Syracuse Challenger Baseball: Welcome

WELCOME TO THE 2013 SEASON:  A new schedule has been posted with our new start date of June 4th 2013. Our home field this year will again be the fields in Mattydale. Please check out all the information on our Field of Dreams fundraising at http://www.challengerfieldofdreams.org/

LITTLE LEAGUE NIGHT AT NBT STADIUM FRIDAY MAY 17th:  Meet us by the stadium horse at the FRONT ENTRANCE by 6:30PM for free tickets.

PHOTO NIGHTS:  Photos will be taken on nights that we do not play at new location. Please arrive ON TIME!:  

Prestige Portraits 5962 Route 31 New Country Max Plaza Cicero, NY 13039 

MONDAY NIGHT June 17th 6 to 8pm

 6:00 PM Atillios Restaurant (Forest Green)

6:20 Cambareri & Cambareri LLP (Green)

6:35 Tracey Road Equipment Royal Blue

6:50 United Auto (Light Blue)

7:05 Central New York Agency (Yellow)

7:20 Friends (Purple)

WEDNESDAY NIGHT June 19th 6 to 8pm

 6:00PM Quest Diagnostics (Dark Blue) 

6:20 PM TK Ezzo & Sons (Orange)

6:35 PM NALC (Red) 

6:50 Lane #1 (Grey) 

7:05 PM Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Mets

7:20 PMExcellus BlueCross BlueShield Yankees 

FIELD OF DREAMS FUNDRAISERS:  Quaker Steak and Lube will be doing a couple of different fundraising nights for us. Monday July 15th is their Radio Disney night. Please come out and stop by our table where we will have t-shirts, bracelets, etc. Any customer that brings in the flyer or card on either of these days (all day) the Challenger Project will receive 15% of the proceeds.

STADIUM NIGHT:  Thursday, July 25, 2013 from 4:00 - 8:00 PM at NBT Bank Stadium

NEW COACHES: Mark Botwinick will be coaching the Yankees Senior Team this year. Michelle Barry will be coaching the Gray Team. Jason Brown will be coaching the Purple Team. David Hahn will be the new Assistant Coach to the Red Team. Welcome new coaches, we are so happy to have you on our Coaching Staff.

SIGN UP: To sign up your child email our player coordinator Sonya Miller at sonya.miller71@hotmail.com.  Remember Challenger baseball is free for all participants. Starting age for Challenger Baseball is 5 years old. Players can play until their 21st birthday.

ABOUT US: The Challenger Baseball program is an official Little League program under the auspices of the local District 8 Little League. We have 10 teams for all children and 2 Senior teams for children who want to experience a more difficult level of play. 250+ children play baseball with Challenger every summer. Our children have various special needs, physical handicaps and developmental delays. The ages range from 5 to 21 years of age. The purpose of the program is to allow all these wonderful kids to enjoy the game of baseball in a relaxed setting that is supervised by coaches and parents. 

GAMES: Each Syracuse Challenger game consists of two innings. All children bat in their respective half of the inning (no score is kept nor are any strikes, walks or outs). Parents, coaches, family members, friends, all help out and are encouraged to assist the children with batting, fielding, running and throwing as necessary. The children are taught good sportsmanship and very basic fundamentals of the game. Every child hits, runs and scores!  

WHAT DO YOU NEED?  Each child receives a jersey and a hat with his team's colors and logo. There is plenty of equipment (bats, balls, helmets, gloves, bases, etc.) for the children to use, but the children may bring their own gloves and bats if they have them.

NO FEES, JUST FUN, FUN, FUN!!! There are no fees to enroll in Challenger baseball. All that is required is a willing children and family to come out and enjoy America's pastime sport with the child's peers in a wonderful summertime setting. 

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SAVE YOUR HATS AND UNIFORMS: Parents, please save your child’s customized uniform jersey to wear next season. 

PHOTOS and SLIDESHOWS