Tri-Cities Little League Baseball (Cupertino, CA)

About Us

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:03:47 Z

Tri-Cities Overview

Tri-Cities Pacific Little League is one of the original South Bay youth baseball organizations. A Little League region encompasses at least 20,000 people, and in 1964 when Tri-Cities was founded, the region included Cupertino, Sunnyvale, and Santa Clara. We now serve part of Cupertino exclusively. Tri-Cities is part of Little League District 44, which includes 14 leagues in the area. Our Little League ID number is 04054420, and our non-profit 501(c)(3) number is #94-1692157.

Tri-Cities Little League Constitution

League Levels

Tri-Cities has six levels of baseball for children from ages 5-17.

T-Ball (ages 5-6)
Farm (ages 6-11)
Minors (ages 8-12)
Majors (ages 10-12)
Juniors (ages 13-14)
Seniors (ages 15-17)

Please refer to the “League Levels” page for a complete description of each of the above levels.

Boundaries

Players who live in the neighborhoods bounded by I-280, Lawrence Expressway, Bollinger Road and De Anza Boulevard are eligible to play Tri-Cities Baseball. Please refer to the Boundaries page for a detailed map of the area.

Eligibility

Tri-Cities Little League is open to all children between the ages of 5 and 17 as of April 30th of each year. The league is open to players who live within the established physical boundaries, subject to adherence to established rules and required parental support. In addition, player candidates must have parental or legal guardian consent.

Operations

Tri-Cities Little League is an all-volunteer league. Many parents devote their personal time to support and operate the league. Please read more on the volunteering section.

Tri-Cities Little League thrives on parents willing to put their time and effort into making this a great experience for the kids. Without you, Tri-Cities couldn't survive. And it’s a great way to meet new people. You CAN make a difference.

Fall-Ball-08

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:23:28 Z

Fall Ball 2008

Notes

At this point, we have no committed minors coaches, so we will not be offering a minors fall ball program. For majors, we will send the 10 interested kids to Cupertino American and Sunnyvale National, to combine with partial teams in those leagues. We will use their fields for games on Sundays, and our fields during the week for practices.

Players

With Cupertino American

Benjamin Cousins
Oscar Mukherjee
Dhiraj Nallapathula
Kodai Fukawa

With Sunnyvale National

Tony Yanez
Payton Jones
Austin Compian (10, Blue Jays)
Jacob Walker (10, Angels)
Hari (10, Marlins)
Matthew Armer (10, Blue Jays)

Coaches

Anthony Yanez
Steve Cousins (out 2 weeks in Sept and 2 weeks in Oct)
Don Philips
Chappie Jones
Peter Pozzetti

Misc

Unavailable: Jerry Baltazar, Jano Banks, Tony Fong, Paul Mifsud, Shawn Kimball, David Hunsinger

Haven't heard from: Tim Kelly (minors Bluejays), Eric Schmidt (minors Marlins), Joe Mardesich (minors Angels), Don Disney (minors Angels), Scott Dubin (farm Green), Jason Mathews (farm Green), Todd McNair (farm Giants), Eddie Porta (farm Giants)

YES (not yet assigned to team)

1. Rahul Narula (11, Angels)

MAYBE

Johnny Schmidt (11, Marlins) - Steve spoke
Justin Marks (10, Angels)

WAITING FOR RESPONSE

Javier Licardie (11, Giants) - Steve left message
Dhiraj (11, A's) - Steve emailed
Kodai (11, A's) - Steve emailed
Robert Hu (11, A's) - Steve emailed
Sho Myamoto (11, A's) - Steve emailed
Jason Cha (11, Giants) - Anthony to contact
Richard Chung (11, Giants) Anthony to contact
Andrew Spillar (10, Marlins) - Don left message
James Athans (10, Angels) - Steve left message
Liam Har-El (11, Giants) - Don left message
Edon Har-El (11, Giants) - Don left message
Tyler Mardesich (11, Angels) - Steve left message

Riley Waite (11) - 95% no
Grayson Steakley (11)
Elijah (10)

Minors

Ryan Marks
Laura Workman
Matthew Kimball

Other

Matthew Workman (juniors)

Justin Marks (majors, but unlikely to be available)

HomePage

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:12:40 Z

Welcome

Welcome to the official site of Tri-Cities Little League (Cupertino, CA) where baseball is our universal language and kids worldwide come together to play ball. Our goal is to promote the game, build friendships, skills and teamwork, and most of all, have a lot of fun.

