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2014 13U National Western ChampionshipsAug 14-18   Altona, Manitoba

Participant Info

 

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.