2000 HBI Dream Team

Beginning with the anticipation of a new season and ending with

District 62 play, the 2000 Little League season featured many highlights

for the five area leagues. Here, then, is a sampling of some of those

highlights:

-Huntington Valley Little League, host of two District 62 tournaments

and the Section 4 tournament, unveiled its “Inspiration Field,” the

newly, refurbished Major Division field at Wardlow Park. Inspiration

Field was made possible by a generous grant from the Major League

Baseball Players Trust for Children, in honor of Mark McGwire’s

outstanding 1998 season, in which he became Major League Baseball’s

all-time single season home run leader. The field also was dedicated to

children past, present, and future, who ever dreamed of setting their own

records.

-For the first time since the 1996 season, a Fountain Valley team

(9/10 Division) won a District 62 All-Star title.

-When Robinwood defeated Westminster, 9-4, on July 19, it marked the

first time in seven years that the league’s Senior Division team won the

District 62 All-Star tournament.

-Ocean View won both the District 62 Tournament of Champions and the

District 62 All-Star Tournament in Majors Division play. It is the second

consecutive year that the league has won both Majors tournaments.

-Seaview Little League officials have received a grant of $16,840 from

the City of Huntington Beach to add another Coach/Pitch Division field to

their site at LeBard Park. It will give the league two Coach/Pitch

fields, to accommodate interest in the division.

-Ocean View’s Hammerin’ Hank Conger belted out 23 home runs during the

regular season, through District 62 All-Star play.

-One of the top coaches in the area is Seaview’s Mark Amaral, who

coached the league’s 9/10 Division All-Star team. During the regular

season, Amaral’s Mariners won Seaview’s Minor A Division title with a

19-1 record.

-Sectional play is taking place this week for several local All-Star

teams. The last time a local All-Star team won a Section championship was

Seaview in 1981.