Expos News

Dylan Eddings . . . 93 mph fastball

Expos ace pitcher Dylan Eddings threw the fastest pitch in the recent world series clocked at 93 mph, pitching against eventual national champion Lincoln Nebraska.
The Expos played the nation’s #1 team tough but ended up losing 4-2.
Dylan also hit the only Expos homerun in the series, a 365 foot shot over the leftfield wall

ANNOUNCEMENT . . .
FEBA is having joint tryouts for the 19u Expos College Prep Team and the 17u TC Team on Tuesday September 8 and Wednesday September 9 at 6:30pm each day.
The tryouts will be conducted at Laurel Creek Park - 1050 Cement Hill Road - Fairfield CA.
Players who were born in 2008 thru 2013 are welcome to attend.
Registration will be handled at the tryouts.

This is a story of class . . . Pure class!
The Expos beat Texas 5-4 in game 1 of the Western Regional Tournament and then beat them again in the championship game 4-3.
That sent the Expos to the World Series and sent Texas, the four time champion, back home.
That’s not the end of the story.
The top official in Texas, 90 year old Don Toohey, drove his car all the way to Shelby NC to cheer the Expos on . . . He and his son Gene took all the Expos players, coaches and parents out to dinner at the world series and they picked up the entire tab.
The gesture was pure class and the Expos brought them into the FEBA Family inviting them to join the team for team activities at the tournament.
Good people . . . Good times . . . Friends forever!

Expos catcher Gibby Gibson does it all . . .
Gibby might be the best defensive catcher in Northern California?
On the Expos trek to the World Series Gibby put on quite a show.
Seven runners tried to steal a base in the Western Regional Tournament and Gibby threw out all seven. He also picked two runners off base.
That 9 outs really crushed the opposition and helped the Expos defeat California State Champion Clovis twice in the final week 13-5 and 5-1 . . . Then they beat the Nevada State Champion Reno 3-2 and finally the beat four time Western Regional Champion Texas twice 5-4 and 4-3 and that sent the Expos to the World Series in Shelby North Carolina.

Gibby is headed to UCLA and hopes to earn a job on the the great UCLA baseball team, but baseball is not all he does . . . Gibby plays a musical instrument and has a greater than 4.0 GPA.

He has been the mist indispensable Expos player for the past two seasons.
He’s a great young man and to know him is a total pleasure!

Think about this . . .
Javon Haynes (16 years old) went from playing JV baseball at Rodriguez high school this past spring to being the starting centerfielder, and leadoff batter, this past summer for the 19u Expos . . . PLUS being named to the “All Tournament First Team” for the 2026 World Series held in Shelby NC - batting .444 and drawing three walks!

This young man is in the conversation when talking about the best centerfielders in Expos history and he still has three more years of eligibility for the Expos!

Congratulations to Javon Haynes for being selected to the first string ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM for the 2026 World Series!
Javon batted .444 in the world series and also drew 3 walks. His defense in centerfield was stellar.

Well deserved . . . He was a key to the Expos getting to the world series!
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2026 American Legion Baseball awards announced The 2026 American Legion Baseball awards were announced Tuesday night after the championship game of the 99th American Legion World Series.

Amazing . . .
Just four months ago Royce Baker, a 16 year old junior varsity player at Rodriguez high school, was a long-shot to even make the 19u Expos team . . . But he was a last minute add.
Now that the season is over one could argue he was the Expos most valuable player.

He played outstanding defense and had the ability to get the big hit when needed.
That was on full display during the championship game of the Western Regional Tournament when the Expos were playing four time champion Texas and were trailing 2-1 with the bases loaded and two out in the final inning. Royce was at bat with two strikes on him and then he drilled the third strike into right centerfield for a base hit knocking in two runs and giving the Expos a 3-2 lead.

He also came in to pitch in the championship game of the Area 1 Tournament and shut the Petaluma team down for 3 innings allowing the Expos to win 5-4 in extra innings.

In the World Series he came in to pitch against the powerful Tupelo Mississippi team with one out and the bases loaded . . . He threw one pitch got a double-play and the inning was over.

Royce simply came up big when it was needed the most. He’s a keeper for sure!

It was refreshing to watch the team play board games in their down time during the World Series . . . Monopoly was the big attraction and several players really got into it.
Old fashion board games in a world of iPhones . . . Remarkable and more memories!