Conewagoe Baseball Association Announcements

What: Conewago Baseball and Softball Registration
When: Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:30 - 12:30 pm
Where: Conewago Elementary

The 2009 Fundraiser will be an R&K Sub Sandwich Sale. We are doing our best to seek out fresh new ideas for fundraising.

Note to all Conewago Baseball and Softball parents regarding the Concession Stand: Our association will be increasing accountability in our concession stand for the 2009 season. CBA averages a minimum of 80 home games per season. Several parents worked in the stand this season, some even many times. Other parents either chose not to volunteer at all.....or volunteered and then chose not to show up. As always, the concession assignments will be posted on the site. Our concession stand serves three main purposes: the first being to cover umpire fees; the second being a fundraising opportunity for our association; the last being a service to both the home and visiting teams for food and beverages. As an association, we must have 100% parent participation, which is roughly only three hours a season, per player. Lack of concession participation/profits will have a direct effect on registration fees and any field &/or equipment improvements.

Thanks,
Ken Atkins
CBA President

LDBL Meeting Minutes
Meeting held Sunday, June 8, 2008 Submitted by Korey Gardner

* The LDBL website is updated to include the midget playoff schedule. Under the schedule page, select the drop down arrow at the "select season" and go to 2008 play-offs. Pony playoffs will be updated when their seedings are determined and complete.

* Pony playoffs will be hosted by South Hanover but other association fields will be needed to help fill in some games. South Hanover (Paul Metro) will communicate this week with Bill Diskerud on what games will be hosted at South Hanover and which ones will be played elsewhere.

* Every association is fielding a team for the Pony All Star tournament this year. The tournament starts on Monday, July 7th. Via a blind draw for seeding, Conewago will host Londonderry and South Hanover will host East Hanover on day one (July 7th). Hummelstown received a bye. Future field locations, after July 7th, will be determined via random (flipped coin, draw of hat, etc) draw. Bill Diskerud will be sending all Pony coaches the bracket style format. Games will be played every other night (Mon-Wed-Fri) throughout the duration of the tournament. Brad...we will need someone to run the concession stand July 7th and possibly others if we host more games.

* I listed Harry Bramley down as the coach of our Pony all-star team for Conewago. I thought I heard that he was going to be. If I'm wrong and it is Kevin, please let Bill Diskerud know. Also in regards to this all-star tournament, midget playing rules apply. Please refer to the LDBL website (under handouts) if you need to refresh on the LDBL midget rules. We will also use an extra hitter rule this year which permits you to bat 10 players. Lastly, please e-mail Bill Diskerud our roster no later than July 4th. A maximum of 15 players per roster applies.

* All teams will pass the hat at all playoff and all-star games to help cover the costs of umpire fees.

* Each association needs to make sure our insurance policy covers our players through the end of July or early August. Norm...can you please verify that our insurance covers Conewago players through that time frame?

* Anyone interested in Fall Ball should let me know so we can send one master list to Bill Diskerud. Fall ball is open to any Pony or Midget baseball players who played this year as a 9-12 year-old.

* Finally, midget all-star team rosters will be completed and announced this week.

Meeting held Sunday, May 18, 2008 Submitted by Korey Gardner

* LDBL will be collecting $500 from each association to help cover league wide expenses. Most of these expenses are associated with post season tournament costs such as tournament fees, jerseys, umpires, & trophies. Bill Diskerud will get with Amy/Harry to collect this from CBA.

* Play-in games for midget playoffs will be played on June 7th. The top 5 teams will get a bye with 6 vs. 11, 7 vs. 10, & 8 vs. 9 playing one game to see who advances to the double elimination portion of the playoffs. The double elimination round will begin on June 9th.

* Play-in games for the pony playoffs will be played on June 14th. The double elimination round will start on June 17th.

* There will be 3 post season all-star teams for midget. The exact breakdown (i.e. an A & B team with an 11 year old team, etc) will be determined at a later meeting. The tournaments we play in will be decided at that meeting as well. Most likely the Susquehanna (July 7th start) and Central Penn (July 19th start) will be two of the tournaments we will play in.

* A meeting for the player selection process of these tournament teams will be held on June 8th. Bill Diskerud will be contacting coaches with further instructions and details.

* South Hanover will be hosting the midget and pony playoffs. They will look to other associations, including ours, to help run some of the games. If we have any of these games, we will certainly want to take advantage of having the concession stand open.

* The Pony all-star tournament will start on July 7th. Conewago will select an all-star team between players from both of our Pony teams and play against the other associations.

Nominations for CBA President for the 2009 season are being accepted. Please email Harry Bramley with nominations, questions &/or more information. hpbramley@yahoo.com
CBA President consists of a one year term. Elected CBA President forfeits his/her right to coach during their term.

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2008 CBA Registration Form