The ADL/Sport PEI Ma-jor Junior (14-18) Male Ath-lete of the Year: Josh Myers

The ADL/Sport PEI In-tercollegiate Male Athlete of the Year: JP Stevenson

The ADL/Sport PEI Sen-ior Male Athlete of the Year: Shawn MacDougall

The ADL/Sport PEI Team of the Year: Capital District 13U “AAA” Islanders

Baseball PEI handed out its

2018 Awards at the Rodd

Charlottetown on Tuesday, 20

November 2018.

Altogether, ten Sport PEI/

ADL Awards were presented,

two special awards were

handed out by the PEIBUA,

two Awards from Baseball

Canada were awarded, and

there were presentations to all

2018 Provincial and Atlantic

Champion teams. Finally,

there was a special presenta-

tion to Alex Curran of the

Eastern 11U “AAA” Express,

who pitched a perfect game in

the final of the Baseball At-

lantic 11U “AAA” Champi-

onships

The evening was led by Mas-

ter of Ceremonies Zack Bell,

who did a terrific job. The

meal was catered by the Rodd

Charlottetown Hotel and was

excellent.

The Sport PEI/ADL Award winners were:

The ADL/Sport PEI Jun-ior Official of the Year: Owen Morrison

The ADL/Sport PEI Sen-ior Official of the Year: Jack McCabe

The ADL/Sport PEI Vol-unteer Administrator of the Year: Tanner Doiron

The ADL/Sport PEI Mas-ters Award: Scott Harper

The ADL/Sport PEI Coach of the Year: Mark Ar-senault

The ADL/Sport PEI Jun-ior Female Athlete of the Year: Selena Ford

The ADL/Sport PEI Mi-nor Junior (13U) Male Athlete of the Year: Graysen LaPorte

2018 Baseball PEI Awards Handed Out

Islander Jones Commits to NCJAA Williston State

St. Peter’s Bay native Nathan

Jones, who is one of three

Islanders currently at

Badlands Baseball Academy

in Oyen, Alberta, has commit-

ted to play with the Williston

State Tetons in 2019-2020.

Williston State is a NCJAA

school in plays in the Mon-

Dak Conference and is based

out of Williston, North

Dakota..

Jones, who played on the

2018 PEI Youth Selects and

2017 Canada Games team, is

looking to pitch and play on

the field positionally for the

Tetons.

For more information, go to

https://www.baseballpei.ca/

news_article/show/970277.

Baseball PEI Newsletter

Special points of

interest:

2018 Baseball

PEI Awards

Islander Commit-

ting to NCJAA

Program

Canadian Girls

Baseball ex-

panding to PEI

Changes to Base-

ball PEI and

Baseball Atlantic

rules

John Munro, Alex Curran and

Walter MacEwen at the 2018

Baseball PEI Awards Night

December 2018 —

January 2019 Volume 1, Issue 1

Inside this issue:

Awards 1

Jones 1

Time Limits 2

Baseball Atl 2

NCCP 2

CGB 3

13U Camps 3

Nathan Jones pitch-

ing for Badlands

Academy

Provincial 3

Reactive Health 4

Baseball PEI, in consultation

with its member associations

at the 2018 Fall Forum in Oc-

tober, will be introducing time

limits for all regular season

and exhibition games at the

“AA” and “A” level—

excluding 18U “AA” - in

2019.

Once a game has reached the

105-minute mark, if it’s not

completed, no new innings

can be started after that point.

The inning the game is in at

the 105-minute mark will be

the final one played.

As well, at these levels, if the

game is tied after seven in-

nings (six in 11U), extra in-

nings will not be played and

the game will end in a tie.

“One of the reasons the Board

of Directors and the associa-

tions at the Fall Forum felt

bringing in a time limit was

important was that it gave

parents an idea of how long

they will be at the field. While

baseball is the sport without a

clock, the reality is many fam-

ilies now are very busy. The

fact they will know approxi-

mately how long they will be

at the field will make things

easier for them, plus maybe

attract a few more new play-

ers,” says Randy Byrne, E.D.

of Baseball PEI.

“Plus, it will likely have the

by-product of getting teams to

hustle more and get games

moving more quickly. People

will want to finish their game

prior to the 105-minute mark,

so coaches will have to be

more organized prior to and

during the game and players

will have to hustle on-and-off

the field. This has been an

area of concern over the past

couple of years.”

— in order for them to renew

their Certified status, they will

have to earn the necessary

P.D. points for their level to

be renewed at the “Certified”

status. It will no longer be

necessary for those coaches to

have games and/or practices

evaluated again in order to

regain their “certified sta-

tus” (as was the case in 2017

and 2018).

Changes to Renewing

Certified Status

At the 2018 Baseball Canada

Fall Meetings in Ottawa, ON

in early November, the

Coaching Panel (which PEI

was represented by Desi

Doyle, Baseball NCCP LF)

decided that for coaches that

lost their NCCP certified sta-

tus — at the Regional, Provin-

cial and/or Comp-Dev levels

Wondering how the how

maintenance of NCCP certifi-

cation works? Check out

https://www.coach.ca/

maintenance-of-certification-

s16745 for more information!

