Two Edgewood College Eagles will be wearing the Green & Black this summer as Brandon Bartels, Manitowoc and Miles Mayer, Grafton suit up this summer.  Bartels returns the Bandits for the 2010 summer season after being called up at the end of the Legion season last year.    Bartels batted .333 at the end of the season last year, going 2/6 with a double and 2 RBIs.  He also pitched six innings, dropping his debut to the Kenosha Kings.

Willamette infielder Galen Duff and pitcher Parker Johnson are the newest pair of Bear Cats to don the Manitowoc Bandits uniform for summer ball.  The duo replace last year's members TC Lee, Doug Bloom, Max Stepan and Andrew Wyman.  Lee, Bloom and Stepan each had great summers for the Bandits last year, garnering several post-season honors amongst them.  Currently freshman, both Galen and Parker are seeing playing time in the early going of the Bear

The Manitowoc Bandits offer its condolences to the family of Chuck Zeichert who passed away Monday afternoon, February 15th, after a courageous battle with lung cancer.  For those of us who knew Chuck, he will be missed.  Chuck was always smiling when you met him, especially when he was announcing games in Sheboygan.  His smirk let you know he knew darn well he didn't pronounce some of our names right, but hey, the game was in Sheboygan and its called home field advant

The Bandits landed a pair of players on the WSL All-League Team when it was announced that secondbaseman Nat Richter and catcher Max Stepan were each given First Team Honors.  In 2008, Richter was a Second Team member and also adds Honorable Mention MVP to his list of 2009 accomplishments, finishing fifth in the League MVP voting.  In addition to his catching honors, Max also finished third in the rookie of the year voting.

Seven Bandits were recognized for the 2009 accomplishments on the field as the Northeastern Wisconsin Baseball League announced its 2009 Post Season Honors.

 Brad Schreiber pitched eight innings and recorded three hits, one a solo homer and another a two-run double, to lead the Macs past the Green Bay Storm in the final game of the NEWBL Championship Series by a score of 10-6.  Doug Coe was 2x4 with two HRs to lead Green Bay offensively.  Jake VanCamp took the loss on the mound.  Menasha replaces Manitowoc as League Champion after Manitowoc had won the title for the past two years.

After getting routed by a score of 13-1 on Tuesday night, the Green Bay Storm came back strong behind the pitching of Tony Jandron to defeat the Menasha Macs 5-3 on Wednesday night and force a Game 3 which will be held in Menasha on Thursday at 7:15. 

 The Menasha Macs will advance to the Championship Series this year to play the Green Bay Storm, who eliminated the Sheboygan A's, after Menasha defeated the Bandits 9-6 on Sunday night.  The Bandits run of consecutive Championships comes to an end at two as a new champion will be crowned this summer.