CARTMEL VALLEY BASEBALL CLUB
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Extra Winter Training!
Saturday training from 10 am to 12 noon on Saturday 2nd January and Saturday 9th January at Cartmel Priory School. Regular Winter Indoor Training started Thursday 1 October at 6.30 pm in the school hall, and continues every Thursday evening when the hall is free and we have coaches to supervise.
Social Evening at YMCA Lakeside - 21st November 2009
Everyone had a very enjoyable evening on Saturday at the YMCA, many thanks to Glen for organising/hosting. The Raffle/Auction of Promises raised £296 towards club funds - thanks to everyone who participated.
Annual General Meeting & Prize Giving - 19 November 2009
Another enjoyable evening was well attended despite the wet conditions, though some were absent due to floods causing problems on the roads. 2009 Awards were presented as follows (photos below):
| Award | Rookie | Bronco | Pony |
| Batting | Tom | Zak | |
| Best Newcomer | Greg | ||
| Coaches' | Mathew | Luke | Dane |
| Most Improved Player | Cory | Harvey | |
| Most Valuable Player | Murray | Ryan | Zak |
| Players' Player | Ross | Amane | Seb |
| Chairman's | Dave Hill | ||
| President's | Chris (Frank Caunce) | ||
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Northern Academy
Details on BSUK website (see links). £50 for all the winter sessions includes an Academy hat and teeshirt. This fee also covers Academy days at Upper Heyford near Oxford which started Sunday 1 November.
Sunday 14th February 2010 - Training from 10am - 2.00pm Lymm High School
Sunday 21st March 2010 - Training from 2.00pm - 6.00pm - Lymm High School
Venue: Lymm High School, Oughtrington Lane, Lymm, Cheshire, WA13 0RB
Directions From M6: Take J20 and follow directions for Lymm. Continue on this road (Cherry Lane) until you get to a T-junction. Turn right into Church Road. Continue on this road until you see the sign for Lymm Leisure Centre and turn Left into Oughtrington Lane. (If you get to traffic lights, you have missed the turn). The school is on the right, entrance at second gates (first set are for exit).
27/28 Mar. Academy Series at Manchester Baseball Field
Congratulations to everyone who made the trip to London where we enjoyed another good weekend at Finsbury Park, home of the London Mets.
Our young Bronco team had London worried when we were 3 up after 3 innings in our semifinal but the strong London team came back to win and put us into the playoff with Halton. Another great game against our regular Northern rivals didn’t go our way despite a monster home run and some excellent hits from the younger players on the team.
Our Pony team – one of our strongest teams ever – had to prove themselves against the up and coming Horsham team and did just that in their semi, coming back from 12 – 3 down in the 4th to win 13 – 12 and a place in the Final. The Final was a struggle against our old adversaries Bracknell and history did unfortunately repeat itself as we took the runners up prize for the 3rd time in 4 years.
New Backstop Thanks to a grant of nearly £3000 from the Cumbria Community Foundation we can look forward to having a new purpose built metal and wire backstop installed at half term. AK Fencing (that’s Harvey’s dad) will be providing an impressive structure to replace our bent poles and sagging net!
Cartmel Coach in Canada James Pearson has just returned from 2 weeks at Durham College, Ontario in Canada where he has been as a MLB Envoy assistant coach with Sam Dempster. He enjoyed training with the team, learning new drills, as well as going on a road trip for a weekend of away games and working at the college sports facilities. He also met and did some work with ex Major League players at their own training facilities. So look out for some tough training sessions next season!