Local Baseball Travel Team Going National

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Photo of Chaz Lagaret

The coach and several players from a Castro Valley-based youth traveling baseball team are packing their gear and taking their award-winning play across the country starting this weekend. 

Chaz Lagaret, who coaches NorCal CGE Baseball, has assembled an All-Star roster that is designed to compete with other traveling teams from Southern California, Nevada, Texas, and Georgia. The new team, called 463 National, includes players from Northern California's most promising young athletes in the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. Their first competition is the PG Super Regional NIT (National Invitational Tournament) on December 14 and 15 in Huntington Beach, California. 

“We’re a Top 10 contending team with the players we have and we’re about to find out how we do against other regions,” Lagaret told the Forum.

In Northern California, the best players come from Sunnyvale, the East Bay, and around the Sacramento suburbs, Lagaret noted. Players wishing to compete on a national level typically flew to Southern California to play in their leagues. The 463 National team would be the first competitive travel team based solely out of Northern California. Five of the players are from CGE, including a few from Canyon Middle School. The rest are from the other teams in the area. 

After Huntington Beach, the 463 National team travels to Las Vegas for a tournament on January 25 followed by a PG Super Regional NIT NorCal in Sunnyvale, and a PG Super Regional NIT in Houston, Texas on March 1. The season culminates in the PG World Series in Atlanta, Georgia on June 19. 

Additionally, Lagaret said the team is looking for a business, organization, or individual who would be interested and honored to sponsor this elite team of the best and most talented boys.

Follow their journey on Instagram at @463national.