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Presidents
Welcome - 2008 |
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I’d like to welcome you all back for another
season of MORSL Ball. For those players joining our league for
the first time, Welcome ROOKIES!!! You’ll find that didn’t join
a team, you joined a league of 168 friends. Give it time and
you’ll understand why MORSL is the best league around.
As each season goes by and you look back, it’s
amazing how it appears that the season that just past was better
than previous one. This year is no different, looking back at
last season we had a number of successful events. Our Alumni
game with Beer Garden was a lot of fun for current and past
members of the league. Our Awards night had the biggest turnout
in a number of years. Kudos to Peter Scudds (Past President) for
keeping to his agenda of getting the awards completed early and
getting people to the dance floor by 9:00 pm.
This year, the executive has been working hard
on a number of initiatives. First, is a restructure of the
Victoria Square Tournament, making it a truly weekend event and
trying to eliminate those games that are suspended due to the
light out curfew. Our objective was also to host the event
completely at Centennial this year (and include a license
drinking area), but due to permit conflicts with other league
events this won’t happen until next year.
Secondly, we desperately needed to upgrade our
equipment specifically the quality of our bats and the bat bags
themselves. Hopefully this will address and lessen to some
degree the use of personal bats. We’ve also allocated
funds to obtain safety helmets and masks for each team.
And finally, the league has requested from the
Town of Markham our own MORSL storage boxes. One has been
approved and will be located shortly at the North Diamond. We
will use this to house two sets of Base bags thus eliminating
the captains bringing and exchanging for forgetting to exchange
bases after every game. This box will also be used to store
equipment for keeping the field in shape as well as a place to
store a better equipped First Aid kit. It's a good thing!
So all the best for your team
this year.
I’ll see you on the diamond!
Jim Dibblee
MORSL President 2008
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TEXAS HOLD'EM - 5th Annual - Update
Saturday, April 5th 5:30pm - Markham Vets Hall
Funds raised for community charities. |
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The Executive would like to
thank Basil, Harold and helpers for making this event
another success. Over a thousand dollars was
raised which will be donated to the MORSL Charity -
Markham Stouffville Hospital - MSH Foundation. We
look forward to another event next year.
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Special
Notices:
Family
Day:
Please note the
change - Sunday June 8 (this is one week later than last
year).
Victoria
Square Tournament:
This year the games will be played (June 18-22) with games
on Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday - with finals on
Sunday (at Victoria Square).
Game format and scheduling is being finalized (similar to
past years).
We have decided to make this a
weekend tournament and eliminate the
double headers on Wednesday and Friday nights, primarily due to
extended games being suspended due to lighting / curfew issues. We also
attempted to move ALL games to Centennial, but due to permit
conflicts this year with another tournament we were unable
to secure Centennial for Saturday. Note: It is our
intention to move this tournament to Centennial next year
(with a legal alcohol permit).
Personal
Bats: The executive
has examined the equipment rules and has made changes to
reflect those concerning personal bats, these are posted
in the MORSL program guide and the website. The league
is following the lead of our association NSA (National
Slo-Pitch Association of Canada) and have posted their
list of those bats deemed legal on our website. Note:
The executive has also reviewed "all MORSL supplied bats"
and has made quality replacements as required.
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MORSL EXECUTIVE FOR 2008
President:
Jim Dibblee |
Vice
President: Stephen Facey |
Past
President: Peter Scudds |
Secretary:
Bill Daly |
Treasurer:
"Z" Zdenek Borovicka |
Registrar:
Hayden Coomber |
Permits/Schedules:
Wayne Crawford |
Equipment:
Peter Kennedy |
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DATES
TO REMEMBER AND COMING EVENTS
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Opening
Day 2008 |
Sunday,
May 4th |
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Umpire
Clinic |
Sunday, May 25 4:30pm
(at Centennial North prior to 6:30 games) |
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Family
Day |
Sunday,
June 8th - Note this is a change |
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Victoria
Square |
Wednesday June 18 - Sunday
June 22 (Finals - time TBD) |
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Golf
Day |
Saturday, July 12 - Maples
of Ballantrae - Shotgun Start |
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Awards
Night |
Friday, October 17th -
Location/Time (to be confirmed) |
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NEWSLETTER
ITEMS
Interested in
promoting something of interest to the League. Let us know and
we will add to the monthly Newsletter or post on the Web
site. Better still, post it yourself in the Trash Talk
Forum. For more
information contact Jim
Dibblee.
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Check out the MORSL website
www.morsl.com for the latest info
and feel free to contribute to the "Trash Talk"
forum.
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