Just a couple of weeks till Opening Weekend and your NYAA Board has planned a lot of family fun activities to kick off the Spring 2012 season. March 10 will also be Team Picture Day -- Details, pricing, and schedules will be posted online in the next week.

Dick's Sporting Goods, one of NYAA's premier sponsors will be having a special NYAA Shopping Day this coming Saturday February 18th from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm. Valid only at the Ashley Park store in Newnan.

If you need to shop for baseball shoes, gloves bats or anything else Dick's offers - Saturday is the best day of the year because we have some incredible discounts exclusively for NYAA families. Stop by the NYAA table set up inside the entrance to Dick's to get your discount coupons and then get an additional discount of 15% on top of the coupon book discounts! For details, go to ---> here

Everyone should now be able to view their own "Team Page" from their NYAA logins. From the "Home" tab, look under the "Actions" column and you will see 4 icons. First for uploading team pics, second icon to view "Team Home Page" and third icon to send email to team members (for Coaches only) and once the regular season schedule is done, you can click on the "Calendar" icon to see your teams game schedule. When you click on "View Home Page" you will see a complete roster of your team along with your coaches names and contact information.

The practice schedules for all divisions has been posted. Please click on the "Schedules" link at the top of the NYAA Home Page, then click on PRACTICE SCHEDULE. Coaches will be contacting individual team members over the next few days. If you need help or have questions, please email webmaster@nyaa.us.

The Spring recreational draft will be held Feb. 6th - 8th at Jefferson Pkwy. Elementary All drafts will start @ 6:30pm 6U - Monday 8U - Tuesday 10U and 12U - Wednesday Please limit attendees to Head coach and ONE assistant.

Please mark your calendars with some tentative dates for the Spring 2012 season:

-- Coach Registration November 17 thru December 31 (forms available online)
-- Online Player Registration starts January 1, 2012
-- In Person Player Registration starts January 7 -- (locations to be announced)
-- Registration ends January 28
-- Coaches Freeze Forms due January 30
-- Tryouts start Feb 4
-- Draft Feb 6-9
-- Coaches Clinic Feb 11
-- Practices start Feb 13
-- Opening Weekend March 10

Dates subject to change -- additional details will be added between now and the end of the year so check back for updated information!

Coaches & Parents: Below is a simplified explanation of the upcoming bat restrictions effective January 1, 2012. Now is the time to share this information with your parents (before the holiday shopping season).

2012 USSSA Baseball Bat Rules Simplified... Effective January 1, 2012...the below rules pertaining to bats shall be enforced in age divisions 14U and younger without exception.

Big Barrel Bats (larger than 2-1/4 inches in diameter) - Only those big barrel bats made by approved USSSA licensed manufacturers that are either...

(1) Made with the NEW USSSA Mark (see image); or
(2) Is a qualified BBCOR bat; or
(3) Is Wood, shall be allowed in USSSA play.

Small Barrel Bats (2-1/4 inches in diameter) - Only those small barrel bats made by approved USSSA licensed manufacturers that are either...

(1) Made with the NEW USSSA Mark; or
(2) Made with the old USSSA mark; or
(3) Is Wood, shall be allowed in USSSA play.

Small Barrel Bat Comment: The above includes Tee Ball bats that are longer than 23 inches in length. Tee Ball bats 23 inches and shorter in length from approved USSSA licensed manufacturers will continue to be allowed without the NEW or Old USSSA marks. For the complete document on bats, please click here: here

The Coweta Tomahawks won the 15 U open Tallest trophy tournament in Macon, GA held on August 27th and 28th. They went 3 -1 in the tournament , defeating the OTC Bearcats 15 -7 in the championship game, which was tied going into the 7th inning, an inning which saw the Tomahawks score 8 runs and shut out the Bearcats in their half of the inning. 3/4 of this team played in the NYAA league. The Tomahawks finished the spring 2011 campaign with a record of 22 -9.

To see team photo -----> click ----> here
Players (left to right) Reagan Thomas, Graden Treadwell, Sam Sowerbrower,Will Meyer, Matt Thomley, Cody Griffin, Austin Hernandez, Hunter Johnston, Cary Holloway, Jay Ponder, Cole Elrod and Andrew Simpson. Coaches - Blake Griffin, Kelly Thomley, Ryan Thomas and Kevin Elrod

The NYAA Board of Directors has elected two new officers this month. Christine Evans is our new Vice-President and Robert Mayo is our new Treasurer. Both have been active in the league for many years and join other Executive Board Members; Tina Lark who is Secretary and Bernard Geter, President. For complete listing of all board members, click NYAA Board link on home page.

They NYAA 6U All Star team won the championship round of the USSSA State Tournament in Fayetteville last week with some exciting come from behind wins. Congratulations to a great season to our own Bombers!! To see team photo -----> click ----> here

The NYAA 9U All Star team are the state runner ups from the State Tournament held in Cuummings GA June 17-19. The NYAA squad defeated the Hopewell Hit Dogs and Hopewell Heat in the first round and then beat the Sharon Springs Spartans in the semis and won the first game against the Hopewell Heat before dropping the last two games. Congrats the entire team -- click here to see team photo --------> click ----> here

The regular season may be over, but the post-season is just getting into full gear. If your team is involved, send pictures from any playoff, tournament, or other post-season games to webmaster@nyaa.us and we'll do our best to get all submissions published in the Times-Herald. Congrats to the 6U Newnan Bombers featured in June 15 edition.

The 10U Rookies and 8U Stealth Bomberz won their championship games Sunday to win the NYAA 2011 Spring Swing Tournament. The Rookies defeated the Scorpions to win the 10U division and the Stealth Bomberz defeated the Stingers in 8U action.