Spring Registration

Registration for the Spring 2009 season will open in November, and will be accessible from right here.

Safety

Little League Baseball is serious about keeping kids safe. We have processes in place ranging from safety rules for the field to screening of volunteers. If you have ideas about how to improve safety further, please don't hesitate to contact our Safety Director, Perry Farnum <%= email 'safety@tricitiesbaseball.org' %> or any member of our Board of Directors.

Stay Informed

For up-to-date information, refer to this website or join our TCLL-General Google Group. To see the latest changes, you can go to the Recently Revised page, or subscribe to the RSS feed.

Steve Cousins

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:49:59 Z

Steve Cousins

Fall-Ball-08

Old Stuff

2009-Board-Candidates

Opening-Day-Schedule-08

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to-do-07

Calendar-07

Registration-procedures

Coaching Prospects 2007

Opening Day

Sponsor Policy

President's Opening Day Speech

2007 Election Notes

2007 Tournament Sign Ups

2009-Board-Candidates

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:17:04 Z

2009 Board

Elected

Don Phillips – President
Steve Cousins – VP; coaching coordinator
Helene Workman – Secretary
Barun Mukherjee – Treasurer
Jennifer Umstattd – Player Agent
Dierdre Lum – JR/SR player agent
Lisa Marks – Information Officer
Mark Papas – Marketing
Joe Mardesich – Field Maintenance; help support snack shack; sponsors (jeannette); help with coaching coordinator
Tom Lopes – Equipment
Perry Farnum – Safety
Ed Steakley – Umpire-in-chief
Naomi Domen –Snack shack director
Lori Kimball – Uniforms
Sergio Licardie – Webmaster??
Anthony Yanez
Matt Waite

BoardMeeting2008Jun6

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:36:38 Z

TCLL Board Meeting

June 6, 2008

Hyde Middle School

Attendees: Jeff Oliver, Steve Cousins, Helene Workman, Joe Mardesich, Matt Waite, Anthony Yanez, Tom Lopes, Suzanne Dunn, Perry Farnum, and Steve Campbell

Informal Discussion Began at 7:50PM.

All-stars schedule has been posted. We need umpires and directors. All-stars teams can’t be announced until 6/15/2008. TCLL will have a 9-10 year old All-star team and an 11-12 year old All-star team. There will not be a 10 – 11 year old All-star team.

The snack shack was broken into the prior week, resulting in an estimated loss of about $500.

Next year we should have an auxiliary committee manage the snack shack.

At 8:25PM, we had a quorum and official Board business began.

Jeff Oliver is in charge of the elections for the next slate of Board members. An email was sent to the Membership stating that all Members are eligible to run for the Board and people interested in running for the Board should notify TCLL. There was discussion about who from the Board intends to run again and also about others who have expressed interest in running for the Board. [Note: a draft list of 2009 Board Candidates can be found at www.tricitiesbaseball.org/2009-Board-Candidates.

Perry suggested that two people handle the Safety Manager and that coaches/managers should be required to attend Board meetings. It was decided that coaches and managers are of course always welcome to attend Board meetings, but their attendance is not mandatory.

There was discussion about setting up committees to manage many of the functions of TCLL. Committee signups should be part of registration. The online form should be structured so that parents have to select committee membership as part of the registration process. This discussion was designated for further discussion at the summer Board meeting.

