Will you be the next Trojan, as they steamroll to championships?
UPDATE: THE UNION IS PRESERVED. Civil war hostilities came to a halt in Northwest Minnesota. UMary agreed to cross back to North Dakota, and UMC agreed to meet in ND in 2023 for a series. Blake and Cameron DeMaria hugged and readied for summer 2022 with the FRESNO A’S NATION!
Baseball Fans: regardless of what happens with the MLB lockout, MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND THE FRESNO GRIZZLIES WILL BE PLAYING THIS SEASON. Get ready to come out to beautiful Chukchansi Park this season and watch the Rockies minor league team in our upgraded stadium!!!
We are thrilled to welcome the FRESNO CITY COLLEGE coaches to the Fresno A’s Fall Showcase this weekend at Edison. Another great program out to scout the boys!
Isaiah Clark of the Fresno A’s summer college team had a DAY for Fresno Pacific University, going 3-3 with a homer and this double in an FPU fall scrimmage.
Another outstanding performance from Fresno A’s Upperclassmen AARON MCCURLEY (2022, Central High) at Utah Pathway Games. Complete game win in the bracket semi-final game. Sat 81-83 the entire game.
On to the championship!
Fresno A’s summer college team wins home opener 3-1! We play tomorrow at 9am against East LA Dodgers at Grizzlies Stadium. We will have the food truck there with hot Mexican food, cold drinks, peanuts and seeds. Admission free. Come for the fun!