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Manfred wrote:Since some of you like to throw numbers out there, since Ebensburg doesn't have a team this year, and had 2 kids who now play for CV-Johnstown, do you add Ebensburg's 20K population to CVJ's 37K, to make it the biggest district in the league? You can spin any numbers any way you want.

Amen! And is Hollidaysburg counted in with Claysburg????


As far as the Colt kids, I said how many starters on the top teams... 5 for Martella's (which is run by the McCort head coach so of course there are a lot of Johnstown kids there) and two for Delweld. The Somerset kids shouldn't really count as Colt players because that is a different situation where the older kids went AAABA straight from legion and the parents tried to get their own team in the league. Now, if those two teams played with just the Colt league kids, they wouldn't be at the top of the league - not a chance!

Yeah maybe. Taken from a Martella's recent score on their website...

Dillon Boyer went 2-4 with a double, a run, and an RBI. Tony Strasiser 2-4 with two doubles, two runs and an RBI. Anthony Fanelli went 2-3 with a triple and two RBI's. Jesse Cooper went 2-3 two runs scored. Luke Williams scored twice. Matt McMillen went 2-4 with a double with a run and two RBI's. Nemo Trexler hit an inside the park home run and scored twice.


Looks like the Colt players hold up fine.

Hollidaysburg is not part of claysburgs territory. A few years back when they had no program, Joe Glass came to claysburg when they had an opening. Other than that, we have 1 Williamsburg player, 5 tussey mountain players, 4 claysburg players and 8 central players on our roster

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Well if claysburg and bedford didn't combine districts then many of those players would have no place to play in the summer (outside of paying to play on a travel team). So there would be two less teams in an already dwindling league. I agree its not the fairest thing to some of the Cambria county teams that are solely community based. But its about getting the players more time on the field against better competition.

Why don't Lilly, Portage and St. Michael merge and you'd have nine teams all with population of 25,000 to 50,000? Isn't the issue/problem here the coaches/communities that can't/won't embrace larger zones. We're certainly not going to head back to more community-based teams in the future in western Pa. or anywhere in the U.S. Why such a fight over it? Times change.

Why don't you read over Legion By-laws and then ask yourself why some franchises aren't content with things "the way they are", and enforce the rules. Because the power franchises are the ones who keep things as they currently are, and don't want any changes to upset their carts.

As an umpire in the league who will remain unnamed. I have a few reasons why the past few ywars have been watered down
1. Lack of committment. Kids don't care unless it's for there high school team
2. Summer basketball leagues. Coaches have made basketball (and football) year round and I know for a fact some coaches diacourage them missing lifting and summer league games.
3. Leadership. The league pres is a spiteful person who holds grudges. Coaches in turn don't care/are bitter and it is a snowball effect.
HS coaches don't push for them to play.

Jtwnbaseballguy wrote:Why don't Lilly, Portage and St. Michael merge and you'd have nine teams all with population of 25,000 to 50,000? Isn't the issue/problem here the coaches/communities that can't/won't embrace larger zones. We're certainly not going to head back to more community-based teams in the future in western Pa. or anywhere in the U.S. Why such a fight over it? Times change.

This is a good start. Take Bedford and Claysburg and break that into three 25,000+ zones and now you're talking.

Crimson's Ghost wrote:Yeah maybe. Taken from a Martella's recent score on their website...

Dillon Boyer went 2-4 with a double, a run, and an RBI. Tony Strasiser 2-4 with two doubles, two runs and an RBI. Anthony Fanelli went 2-3 with a triple and two RBI's. Jesse Cooper went 2-3 two runs scored. Luke Williams scored twice. Matt McMillen went 2-4 with a double with a run and two RBI's. Nemo Trexler hit an inside the park home run and scored twice.


Looks like the Colt players hold up fine.

You failed to mention the game was played against a team comprised of unwanted Colt League players.