Steve Cousins presented the Treasurer’s Report on Barun’s behalf. The goal this year was to break even, but we are actually down about $7000 year-over-year from 2007 for the following reasons: (1) the initial budget for 2008 was not balanced; (2) sponsorship for 2008 was near zero; (3) snack shack revenue is low (due in part to having less games at Wilson because of interlocking with two other leagues); and (4) TCLL did not hit its goal for number of players this season. Given this year’s shortage, we will likely need to raise fees next year.

There was discussion about ways to improve retention by focusing on improving coaching using resources such as the Positive Coaching Alliance and Al and Al.

There was a suggestion to have a survey to find our about the year and what could be done better. The survey could be distributed via email. Action Item: Jeff, Max and Perry will draft the survey. They will look at samples provided by PCA.

Steve took a straw poll as to who was in favor of (A) fielding a 10 – 11 All-stars team, provided a manager could be found; (B) having a camp for 10 – 11 year olds (e.g. providing practices for two weeks, but not participating in tournament games); or (C) nothing. The results of the straw poll were 2 in favor of A, 3 in favor of B and 4 in favor of (C). There is no 10 – 11 All-stars team this year.

There was a MOTION: to handle selection of the 9 – 10 All-stars team manager in the same manner as last year, namely the winning Minors manager has the option to manage the 9 – 10 All-stars team, and if that manager declines the manager of the second place Minors team has the option, and so on. Passed unanimously.

There was discussion about the types of positions that need to be filled by volunteers for each Tournament Game hosted at Wilson Park:

Tournament Director

Announcer

Scorekeeper

Field Setup and Take-down

Handling Books, affidavits, and other administrative matters

TCLL has to cover 6 – 7 games.

Action Item: Steve will schedule Tournament Directors.

There was discussion of comparison of TCLL Constitution and Little League’s Model Constitution. Action Item: Helene will send Steve potential changes to ballot.

There was further discussion about setting up a snack shack auxiliary.

Action Iem: Joe Mardesich will request that the city place a deadbolt lock on the back door of the snack shack.

MOTION: To adjourn at 9:10PM. Passed.

Action Items

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:35:09 Z

Action Items

Steve Cousins: President

Schedule Tournament Directors
Schedule another board meeting
Email to Board members regarding the next board meeting, requesting that Members come to meetings and to let us know if the Board Member is unable to attend.
Email to general membership inviting people to run for the Board
Email to Team Managers requesting name(s) of two people to approach to run for Board
Order pins for post season
Check to make sure team sponsorship is still ok
Clear waivers
Tell Carrie that the person can’t work snack shack until he is checked out.

Ted Roberts: Vice-President

(None)

Barun Mukherjee: Treasurer

Barun to provide Max with Sponsor info
Send the board a draft budget
Send a written budget report to the Board

Helene Workman: Secretary

Helene will compare current by-laws with Little League suggested By-laws to determine differences, if any.

Suzanne Dunn: Player Agent

Send out All-star eligibility forms to the players.

Deirdre Lum: Uniforms and Junior/Seniors Player Agent

Order 7 new uniforms (including a few adult smalls).
Work with Suzanne to get hats.

Max Dunn: League Information Officer

(None)

Joe Mardesich: Field Maintenance Manager

Request that a deadbolt lock be placed on the back door of the snack shack
Send note to Steve to get Joe on mailing list for Seniors
Call Charles and will follow up with Jeff after so that Jeff knows status of existing Sponsors.
Follow up with person who wants to work in snack shack to get paperwork completed.

Tom Lopes: Equipment Manager

(None)

Perry Farnum: Safety Officer

Get together with Matt Waite and run them through the database next week.
Inspect the extension cords and buy more if necessary
Review board position description on web and see if there should be additional responsibilities added

Anthony Yanez: Coaching Coordinator

Talk to Carrie to see if she is interested in organizing and managing a snack shack at all-star night.

