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Yeonis Cespedes of the Oakland Athletics won the 2013 MLB Home Run Derby but what you may not know is he is not the only home run hitter from Northern California. Grass Valley's Justin Deme was runner-up at the this year's Boneyard Tournament in Reno Nevada (July 12-14) falling just one home run short of the crown but he did smash the farthest homer in the tournament which landed 384 feet from home plate. Deme's towering blast was hit into a 15 to 20 mile per hour wind and when it finally came down it was just 6 feet shy of the all-time record at the Boneyard. The Derby's format was each batter would get 7 pitches in each of the two rounds. Deme hit 4 HRs in each round which lifted him past all but one of the 200 entrants.
The tournament's website describes the event as...
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Scott: The tournament was awesome. We had two teams from Grass Valley. Did not go to the homerun derby so glad that you posted the videos. Deme's team won the tournament...unbelieveable how good they were. Go job Justin!
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