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ROTTERDAM
Boy who inspired baseball team dies
BY JUSTIN MASON Gazette Reporter

    Mohonasen students are mourning the death of Tyler DeMarco, a cancer-stricken classmate who inspired his Little League team to an unlikely come-from-behind victory last summer.
    District officials released a letter to parents about Tyler succumbing to the disease Tuesday morning at his home. The youth, who was immensely popular among his seventhgrade classmates, had been battling pediatric cancer for nearly five years.
    “We are profoundly saddened by his death,” said Draper Middle School Principal Debra Male in her letter to parents. “Tyler has left an indelible mark of love with all of us.”
    DeMarco’s Little League coaches praised him for displaying remarkable resolve during his battle with cancer. At times, he would undergo chemotherapy in the morning, only to return to the field for practice by evening.
    At the start of the 2009 season, the league decided to honor Tyler by displaying a banner with his name on it on the center field fence. Its message was simple: Hurry home, Tyler, Rotterdam needs you. .................>>>>...................>>>>.............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00701&AppName=1

Our Supervisor requested a moment of silence today.

and with that we all bowed our heads.

as you read this and wish the best for Tyler's family and friends

take a moment to remember all our friends and classmates that we lost during our childhood that he will meet.

Tyler, You will be in good company!

Another angel goes to heaven....

Our supervisor did us all proud calling for a moment of silence! RIP Tyler!

He was an extraordinary young man who did not let anything get him down.  As a coach in RLL, I never saw him without a smile on his face.  

My grandson played ball with Tyler and when I watched Tyler play ball you'd never know that he was in a fight for his life a boy who was very happy to be playing baseball with his friends. He will be missed.

To take everyday and squeeze all we can out of it...........

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ROTTERDAM
League says goodbye to No. 7
Group honors memory of boy who battled cancer
BY JESSICA HARDING Gazette Reporter

    Members of the Rotterdam Little League will never again wear the number seven.
    The number was retired Sunday in honor of Tyler DeMarco, the 12-year-old boy who inspired the entire Little League community with his courageous battle with cancer.
    “Never in the league’s 61-year history has a number ever been retired,” said Tony LaRue, DeMarco’s former coach. “That changes today.”
    DeMarco died in February of medulloblastoma, a form of brain cancer in children, which he was diagnosed with four years earlier.
    LaRue coached DeMarco for most of the seven seasons he played Little League baseball.
    “He has touched so many of these families, and he probably doesn’t even realize it,” he said.
    Those families lined the baselines of the Broadway fi eld Sunday to honor DeMarco and his family.
    Players and other participants were given blue and white balloons that were released into the sky, music was played and DeMarco’s parents and brother, Ryan, were given Tyler’s number seven jersey in a frame. ..............>>>>.................>>>>..................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00102&AppName=1