Hammonds Plains A's Wearables and Accessories are now available on-line!!

  Check out our site at

 http://hpba.fundytextile.com/Default.htm

or click on the image below to visit our store.

Many thanks to Holly, HPBA President, and Kim at Fundy Textiles for their tremendous efforts in putting this site together.

The following is the 2008 Mosquito "R" Provincial Schedule being held at Highland Park in Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia on August 29th - 31st.  A downloadable/ printable file (MSWord format) is also available at the bottom of this post. 

Good luck to all teams!!

Humber Park                                             Shelburne

Stellarton                                                    Inverness

Friday August 29^th   

Game 1        9:30am                  Hammonds Plains vs Humber Park 

Game 2        12:00pm               Springhill vs Shelburne 

Game 3        2:30pm                  Hammonds Plains vs Stellarton 

Game 4        5:00pm                  Springhill vs Inverness

Saturday August 30th 

Game 5        9:30am                  Humber Park vs Stellarton 

Game 6        12:00pm                Shelburne vs Inverness 

Game 7        2:30pm                  2^nd place A vs 3^rd place B 

Game 8        5:00pm                  2^nd place B vs 3^rd place A

Sunday August 31st 

Game 9        9:30am                  1^st place B vs winner of Game 7 

Game 10      12:00pm                1^st place A vs winner of Game 8 

Game 11      3:30pm                  Championship

Hammonds Plains Junior Rookie playoffs included 6 teams and were held at Highland Park on August 22 and 23rd. The Blue Jays went 2-0 in their round robin games to advance to the finals from their division. The Blue Devils squeeked out a 1-run win against the other girls team, the Blue Bombers, to advance from their division. The championship game was another close 1-run win for the Blue Devils against a strong Blue Jays team. The teams were evenly matched and the final game included some key hits and great defensive plays by both teams.

Congrats to the Blue Devils - 2008 Jr. Rookie Champions!!

Congratulations to the HP Red Sox, who recently captured "Silver" in the Carl Morash Mosquito "House" tournament, hosted by the Woodside Minor Baseball Association. The Red Sox posted a 3-1 record during the round robin portion of the tournament before bowing out 11-10 in the finals to a strong Humber Park team. 

Overall a strong effort by our Red Sox. 

The Red Sox would once again like to thank Woodside for hosting a fun and exciting tournament.

Congratulations to Senior Rookie Team 6 (Red Sox) for their 15-11 victory over Team 2 (Hornets) in the Championship game.

It was an awesome game with great hitting and great fielding from both teams.  Despite the rather wet weather, there was a full house at the field to watch this most enjoyable game that could have easily gone either way.

Michael and Jeff announced the game aboard Greg's truck out in right field.

JLM Memorial Trophy - Joe MacLean played men's orthodox baseball in the Hammonds Plains League on the Thunder and lost his battle to cancer in 2001; his son, Camden, plays Senior Rookie.  In honor of his memory, the Senior Rookie trophy is now known as the JLM Memorial Senior Rookie trophy with a picture of Joe placed on the plaque.  The JLM Memorial Senior Rookie trophy was presented by a member of the men's Thunder team and the MacLean family presented individual medals to the 1st and 2nd place teams in a very moving ceremony.

Again, congratulations to Neil Wortman's Red Sox for their championship game victory!!

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Congratulations to the Hammonds Plains Rookie A's who won Gold at the 7th annual LWF Grand Slam Tournament, held 22 - 24 Aug 2008.

After compiling a perfect 3 - 0 record in the round-robin, the team advanced to the championship game with a 19 - 9 victory over Woodside in their semi-final matchup.

The A's then clinched the championship with a thrilling 21 - 18 win over Bridgewater in the final game.

Congratulations to all players and coaches and a big thank you to LWF for again hosting an exciting and rewarding tournament.

Celebrate a great season on the diamond with your team by cheering on your hometown Halifax Mooseheads as they battle it out against their biggest rivals, the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles!

