VOLUME 1 ISSUE 5
PLAT E
TA LK
JULY 2012
HOUSE LEAGUE HITS
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
HOUSE LEAGUE
HITS CONT.
2
COACHING
DRILL OF THE
MONTH
2
WMBA STARS:
HL WINNERS
2
WMBA STARS:
REP FINALISTS
3
WMBA STARS:
REP WINNERS
CONT.
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TEAM GREAT
BRITAIN COMES
TO WHITBY
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NOMINATE A
PLAYER OR
COACH
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BUT WAIT, I
HAVE A
5
PHOTO CONTEST
WINNERS—JULY
6
DATES TO
REMEMBER:
 July 30—T-Ball & First
Pitch Banquets
 July 31—Blastball
Banquet
 August 22—Mosquito &
Bantam Banquets
 August 23—Rookieball
& Peewee Banquets
 August 26—Midget/ Jr
Banquet
It’s been a busy and exciting
month in WMBA House League
baseball. In the span of just over
a month we have had our All-Star
Games, XTRA Innings program,
and now the teams are getting
geared up for play-offs and/or
their end of season banquet.
2012 WMBA House League
All-Star Games: July 8th, 2012
The day featured over 200
WMBA House League players,
divided amongst 5 age divisions,
ranging in ages from 8 (Rookie
Ball) to 21 (Junior Ball). Each
team participated in one of the 8
All-Star games modeled after
Major League Baseball’s annual
All-Star Game. Despite the
morning thunderstorm, all the
games started on time and ran
smoothly - thanks to the
assistance of many individuals.
* Matt Beech, Roy’s Enterprise
* Mike Arlein, General Manager,
KAL Tire
* Tracy Roulston, Sales Manager,
Marigold Ford Lincoln Sales
* Ryan Gordon, WMBA House
League Director
* Brad Tate, Sales Agent,
Coldwell Banker Case Realty
* Jordan Mercier, KX96 Morning
News Anchor at Durham Radio
Inc. and former WMBA player
Based on the abundance of
positive feedback from players,
coaches and parents - we are
proud to say that the 2012
WMBA House League All-Star
Games were a huge success.
If you have any great pictures
from the event and would like to
submit them for our website,
please email them to
[email protected]
setting that allows their passion
for the game to grow as well as
their confidence and abilities.
The XTRA Innings program
began with a 2 hour pre-season
evaluation camp held on June
23 which was run similar to a
rep tryout. Players were
evaluated on fielding, throwing,
catching, batting, and pitching.
A player draft was held on June
29th where the coaches
selected players for their
respective rosters with the goal
of creating two evenly balanced
teams - and based on the outcome of all the games it would
appear that we have been
successful in that goal.
The season consisted of three
regular season games and a
one game Championship
One of our goals for this year’s
game. XTRA Innings games
WMBA All-Star Games was to
XTRA Innings Program
were played Sunday evenings recognize and create some
XTRA Innings is a program
with the majority of these
special memories for our keen
designed for WMBA House
games finishing under the
and talented All-Star House
League players who would like to lights as the games were 2.5
League players and also to
play some XTRA baseball during hours in length.
publicly recognize our
the regular seasupporters and sponsors.
son. For the 2012
XTRA Inning’s
On hand to throw out the
season we had two
ceremonial first pitch at one of
divisions (Peewee
the 8 All-Star Games were:
and Mosquito)
* Her Worship Whitby Mayor Pat participating in the
Perkins
program. One of
* Nigel Wilson, Owner of
the objectives of
Competitive Edge and former
the program is to
MLB player
provide keen
* Harry Smith, General
house league
Manager, Lone Star Whitby
players with a
* Dave Imeson, WMBA Past
positive baseball
President and Life Member
experience in a
All Star Game, July 8 2012
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HOUSE LEAGUE HITS CONTINUED...
into two extra Innings with the
Indians coming out victorious over
the Yankees by a score of 14-13.
your coaches after the regular season is
finished informing you of the first play-off
game.
All XTRA Innings players will receive
their trophies at their respective
house league end of season
banquet.
Mosquito players make a play during the
Xtra Innings Championship Game
The Championship games were held on
July 29th and both games were very
exciting - and won by the home team in the
bottom of the final inning.
For the XTRA Innings Mosquito
Championship game, the Blue Jays fought
their way back from an early 9-1 deficit and
won 13-12 in the bottom of the 7th inning
against the Phillies.
