The Fresno A’s have just accepted an invitation to play in the Golden State Baseball Collegiate Baseball League beginning in 2018. The league includes the Atwater Aviators, California Bees, Nevada Big Horns, Sacramento Heat, San Francisco Seagulls, South Bay Storm, and Top Speed Baseball. The League consists of a 42-game schedule, after which the top 3 teams head to postseason play.
            After winning the National Baseball Congress World Series Qualifier in San Diego, the Fresno A’s competed in the NBC World Series in Wichita, Kansas. It was a tournament that also featured the Kansas Stars, and the Stars’ roster included the likes of Chipper Jones, Heath Bell, Jake Peavy, and Roy Halladay.
            Fresno A’s GM/owner Anthony DeMaria said this on joining the GSCBL: “We are thrilled to join the Golden State league. The GSCBL is a premiere college baseball league, which will bring exciting and excellent competition for our players and great baseball to Fresno. This is a huge step forward for summer college baseball and all interested players can contact us at fresnoathletics.org."
            The A’s will return players Marco Gonzalez, Eric Flores, Alec DeMaria, Brandon Hepp, Isaiah Daniels, and Travis Barrett from last year’s world series team. They will be joined by a very talented group of incoming signees from an array of schools from D1 universities to junior colleges. Early signees include the likes of Noah Lanter (UMary), Alante Uribe (Holy Names), Justin Hinojosa (La Sierra), and Jan Elias (Cornerstone/Puerto Rico).
            The GSCBL features a very high level of talent that include Top Speed Baseball. Top Speed is a perennial power who had 13 players go pro last season. The program was ranked third in North America in the final Collegiate Summer Baseball rankings in 2017, and was ranked as a finalist for the Perfect Game/Rawlings Summer Collegiate Team of the Year.

Fresno Athletics of Fresno, CA  beats Slammers Jenkins of Colorado 8-0. Freshman, Eleazar Aguirre, from Edison High School pitched a complete game no hitter, one walk, to earn the Win. 
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By Nick Pellegrino
Special to East County Sports

SANTEE (7-4-2017) – Originally tabbed as the guest entrant to the National Baseball Congress Western Regional qualifying tournament, the Fresno A’s came to town   and stole the show.
The A’s, the seventh seed in the annual tournament, broke through with victories over the San Diego Stars and the Dove Tail Baseball Academy on Sunday (July 3) at West Hills High, earning a ticket to the NBC World Series in Wichita, Kan.
Fresno scored three times in the 9th inning to break open a tie game, downing the Stars, 12-9, in the morning semifinals.  Dove Tail then downed the top-seeded San Diego Waves, setting up a finale with two of the lowest seeds in event history, as the A’s took the trophy with a 12-9 verdict.
Among the final four teams, three hailed from the Stars pool during preliminaries.
“It was our tournament for the taking, but we made too many defensive mistakes,” said Stars owner/field manager Mickey Deutschman.
Fresno committed seven errors, but San Diego bats only cashed in the mistakes for runs only a few times. Meanwhile, the A’s pushed across eight runs in the 4th inning — all unearned — turning a 4-1 deficit into a 9-5 lead.
However, the Stars (15-6) were still able to tie the contest, eventually moving even in the 6th on an run-scoring basehit by catcher Aaron Barkley. Barkley also started the 9th with a single, but the A’s were able to close out the victory.
Jeremiah Barr fired four innings of shutout ball in relief, but errors saw Fresno score three in the 9th to earn a berth in the championship game, where they again trailed early before turning an early 3-1 deficit into a 9-3 advantage.
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Fresno Athletics 14U defeated CV Marlins 9-0 on Saturday as three pitchers combined to throw a shutout. Julian Rocha got Anthony to hit into a fielder's choice to finish off the game.
Fresno Athletics 14U grabbed an early lead. Fresno Athletics 14U scored on a double by Eleazar Aguierre, an error, and a walk in the first inning.
Fresno Athletics 14U took an early lead in the first inning. With zero outs in the first inning Aguierre drove in two runs when he doubled.
Fresno Athletics 14U scored four runs in the third inning. Fresno Athletics 14U scored on a single by Andrew Perez and a walk.
One bright spot for CV Marlins was a single by David in the fifth inning.
Cameron DeMaria earned the win for Fresno Athletics 14U. He threw three innings, giving up zero runs, zero hits, and striking out four. Two relievers helped Fresno Athletics 14U close out the victory. Julian Rocha threw one and two-thirds innings. Nate took the loss for CV Marlins. He pitched one inning, surrendering four runs, two hits, and striking out one.
Manny Galo, Aguierre, Dean McCurly, DeMaria, Diego Ruiz, and Perez each managed one hit to lead Fresno Athletics 14U.
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​Zach Curtis didn't allow a single run as Fresno Athletics 14U defeated Cali Tigers 16-0 on Saturday. Curtis allowed just one hit and induced a groundout from John to end the game.
​Fresno Athletics 14U secured the victory thanks to 11 runs in the third inning. Fresno Athletics 14U scored on a double by Eleazar Aguierre, a single by Diego Ruiz, a single by Tyler Kiggens, a walk by Julian Rocha, a single by Caleb Geisler, a walk by Bobby Staley, a single by Dean McCurly, and a single by Aguierre.
Fresno Athletics 14U scored 11 runs in the third inning. The big inning was thanks to a double by Aguierre, a single by Ruiz, a single by Kiggens, a walk by Rocha, a single by Geisler, a walk by Staley, a single by McCurly, and a single by Aguierre.
One bright spot for Cali Tigers was a single by McGhuey in the first inning.
Zach Curtis earned the win for Fresno Athletics 14U. He threw three innings, surrendering zero runs, one hit, striking out one, and walking one. McGhuey took the loss for Cali Tigers. He pitched two innings, allowing five runs, one hit, and striking out one.
Fresno Athletics 14U had eight hits in the game. Aguierre and Geisler each collected multiple hits for Fresno Athletics 14U. Geisler and Aguierre each managed two hits to lead Fresno Athletics 14U. Fresno Athletics 14U was sure-handed and didn't commit a single error. McCurly made the most plays with four. McCurly led Fresno Athletics 14U with four stolen bases, as they ran wild on the base paths with 13 stolen bases.
McGhuey led Cali Tigers with one hit in one at bats. Cali Tigers didn't commit a single error in the field. John had four chances in the field, the most on the team.
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