Accomodations
For players, coaches, and team officials, are as follows:
A block of rooms has been booked at the Days Inn in Winkler under Altona Minor Baseball. People should reference that when booking.
http://www.daysinn.ca/hotels/manitoba/winkler/days-inn-and-suites-winkler/hotel-overview
Other hotels we’d suggest are the Super 8 in Morden
http://www.super8.com/hotels/manitoba/morden/super-8-morden/hotel-overview
Stampede Inn in Morris
http://www.morrisstampedeinn.com/
We don’t have not booked blocks of rooms at the last two.
Note that we have a bunch of accommodations also ined up for players and coaches Mennonite Collegiate Institute in Gretna that will be available. Cost on those is $25 per person per night. People staying there would have to supply their own bedding. If teams are interested in this option they should contact me, Curt Letkeman at curtl@friesens.com
Wednesday Night
Meals:
Welcome meal in the park starting at 5:30 will consist of Watermelon & Rollkuchen (a traditional Mennonite meal). We encourage people to bring lawn chairs as the meal will be outdoors in the park.
Skills competitions:
Skills competition starting at 6:45 will have events for infielders, outfielders, catchers and hitters. Events will consist of the following:
· - Fastest runner home to third - kid hits a pitch and is timed going from home to third.
· -Infielders accuracy throw - balls hit to shortstop position and thrown to a net at first base to see how many they throw into the net.
· - Outfielder throw to home - catch fly balls and time their throws and accuracy to home
· -Catcher throws to second - time from when the ball hits their glove until the throw reaches second
- Home Run Derby
Each team can submit two players per event to represent their team. Players can only participate in one event.
Coaches meeting:
Coaches meeting to follow at 9:00pm.
