Scituate Little League: Scituate Little League News

Please be informed that Scituate Little League will be holding our annual board meeting Oct 21^st when we will be electing board members, board officers, and board committee assignments.  You are welcome to attend the annual meeting.  The meeting will be held at 7:30 PM at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Rte 3A.

If you are interested in joining the board, please contact Jack Gates 617-283-1417 or email: jgates@pclifeplans.com (or use the Little League email address) as soon as possible.  This is a working board.  Significant hours are committed to the board both during the season and during the off-season.

Board meetings are held monthly and are usually 2 hours in length.  Attendance at all meetings is expected.  Participation in registrations, field maintenance, fund raising activities, Positive Coaching Alliance programs, and any other league activities is expected by all board members.  If you plan to attend, please notify Jack Gates so we can make sure we have ample space.  Thank you all once again for your continued support of the program and the children.

Saturday August 15, 2009

The Greg Moynahan Annual Home Run Derby, held on August 15th, was an enormous success.

The Derby Winners were:

The Greg Moynahan Memorial Committee would like to thank everyone who came out in support of the Homerun Derby.  It was a great day that took a lot of hard work from a lot of people including the Scituate 14 year old District team helping to set up food and drink at the High School then breaking everything down at the end of the day.  They worked hard all day to keep everything moving. 
 
At Greenbush Field the fathers and coaches help pitch while the kids enjoyed an endless supply of Double Bubble.  Jack Huggins impressively won the 9 and 10 year old age group and Ryan Gunther dominated in the 11 and 12 year old age group.
 
At Scituate High School, burger, hot dogs, sausages, popcorn and drink were consumed in ample supply and enjoyed by everyone.  Friend of Greg, their parents, and High School kids looking for community service hours all worked through the heat to make this event possible. 

Scituate Little League scores and standings are now posted on the Boston Globe's website Boston.com.  Please go to http://www.boston.com/yourtown/scituate/sports/ and look for Scituate Little League scores and standings.

The Scituate Mariner also posts scores and standings in their weekly edition. Scituate Little League news can also be found at http://www.wickedlocal.com/scituate/sports/youth_leagues.

Please go to the UMPIRE'S PLATE section of the website for more information, including clinic handouts and videos from Little League Baseball.

For more information, please contact the Umpire Coordinator, Mark Radding at 
mark@radding.com or by phone at 545-8212.

Customized Scituate League apparel is a great gift for your player, coach or Little League family member. Please note that because all items are customized, it takes about two weeks to receive your order. 

Scituate Little League is offering customized Scituate Little League apparel from our web site.  Four different Scituate logos are available on a variety of items. You can now get shirts, sweatshirts, hats  and other sportswear for your players, spouses, families and yourself.  Please see the Scituate LL Apparel tab on the left for more information or click on this Scituate Little League Apparel Store link.

In a continuing effort to provide the best playing environment for all the members of the Scituate Little League community, the league has been working in the off-season to improve and maintain the conditions of the Little League fields. 

Since last summer the league hired contractors to rework the infield at Greenbush and top dressed the St. Mary’s field.  Because of the drought last fall, not all the desired steps were able to be accomplished, but you will see an improvement at both sites. 

In addition, we will be using improved infield mix at Cudworth and Hatherly/Purple Dinosaur to avoid excessive weeds in the base paths.  We will continue to assess advances and needed improvements in these fields as the Spring rolls around.  The league is continuing to evaluate, recommend and make improvements in all the fields for the players and will continue to do so during the current year. Volunteers are always helpful as much of maintenance of the fields is an on-going process. 

Scituate Little League voted to renew contracting a Field Coordinator, who has been responsible for keeping the fields in “best of class” condition.