Important Machine Pitch & Coach Pitch News

HOYB Parents and Friends:

Our fall 2006 baseball season starts this Saturday and the weather for this weekend should be nice. We have approximately 285 players and 24 teams spread amongst our four leagues.

IMPORTANT MACHINE PITCH & COACH PITCH NEWS
Yesterday afternoon we were thrown a real curveball by Fairfax County. They mistakenly double-booked the Dranesville #1 and #2 fields on Saturdays with the Herndon Youth Soccer program. Fairfax County gives soccer priority in the fall, so they pulled our field permits on Dranesville fields for all Saturday play (we can still use the field during the week for practices but must share the outfield with the HYS program).

We are scrambling to find another field to readjust our schedules. With this short notice it is difficult but we will let you know by Friday morning what the new schedules look like for the Machine Pitch and Coach Pitch leagues.

We are very sorry for this last minute change in schedules but this was totally unforeseen as we were given use of the Dranesville fields last year. Please know that only the Machine Pitch and Coach Pitch leagues are effected. There are no schedule changes planned for the Majors and the Minor/Rookie leagues.

We will be in contact with team mangers with revised schedules and they will distribute them out to you.

Have a fun and safe fall baseball season!

Neil Bonner
HOYB Commissioner