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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SENIOR SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION

 

                            REGION ONE                REGION TWO             REGION THREE            REGION FOUR              REGION FIVE

                             Pete Davignon                Patrick Osborne                Carl Neaterous                  Gary Tryhorn                   Noel Lanctot

                                Rick Knee                                                              Carl Wagner                        Al Linde                      Charlie Sutton

                               John Kranz                                                            Jerry Scherer                   Dean Perkins                    Hal Feinberg

 

MEETING MINUTES

 

August 3, 2007

               

On July 25, 2007 the meeting held at Carl Neaterous’s house was called to order by our President at 1:20 pm.

THANK YOU Carl for lunch.

 

Present were: Region 1 Davignon, Kranz             Region 2                 Region 3 Neaterous, Wagner, Sherer                                   Region 4 Tryhorn, Perkins, Linde          Region 5 Lanctot    & members Reedy, Rinaldi             

 

Minutes of the June 20, 2007 meeting were approved.

 

Treasurer’s report shows a balance of $3281.57 as of 7-17-07.

 

Tournament Critiques

Redwood City 17 teams, 6/23-24. Synthetic turf well received. Complaint about giving opponents 5 runs hdcp.

 

Yuba City 20 teams, 6/23-24. OK

 

Brentwood 17 teams, 6/30-7/1. No snack bar, fields in poor condition, 2 teams didn’t play all their games.

  

Concord 16 teams, 7/7-8. Some brackets lacked parity because of poor turn out, some weak umpires.

 

Lodi 18 teams, 7/5-8. Bracketing complaint of  70+ team playing a 55+ team.

 

Yuba City 7/14-15 cancelled for lack of parity in divisions.

 

Tuolumne 20 teams, 7/21-22. Excellent field maintenance, some poor umpires (female & young male), TD not    informed that a 55+ team had been changed to a 50+ team.

 

Chico 10 teams, 7/21-22. OK

 

Rankings – Now have 103 teams registered. 3teams have disbanded. Some adjustments made.

 

Web Site – Bob Strand continues to do an EXCELLENT job.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NCSSA Championship Tournament – presently we have 57 teams entered and will break them into 3 brackets of 8 -12 teams on both sides of the rankings. Each bracket will be double elimination with a drop down to another double elimination bracket. 1st & 2nd place awards (watches) given to all brackets.75+ teams will be spotted 5 runs. Tentative brackets made pending final entries. Tournament assignments: Gary ordering watches, Noel, Dean, Pete, Jerry, Carl W. & John assisting with player check in and collecting scores. John Reedy is doing the schedule and scheduling of umpires. Carl N. made it official that the Miken Ultra ll is not allowed at BLD and reminded us of the $2.50 gate fee.

 

New Business – Joe Rinaldi & AC Linde made a pitch to have the yellow Rip-it bat allowed for use in NCSSA tournaments. The decision made at a previous meeting not to allow the bat stands.

Carl read a letter he received regarding an insurance claim for a tournament held in Brentwood. After a discussion about insurance coverage a motion was made and passed that we will require TD to list NCSSA board as additionally insured on their liability insurance policy.

 

John Reedy reported that The Farm and Michael Valle Foundation (Silver Knights) at his June 30/July 1 tournament violated NCSSA rule 23 by not playing all scheduled games. Both teams will be sent letters directing them to pay a fine of $50 for each game not played.

 

Old Business – Nor Cal Merchants, ODB, J Chubb Ins and Mac ll all appealed their penalty for violating rule 27. The board dropped the fine and placed the 4 teams on probation through the 2008 season. Letters to be sent.

  

Next meeting is at 6pm on September 8 at Carl Wagner’s house in Modesto.

Meeting adjourned at 4:30 pm

 

Noel Lanctot, secretary