Warner Robins Voted New South East Little League Headquarters

Warner Robins Voted new South East Little League Headquarters


Wednesday, December 10, 2008


by The Applegate Team


Once more our little town of Warner Robins Georgia has made the front page news. Yesterday evening it was decided unanimously that Warner Robins would be the new South East regional headquarters for Little League!


This is impressive news following upon Business Week naming Warner Robins as one of the best places to raise your kids.


Below is an excerpt from the press announcement from the Warner Robins Little League website.


With back-to-back world champions and a strong passion for Little League, I cannot imagine a better place than Georgia for the Southeast Region Headquarters," Gov. Perdue said. "Little League is a great program that I was proud to be a part of during my youth, and we will be honored to host the regional playoffs each year as the Southeast representative to the Little League World Series is determined. Little League is a world-class organization and I am proud to welcome them to Georgia."


the entire article can be found at
http://tinyurl.com/5g5xwl


This is definitely something for us to be proud of since our boys showed such great sportsmanship to the young men from Japan in the final playoffs of 2007. I must say that at the end of that game I had tears in my eyes. I have known many of these young man and have watched them grow during our time here in Georgia and it was a very humbling moment when our boys went and hugged the young boys from Japan. It's what we as parents hope to install in our children and that game showed that many parents and coaches had met the mark.


So once more our small town is brought into the headlines and with this honor we will be forced to improve what many of us feel is already a great sports program. An interesting fact that the above article stated is


Little League Baseball and Softball is the world's largest organized youth sports program, with more than 2.6 million players and 1 million volunteers in every U.S. state and 75 other countries.
I must say that I had no clue that the sport was that huge. That even makes it bigger news when you recognize those facts.










So if you are ever in our area please don't hesitate to pull off I-75 and check out our little news worthy town. You know you will always be welcomed!



Have a great day!

Front Page Twice in One Week! Way to Go WR

Front Page twice in one week! Go Warner Robins!
Friday, November 21, 2008
by The Applegate Team
Wow what a week for Warner Robins. Twice in the same week we made front page headlines! First it was for being voted on as the best town in Georgia to raise your child then following that an article about our Warner Robins Little League and how wonderful our boys were to the Japanese team.

Over the next few weeks, the powers that be will choose between us and Morganton, N.C., to replace the St. Pete, Fla., suburb that has been the home of the regional offices and qualifying tournament for the Little League World Series.

This would be a great money maker for our city and community. So keep your fingers crossed for Warner Robins and maybe the next thing we will get will be a Soccer Tournament, since we all know I am partial to soccer having invested a ton of money in the sport over the years. (And no none of my kids are still playing)

Have a great weekend!

Jacque

Warner Robins Little League

Warner Robins Little League World Champs
Monday, August 27, 2007
by Jacque Applegate
Congratulations to the Warner Robins Little League Baseball team who beat Japan 3-2 on Sunday evening. What a great testament they are for our wonderful city. What struck us in the office was the sportsmanship these young men displayed. At the end of the game when they went out and hugged the Japanese players who were distraught and crying verses just shaking their hands, it actually made me so proud.
I know Micky Lay personally and I know he is a wonderful coach and a great man and he has the interest of those young men as a top priority. I also feel personally that weather they won or lost they would have been so proud to have just had the opportunity to play in an arena like the one they did.
Christy a member of our Real Estate team drove a 16 pack van up on Friday loaded with siblings of the the players who had to go to school. They left work on Friday and drove 12 + hours to PA to take the family members who could not go. What a great community to be a part of when people who don't even have children on the team go out of their way to help other members of our community ease the burden that the tournament brought on the families.
You can read the winning story from the Macon Telegraph by clicking on the link. http://www.macon.com/523/story/122081.html