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For more information on reg-istration sessions for the vari-ous minor baseball associa-tions, go to https://www.baseballpei.ca/2019registrations , or check out the various Baseball PEI social media platforms.
The eleven minor baseball associations on PEI have ei-ther already started or are about to start registration for 2019. It’s an exciting time of the year because it means that baseball is around the corner!
Based on anecdotal conversa-tions, it appears registration for minor baseball is up early in the registration process. However, the final registration session for a few associations will be Saturday, 27 April, so it will not be possible to know for certain until after that time.
Also helping with registration this year is several associations are allowing for online registrations through the RAMP system. Feedback
on that has been overwhelm-ingly positive up to this point.
Some associations have also been more creative in their attempts to get parents to reg-ister their children on time, with the Bedeque and Area Minor Baseball Association having training camps for players at the same time as registration sessions.
2019 Registration is Upon Us
9U, 11U “A” and Younger Using Different Baseball
Baseball PEI Newsletter
Special points of
interest:
2019 Regional
2019 NCCP News
and Happenings
Provincial Teams
PEIBUA Clinics
April - May 2019 Volume 1, Issue 3
Inside this issue:
Registration 1
Balls 1
Prov. Teams 2
NCCP Schedule 2
14U/16U Girls 3
Deadlines 3
PEIBUA 3
Maritime Travel 4
At the 11U “A,” 9U and
younger levels, all Baseball PEI
competitions this year will be
using a different baseball. 9U
will be using the Rawlings
TVB850 baseball, while 11U
“A” will be using the Rawlings
R850 baseball. The difference
in these baseballs? The size.
“In the past,” explains Randy
Byrne, executive director of
Baseball PEI, “These catego-
ries used the normal Rawlings
TVB and 65cc balls, which
were the standard 5 ounce, 9
inch baseball. The problem
with that was the baseball
was too large and heavy for
these younger and smaller
players. You would teach
proper throwing mechanics
and fundamentals, but they
couldn’t grip the ball proper-
ly, and it was often too heavy,
and therefore the players
couldn’t use these proper
mechanics when throwing.
The new TVB850 and R850
balls are 4.1 ounces and 8.5
inches. They are smaller,
lighter, easier for younger and
smaller players to grip and
throw properly. It just makes
more sense for them to use .”
These smaller-sized base-
balls are used for younger
ages in Quebec and British
Columbia, and both provin-
cial associations have noted
the increase in proper
throwing and pitching me-
chanics in younger players.
“It just makes common
sense,” adds Byrne.
“A young child wouldn’t be
expected to use a regulation
-sized basketball or football
that’s too big for them. Why
would they use a regulation
baseball that’s too big for
them?
Three of the five 2019 Base-ball PEI Provincial teams
have tryouts or development camps underway (the Provin-cial 13U, 15U and Youth
Select teams), while the Pro-vincial 14U/16U Girls Pro-
gram - which will be sending the PEI representative to the
Baseball Canada National 16U Girls Championships in
Bedford, NS - will be starting in early May after the com-pletion of the Baseball PEI
Spring Girls Camps this month.
To keep up-to-date with these four Provincial teams, check
out their social media plat-forms:
Provincial 13U team:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PEI-13U-Baseball-1030276743812852/.
Provincial 15U team:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/15UPEIBaseball/
Provincial 14U/16U Girls
Program:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BPEI14u16uGirl-sProgram/?mod-al=admin_todo_tour
Twitter: @16UGirlsBall Instagram: https://
www.instagram.com/baseball-pei_14u.16ugirls/?hl=en
PEI Youth Selects:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/peiyouthselects/
Twitter: @PE_U17Selects
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peiyouthselects/?hl=en
who wish to get a start on their NCCP certification prior to the start of the summer. The schedule for 2019 NCCP clinics can be found at https://www.baseballpei.ca/news_article/show/900361. If you are not sure what clin-ics and certification are nec-essary for your level, check out https://cdn1.sportngin.com/
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Baseball PEI has announced the schedule of NCCP base-ball clinics being offered on PEI in 2019. There will be twelve offered in total - four Initiation clinics, six Regional-level clinics and two Provin-cial-level clinics. For the first time this year, there will be Initiation clinics offered in Cardigan and in O'Leary in April, for coaches in eastern and western PEI
ball_NCCP_Progression_-_2018.pdf?_ga=2.213768402.757233344.1549719462-935842557.1548004626. To check out exact dates and to register, go to https://nccp.baseball.ca/. Finally, just a friendly re-minder that all coaches on the bench or the field at Provin-cial Tournaments (Eliminations and Champion-ships) must have their proper NCCP certification. There are no exceptions. For more information, email [email protected] or [email protected].
