{"id":2615,"date":"2018-09-09T11:24:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T16:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccabaseballclub.org\/?page_id=2615"},"modified":"2020-08-25T12:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:39:35","slug":"april-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clippersbaseballclub.org\/?page_id=2615","title":{"rendered":"April 22, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLIPPERS BASEBALL CLUB MEETING<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday, April 22, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clipper Baseball Club meeting was held on Sunday, April 22, 2018 at the residence of Wade Good in North Liberty, IA at 6:03pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Club Members Present: Adam Henderson (President), Bob Morlan (Vice-President), Darci Roehler (Director of Operations and Interim Treasurer), Golda Monohon (Secretary), Wade Good (Alternate), Nick Pfeiffer (Alternate), and Sara Morlan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Others Present: Dave Roberts (North Liberty Optimist Club Treasurer) and Darlene Smith (North Liberty Optimist Club Board Member)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clipper Classic Concession Stand:<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The North Liberty Optimist Club would like to run the concession stand for the Clipper Classic again this year, but does not have enough volunteers to cover all shifts.\u00a0 Darlene Smith has contacted Christine Mundt from the North Bend Elementary PTG.\u00a0 The NBE PTG would like to help but their number of volunteers will depend on the progress that is made assembling the new playground equipment at North Bend Elementary school over this weekend, April 28th<\/span><\/sup> and 29th<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n

CCABC has reserved the new concession stand for Saturday and Sunday at Penn Meadows park for $300.\u00a0 Due to NLYBS baseball occurring Friday evening, the CCABC will not be able to enter the concession stand to set up and stock until after 9pm on Friday night, May 4th<\/span><\/sup>.\u00a0 Adam will be present at Penn Meadows between 8:30pm and 9pm to tour the concession stand.\u00a0 Dave Roberts would also like to meet Adam there.<\/p>\n

There will be no trailer or tables to worry about.\u00a0 1st<\/span><\/sup> Avenue Hy-Vee will be catering this year instead of Coralville.\u00a0 They will cook both Saturday and Sunday.\u00a0 Hy-Vee will cook whatever the CCABC requests.\u00a0 So far we have decided on hamburgers, hot dogs, and chicken.\u00a0 CCABC needs to decide if brats will also be provided.<\/p>\n

Depending on the space available in the fridges inside the concession stand, CCABC may still need to supply coolers.\u00a0 Soda, water, and Gatorade can be placed in the fridges or on ice inside the coolers to chill overnight.\u00a0 The Optimist Club volunteered to bring 5 coolers with them.<\/p>\n

Darlene Smith requested that roasters be used to keep hamburgers, hot dogs, and chicken warm.\u00a0 It would be easier for them to prep ahead of time in order to keep up with the big rushes in between games.\u00a0 Golda and the Morlans volunteered to bring roasters.<\/p>\n

CCABC will supply the \u201cstartup\u201d money for the register at the concession stand.<\/p>\n

Since the games begin at 8am on Saturday and Sunday, the concession stand should open around 7:30am.\u00a0 The Optimist Club stated they would like to be there at 7am to set up and prepare for the day.<\/p>\n

10% of gross sales will be paid to the Optimist Club from the Clipper Classic tournament concession stand.\u00a0 A minimum guaranteed amount that will be paid to the Optimist Club is $800.<\/p>\n

Dave Roberts and Darlene Smith left at 6:18pm.<\/p>\n

Sara, Wade, Adam and Darci have volunteered to pick up items for the concession stand from Costco on Friday.\u00a0 Sara and Darci however will need to be at a track meet later that day and may not be available to help stock the concession stand at 9pm.<\/p>\n

Golda will set up and provide the concession stand signs\/posters with item pricing.<\/p>\n

Clipper Classic Game Logistics:<\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

The following age groups still have openings for the tournament:<\/p>\n

14U \u2013 full (5 teams total \u2013 Round Robin)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10U \u2013 7 of 8 filled<\/b><\/p>\n

13U \u2013 7 of 8 filled\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 9U \u2013 7 of 8 filled<\/p>\n

12U \u2013 5 of 8 filled\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8U \u2013 6 of 8 filled<\/p>\n

11U \u2013 7 of 8 filled<\/p>\n

The age groups will have the following game times:<\/p>\n

8U, 9U, 10U, 11U, and 12U \u2013 1 hour 30 minutes<\/p>\n

13U \u2013 1 hour 45 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

14U \u2013 2 hours\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

There will be at least 15 minutes between each game.<\/p>\n

CCA Clippers 14U has requested to play in the latest game times in the tournament for Saturday due to the state track meet in Ames.\u00a0 The track meet affects their players and they will not be able to substitute players from other CCA Clipper Baseball Club teams since all players will be in the same tournament.\u00a0 CCA Clippers 12U will need to play early since Trent DeKoter and Adam both coach on the 12U and 14U teams.\u00a0 Due to the lack of lights on the 14U field, the track team will not be back in time to start their 1st<\/span><\/sup> game on Saturday AND play the last game of the day before the sun goes down.<\/p>\n

Bret Breard will be in charge of umpires at the tournament.\u00a0 The umpires are set, but Bret was unable to attend the board meeting to discuss or answer any questions due to a schedule conflict.<\/p>\n

Clipper Classic Field Maintenance:<\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

Tiffin:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

14U \u2013 Field 1<\/b><\/p>\n

9U \u2013 Field 2<\/p>\n

13U \u2013 Fields 3 & 4<\/b><\/p>\n

North Liberty:<\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

8U White \u2013 Rage Graphics<\/p>\n

8U Blue \u2013 South Slope<\/b><\/p>\n

9U \u2013 American Legion (8U Blue may be assigned to this field since CCABC does not have a 9U team)<\/p>\n

