Martin County North Little League: MCNLL News
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| In Front of Martin County Administrative Center |
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"We Want Ball Fields"
Thank you to all the children, parents and coaches who came to the Martin County Commissioners Meeting on February 7, 2012 to help support the proposal to spend $4.5 million in sales tax money to develop new sports fields.
"I think you can feel the passion coming out right now," said George Bailey Jr., of East Stuart. "We definitely need more fields for these guys and even the girls."
The commissioners voted unanimously to ask county Parks and Recreation officials to meet with representatives of several youth sports leagues as well as the School Board and city of Stuart to try to determine how to meet the most needs with the money available.
Sunday, January 29
Take Pride in Our Park Day
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On Saturday, January 28, 2012 Martin County North Little League held a "Take Pride in Our Park Day" to help complete some projects at Sailfish Park. Volunteers painted, pressure cleaned, mowed, weeded, poured concreate and graded the base cut outs. Practices for the league start on February 1, 2012 and opening day is February 24, 2012.
Opening Day will be held at Sailfish Park.
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Umpire Clinic, January 21, 2012
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Sunday, January 15
Coaches Cleanup Day; January 14, 2012
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On January 14, 2012 instead of the standard Coaches Clinic held at the beginning of each season, Martin County North Little League held a "Coaches Cleanup Day" at Sailfish Park. Coaches, Managers, Board Members, Players and Volunteers all worked together for more than three hours to get the park into shape for the upcoming season. They groomed the infield base cut outs and pitcher mounds, weeded the warning tracks, painted the dug out fascias, cleaned and painted the concession stand, worked on bull pens, batting cages and more.
"It was incredible to see not only the turn out but the results of yesterday's Manager, Coaches and Volunteer Day at Sailfish. To see everyone pitching in for our baseball community was something special- very rewarding." stated MCNLL President, Steve Provines.
Two important sponsors were Simply the Best Painting and Cleaning and the local Benjamin Moore distributor. Their contribution was invaluable and made an important impact.
In case you missed it, MCNLL will be having another Pitch In Day on Saturday, January 28th at Sailfish Park. See you there!
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Great Day of Baseball Evaluations!
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Baseball evaluations were held at LCpl. Justin Wilson Memorial Park in Palm City.
It was a great day of baseball!
Thank you for your donations to the 10th Street program, I think we need a U-Haul to take them to Stuart!
Makeup Evaluations are Tuesday, January 10, 2012. After evaluations are completed, we will be assigning teams. You should be hearing from your coach by the first week of February 2012.
Looking forward to a great season!
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| Coaches hard at work |
Tuesday, December 20
New Mobile-Friendly Webpage Provides Easy Access to Little League-Approved Bat List
Little League International has developed a mobile-friendly webpage. The page is designed to scale to the various screen sizes available on mobile devices. The webpage provides a current listing of licensed baseball bats with a 2 1/4 inch maximum diameter that are currently approved for use in the baseball divisions of Little League (Little League [Majors] Division and below).
Little League reserves the right to add to this list or make other changes as new information arises. This list is updated frequently.
The webpage address for this mobile-friendly bat list is: http://www.LittleLeague.org/BatList
Tuesday, December 13
District 17 Little League Offers 50-70 Pilot Program in 2012
Goal is to Potentially Establish Fully Integrated 50-70 Division as Early as 2013
District 17 Little League will have a Interleague 13 year old 50-70 Pilot Program for local leagues in 2012.
More information on this program will be posted as it becomes available.
Wednesday, November 2
MCNLL Events
MCNLL Around the Town!
Martin County North Little League Board of Directors have been busy in the "off season". Besides getting ready for December registration for spring ball, they have also been working hard on new fields for Martin County.
On Thursday, October 20, 2011 members of the MCNLL Board presented to the county's Parks & Recreation Advisory Board in an effort to persude them to use the approximate $4 million in currently unallocated sales tax revenue for county park projects on more baseball, softball and multi-purpose fields for the county's youth.
On Saturday, October 22, 2011 more MCNLL Board Members were out at Lance Cpl. Justin Wilson Park to support the Annual Palm City Fall Fest. It was a beautiful sunny day to visit with old and new friends and raise awareness about the plight of Sailfish Park as well as encourage support of new parks in Martin County.
District Training for Board Members has been occurring throughout the end of October.
The next Board Meeting is Monday, November 7, 2011.
Spring Registration starts in December look for the MCNLL newsletter and registration information to be coming soon!
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| MCNLL Board Members at Fall Fest |
Sunday, November 6
Little League International Announces Bat Rules Changes for 2012 Season
Little League International has posted information regarding upcoming changes to the bat rules and specifications for the 2012 season. Little League is taking this step, before the rule books are actually published in December, to give parents and leagues a timely "heads up".
- For the Little League Major Baseball Division and below: The moratorium on composite-barreled baseball bats remains in effect. However, some composite-barreled baseball bats that have been proven in laboratory testing to meet the BPF (Bat Performance Factor) standard throughout the life of the bat, through the Accelerated Break-In (ABI) process, have received waivers. That list is here: http://www.littleleague.org/learn/equipment/approvedcompbatssmall.htm
For additional information please visit the Little League website.
