News and Announcements
LOCAL GIRLS OFF TO MEXICO TO PLAY FOR U.S. IN PRINCESS CUP
Front: Neela Chanderdat (London) Back row (L to R): Stephanie Ellis (Brantford),
Tess Forman (Ottawa), Mia Valcke (St. Marys)
From www.lfpress.com
London’s Neela Chanderdat and Mia Valcke of St. Marys are poised to play for a United States girls’ baseball team at a new tournament in Mexico.
If that doesn’t sound like a script for A League of Their Own sequel, nothing does. The local kids will join Brantford’s Stephanie Ellis and Ottawa’s Tess Forman on Justine Siegal’s New York-based “Baseball For All” under-12 select team at the Mayan Princess Cup Feb. 8-11 in Merida, Yucatan.
The eight-year-old Chanderdat, who plays second base, suited up last summer for the Dorchester Diamondbacks major rookie boys’ team and was one of the leading hitters at the OBA championship.
Valcke, an infielder and pitcher, played last year for the St. Marys peewee boys’ team and the Western Ontario Baseball Association’s peewee Bulls club. She played for Siegal last summer at a tournament in Cooperstown, N.Y., and also participated in the 2011 world children’s baseball fair in Japan.
“Obviously, they’re doing something right in Ontario to produce girls of this calibre, and I don’t mean just their baseball ability, but the way they carry themselves and mix with their teammates,” said Siegal, who is also chair of the International Baseball Federation’s commission for women’s baseball.
UPDATE: Sunday Feb. 10.
The Baseball For All team is 3-0 at the Princess Cup halfway through the Round Robin portion of the tournament.
Baseball For All - 8 Yucatan 5
Baseball For All - 14 Calisco Guadalajara - 9
Baseball For All - 17 Colegio Merida- 4
New Team in Town ----
Oakridge Optimist Baseball and Byron Optimist Baseball are proud to announce their merged competitive program, the London West Tincaps. The Tincaps will begin their inaugural season this coming Spring!!!
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION BEGINS DECEMBER 1ST
For registration information please contact scott.warren@oakridgebaseball.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE GO TO:
January 20
February 17
March 24 - NOTE: It was decided at the February meeting that we would repsect the Irish in our association and move the March meeting to the 24th.
April 21
All meetings are scheduled for 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
At T-Block on Elizabeth St.
Justin Snively received the Level 5 Umpire of The Year Award and Matthew Smith of the London Badger Midgets was named Adult Player of the Year at the 96th Baseball Ontario Awards Gala in Alliston on November 17th.
Smith who is currently in his first season at Roane State C.C. in Harriman, Tennessee was an integral part of the Badger Midget team that captured the bronze medal at the Baseball Canada Midget Championships in Quebec City in August. In the bronze medal game he pitched eight complete innings allowing only two hits.
Justin Snively who was among the umpiring contingent at the 2012 Baseball Canada Cup in London was awarded the Don Gilbert Award which is presented annually to a Level 4/5 Baseball Ontario Umpire who shows exceptional devotion and dedication to the game.
Also at the Baseball Ontario AGM, London was awarded the 2013 Baseball Ontario Senior Elimination Tournament. The tournament will take place over the Civic Holiday long weekend (Aug. 2-5) with the champion moving on to the Baseball Canada Senior Men's Championships which will be held in Windsor, Ontario August 22-26, 2013.
