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By kelly Lyell
February 5th, 2008
Major-league pitchers and catchers don't report to spring training for three more weeks. Position players report a week later.
Yet youth baseball and softball players in and around Fort Collins have been training for the past two months for their 2008 seasons. We've been going at it twice a week since December," said Rich O'Donnell, coach of the 13-and-under Fort Collins Cardinals baseball team. "It's not required, but the kids love it. At every practice, we probably have three-quarters of the kids."
O'Donnell and several other competitive baseball and softball teams are practicing regularly at Edge Sports Center, 4450 Denrose Court. They're hitting in batting cages off machines and live pitching, they're throwing and catching and fielding fly balls and grounders.
The Cardinals, who play at the highest level of youth baseball in the state (Division I) for their age group, will play their first tournament the first weekend of March.
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| Adirondack CC | 4/1 & 4/8 |
| Broome CC | June 7, 2008 |
| Cayuga CC | Fall 2008 |
| Clinton CC | June 10, 2008 |
| Corning CC | |
| Columbia-Greene CC | July 19, 2008 |
| Dutchess CC | May 18, 2008 |
| Erie CC | TBA |
| F.I.T. | TBA |
| Finger Lakes CC | May 28th, 2008 |
| Fulton-Montgomery CC | April 28, 2008 |
| Herkimer CC | June 2008 |
| Hudson Valley CC | March 11, 2008 |
| Jamestown CC | March 2008 |
| Jefferson CC | 3/5 & 3/8 |
| Mohawk Valley CC | March 29, 2008 |
| Monroe CC | TBA |
| Nassau CC | 3/1 & 3/11 |
| Niagara CC | May 28, 2008 |
| Onondaga CC | April 26, 2008 |
| SUNY Orange CC | TBA |
| SUNY Rockland CC | May 6, 2008 |
| Schenectady CC | Summer 2008 |
| Suffolk CC | June 6, 2008 |
| Sullivan CC | TBA |
| Tompkins Cortland CC | May 5, 2008 |
| Ulster CC | April 8, 2008 |
| Westchester CC | March 25, 2008 |
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