Provincial Team News
NCCP Corner… 2019 NCCP Clinic Schedule Released
Page 2 Baseball PEI
Did you know the
minutes from
Baseball PEI
Board of
Directors;
meetings and past
AGM minutes can
be found at https://
www.baseballpei.c
a/meetingminutes?
Baseball PEI is launching the Provincial 14U/16U Girls Program in May of 2019 or-der to strengthen girls’ base-ball at those ages and field competitive teams at the Baseball Canada National 16U Girls Championships and the Baseball Atlantic 14U Girls Championships. Starting in May, any girl be-tween the ages of 12- and 17-years-old that is interested will be invited to become a member of the Baseball PEI Provincial 14U/16U Girls Program (this is open to girls, whether or not they’ve played competitive baseball in the past, and is open to girls who have played softball or other sports). This group will prac-tice/train at least once a week – at a time that is convenient for the majority of girls and in a selection of locations, large-ly dependent on the geo-graphical makeup of the team – and will be headed up by head coach Randy Byrne,
with assistant coaches Tessa Hood, Mackenzie Pinet, Tyler Johnston and Dave Atkins. From this group, a team will be put together to represent Baseball PEI at the 2019 Baseball Canada National 16U Girls Championships in Bedford, Nova Scotia in Au-gust, and depending on num-bers, potentially a team put together to represent Baseball PEI at the 2019 Baseball At-lantic 14U Girls Champion-ships in Moncton, New Brunswick in September. However, even if a girl doesn’t want to go to Nation-als or Atlantics, but still wants to take part in the pro-gram, they are welcome as well. “Obviously this program will produce the teams that repre-sent PEI at the National and Atlantic events, and the over-all goal is to create the most competitive teams for these events,” says Byrne. “That being said, even if a
girl wanted to improve but didn’t want to commit to go-ing to Nationals, they are in-vited to participate as well and even after the team was picked, they can still continue practising/training with the program. “The number of players tak-ing part will determine how many exhibition games we’ll play, any extra practices or training sessions, or anything like that. However, we are really hoping for a good group of players who want to improve at baseball. We’ve got a really strong and knowl-edgeable coaching staff and all players taking part will learn a lot and grow as play-ers.” The program will go until approximately the start of September. It will be de-signed to conflict as little as possible with the club teams many players will also be playing on.
- Deadline to submit 2018-
2019 AGM Minutes: 30 April
- Deadline to submit 2019
Association Performance
Bond: 30 April
- Deadlines for submission of
teams, contacts and field
times:
“AAA”: 26 April “AA”: 17 May “A”: 24 May
- League meetings:
18U “AA”: 2 May 18U “A”: 9 May “AAA”: 13 May “AA”: 27 May 15U and 13U “A”: 3
June 11U “A” and 9U: 4 June
For more information, email
Baseball PEI launching Provincial 14U/16U Girls Program
Baseball PEI Deadlines for
Associations To Be Aware
Volume 1, Issue 3
The policies and
procedures for
Baseball PEI can
be found on the
Baseball PEI
website: https://
www.baseballpei.ca/
policiesandprocedur
es
2018 Provincial 16U Girls team
Page 3
PEIBUA Umpire Clinics
The PEIBUA has an-
nounced their clinic sched-
ule for 2019. It and infor-
mation on this can be found
at https://
www.baseballpei.ca/
news_article/show/1008756.
To register, go to https://
form.jotform.com/90845559
298273 .
For more information, con-
tact PEIBUA Supervisor of
Umpires Mike Richards at
PEI BUA Umpire Kent Quigley
miscellaneous for our annu-
al Baseball PEI/Toronto
Blue Jays Getaway fund-
raiser.
For more information on
Maritime Travel, check
out https://
www.maritimetravel.ca/
branch-details/40/
charlottetown. Thanks to
Maritime Travel for be-
ing such great partners
with Baseball PEI!
Baseball PEI will be high-
light one of our partners in
every newsletter. In this one
we’d like to highlight Mari-
time Travel
Maritime Travel has been a
terrific partner of Baseball
PEI for three years. Mari-
time Travel is the official
travel agent of Baseball
PEI. When Provincial teams
travel by air to National
Championships, Maritime
Travel arranges their flights,
and do so in a professional
and friendly way.
As well, Maritime Travel
takes care of arranging
flights, hotels and other
Room 216
40 Enman Crescent
Charlottetown, PE
C1E 1E6
Phone: 902-368-4203
Fax: 902-368-4548
Email: [email protected]
Baseball PEI
Provincial Sports Organization for
baseball on Prince Edward Island
Baseball PEI is the provincial organization in
charge of baseball on Prince Edward Island and
is a non-profit organization that continuously en-
ables the development of baseball skills and
knowledge among youth across Prince Edward
Island
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/
BaseballPEI/
Twitter: @BaseballPEI1
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Partner Highlight - Maritime Travel