Want to start the NCCP pro-

cess for coaching baseball on

PEI? Head to https://

nccp.baseball.ca/.

Time Limits for “AA” and “A” Level Games in 2019

NCCP Corner...

Changes coming from Baseball Atlantic 2018 AGM

institute changes in 2019.

These changes can be found at

https://www.baseballpei.ca/

news_article/show/973582.

“Baseball Atlantic has really

grown and become stronger

over the past four-or-so

years,” states Walter MacE-

wen, President of Baseball

PEI.

PEI won three medals at

Baseball Atlantic Champion-

ships in 2018.

Baseball PEI President Walter

MacEwen and E.D. Randy

Byrne attended the 2018

Baseball Atlantic AGM in

Halifax, NS on 2 December

2018.

Chaired by Baseball Atlantic

President Gerry LeBlanc, the

AGM featured the Presidents

and E.D.s from all four Atlan-

tic provinces. There were sev-

eral motions passed that will

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Did you know the

minutes from

Baseball PEI

Board of

Directors;

meetings and past

AGM minutes can

be found at https://

www.baseballpei.c

a/meetingminutes?

Cornwall Rally

Cap Group

2018 Baseball PEI

Provincial 13U “AA”

Champions, the Cardigan/

Northside Clippers

Starting in 2019, Canadian

Girls Baseball will be expand-

ing to PEI with the creation of

the PEI Girls Baseball pro-

gram!

Canadian Girls Baseball,

which has programs in Toron-

to, Manitoba and Nova Scotia,

is a not-for-profit organization

whose goals is to empower

girls and get them playing

baseball! On PEI, PEI Girls’

Baseball are currently plan-

ning on having programs

based out of the Charlottetown

and Summerside areas.

The program will be available

for girls between 4– and 12-

years-old. It will be once-a-

week for eight weeks, and it

will focus on developing

skills, playing games, and

girls growing in love for base-

ball and in confidence of

themselves. All the coaches

will be female, and each girl

will get their own uniform to

keep, plus a few other things.

“We are so excited to expand

to Prince Edward Island!”

says Dana Brookman, CEO of

Canadian Girls Baseball.

“We are really looking for to

working with Baseball PEI to

grow girls baseball across

PEI!”

“Baseball PEI is really happy

to be partners with Canadian

Girls Baseball and hope that

the creation of PEI Girls Base-

ball will give girls a more

comfortable outlet to play

baseball,” states Randy Byrne,

Baseball PEI E.D.

“We know that for a lot of

girls, the just want to play

baseball with other girls. The

PEI Girls Baseball program

will allow for that to happen.

We are excited about the po-

tential.”

More details about PEI Girls

Baseball will come out in the

following months.

in the new year.

Rob McCormack is heading

the Provincial 15U team and

will be announcing offseason

I.D. camps and training in

January. Same goes too for

Bob Doyle, head coach of the

Provincial 13U team, repre-

senting PEI at the National

13U Championships in Re-

pentigny, QC August 2019.

While it’s snowing outside,

that doesn’t mean baseball

completely stops on PEI. Most

2019 Provincial teams’ head

coaches and coaching staffs

are picked and preparing for

offseason ID camps.

Kevin MacLean is coaching

the PEI Youth Selects, and has

already had an I.D. camp. The

Youth Selects will have more

Connor Myers, the 18U All-

Stars head coach for 2019,

will be beginning preparations

for this team in the spring of

2019 (this team is comprised

of all-start players from the

Provincial 18U “AA”

League). Baseball PEI is still

looking at naming a coaching

staff for the Provincial 16U

Girls squad.

Canadian Girls Baseball Expanding to PEI

Provincial Teams Preparing for 2019

13U Regional Camps Starting in January

reps during the offseason, to

learn some new skills that

may be at a higher level than

they are used to, and maybe

grow in more appreciation in

the game,” according to Matt

Barlow, Baseball PEI Head

Clinician.

The four camps will take

place at Hernewood Interme-

diate School (O’Leary), Sum-

merside Intermediate School

(Summerside), Norton-

Diamond Indoor Complex

(Stratford) and Mount Stewart

Consolidated School (Mount

Stewart).

These camps will go once-a-

week for ten weeks from Jan-

uary until March 2019. For

more information or to regis-

ter, head to https://

www.baseballpei.ca/

news_article/show/863160.

Baseball PEI is launching four

13U Regional Camps across

PEI this January. This is after

the success of the three 13U

Camps offering from January

to March of 2018.

“These camps will give young

players

the op-

portunity

to get

some

Volume 1, Issue

“We are really

looking for to

working with

Baseball PEI to

grow girls baseball

across PEI!”

- Dana Brookman,

CEO of Canadian

Girls Baseball

2018 PEI Youth Selects, prior to

the 2018 Baseball Canada Cup in

Moncton, NB.

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and has worked with several

of our athletes (also, one of

our former clinicians, Con-

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