The Closing Ceremonies for Rookie Juniors and Rally Caps divisions will take place on Saturday June 20th at 3pm on the Myrtle Majors field. We are going to try something new this year by giving all the kids a chance to run the bases on the “big kids field”. This involves 200 kids age 4-7 so will need the help of the coaches to marshal the traffic! The Vancouver Canadians have kids run their bases after every Sunday game and we are hoping to replicate the same fun idea.
The Rally Caps teams should all meet outside the field behind the first base dugout, and all Rookie Junior teams should gather by the 3rd base dugout. When we are ready to start the Rally Caps teams will enter first. The players on each Rally Cap team will run the bases from 1st to Home. Once they get to home they will be directed to the infield area to sit with their team. The kids should be following closely behind one another – they do not need to wait for the player ahead of them to finish running.
Once all the Rally Caps teams have finished running the bases and are sitting in the infield with their coaches, we will have the Rookie Junior teams enter. They will run the bases starting from 3rd base and ending at 2nd base. From their they will take their place just behind the base paths starting close to 1st base.
When all the teams have entered the field we will have a brief speech from the MSLL President. We will then ask one coach from each team to come and collect the medals for their team. The formal ceremony will then end, and teams can find their own space on the field to present each player with their participation medals.
We expect the entire ceremony to take approximately 30 minutes. This is something new however, so please be patient with us if it is a little chaotic!
The image below shows the general traffic plan for the closing ceremonies (click for larger view).