The XTRA Innings Peewee Championship
game was just as exciting. The game went
House League End of Season Banquets:
It is hard to believe that the season is
coming to an end. To help celebrate a
great season of baseball, we look forward
to hosting an end of season banquet. All
banquets will be held at Heydenshore
A big thank you to all those that
participated in this program, and to Pavilion. The schedule is as follows:
the coaches, parents, umpires and
July 30—T-Ball and First Pitch
WMBA Executive members that
July 31—Blastball
helped make it a big success - it
August 22—Mosquito and Bantam
was great to see so many players
August 23—Rookieball and Peewee
playing great ball, having fun,
making some new friends, and developing August 26—Midget/ Junior
their baseball skills.
NEED MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOUSE
LEAGUE BASEBALL: Our website likely has
If you have any questions, comments or
feedback about the program you can write the answer: Can’t remember when or
where your child’s next game is - visit our
to us at [email protected]
new website for the answer - each team has
their own webpage. Unsure about house
2012 WMBA House League Playoffs:
league rules - check out the General Rules
Playoffs are quickly approaching for most and also the division specific rules under
of our divisions. Playoff schedules will be
the House League menu.
sent to coaches very shortly. In many
divisions it will likely go down to the final
If you still have questions you can email us
regular season game to determine the
at [email protected]
playoff seeding. Expect an email from
COACHING DRILL OF THE MONTH:
SOFT TOSS SCRIMMAGE
This is an easy practice drill that involves
both offense and defense. Split your team
into two squads. One will play offense and
one will play defense, just like a regular
game. Since each team will be short of a
full defensive team, let the defensive
players determine how they will set up their
defense. Bunting and stealing by the
offense team is not allowed. Play 6 outs
per half inning (allowing more players to
get an at-bat).
hitter from the side. The hitter must swing
at each pitch. After each hitter, the
defense will rotate one position. Rotate
around the infield from 1st to 3rd, then to
left field around to right. The right fielder
rotates to 1st.
WMBA STARS: HL
TOURNAMENT WINNERS
The bantam mid-season house
league tournament saw the
WMBA Athletics face off against
the North Whitby Physiotherapy
Royals in the final game. The Athletics
would emerge victorious! Congrats to the
Athletics!
The coach soft tosses each pitch to the
WMBA PHOTO CONTEST
The WMBA needs your photos! Please submit pictures of your WMBA players and teams IN ACTION to
[email protected]! Winning photos will be featured in the August edition of “Plate Talk”.
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REP TOURNAMENT FINALISTS!
Mosquito AA Places 2nd in Chatham!
The Whitby Chiefs Mosquito AA team, placed
2nd at the Canada Day weekend
tournament in Chatham. After going 3-0 in a
round robin with wins over Windsor (14-1)
Sarnia (11-9) and Lemington (12-4), the
Chiefs beat Amhurtsburg (13-7) in the semis
and faced the host team, Chatham, in the
finals.
The round robin was highlighted by a come
from behind win over Sarnia. After giving up
7 runs in two innings. The Chiefs came back
strong to score 10 runs in the top of the 5th.
Including a grand slam by Noah Cornish to
take the lead. Zach Hagerman, came in and
pitched the bottom of the 5th and got the
3rd out with bases loaded and a full count,
to keep the lead, and preserve the win.
In the final game of the tournament, hopes
(and the temperature) were high for Whitby.
The boys fought hard against the host team,
Chatham who had only giving up a total of 6
runs throughout the tournament. It was too
close for comfort through the first five
innings, 3-1. Sadly, the boys were unable to
get any closer, but held on, refusing to give
up a run until the 7th inning, with Chatham
winning 6-1
Minor Mosquito AAA Finalists in Brantford! participated. Hum now Chiefs!
July 27-29 2012 the Whitby Chiefs Minor
Mosquito AAA team competed in
Brantford and placed 2nd!. The
tournament included stiff competition
from: Brantford Red Sox, London Badgers,
North York Blues, Ajax Pickering Cubs,
Burlington Bulls, Brampton Royals, East
York Bulldogs, Miss North Tigers, Hamilton
Cardinals, Clarington Orioles, Whitby
Chiefs, and Leaside Leafs.
Coach Dean Bertrim; Asst Coaches Kris
Johnstone, Joe McNulty, Rob Robinson
(Absent from Photo); Team Cameron
Witkowski, Jared Bertrim, Sam Boshart,
Matthew Fong, Tyron James, Josh
Johnstone, Ben Jones, Noah London,
Daniel Majoros, Matthew Tipton, and Kevin
Weisgerber (DL - Liam O’Connor)
Congratulations Chiefs!
Minor Bantam AAA Places 2nd at Home!
