Welcome to the unofficial home of the HP Hawks' (Howick-Pakuranga Baseball Club) T Ball program!
The purpose of this blog is to provide an online home for the "Sluggers" and "Junior Sluggers" T Ball program. It's a place where information about our program will be displayed, and hopefully it will also act as a resource space for interesting coaching videos and articles as they come along.
Key information about our T Ball program follows. This is how our program has run each year to date, but may be subject to change:
We will have at least one parents meeting in the week leading up to our season start - once my other baseball commitments are in place I'll confirm the night/nights here and via email.
Our first training night will be 31 October 2014 from 5 - 6pm at Lloyd Elsmore Park. This will be a whole grade training night and a chance for the players to get to meet their coaches before the game the next morning.
Registration for the 2014/15 season is open! Club registration site here.
Where are we: Lloyd Elsmore Park, Pakuranga. Entrance off Cascades Road (opposite Cascades Fruit and Vege / Cascades Road shops). Here's a map!
Ages:
HP Junior Sluggers grade ages 5 - 6 (although we do accept 4 year olds turning 5 during the season)
HP Sluggers grade aged 8 or under as of 1 January 2015
Players aged 9 as of 1 January 2015 play U11s baseball.
Please note that due to player numbers we may need to move players up or down between these grades in order to get complete teams. We'll do our best to work with the parents and players to make this work for everyone, but we do ask for your understanding as it's often a no win situation putting the teams together where the player numbers don't cooperate.
Season runs: November - March with a break over the Christmas period.
Season dates: 1 November - 12 December 2014, 7 February - 28 March 2015
Games: Saturday mornings 8:30am - 10am
Training times:
Junior Sluggers - Friday 5 - 6pm
Sluggers - team coaches to advise
Cost: $90 for the first player (discounts apply if you have more than one player registering for the season).
In order to help the Club with collection of fees, registration fees must be paid before the player will be allocated to a team for the season. Our fee covers all costs of putting a player on the diamond (ie cap, shirt, affiliation fees) on a break even basis. As such, we can't provide discounts for players wanting to play only part of a season, nor can we issue refunds once the season has started as the costs have already been incurred and can't otherwise be recovered.
What you need: Shoes/sneakers, socks and undies - we supply everything else! (ie pants, shirts, baseball caps and all playing equipment). Every player is even given their own soft core baseball, and the shirts and caps are for the players to keep - you only need return the baseball pants at the end of the season. Running/casual shoes are acceptable (at this age we don't want kids wearing cleats so as to avoid injuries to other players), but no jandals, sandals or bare feet please.
Please don't be afraid to visit and like our facebook account:
HP T Ball facebook page
Also, here is a link to the HP Hawks main website:
HP Hawks
If you listen carefully, you will hear it: Summer is coming....
Update 9 December 2014
- confirm second half opening day next year will be 7 February 2015
Update 13 October 2014:
- general revision of all information,
- addition of notification about parents meetings (days/times tbc).
- addition of first training night 31 October 2014 at Lloyd Elsmore 5 - 6pm for the whole grade.
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