Prizes will be thrown out in the Minor Baseball sections as well!

Mosquito House Playoff Schedule - Pool 1

HP A's / Blazers / Tigers / Red Sox / Bullets

Championship game date and location TBA

Mosquito House Playoff Schedule - Pool 2

Thunder / Bears / Prospect 1 / Prospect 2

2008 Senior Rookie Playoff Schedule

Division 1

Team 1 (Bunk) / Team 2 (Laurette) / Team 3 (Brophy)

Division 2

Team 4 (Zwicker) / Team 5 (Mosher) / Team 6 (Wortman)

2008 Junior Rookie Playoff Schedule

Division 1

Team 1 (Bailey) / Team 2 (Jennings) / Team 3 (Lane)

Division 2

Team 4 (Queripel) / Team 5 (Sabourin) / Team 6 (MacLean)

Congratulations to the HP Red Sox, who recently captured "Silver" in the W.D. Piercey Mosquito "House" tournament, hosted by the Halifax West Minor Baseball Association. The Red Sox posted a 3-0 record during the qualifying portion of the tournament and went on to victory in the semi-finals against the HW Angels. Ahead 10-8 entering the 6th of the Championship game, the Red Sox finally bowed out 13-10, as a strong Humber Park team recorded 5 runs in the top of the 6th.

Overall a strong effort by our Red Sox, who look to rebound in the upcoming Mosquito House Provincial Tournament hosted by our Association at Highland Park during the Labour Day Weekend.

The Red Sox would once again like to thank Halifax West for hosting a fun and exciting tournament.

The year-end banquet will be held on Saturday, September 13^th at 10am at Empire Theatres in Bayers Lake.  This will be for all players from T-Ball to Midget from both HP and SMB.

Uniforms:  If you haven't already returned them to your coach, please bring it with you on the day of the banquet.  Hats are keepers and don't need to be returned.

Pictures:  Still looking for your pictures taken throughout the baseball season for the slideshow presentation at the banquet. 

Please email them to hpbaweb@hotmail.com

See you all at the banquet!!

Congratulations to Christopher Smith of the Hammonds Plains A’s PeeWee AAA team who has been selected to play at the Canadian PeeWee Championship in Vaughn, Ontario (August 21 – 24).  Christopher is one of three players picked up by the Dartmouth Mariners who won the National Elimination Tournament last weekend in Bedford. The Mariners defeated Hammonds Plains in the semi-finals by a 3-1 score.

Christopher left a favorable impression on the Mariners during that game:  he started the game on the mound, going 5 innings and surrendering a single run. 

Good luck to Chris at the Nationals!

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Congratulations to the HPBA PeeWee "A" A's, who recently participated in the PeeWee A/AA Lobster Carnival Tournament, held in Pictou. With a strong round-robin performance, the team earned their way into the playoffs where they were defeated in the semi-finals.

Participation in this event is becoming something of a tradition for HPBA PeeWee teams and the A's would once again like to thank Pictou for hosting a fun and exciting tournament.

The following is a re-print of an article that appeared recently on the Baseball Nova Scotia Website (http://www.baseballnovascotia.com/).

Girl's Baseball Growing in Hammonds Plains

When people think of women's baseball, most people think of players like Lauren Bay and Danielle Lawrie who are members of the Canadian Womens Softball Team. But women's baseball in Canada is continually growing and there is no better example of that than what is happening in Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia.

This small community outside of Halifax has grown the girls game at an outstanding rate. In the last year alone, the Hammonds Plains Baseball Association has gone from 36 girls registered to 81. The association was able to put together a girls t-ball team, two rookie level teams and two mosquito level teams.

Holly Lapierre, the association's President, has put it to herself and has worked tirelessly to improve the women's game in her community. Last year I had six girls in mosquito, this year I have 33 and a lot of it is because they would go back to school and tell their friends, says Lapierre.

When Lapierre took over as the President of the Hammonds Plains association four years ago, there were 186 kids registered. This season that number has grown to 416. A major reason why she has been able to grow her registration numbers in such a fashion is her focus on getting more girls involved in baseball.

