Eleven teams will compete for the Carter Cup in the 2011 edition of the TriCounty Baseball League. Cornerstone franchises Conlin Baseball and Hardenberg will not compete this season, and neither will D’Andrea. The 11 team league results in each team playing an unbalanced 24-game season. The Roughriders open the season at their alternate home field in Lindenwold on Wednesday, June 1st versus Cherry Hill West at 7:30pm. The Roughs then return home to Haddonfield to take on three-time defending champion Bellmawr on Friday night. Consult the Roughriders complete schedule for dates and times.

The Roughriders have announced that most of their home schedule will be played in Lindenwold, NJ for the 2010 season. Lindenwold Park serves as the setting, with night games every Wednesday night starting at 7:30pm during June and July. A selected number of games will be still be played in Haddonfield, the team's home since its inception in 1986. The league again returns 14 teams for competition in 2010. The Muddogs, formerly known as Lumber Kings, will now be based in Medford, NJ (Hartford Crossing) while Mack Ice will play their home games in Runnemede, NJ. Complete details on all 14 teams are available at About TriCounty. The Roughriders open up the season at home versus Cherry Hill West on Wednesday, June 2.

Mike Carlino and Adriano Petrutz will represent the Roughriders in the 2009 TriCounty All-Star game. The game will again be played at Union Field in West Deptford on Sunday, July 12 starting at 6pm. Carlino, a C/DH in his eleventh year with the Roughriders, attended Rutgers-Camden University. Petrutz, a shortstop, is in his first year with the Roughriders and attended St Joe's (PA) University.

The TriCounty Baseball League will feature a fourteen team, 26-game balanced schedule for 2009. The Moorestown franchise, which had been in the league since 2007, will not participate in league play this season. Rocco's Auto will have new sponsorship and now be known as Mack Ice, using Gloucester Township Community Park as its home base. D'Andrea will call the Bellmawr Rec Center its new home, sharing it with the defending champion Tigers. All other team names and locations remain the same. The league will kickoff its regular season the week of May 25th, and the playoffs commence the weekend of July 25.

The Roughriders will send five players to the TriCounty All Star game slated for Saturday, July 12 at 7pm. The game will be hosted by West Deptford's Union Field. Pitchers Mike Cummings and Rob Schork, along with positional players Rob Oryl, Steve Wyland, and Andrew Frangos will represent the Roughs. The format of the game will be "North versus South" in this intra-league, nine inning contest. This is the first time since 2003 that an All-Star game is being played. That game featured All-Stars from the TriCounty League and the Rancocas Valley League squaring off for bragging rights.

The TriCounty Baseball League added two new franchises for the 2008 season, bringing the total to 15 teams. Each team will play a 24-game, unbalanced schedule, playing each team twice (four teams will be played only once). The additional teams are Hardenberg which will play out of Haddon Township High School, and Rocco Automotive which will use Triton High School as its home field. Every team will again be eligible for the playoffs, with the top five receiving a bye. Complete details on all 15 teams are available at About TriCounty.

Infielder Steve Wyland, who graduated from the University of Albany this spring as the third all-time hit leader (211) in school history, has signed a contract with the Brockton Rox of the Can-Am League. Wyland started his career with the Roughriders in 2004 and was part of last season's championship team. Wyland helped Albany reach their first NCAA tournament bid this past season, but went unselected in the Major League Entry Draft. The entire organization wishes Steve luck in his pursuit of a professional baseball career.

The TriCounty Baseball League has added two new teams while also subtracting two others for the 2007 season, keeping the total number of franchises at 13. With the retirement of long time manager Pete Corelli, Hardenberg will not field a team in 2007. A return in 2008 is likely. Cherry Hill South, off a sixth place finish in 2006, bows out of the league after just one season. The two new franchises are Golden Nugget, based out of Berlin, and Moorestown, which comes to TriCounty from the Rancocas Valley League. Kepple's Carpet has also changed sponsorship and will now be known as Lakeview Custom Coach. As in past seasons, every team will make the playoffs with the top six receiving first round byes. Complete details on all 13 teams are available at About TriCounty.

The Roughriders' Brian Spicer will leave for the Netherlands on July 4 to compete in the Apeldorn Baseball Series in Apeldorn, Holland as member of the Los Angeles Warriors. Spicer, who just finished his senior year at Gettysburg University, was voted to the Centennial Conference team in 2006, leading his team in wins (5) and tying for the top spot in the entire conference in strikeouts (67). Updates on the tournament, which begins on July 11, can be found at www.robur58.com.

The Roughriders' founder and long time catcher/manager Ted Frangos will be inducted into the Haddonfield Memorial High School Hall of Fame on April 23, 2005. Frangos was a three sport star at Haddonfield, playing baseball, football, and basketball. As a senior in 1976, he was voted to the All-South Jersey baseball team as a catcher. He would then go on to attend Princeton University where he continued his baseball career. The induction, sponsored by the Haddonfield Alumni Society, will take place at the Tavistock Country Club beginning at 7pm.
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