QUOTE(UVCcoach @ May 29 2009, 08:26 AM)

This club is now gone but the best chant of all time was by LBC! L-B what, L-B what, LBC, LBC. Great teams which mentally beat some teams before the game was even played. Parents waving black & white skull & crossbones flags. LBC won like 18 medals in 3 years! Mostly gold. It made how good balboa bay does now look silly and they were only around like 6 years, balboa has been around forever.
I looked at this post and knew the “LBC won like 18 medals in 3 years” was a slight exaggeration. Derek did a great job putting together winning teams, but not 18 medals in 3 years. Probably his best accomplishment was winning the 18 Gold medal 3 years in a row, 2001 – 2003.
I went back in the records on middlehitter.com and compiled all of the medals from the last ten years. I counted only Open tournament medals, not club medals. Most years records that I found only list 16’s through 18’s. Only recent JO’s have the 14’s & 15’s medal count. During that time The LBC won 8 open medals, 9 if you count the Sultans of Soul 17’s bronze in 2007. They were by far the best club from 2001 through 2003, and yes they were very intimidating. When they all shaved their heads in (I think) Phoenix before the last day, it was so cool. They were a great club. But just to put things in perspective, in that same 10 year period, Balboa Bay won 18 open medals, SCVC won 6 and North Shore, Outrigger, and SMBC each won 5.
Again, these numbers come from a couple of places on Redhawkvb’s wonderful website. I thought The LBC had more medals than that too, but I couldn't find them.