Last year, of the 36 girls we had registered, 22 were at the rookie level. So we decided to make an experimental all-girls team that played with the boys, says Lapierre. The girls had such an amazing time and some of the parents came up to me and asked if I would do this again next year and I said "why wouldn't I"?

We wanted to make sure, however, that we gave them a choice, adds Lapierre. We didn't want to tell these girls that they had to play here or they had to play there and a lot of parents contacted me and said thanks for letting my daughter decide.

Girls make up for nearly 20 percent of registered players in Hammonds Plains while the national average is at approximately 10 percent. Lapierre credits the fact that she gave parents an alternative option. "You need to have a girls program to keep them involved", says Lapierre. "If associations don't say yes we're going to have a girls program, then you lose people right at registration."

Lapierres emphasis on girl's baseball in her region can be summed up in the upcoming All-Girls Day in Baseball where they plan on having exhibition games involving all the girls in the Hammonds Plains association as well as clinics, possibly featuring members of the Canadian Women's National Team. The girls program has also been embraced by the parents just by way of their involvement. Usually I give the coaches a gray t-shirt that says "coach" on the back, but I had a girls t-ball team that had hot pink shirts and the coaches insisted that they have the same colour as the girls. So now I have two grown men in hot pink t-shirts along with the girls. But the parents involvement is more than just matching the girls wardrobe, mosquito AAA and pee-wee AAA coaches have offered their services to help with practices and Lapierre has hired two summer students as a resource for parents to work with the girls. The associations president sees the fruits of her labour on a daily basis. Last year we handed out pink A's hats for the girls and I see them with it all the time. I'll be at the grocery store and I'll see them with their hat on. Then what will happen is other girls will see that and want to know how to get one and they'll come and register. I had four girls register late because their friends were telling them what they were doing this summer (playing baseball).

At the end of the day, it's all about growing the girl's game and the Hammonds Plains Baseball Association is setting a fine example for the rest of the country.

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LWF Baseball Associations Annual Garfield McGuire Memorial Rookie Grand Slam tournament will be held Aug 22- 24.

Each team plays 3 games and each game is 4 innings.  Cost is $125.00.  All players will receive a participation medal.  Tournament will be held at the Windsor Junction Community Centre.

Please contact Barry Dalrymple at lwfbaseball@hotmail.com or call 861-1171.  Need team name and contact information.

Halifax/Dartmouth will be hosting the 2008 Canadian Midget National Championships from Aug 7th to 10th. This is a very prestigious event and a great chance to see our country's top 16 - 18 yr old Baseball Players in action.

The event coordinator has issued a call for volunteers to assist with hosting this event.  Many of our young HPBA players could fulfill the roles of runners, 50-50 sellers, Ambassadors, ticket sales, and others noted below.

Among the tasks requiring volunteers are the following:

Congratulations to Coach Greg and the Hammonds Plains Bantam A's for winning Silver at the 7th Annual Craig Clarke Memorial Bantam AA Tournament, held in Truro from 27 - 29 June.

The team posted a 2 - 1 record in the round-robin, and were defeated 12 - 4 by the host team in the Gold-Medal game. Very well done to our boys for their first tournament of the season.

On a sad note, Jacob Hubley, an A's Team Leader and one of the top Bantam Players in our district, suffered a season-ending knee injury early in game 1 of the tournament. The Bantam A's and all of HPBA wish Jacob a swift recovery and a full return to baseball next season.

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All HPBA Senior Rookie and Mosquito House League teams will now submit their scores to Barb at HPBAScores@live.ca after each game.  As the scores are submitted they will be published on the website.

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Hey Hammonds Plains Baseball!

We are now well into the 2008 season so let's have some pictures! If your child/team has participated in a tournament, clinic, other special event, regular season game or just because they look so darned cute in their uniforms, send us some pictures and we'll post them here on our HPBA website!

