On Saturday May 5th, bring your family out to the Metcalfe diamonds, have a picnic and spend the day with our family!!!

All 4 of our Greely Hawks teams will each be hosting teams from Russell, Casselman or Embrun for our big Opening Day!

 

For the morning games, we'll have some coffee, muffins and Timbits generously donated by the new Tim Hortons at Findlay Creek.

 

And for lunch, we'll have a BBQ with some hot dogs donated to every player that day by the new Fresh Co at Findlay Creek. We will also have food, drinks and treats for sale.

 

 

 

 

 

GO HAWKS GO!!!

 

Back by popular demand from last year, we are able to get these "KEWL" warm-up jackets again from our terrific supplier Steve Gamble at Russell Pro Hockey Shop.

 

If we order 12 or more, our cost would be:

• $75 with no name on front
• $82 with a name or coach on front

It takes 2-4 weeks from when the order is placed --- so if we place our order soon, then there's a chance you could have your jackets before the first pitch of the 2012 season!

Also, some of you may have seen the nice yellow/gold baseball high socks that many of our players have been wearing the past few seasons --- if your son would like some, we can also get those through Steve for $7/pair.

 

Please send a note to karen@greelyhawks.ca to let her know if you want to buy a jacket or socks.

 

 

*** Russell Pro Hockey Shop also now has baseball equipment in stock --- bats, gloves, cleats, etc...and when you go, don't forget to tell them you play for the Greely Hawks so you get our association's discount price on any item in the store!

 

 

 

 

This Code of Conduct MUST be signed by every player/parent and witnessed by a Greely Hawks/CRLL Executive Member, Manager or Team Coordinator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We were able to provide new uniforms for our two older teams, updated equipment for all our teams as needed, food for the teams' year-end parties, and a very cool customized Greely Hawks drawstring bag for every Spring & Summer player!

 

So a special thank you to:

 

 

We appreciate your support to help us provide a better baseball experience for the kids in our community!

 

 

 

 

This was a classic baseball game with a dramatic ending! With each team having arguably the best pitchers in the league as their starters (Nick Desbiens for us), it was predicatably a low-scoring affair as it was only 1-1 into the 3rd inning. Then, on a couple of errors by our Hawks, the Blue Jays scored 3 runs to make the score 4-1 to start the 4th inning.

 

With Eric Bekkers now on the mound for us and their ace still pitching for them, neither team scored a run in the 4th and 5th innings. But then in the top of the 6th inning, with time running out, our Hawks pulled through with some clutch hits and scored 3 big runs to tie the game – highlighted by Mitchell Clarke's clutch bases-clearing triple! The Jays threatened to win the game in the bottom half of the inning but Eric and catcher Mitchell combined to make a game-saving out on a player trying to steal home! That out sent us to extra innings as we were now passed curfew with the game still tied.

 

In the top of the 7th inning, Greely's Brad Bisson lead off with his 2nd hit of the game, and after being moved over to 2nd base with Emma Wallace battling at the plate, their pitcher missed in his attempt to pick off Brad at 2nd base, and Brad was able to come home to score the go-ahead run! We didn't manage to score again, so we were up 5-4 with a chance to close out the game.

 

Eric was pitching great and we did get 1 out with him on the mound, but with the potential of us playing in the Final on Thursday and possibly needing Eric to start that game, we decided to replace him with "Strike-Machine" Alex Séguin. After walking his 1st batter on a close 3-and-2 pitch, Alex struck out the next batter looking on a beautiful low-inside pitch. Then, with runners on 2nd and 3rd base and 2 out, Alex was facing their #3 batter who's a strong hitter and also successfully bunted twice already in this game. So with our infield in, their batter hit a squibbler between 1st and 2nd base that now second-baseman Eric called and charged perfectly, then he underhanded a quick toss to Daniel Ferguson at 1st base for the game-saving out as the tying run would have already scored and their potential winning run was rounding 3rd base!

 

It was sheer pandemonium for our Greely Hawks players, coaches and fans as we knew our 3rd place (6W-6L) team just pulled off a HUGE upset over a team that went 8W-1L this season (one loss was to us mind you!) and they remarkably only allowed an average of just over 3 runs per game this season, compared to us allowing close to 8 runs a game! They have fantastic pitchers, and we won this game despite them having their 2 best pitchers on the mound! In fact, we outhit them 10 to 1 in this game – it was only our too many walks and couple of errors that made the game as close as it was. But even with those walks and few errors, to allow them only 4 runs over 7 innings – including shutting them out over the last 4 innings – was a fantastic job by our players!

 

And the best thing about this big win is literally all 10 of our Hawks there contributed in one way or another to the victory!

It should be noted too that 7 of those 10 players are rookies to Senior ball this season, so every Hawk there was and should be proud of how they contributed to this BIG upset win! The opposing coach said after the game that we have a very solid team from top to bottom and we deserved the win!

 

In the other semi-final game,  the 1st place South Ottawa Yankees were defeated 6-3 by Glebe/Gloucester -- so they will now face us on Thursday night for the league Championship!

 

 

 

 

In this first season of Spring House League ball followed by Competitive Summer ball, our Greely Hawks did a great job at the "A" tryouts for the CRLL Aces District Playdown/Summer teams! The intense tryouts took place each day this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday --- and in the end, 11 of our boys will be taking part in the competitive experience of the District Playdown tournaments along with a 12 game regular Competitive "A" season against the best of the best of the City teams!

 

Congratulations to the following new Aces: 

At the Senior level, there is no "B" league and our Greely Hawks are the only CRLL team, so there were no tryouts needed. But our players had the option to continue playing in the Summer Competitive "A" season, and all 12 Hawks are coming back! It's great to see that these 15-17 year-old players are clearly having a great time together and want to keep playing through the Summer!

 

Welcome back Tristan Timm, Eric Bekkers, Nick Desbiens, Ryan Gagnon, Mitchell Clarke, Daniel Ferguson, Alex Séguin, Brad Bisson, Kevin Deavy, Emma Wallace, Alek Berthelet and Nicole Domingo. We are also happy to be adding local Greely product Nolan Gillis and Moodie Wahab who played the Spring season with South Ottawa and Russell.

 

More news to come very soon on the "B" league at Minor, Major and Junior – we have 21 players and a few coaches at those levels who are ready to go for the Competitive "B" season which also interlocks with the City teams! Our hope is that at least a couple of those B teams will be run under our Greely Hawks umbrella. We want ALL our Hawks to have a positive baseball experience wherever they're playing!

 

In the meantime, let's focus on doing our Greely Hawks proud and finishing this Spring season in style! While some of us are a bit lower in the Standings (updated on this site), we know we can do some damage in the upcoming playoffs if we play like we can!

 

 

 

 

 

More details to will be posted soon, but in our previous 3 years at this Spring Pinecrest Tournament, our Hawks had a combined record of 5 wins and 25 losses – so for our 4 teams to go 6W-6L this year, it shows our program is coming along very nicely!

 

And after coach Rick Lafrance's Minor Hawks won the "B" Side Championship last season, his core group of boys took it one step further this season in Major as they won the "A" Championship Game over a very strong East Nepean team! What's really impressive is 8 of our 11 Hawks are rookies to Major ball, so the best is yet to come for this young team!

 

An executive member and coach in the Pinecrest Little League, Craig Alain, has created this very informative blog about Little League Baseball for the Ottawa area...

 

 

 

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