Lemont Sunday Baseball/Softball League
The Lemont Little League Sunday Baseball League is a program of service to youth playing in Lemont Little League from each age group from ages 8 years old through 14 in both boys and girls divisions to participate in a part-time travel league. These teams will travel locally and also play in Lemont fields on Sunday’s with practices on Wednesday nights during the regular Little League season. All participants must also be concurrently playing in regular Lemont Little League to be eligible to play in Lemont Sunday Baseball.
Its goal is to provide children with an enjoyable baseball experience, which includes improving upon the fundamental skills of baseball, teaching and instructing youth in the rules of baseball, promoting teamwork, and developing the skills necessary to play youth baseball safely in a competitive environment. The organization aims to instill the values of sportsmanship and competition in youth and to provide lifelong value of exercise, health and a positive attitude.
Some goals of the program are:
Introduce the game of competitive baseball in a fun and challenging way.
To supplement and enhance Little League’s baseball experience.
Develop player's skills to reach the peak of their God given abilities.
To teach young ball players how to work as part of an effective team.
To teach youth how to acquire an appreciation for an active lifestyle.
To help ball players learn about managing success as well as disappointments.
To enable young people to learn good sportsmanship in baseball and in life
To allow young ball players to learn respect for others.
Equipping coaches and parents with the skills and resources needed to teach our competitive youth baseball program.
Develop proper execution of fundamentals to play and excel in the game.
Develop a passion that will result in a lifetime of enjoyment playing baseball.
Our focus is the enjoyment of the children learning and playing our nation's greatest pastime.
The following information has been compiled as a result of the input of a dozen Little League board members, managers, coaches and local travel team coaches.
The consensus of opinion of this committee is the following:
- Lemont Little League will sponsor and sanction part-time travel teams.
- LLL will create a SBL Committee to assist in the administration of the program.
- The SBL Committee will consist of a Boy’s Coordinator and Girl’s Coordinator that will be responsible for their respective divisions. These coordinators will be appointed by the LLL Board of Directors. The coordinators will report directly to the LLL Boy’s and Girl’s Vice Presidents and will provide reports at the board meetings. There will be ad-hoc members of the committee that will assist the coordinators in their duties in running the SBL.
- The SBL Committee and Coordinators will work with the LLL Boy’s and Girl’s VPs and all of the LLL Division Coordinators in order coordinate the SBL Program.
- The SBL Committee and Division Coordinators will create part-time travel teams for each age group from ages 8 years old through 14 in both boys and girls divisions.
- The LLL Board will promote the SBL program by providing booths at LLL events, email and mail flyers and information and advertising in the local newspapers.
- The SBL Committee and Division Coordinators will create part-time travel teams for each age group from ages 8 years old through 14 in both boys and girls divisions.
- Managers will be identified after registration for each respective team and the nominated manager candidates and forwarded for each team to the LLL Board for selection prior to January.
- Each team will be selected via try-outs that will be conducted by the newly selected managers and the coordinator(s) from each of the respective divisions. In some cases (i.e. girl’s minors) there will be two try-outs. If there are not enough players to fulfill a full roster in a given age group then that age group can include players in that age group that are younger (i.e. 8U and Under, 9U and Under, etc.).
- Players must try out for a SBL team only within the respective division in which they are participating in the regular little league. For example if a twelve year old is playing up a division from Majors to Boy’s Juniors then he must try out for the 13 year old SBL team.
- All try-outs will be conducted and teams will be selected prior to each season but no later than January 31st. Each age specific division will be required to use a standardized evaluation form that is approved by the Board.
- All participants in Lemont Little League sponsored part-time travel program must also play on a regular Lemont Little League team concurrently and must live within the LLL’s legal residency boundaries or can live in a town or location that does not have a Little League chartered program.
- If a player that has been selected on a SBL fails to play on a regular LLL team they will lose their position in the SBL roster and will be replaced by a qualified alternate.
- A manager’s child will be guaranteed a roster spot on the team however coaches or any other players will be not guaranteed a spot on any SBL team or LLL all star team. All players except the manager’s child must try-out and earn their spot on a SBL team.
- All player’s must try-out for a LLL all-star team and are not guaranteed a position based on being a Manager or coach’s child in the SBL program unless a SBL manager has been selected to be an all-star team manager.
- Practices can begin as early as February and will be completely left to the discretion of the Managers.
- LLL will secure practice facilities and time slots for the managers such as the LHS Field House.
- LLL will also allocate fields and time slots with the LPD and LHS for pre-season and in-season practices and games. The consensus for games will be on Sundays and SBL practices on Wednesday evenings. Field allocation the SBL teams will not interfere with the current amount of fields available for the regular LLL teams. The LLL teams must maintain the same amount or more of fields they have had in the 2008 season.
- All regular LLL games and practices will take precedence over SBL games and practices with the only exception of the pre-designated Wednesday night practice and pre-scheduled Sunday SBL games.
- All SBL will play a minimum of 10 games per season and an optional Memorial Day tournament (if we can procure enough teams to participate).
- No SBL team will allow any given pitcher to pitch more than 45 pitches in a SBL game even if there is a double header on that day.
- In order to conserve or allow enough field allocation on Sundays the Committee and Coordinators will have to properly arrange a 50/50 home/away game schedule amongst all teams.
- All SBL teams will play their respective games by the Little League National tournament rules as written in the green/blue book and according to their ages.
- The SBL Committee will contact surrounding Little League sanctioned towns (preferably in our own circuit) in order to solicit “competitive” games with our SBL teams. There is a possibility that the Committee may not locate enough “competitive” teams in order to fulfill all of the games of every team that is created by the Committee. The possibility may be that it could take a few years for other towns in our circuit to either adopt or formulate a similar plan to LLL. In that case the SBL Committee will fill in the remaining games with inter-circuit play with “regular” Little League teams to round out the schedules.
- No team under any circumstance may play any other leagues or teams except Little League sanctioned teams.
- Price per player will be determined by the Board. Suggested additional charge to travel parents is $100.00 with a marginal discount for the managers and coaches.
If you are interested in playing Sunday baseball, Check YES on the "Interested in playing Sunday Baseball" option in the registration questions, the Sunday Baseball/Softball committee will then contact you with further information.