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REALITIES Friday May 1991 Page Georgetown Baseball Association getting bigger and better Jean Aubin last years span chairman of the Georgetown Baseball tion is looking forward to the start of the season new year will feature a minor and a major rep team as well as a rep T ball team Aubin said registration has in creased to the point where no more players can be added without making drastic changes to the schedule since there is no more field time available Weve been getting bigger numbers each season going from about 500 when I started to 600 this year Well have close to The Georgetown Baseball Association experienced another year of growth adding three new rep teams to Its roster Registrations have been so good that a cap had to be put on sign this year Due to the shortage of fields the GBA will be forced to change its scheduling in order to accommodate the Increased numbers of players Herald photo Youth soccer in the Hills a going concern Soccer in Hills has ex perienced a small reduction In its numbers this year something the local minor soccer presidents say comes and goes regularly It goes in cycles We did very well with over 300 players last year This year we have just under 280 Still a lot of our senior players havent signed up yet so that may change a bit said Mary Bailey president of Acton Minor Soccer Steven Lee president of Georgetown Youth Soccer Association said last years numbers were lower than the year before Last year the organization had under 18 boys and under 18 girls teams but this year it will just be the girls taking to the field We didnt quite have the numbers this year for the boys so weve made an under 14 boys team which well try and build up over time The under 10 mini soc cer is going very well and is full this year Both presidents said there are enough numbers and interest among their members to try and compete with more teams from the surrounding area instead of just among themselves Weve been in discussions with Milton and Acton to play in a house league with them to make things more challenging for the kids The difficulty is that nobody wants to do it until they can find out if they can make it viable said Lee Bailey said Acton is just enter ing a five country all star league which includes Well Dufferin Perth and Nor folk We havent had too bad a response from our people The players involved also have to play per cent of their own bouse league games It was a lit tle tough convincing some to give it a try but it looks like things will go well Both groups say they have a common problem playing fields Bailey said the soccer field behind Acton High School is often unusable because it remains ex wet for a long time leav only one at M Z Bennett School for everyone to share We have several fields that are really awful to play on St Francis and G H S Georgetown District High School are places we really try and keep off since theyre basically unplayable said Lee Also both groups are trying to get their executive boards in bet ter shape Bailey said there are plenty of people doing a number of things for the organization but not everyone is necessarily following through with the responsibilities they have taken on Lees group Is fairly new taken over for people who have handled it for 1012 years He said it will just take some time for the members to adjust teams with that many signed up Aubin said one of the biggest signs of the associations growth last year was the ability to have their own peewee team instead of having the younger children com bined with bantams and midgets It was very tough for the young ones because that ball was really coming at them when play against the bigger guys Com against people their own age really made a difference said one of his goals this year is to make sure that trend continues gathering more players in order to help improve the quality of the associations teams Ball is a good example of how well things are going We had teams in bouse league so getting a rep team was the next step We don t have a junior team this year but we gained one with the other team Aubins said the other major goals for him this year has been finding volunteers to help coach the teams people to umpire the games and find sponsors most of which has been accomplished so far Volunteer were our biggest need Without them we couldnt run the games Weve gotten coaches for the teams and con vehors for all the leagues but were still really short of umpires and a coordinator for them said an umpire coor dinator is needed to help find peo ple willing to the games and set up the training programs In order to get them certified He said the returning umpires many who are players in the older dlvi know their business and are looking forward to helping new people learn the ropes As for sponsors Jack Oesch the sponsorship chairman has done a great job for us filling all the spots in a time when the economy hasnt been that well off With the start Of the rep season at home on May 13 and the house 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