Talas Mahon

121 Germania Road  Galeton, PA  16922  Phone  814-435-6677

lefty46@verizon.net   

Talas started his baseball career as a member of the Eagles Foods pee-wee team at age of five.  He then moved on to minor league baseball at age seven playing for the Galeton Mets.  This is where his pitching career started.  Talas pitched and played first base for the Mets for one year and at the age of eight was drafted up to the Galeton Phillies which was a little league major league team.  Talas had a successful four years on the Phillies.  They won the league three out of four years. His last year as a 12 year old, he pitched three 18 strike out games giving up only one hit in each game.  He had 3 home runs that year and pitched a total of 104 strikeouts for the year.

At this time Talas also started playing travel baseball with a team from Elkland PA called the Tioga Athletics.  They played tournaments throughout Pennsylvania during 2004, 2005 and part of 2006.He also began to play Babe Ruth at age 13.  Then in 2006 Talas had a tryout for the New Jersey Cyclones.  He made the team and played with them for the rest of that year.

In 2007 Talas traveled to northern Virginia for a chance to play on the 14U Virginia Mavericks.  He made the team and played all over the state of Virginia during the 2007 season.  They played in the "Battle in the South" held in Tennessee with 35 other teams from all over the United States and made it to the quarter finals. He also was selected to the Pennsylvania Keystone State Games in 2007. 

Talas continued to play with the Mavericks during the 2008 season.  They played in Tournaments in Delaware, Virginia and also the 16U USA National Championships (formerly the Junior Olympics).

2009 should be an exciting year as well.  Talas will be joining a team called the Altoona Junior Curves.  They will be playing in a number of showcases throughout the summer.  He was also selected to play for a team called NorCal East.  This team is playing in two huge tournaments in Northern California and Marietta Georgia.

Away from baseball Talas likes to play other high school sports basketball and soccer. To relax away from the sports he also loves to fish, hunt and ride bike. 

Talas has a goal to play baseball into college.  He plans to continue his hard work this winter to help him have his most successful season yet in 2009.  This will be accomplished by attending academy training in Altoona and also a training routine customized to him for strength and velocity.