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Chris Brown wanted more power in his baseball swing before he went to a camp this weekend at Stanford University.
Following in the footsteps of a teammate at Grass Valley's American Legion team, Brown adjusted his stance with immediate results.
"Gary Daley went from a closed stance to an open one, and it gave him more power because he is hitting the ball harder," Brown said. "So I've been re-working my swing lately and switched to a new stance and started working out at the cage, and I just started seeing the ball better."
Apparently so. In four games at a tournament in Reno, Nevada, Brown walloped nine hits in 14 at-bats, driving in seven RBIs in the process.
"We should have won every game there," said Brown, who has split his duties between second base and catching this summer. "We would absolutely clobber one team, then lose the next two. I think maybe it is a problem with belief."
In two days, Brown will join teammates Cody Godfrey and Gary Daley and head to Palo Alto for the Stanford camp, which will run until Sunday.
Zachary Welz made it three-for-three at the USA Track and Field Pacific Association Junior Olympic Track and Field Championship Meet in Union City last weekend.
Welz, 10, won the long jump and took fifth in the 100 meter dash and sixth in the 200 in the 9-10 age group to qualify for the Region 14 Junior Olympic Meet in Union City July 13-14.
The top three finishers from that event will earn a ticket to the National USATF Junior Olympics in Omaha, Neb. July 23-28.
The Pleasant Ridge Elementary School fifth grader-to-be missed the association1s long jump record by three inches with a personal best distance of 14 feet, 8 inches.
Welz topped his best ever mark in the 100 by over a tenth of a second with a time of 14.15 seconds. His time in the 200 was not available as of presstime.
Gregg Barsby turned in a prime time performance at the First Annual Sky Catz Spectacular disc golf tournament in Grass Valley and Penn Valley Saturday and Sunday.
Barsby, who took ninth in the world disc golf championships in the 16-and-under division two years ago, took third in the inaugural event1s amateur advanced division.
Barsby finished behind fellow Grass Valley resident Jason Baehr and winner < and best friend < Miles Harding of Santa Cruz.
Zachary Welz made it three-for-three at the USA Track and Field Pacific Association Junior Olympic Track and Field Championship Meet in Union City last weekend.
Welz, 10, won the long jump and took fifth in the 100 meter dash and sixth in the 200 in the 9-10 age group to qualify for the Region 14 Junior Olympic Meet in Union City July 13-14.
The top three finishers from that event will earn a ticket to the National USATF Junior Olympics in Omaha, Neb. July 23-28.
The Pleasant Ridge Elementary School fifth grader-to-be missed the association1s long jump record by three inches with a personal best distance of 14 feet, 8 inches.
Welz topped his best ever mark in the 100 by over a tenth of a second with a time of 14.15 seconds. His time in the 200 was not available as of presstime.
Gregg Barsby turned in a prime time performance at the First Annual Sky Catz Spectacular disc golf tournament in Grass Valley and Penn Valley Saturday and Sunday.
Barsby, who took ninth in the world disc golf championships in the 16-and-under division two years ago, took third in the inaugural event1s amateur advanced division.
Barsby finished behind fellow Grass Valley resident Jason Baehr and winner < and best friend < Miles Harding of Santa Cruz.
