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20 spots remain for Thursday, April 29th 5:30pm

You will receive an email confirming your spot and assigning you to a diamond.

Gary Paukert

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Practice Routine Suggestion

Posted by Gary Paukert at Apr 24, 2021 11:29AM PDT ( 0 Comments )

Hey guys,

Tired of boring practices where all you do is take some swings and shag flies the rest of the time?

Well, let’s get creative and ‘Kick it Up a Notch.’ Here is a suggestion for your group of 10 during practices this week.

1. Have a quick run through the batting order giving everyone 5 swings to get warmed up.

2. Three people at a time at bat, the rest in the field.
3. Pitch to each batter as if in a game. Ball is live in the field, batter-runner runs the bases.
4. Runners go to second only and then go back up to bat.
5. Batters keep batting until the are put out by infielders or outfielders.
6. When a batter is put out, he immediately goes out to the field and a fielder comes in to bat.
7. Keep score to see who had the most safe hits.

8. After that scrimmage, have a quick infield practice. Each fielder must field three ground balls in a row before he is dismissed.

This routine (thanks, Dave Finn) keeps the defense engaged, brings base-running into things, and puts some game-style pressure on the batter.

Cheers,

Gary Paukert
CSMS League Communications

Hello everyone,

Last week’s practices were well attended and we had good weather. There was great energy and I know it felt wonderful to get out and play and see your buds after a long winter. There were a few glitches which we’ll try to fix this week.

The practice schedule is:

1. Wednesday, April 28, 11:00am
2. Thursday, April 29, 5:30pm

We will use the grassy area just east of Charleswood 1&2 diamonds as a 5th diamond. *There will be a STRICT LIMIT of 10 people on each diamond in order to conform with AHS guidelines. Do NOT exceed 10 players. *

The first 50 players (per practice) who email me at gary.paukert@Gmail.com by Monday at 10:00pm will be able to practice. Please do NOT show up, even as a spectator, if you have not registered with me. Also. we need more pitchers, especially at Triwood, so please indicate you are a pitcher when you reply by email.

Tuesday night I will post an email like this one through the website telling you what diamond you are assigned to.

See you all next week, so far the weather looks good!

Gary Paukert
CSMS League Communications

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Reserving a Diamond in 2021

Posted by Gary Paukert at Apr 23, 2021 1:28PM PDT ( 0 Comments )

Hello gents,

Apart from the practices that the CSMS League is arranging, you may wish to arrange a practice with a group of friends or a tournament team.

The Charleswood and Triwood diamonds are available to you for this, but in order to avoid conflicts, please reserve the diamond for your practice. Of course you must adhere to the AHS guidelines at the time, which currently restrict attendance to 10 or fewer players.

The man in charge of diamond reservations and scheduling is our illustrious A.J. Boyd. You can email him at aj.boyd@telus.net or call him at 403-202-2145 and he’ll make sure you don’t show up and find the diamond occupied.

Cheers,

Gary Paukert
CSMS League Communications

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Found Bat & Lost Balls

Posted by Gary Paukert at Apr 21, 2021 4:17PM PDT ( 0 Comments )

Good practices this week, gents! Great to get out in the sunshine and see those we’ve missed all winter. So far no complaints from the neighbours about too much screaming as we all pulled and tore muscles we haven’t used all winter.

Phil MacDonald found a nice 27oz. Miken MV1 bat on one of the Triwood diamonds after this afternoon’s practice. He says the owner can have it back in exchange for a case of beer. Contact either Phil or me.

Also, I came home with about a bucket-load fewer of the Trump Stote Team1Sports softballs than I started out with. They are marked ‘GRIZ.’ I’d appreciate it if anyone runs across any of them, if you’d save them up for me.

Look for an email on future practice coming to an email box near you this weekend.

Get out the snow shovels!

Gary Paukert
CSMS League Communications