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 2017.
Players aged 9 as of 1 January 2017 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.
Want to help out? Get involved helping out as a coach, assistant coach, 'dugout' parent or just wrangling KiwiBallers. Comment here, go on facebook, or sign up when you register.
Pre season *** DUE TO FIELD CONDITIONS AS A RESULT OF THE RAIN OVER THE LAST MONTH OR SO, THE PRE SEASON HAS BEEN CANCELLED. FIRST MEETING WILL BE FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER (and have a go days for those wanting to try out KiwiBall - please bring your little champion's mates!): Friday 21 October 5:30 - 6:15
Pre season muster: Friday 28 October will also double as our muster night. We will hand out all uniforms on 4 November for all paid up players.
Season runs: Friday 4 November - March 2017 with a break over the Christmas period.
Season dates: 4 November - 17 December 2016, 3 February - 18 March 2017 (15 weeks)
Games: Saturday mornings 8:30am - 10am
Training times:
Junior Sluggers - Friday 5:30 - 6:15pm
Sluggers - Friday 5:30 - 6:30pm
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. For those families that need it, a repayment arrangement can be negotiated with the Club. The first installment of any arrangement must be made prior to players being allocated to their team.
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 flexi-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.
There are often changes in the lead up to the season, so please check back here often leading in to the season to get the most up to date information possible. We will have a parents meeting at the muster on the 28th of October.
As noted above, we will have a parent's meeting at the muster on the 28th October (our second and last pre season training). This will be a whole grade (ie Sluggers and Jnr Sluggers) combined training. Regular training nights will commence from Friday 4th November 2016.
Please don't be afraid to visit and like our facebook account:
HP Kiwi 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....
EDITS:
5 Sept 16:
Updated pre season and opening day dates - pushed back by one week, now preseason is 21st/28th October, Opening weekend training is 4th November.
Updated parents meeting date to 28th October.
21st November: (finally!) confirmed season dates (ie finish before Xmas, restart after new year dates)
