Brian Cavanaugh sent me a great summary on the Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club APBA League season. The Rockets captained by Dylan H., won the Bridesburg 2013 championship!
Brian reports:
As the summer of 2013 winds down, so has the 2013 Bridesburg Boys and Girls Club APBA league. This was the 4th summer that the league has played. This summer was our first as a "Keeper" league where player/owners were allowed the choice of keeping up to 5 players from the previous season ( each kept player resulted in a loss of a draft pick).This season saw 18 teams play head to head on a daily basis of 3-4 games per day. There is a 40 game limit with a minimum of 35 to qualify for postseason play. The league lasts for 7 weeks and each player plays divisional opponents 4 times each and non-divisional opponents 2 times.
This format is altered due to the transient nature of a summer day camp where a player may miss a week or two due to family vacation times.
| Rose Division | Schmidt Division | |||
| Lightning | 28-12 | Rockets | 28-12 | |
| Senators | 27-13 | Convicts | 28-12 | |
| Stingers | 20-20 | Wolverines | 21-19 | |
| Red Tigers | 14-24 | Rat Pack | 20-18 | |
| Studs | 11-25 | |||
| Carlton Division | ||||
| Wings | 22-18 | Ashburn Division | ||
| Rainbow Ninjas | 12-28 | Night Hawks | 30-10 | |
| Lightning Bolts | 8-22 | Thunder | 21-10 | |
| Cubs | 4-23 | M&M’s | 20-13 | |
| Phillies | 3-18 | Scuba Divers | 10-18 |
Playoffs Round 1
Hawks over Wolverines, Rat Pack over Lightning, Rockets over Senators, Wings over Convicts
Round 2
Hawks over Rat Pack, Rockets over Wings
Championship Game
Rockets over Night Hawks
After finishing as runners-up as a 7th seeded rookie in 2012, the Rockets, played by Dylan H., came out on top. The Hawks finished the regular season with a league record 30 wins (played by second year player Christan S.). In the 4 years that the league has been in operation, I have watched many of the kids grow from novice players who stared blankly at the numbers on a card to being able to
breakdown the numbers and ratings on a card to determine the value of a player.The kids really love the game and would often play 3-4 games a day. Some who have grown from campers to Jr. Staff would even come in 2-3 hours before their start time and hang 2-3 hours after their shifts ended just so they could play as many games as possible (and even playing games for kids who were absent). The
summer program is now over and most of the kids will not comeback to the club until next June when summer camp starts up again. Some have gone and bought their own game sets from APBA and 2 (Ian M. and Christian S.) were the beneficiaries of donated games from members of the APBA community.This summer was a lot of fun, more so than the others as Ian (Convicts), Gary (Wings) and Rob (M & M’s) even helped me complete my 1964 Phillies replay. This league is a lot of fun and I genuinely miss it when we are not playing. The kids have a true love of the game and are always talking about the cards and how the numbers are broken down. They are the reason why this league has been so successful.
Great work, Brian and congrats to all the kids!!