Please provide as much information as possible about the pictures (ie. location, date, players, etc.) and send them to hpbaweb@hotmail.com.

Thanks!!

Halifax West Minor Baseball (www.hwmba.ca) is seeking teams to participate in the following tournaments:

PeeWee House - July 18 - 12 at WD Percey Field and Treemont Field

Mosquito House - Aug 8 - 10 at WD Piercy Field

There will be a canteen, 50/50 draws and door prizes

To Register, pease contact Kendall O'Connor @ 427-2491, kendall@ns.sympatico.ca

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Play Ball!

2008 Bluenose League play begins Mon, June 2. HPBA, in conjuction with SMBBA and Prospect, has several competitive teams entered in the following divisions: Mosquito AA and A, PeeWee AAA and A, Bantam AA and A (HPBA players with Prospect and NS Girls) and Midget A.

House schedules will be out shortly with play set to begin in early June.

Good luck to all of our teams this coming season!

Tournaments

Participation in tournaments throughout the summer is left to the discretion of individual teams, with all costs and arrangements to be borne by the teams themselves. Tournament play can be an exciting experience for young players and they contribute greatly to building team cohesion. Baseball NS maintains a list of upcoming tournaments, from House/Rec to AAA. If coach's have any questions about entering tournaments, please e-mail HPBA for assistance.

Following a highly successful 2007 season, the Hammonds Plains Baseball Association is well into preparations for the 2008 season while our tremendous growth continues, with over 350 players registered to date.

Most Rep teams have now been formed - coaches are reminded that the registration deadline for the Bluenose League is May 20th - See Baseball Nova Scotia website ( http://www.baseballnovascotia.com/ ) for more information.  Bluenose League schedules should be out by late May with play beginning in early June.

House schedules should be out shortly with play also beginning in early June.

Coach's Meeting - will be held Thurs 22 May at the Baptist Church across from Hatfield Farms at 6:30pm. Several guest speakers have been invited to offer tips on practicing, coaching and umpire issues. Uniforms, equipment and shed keys will also be distributed so please make every effort to attend.

Rookie Evaluation - Evaluation sessions for placing players in Senior/Junior Rookie will be held May 20th and 21st, 6:30pm - 8:00pm at Highland Park. All Rookie coaches are requested to assist.

Camps - T-Ball camp will be held on Fri May 30th, 6:30pm - 8:00pm at Highland Park. Rookie camp will be on Sun June 1st, 9:30am - noon (rescheduled due to rain) Sun June 8th, 9:30am - noon at Highland Park. There is no cost for either camp.

A Mosquito Camp will be offered by the Nova Scotia Youth Selects Team on Sun June 1st, 12:30pm - 3:30pm at Highland Park. Cost is $25.00 and includes a t-shirt. Please e-mail Holly if interested. An All-Girls camp is planned again this year, to be offered by the Nova Scotia Bantam Girls Team as part of their fundraiser to attend Nationals in Quebec this summer. More details will follow.

There is much work left to do prior to the start of the season. Our increased enrollment is stretching our resources and access time to local facilities. Our teams/schedules are coming together and we're working with neighbouring associations to schedule Mosquito/PeeWee/Bantam House leagues. Please keep checking this site for updates and e-mail us @ hpbaweb@hotmail.com if you have any questions.

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2007 was a highly successful and exciting season for Hammonds Plains Baseball.   Among the many highlights were:

Registration topped 300 players for the first time in our Association's history.

Hammonds Plains Senior Rookie A's were named Nova Scotia House Team of the Year

PeeWee A's won Gold at the Sherwood Invitational AA Tournament in P.E.I.

We fielded our first ever all-girl teams in T-ball and Rookie

HPBA hosted 2 very successful Tournaments - Mosquito AAA and Senior Rookie.

PeeWee A's won Silver in Provincial AA Championships

Several HPBA PeeWee players participated in 42nd Annual Amherst International Little League Tournament as members of "Sackville Acadians"

 Please click here to view all 2007 items

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