10U \u2013 Koser and Optimist<\/b><\/p>\n

11U White \u2013 Big Country and Home Repair<\/p>\n

11U Blue \u2013 Scheels\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

12U \u2013 Pancheros<\/p>\n

Adam reserved the Penn Elementary field as well, but he does not think there is a reason to keep it for the tournament since there is no longer an 11U AAA bracket.<\/p>\n

Darci sent out a Signup Genius invite to everyone in the club.\u00a0 A separate email also went out to 13U & 14U regarding field maintenance since those teams are in charge of maintaining all 4 fields at Tiffin.\u00a0 Golda will send out an email to the rest of the club (excluding 13U and 14U) explaining the need for parent volunteers for field maintenance at Penn Meadows.\u00a0 Adam stated that he would contact the coaches as well to get their help enforcing the importance of the field maintenance and the Signup Genius with the parents of their team.<\/b><\/p>\n

Rick Smejkal notified Adam that the mounds will be dropped off at Penn Meadows on Thursday night instead of Friday night due to a scheduling conflict.\u00a0 Trent DeKoter has contacted the North Liberty Police Department to provide additional surveillance around the shed and the mounds from Thursday evening and throughout the weekend.<\/b><\/p>\n

Trevor Johnson is supplying the golf carts for the CCABC to borrow during the tournament.\u00a0 He will take care of getting them to Penn Meadows.<\/b><\/p>\n

Clipper Classic Registration Tables:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Darci was able to locate and bring all team binders for the registration tables as well as pitching cards.\u00a0 She still needs to clean out the binders.\u00a0 Golda will need to print 2 sets of 2018 USSSA bylaws for reference at the registration tables.\u00a0 The list of teams for each age group will need to be set up into the binders.\u00a0 The binders cannot be set up until the game schedules are set.\u00a0 Adam stated that he would close registration on Saturday, April 28th<\/sup> and would post game schedules on Sunday the 29th<\/sup> or Monday the 30th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Adam will set up the brackets and update them throughout the tournament on the USSSA website.\u00a0 Darci, Golda and Sara will meet at Darci\u2019s house on Monday evening, April 30th<\/sup> at 6pm to set up the binders.<\/p>\n

Clipper Classic Trophies:<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Adam will pick up the plaques from Harry\u2019s in Coralville this coming Friday before noon.\u00a0 They are plaques with a simple design.<\/p>\n

CCABC Fundraisers:<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Darci has received the money from the Pizza Ranch fundraiser held in February.\u00a0 The total amount raised was $360.11.<\/p>\n

Adam stated that CCABC received $203 from the fan gear store set up by Ironside.<\/p>\n

Team Practices:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

All inside gym practices are now complete.\u00a0 The CCA school district billed CCABC for the total amount between all teams.\u00a0 Adam will bill the teams individually for their total practice times.\u00a0 Adam still needs to finish things up with Jay Robertson (11U Blue) and Trevor Bollers (8U Blue) since they did not use CCA school district facilities.<\/p>\n

All teams will need to get a hold of Jonas Zimmerman if they need anything regarding the usage of the Tiffin fields (practices and games).<\/p>\n

The concession stand in Tiffin will be open during weekday games in Tiffin.\u00a0 Someone has been hired to run the concession stand.<\/p>\n

2018 Sponsorship:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Adam will be in contact soon with Mr. Hovey regarding the $500 CCABC scholarship.\u00a0 Currently there are 4 applications at the school and 1 application was mailed to the CCABC P.O. Box.\u00a0 In one week, all scholarship applications are due.\u00a0 Adam will pick up all applications this Friday for the CCABC board to review and choose the recipient.\u00a0 Mr. Hovey will present the scholarship on May 15th<\/sup> at 6:30pm.<\/p>\n

Membership Dues:<\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

There are still players that need to send in their membership dues.\u00a0 Adam has been in contact with those families.<\/p>\n

Team Banners:<\/u><\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

Katie Schmelzer will complete the banners soon in preparation for the Clipper Classic.\u00a0 There are a couple more teams left that she needs to take their team picture.<\/p>\n

Helmets:<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Helmet painting is complete and \u201cC\u201d decals have been provided by Ironside.<\/p>\n

2019 Tryouts:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

Tigers have already posted the dates for their 2019 tryouts. \u00a0Across all the age groups, their tryouts span every weekend in July except the last weekend.\u00a0 For CCA Baseball Club, tryouts tentatively will be scheduled for Saturday, July 28th<\/sup> and Saturday, August 4th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Rain dates will be Sunday, July 29th<\/sup> and Sunday, August 5th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The format will be coach\u2019s pick again, similar to last year, but Adam would like to tweak the setup a little bit.\u00a0 Wade proposed that the coach could \u201cfreeze\u201d some of the team, such as ~6 players, to form the base of their teams.\u00a0 However, the coach wouldn\u2019t be able to pick the entire team.\u00a0 This is in response to age groups with blue and white teams.\u00a0 This would spread the talent more evenly across the two teams.<\/p>\n

8U White Budget<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nick Pfeiffer would like to run through the budget for the 8U White team with Adam.<\/p>\n

CCA Baseball Club Vice President:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since Bob and Sara Morlan will be done with their term on the CCABC board after the Clipper Classic, the board will need a new vice-president.\u00a0 Wade Good has volunteered to fill the position as vice-president.<\/p>\n