Carrie Athans: Wilson Snack Shack Director

(None)

Kathy Spillar: Hyde Snack Shack Director

(None)

Jeff Oliver: Umpire Director

Work with Max and Perry to draft the survey. Look at samples provided by PCA.
Jeff will revise the document he provided and circulate to Board.
Reserve Country Inn for Board Meetings
Work with Charles on fundraising
Look into the moving our boundaries a little to capture some area across Lawrence that is still part of the Cupertino school district. (See current boundaries at www.Cupertinobaseball.org)
call the Carbonic cylinder rental company to discuss the pricing.

Matt Waite: Majors/Minors Director

draft a snack shack policy and circulate to TCLL Board via email for review.
help Perry check volunteer forms through national database within next week.

Trevor LaSpina: Farm/T-Ball Director

(None)

Charles Zhou: Fundraising Director

Jeff and Charles will put together some proposed sponsorship packages for potential Sponsors.
work with Jeff on fundraising

Team-Farm-5

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:59:35 Z

Farm 5 - Yellow Jackets

Schedule

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Coaches

Paul Mifsud

Roster

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Mailing List

Parents and fans of this team should subscribe to team mailing list TCLL Farm 5-Yellow Jackets. Once you have signed up, you can send email to everyone on this team by using: <%= email 'tcll-farm-5-yellow-jackets@googlegroups.com' %>

Team-Farm-4

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:59:19 Z

Farm 4 - Giants

Schedule

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Coaches

Todd McNair
Eddie Porta

Roster

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Mailing List

Parents and fans of this team should subscribe to team mailing list TCLL Farm 4-Giants. Once you have signed up, you can send email to everyone on this team by using: <%= email 'tcll-farm-4-giants@googlegroups.com' %>

Team-Farm-3

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:58:55 Z

Farm 3 - Green Machine

Schedule

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Coaches

Scott Dubin (408) 593-1780
Jason Mathews

Roster

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Mailing List

Parents and fans of this team should subscribe to team mailing list TCLL Farm 3-Green Machine. Once you have signed up, you can send email to everyone on this team by using: <%= email 'tcll-farm-3-green-machine@googlegroups.com' %>

Team-Farm-2

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:58:16 Z

Farm 2 - Blue Ninjas

Schedule

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Coaches

Tony Fong

Roster

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Mailing List

Parents and fans of this team should subscribe to team mailing list TCLL Farm 2-Blue Ninjas. Once you have signed up, you can send email to everyone on this team by using: <%= email 'tcll-farm-2-blue-ninjas@googlegroups.com' %>

Team-Farm-1

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:57:49 Z

Farm 1 - Red Dragons

Schedule

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Coaches

Jano Banks

Roster

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Mailing List

Parents and fans of this team should subscribe to team mailing list TCLL Farm 1-Red Dragons. Once you have signed up, you can send email to everyone on this team by using: <%= email 'tcll-farm-1-red-dragons@googlegroups.com' %>

2007-Board-Roster

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:53:47 Z

Board Members

Team-Juniors

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:04:12 Z

Juniors

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Seniors

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Board Elections

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:56:11 Z

Dear [%= user_first_name %],

Every year on closing day we hold an election to determine next year's Tri-Cities Board of Directors. We invite you to consider serving, or to nominate someone to serve, on the 2008-2009 Board. The Board works behind the scenes to make sure that the league runs smoothly for the kids. Tri-Cities has been growing and improving over the past few years, but we need volunteers to help us keep up the momentum.

Your community service is important to the league. For more information about what's involved, ask any of the current board members (see http://www.tricitiesbaseball.org/Tri-Cities+Board+2008 for the list) or send your questions to info@tricitiesbaseball.org

Please contact Jeff Oliver (Election Director) at info@tricitiesbaseball.org to get your name on the ballot. Come and help make Tri-Cities a great league -- you can make a difference!

Sincerely,

Steve Cousins
President
Tri-Cities Little League