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Minutes from NRBA Q1 Meeting

January 27th, 2022

7:00pm: Location: Shaler Area Municipal Building

 

Attendees:  Bill Woistman (Bauerstown), Mickey (9th Ward), Jordan (Reserve), Randy (Blawnox), Jeff, JJ, Doug (Shaler)

 

1.         Introduction: Bill W

2.         Fall Ball – Questions / Concerns: None were raised

3.         Transfer of the Chair – Bauerstown to Shaler Area LL

4.         NRBA Organizations for 2022:  Fox Chapel (Bronco only), Shaler, Bauerstown, Reserve, Etna (Bronco, Farm), Blawnox (numbers coming in), Morningside (no rep), 9th Ward

5.         NRBA Rules – Questions / Concerns / Changes

a.         Write in from Josh Cochran on time limit (suggestion of no new inning after 1:45, 2hr time limit). – General consensus by representation stressed that managers should discuss with umpire and set this as part of ground rules.  There is good reason to have a time limit when there is an ensuing game after or a chance of darkness falling and the game not completing.  However, when there is no game after and no chance of darkness or weather affecting the outcome of the game, then it should be the managers discretion with the umpire whether or not to set a time limit.  Neither party really wants to play longer than 2 hours, however in the case of working new pitchers and focusing on player development, some leniency should be agreed upon at home plate.

b.         Future/Rookie leagues:  Rules were posted on NRBA last year and will be reviewed again this year since this is an in between age of tball and instructional (historically orgs have different rules)

c.          Instructional, Farm, and Bronco rules remain the same as last year.

6.         Divisions:

a.         Divisions will be done similar to last year for farm and bronco.

7.         NRBA Rosters

a.         It was agreed to have number of teams in from all organizations participating by March 5th.  That way divisions can be constructed.

b.         Official Rosters are due by April 4th.

8.         Umpires

a.         Patched umpires for farm and Bronco

b.         Trying to see if we can give Pittsburgh Umpire Assoc. a number of games for playoffs so there is no lack of coverage.

9.         Website / Entering Scores

a.         JJ will have all pertinent information on website HOWEVER pitched the idea of all coaches using Game Changer App where we can create a league and all coaches are responsible for entering rosters, schedules, and scores.  This is a great app and if all coaches did their part would avoid the overhead and cut out the middle man of data entry on the website.  Everyone really liked this idea.

10.  Upcoming Events / Dates

a.         Scheduling Meeting:  Wednesday March 16th, Morningside VFW (Randy to contact Danny Love to secure venue) 6pm: Instructional, 7pm Farm, 8pm Bronco

                                                   i.         15 game season, 12 to qualify for playoffs

b.         Start of Season – April 11, 2022

c.          All-star game: Sunday May 29th – Kiwanis (pending verification with township), both upper and lower fields will be used to play 6 all-star games ages 7 – 12.

d.         End of Season – June 11, 2022

e.         Playoff Meeting – June 12, 2022 – Time / Location TBD

                                                   i.         Instructional – 6pm

                                                  ii.         Farm – 7pm

                                                 iii.         Bronco – 8pm

f.          Playoff Week: June 13 – 19th.  (with rain date)

**  Note to Organizations: Notify coaches that this is playoffs, secure home fields for this week as playoffs will start Monday the 13th and Championship will be played at Kiwanis Friday, June 17th.  Also tell parents as early as possible to have children available.

11.  What is the NRBA website?  https://leagues.teamlinkt.com/northern1234

But also much easier just googling for ‘Northern Regional Baseball Association”, if you google ‘NRBA’ it is about the 4th or 5th hit.

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  NRBA Q1 Meeting February 18, 2021 at 7:30pm

Zoom Meeting - Meeting Minutes

  1. Introduction - attendance - BBSA, SALL, Reserve, Blawnox, Morningside, 9th Ward, Fox Chapel, Etna
  2. NRBA Organizations for 2021 - see above for participating organizations… Organizations need to email the amount of teams participating in each age group
  3. NRBA Rules - Questions/Concerns/Changes
  1. Future Stars/Rookie League - These rules are guidelines that we encourage you to follow when you play other organizations. It is important that the two managers agree on the rules of the game before it starts.  
  2. Instructional - These rules are guidelines that we encourage you to follow when you play other organizations. It is important that the two managers agree on the rules of the game before it starts. We had some good discussion about these rules at our meeting. We will use these rules as guidelines until the playoff meeting. At the playoff meeting we will set rules that all teams participating in the playoffs will follow.
  3. Farm - No change for farm
  4. Little League/Bronco - For this age group we are going to call it Bronco.
  1. Both leagues (Farm/Bronco) - rule adjustment - no leaping to avoid contact.
  1. Divisions - We need numbers a week before the scheduling meeting. At this time no date has been decided on yet. We are working with Morningside to use the VFW. We discussed many different options for division. It was brought up that we focus on creating division for scheduling purposes this year. We are going to create divisions at Farm and Bronco.
  1. Farm
  2. Little League/Bronco
  1. NRBA Roster - Rosters are due April 5th. We will provide a form. We will need the players name, number, and age.
  1. Instructional - Rosters are due April 5th
  1. If your instructional team plans on playing in the playoffs
  1. Farm- Rosters are due April 5th
  2. Little League/Bronco- Rosters are due April 5th
  1. Umpires - We will use patched umpires at Farm and Bronco
  2. New Website/Entering Scores - Please email your game results to the NRBA email.  JJ is developing a NEW website for NRBA
  3. Upcoming Events
  1. Scheduling Meeting - TBD - We are working with Morningside to use the VFW. We are looking at the week of March 22.
  1. Proposed - 15 Game Season
  1. Start of the Season - April 12, 2021
  2. End of the Season - June 12, 2021
  3. Playoff Meeting - June 13, 2021 - Bauerstown Concession Stand
  1. Instructional - 6pm
  2. Farm - 7pm
  3. Little League/Bronco - 8pm
  1. Playoff Week - June 14, 2021 - June 20, 2021
  1. Question/Concerns - Unfortunately, we ran out of time. Thank you for participating in the meeting