The WMBA hosted their 3rd annual Heart
and Stroke Tournament on the weekend
of July 27-29, a tournament which raises
money for the Heart and Stroke
Foundation in honour and memory of
Mike Crump, former WMBA Coach.
After an exciting weekend of baseball,
Whitby was very proud to see it’s very own
Midget AAA Goes 3-1 in Akron, Ohio!
Minor Bantam AAA team in the
On July 13th to 15th, the Whitby Chiefs
championship game!
travelled to Akron, Ohio to participate in
Minor Peewee Tier 1 Champions in USA! the Jakob S. Gehring Memorial Wood Bat
The Minor Peewee AAA team participated tournament.
in the 2012 Battle at the Falls, Buffalo
New York on July 6-8. The Whitby Chiefs
opened the tournament defeating the
Alden Bulldogs 8-4, Queensbury Spartans
12-8 and losing to the Lakeshore Herd 10
-3. On Sunday morning they defeated the
Oakville Whitecaps 17-3 in the quarter
final game. Whitby continued their great
The team is composed of; Nick Retter,
Jackson Catto, Zach Hagerman, Adam Bevis, play into the semi final game defeating
Canandaigua 10-2 advancing to the final
John Watson, Jackson Painter, Noah
Cornish, Dylan Tipton, Eric Desbois, Sawyer against Lakeshore Herd. In the
Larmand, Lucas Pleteriski, and Jake Evans. championship game Lakeshore jumped
out to a 9-0 lead after two innings. The
Coach Jon Retter, Assistant Coaches Jay
Whitby Chiefs battled back to be up 13Hagerman and Mark Painter, and
12, 2 outs, 2 strikes, man on second and
Manager Holly Painter.
the Lakeshore batter hit a double to tie
the game at 13-13 going into the bottom
of 6th inning. The Whitby Chiefs led off the
6th with a double, then followed it with a
second double winning the championship
14-13.
The coaching was very proud of the way the
boys played and the tournament director
commended them on their sportsmanship
and the high level of competitiveness they
brought to the tournament and
championship game.
The Coaching Staff cannot say enough
about the great effort of all the players
during the tournament. It was the first
experience for a few to play baseball in
the USA and memories of this weekend
will be forever lasting by all who
Guaranteed four games, the Chiefs faced
off against the Marysville Mitts Friday
morning, Whitby would win the first game
of the tournament by a score of 10-1!
In their second game on Friday, Whitby
played the Stars Baseball Club. Stars
would prove to be a strong opponent,
scoring early and often en route to a 10-0
victory. They would later go on to win the
tournament.
The chiefs started the third game of the
tournament against the Ontario Orioles, an
elite team based out of Brampton. The
Orioles would score their only run of the
game in the 7th inning, ending the game
with a score of 6-1; Whitby was again
victorious!
With a record of 2-1 in round robin play,
the Chiefs barely lost on qualifying for the
championship round; losing in the 3rd tiebreaker by just one run. They would then
face off against the Ohio Warriors on
Sunday morning. In what turned out to be
a very close game, the Chiefs went into the
7th inning leading 4-3! Although the
Warriors loaded the bases, Whitby struck
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out the last Ohio batter shutting the door for Back Row: Sean Lee (Asst Coach), Derek
Brown (Head Coach), George Brown (Asst
another victory.
Coach), Ryan MacAulay, Adrian Lee, Josh
Congrats to the Chiefs!
Lee, Mike Maracle, Mat Yovanovski, Jeff
For more info about the Ohio tournament or Alty, Andrew Fleming, Mitch Robins, Evan
Webb, Jared Mercier (Asst Coach), K.C.
the Midget AAA Team visit:
Chong (Asst Coach), Front Row: Riley
www.whitbychiefs.webs.com
Sewell, Ryan George, Jesse Cirella, Mitch
Ewing, Adam Scarcello, Nat Hanley,
Ground: Matt Grylls
lost to Kitchener in a really exciting game 5
-4.
WMBA is very proud of these boys as they
competed fiercely and represented WMBA
with great sportsmanship!
Bantam AA Finalists in Kincardine!
Bantam AA won their division and semi
finals undefeated , competing against
Mississauga Forest Glen, Waterloo,
London and London South West.
In the finals held Sunday afternoon they
TEAM GREAT BRITAIN COMES TO WHITBY!
On Thursday July 19, the Town of Whitby
and the WMBA hosted Team Great Britain
on their baseball tour of the Durham
Region. Team GB played in other EOBA
centers – Oshawa, Clarington and AjaxPickering.
The tour was set up by Sam Dempster.
Coach Dempster is a long time resident of
the Durham Region who has had a very
eventful Baseball career. Presently, he is
the Canadian Pro Scout for the Milwaukee
Brewers and Head Coach of the defending
Canadian National Champion Durham
College Lords. Further to this, Coach
Dempster as an MLB Ambassador and is
presently serving as the Manager for Team
Great Britain which will be participating in
the next World Baseball Classic event in
the fall.
Perkins throwing out the “first pitch”,
player introductions and the playing of
both nations National Anthems, the first
international baseball game took place in
As a result of his hard work and passion
Whitby. Also in attendance was Mr. George
for the game, Coach Dempster set up a
Cohon, founder and senior
tour for a youth team to come and play
local teams in the Durham Region. Team chairman of McDonald’s of Canada and
Great Britain was led by Brendan Cunliffe. McDonald's of Russia, whose grandson
was playing for Team Great Britain.
The WMBA Major Bantam AAA squad led
by Brent Johnson (Head Coach), Ryan
Puckrin (Assist Coach), Paul Richards
(Assist Coach), Jody Dickerson (Assist
Coach) and Lynn Smith accepted the
invite to play Team Great Britain.
On a very enjoyable evening with Opening
Ceremonies led by her worship Mayor Pat
Whitby Chiefs & Team Great Britain—Opening Ceremonies,
July 19 2012
Led by dominating pitching and hitting, the
Whitby squad overpowered Team Great
Britain with the game ending in the 7th
inning on mercy rules.
A great time was had by all that attended,
with discussions already in the works
about this becoming an annual event.
Whitby Chiefs & Team Great Britain—After the Game,
July 19 2012
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NOMINATE AN OUTSTANDING PLAYER OR COACH!
Please provide statistics for the player &
pitcher categories (see below):
As the baseball season is beginning to wind
down, the WMBA and EOBA are looking for
outstanding coaches, players, umpires and
teams to nominate for awards at their end of
the year banquets. This year, the WMBA will
be awarding individuals in the same
categories as the EOBA and then nominating
their winners at the EOBA level.
House League
- Jr. Player of the Year (Peewee & below)
- Sr. Player of the Year (Bantam & Above)
- Jr. Coach of the Year (Peewee & Below)
- Sr. Coach of the Yeah (Bantam & Above)
- True Spirit Award (given to returning
female HL player, Major Mosquito age and
up)
Please note, The WMBA would like all rep
teams to nominate 1 player as MVP for the
season.
Pitchers
Umpires
- Jr .Umpire of the Year (21 years & under) - ERA
- Win-Loss Record
- Sr Umpire of the Year (22 years & up)
- Number of Strikeouts
- Number of Innings Pitched
If you would like to nominate an individual
or a team please submit the following
information to [email protected]
Awards will be presented in the following
categories:
REP
- Jr. Player of the Year (Peewee & below)
- Sr. Player of the Year (Bantam & Above)
- Pitcher of the Yeah (Mosquito & Above)
- Jr. Coach of the Year (Peewee & Below)
- Sr. Coach of the Yeah (Bantam & Above)
- Team of the Year (All Divisions)*
*If you are nominating a team, please
indicate the team name and include the
coach’s name and contact information.
Nominee’s Name:
Nominee’s Team:
Nominee’s Division:
Nominator’s Name:
Nominator's Contact Info (E-mail/
Phone):
Please supply supporting details/
achievements/ highlights for this
nominee (one paragraph
minimum):
BUT WAIT, I HAVE A QUESTION!
If you have a question about the WMBA, make sure to contact the
correct person. See the list of contacts below.
I Have a Question About…
2012 Registration
2012 Schedule
Coach and Player Development
Contact
Chris
Bill
Derek
Players
- Batting Average
- Number of Hits
- Number of Home Runs
- Number of RBIs
- Number of Runs Scored
E-mail Address
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Featuring a WMBA Team/ Player’s
Achievements in the Newsletter
Mel
[email protected]
House League Program 2012
Ryan
[email protected]
Obtaining a Tax Receipt for 2011
Chris
[email protected]
Rep. Program 2012
Tony
[email protected]
Sponsoring a Team
Len
[email protected]
Umpires
Jim
[email protected]
FAQ
Can my child tryout for Rep?
We welcome all players to try out to represent
Whitby in the representative program. Tryouts
usually take place in mid-September; keep an eye
on our website for details. Players must register
and pay the basic registration fee for their division
and provide a copy of their receipt to the coach
prior to trying out. If the player does not make a
representative team, the registration fee is
transferred to their house league season. If, after
tryouts, the player chooses not to play rep or house
league, they can request a refund. Our refund
policy is available on our home page under policies.
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