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Posted: Saturday March 23 With our Winter indoor season now complete we turn our attention to our regular Summer Season. Registrations are now Closed. Draft dates are as follows: Rounds 1-3 will be held on April 5th at Rounds 4-14 will be held at Mulligans Bar and Grill Looking forward to a great summer of SeniorSoftball!!
Posted: Mon, Oct 25 at 4:22 PM GCSS Members The Annual GCSS League Meeting was held at the Strongsville Recreation Center on October 22, 2021. Minutes for the Meeting are shown below. The Meeting was called to order and members welcomed by Commissioner Bruce Plescovic at 10:05 am. Board Members in
addition to the Commissioner in attendance : League members in attendance totaled 23 and there were 19 Absentee ballots to meet the 30% Quorum total of 23 requirements. Agenda Items : Financial Report : Al Karla pasted out copies of the report, reviewed and answered questions. A thank you note and gift of appreciation was given to Rose for her years of keeping score at the league games. 2021 GCSS League Champion Winar Connection Sponsor Billy Winar was presented with a Championship plaque in appreciation for his years of backing a team and participating in the GCSS. Billy will be taking his talents to the Huff-n-Puffers next season. He will be greatly missed! Live Voting for the Jerry Kopachko Award were added to Absentee Ballots. The 2021 Award Winner is Jim Hogan, Sponsor and Manager of the Wahoos team. Congratulations! Ken Delfing thanked Bruce Plescovic for serving as Commissioner and announced he will not be running for re-election. Board
Nominations : The following members were nominated and seconded
for Board Positions: New
Rules and Revisions : 2022
Managers : 2022 Winter softball sign up for play starting on January 7th at Caps Fieldhouse in Valley View has started. Contact Wayne Repko at wpr6148@aol.com. There are 15 players so far. We are trying for 4 teams so tell your friends and players that may be interested. Registration forms for next summer season are available from Al Karla, al.karla@yahoo.com. 2022 GCSS Activities : Our league is more than softball. As in previous years members are invited to attend social events. Next season tentative plans include two luncheons at Mulligans, exhibition games at the Lake Erie Crushers Stadium in Avon, the annual golf and dinner outing, and a return of the Beep Ball Fund Raiser Game with the Cleveland Scrappers sight impaired team. If you have any other ideas contact a Board member. NEXT MEETING IS FRIDAY DECEMBER 3RD 10:00 AT STRONGSVILLE REC CENTER. Meeting adjourned at 11:40am
John
Seaman, Billy Winar and Wayne Repko
Mike
Doyle and Greg Sheehan 2 past Kopacko award winners count the votes
for this years award winner. Posted: Fri, Oct 8 at 6:53 PM ALL GCSS Members 1st
a reminder that our 1st winter meeting is coming up in two weeks This will give you some info regarding that meeting. Jerry Kopacko Award voting is ongoing by absentee and will be completed in person at the meeting. Nominations for Board positions will take place at this meeting. Bruce
Plescovic will not be seeking re-election to the Commissioners position
due to personal reasons. All other Board members have indicated they
will be seeking re election. There will
be an open discussion of potential rule changes, adjustments, modifications.
Please Note that ALL 2021 Commissioner rules have now expired. Any rules issued by Commissioner Plescovic during the 2021 season are no longer valid. If anyone wishes to retain any of those rules they must be addressed at this meeting. As a Board we will
be proposing three rule changes for the 2022 season. For New members the
procedure is as follows: All Board positions up for election have players nominated to fill them. Any position with more than one nominee will be settled by Election in December. The December meeting
is where final votes are taken on Elections and rule changes. See you on the 22nd The
GCSS Board
The
2021 GCSS Champs are the Winar Connection
Posted: Mon, Apr 26 at 5:08 PM GCSS Members MAY 4TH 2021 IS OPENING DAY. OPENING DAY CEREMONY WILL BEGIN AROUND 9:55AM WE
WILL BE AWARDING THE 2020 JERRY KOPACKO PLAQUE TO GREG SHEEHAN, LETS PLAY BALL!!!! Posted Mon, Mar 1 at 1:14 PM GCSS Members PRACTICE SCHEDULE All teams will practice on Tuesday April 27th and Thursday April 29th. Volunteer
Park, Strongsville Posted Mon, Jan 18 at 12:25 PM TO ALL GCSS MEMBERS 2020 AND 2019 1ST We hope you all had good, safe holidays and are doing well. Since we didn't have a December meeting the early registrations are coming in slowly for the 2021 season. The Board has opted to NOT hold an in person meeting with membership at this time. We will be meeting as a board in the near future to plan out the 2021 season. Please share this information with any new players that may be interested in playing this summer The 1st
step is to get an idea how many are planning to play this summer. BUT
to help us get a handle on things, We also need to know if there are any players who would like to manage a team, We are probably gonna need one. This does
not commit you to play just gives us an idea on numbers. We'd like to
get back to 5 teams this year.
Bruce, Wayne, Ken & Al Posted Dec 11 at 6:11 PM GCSS Members The two Rule Changes that were approved at the October 23rd meeting to be placed on the Ballot to be voted on by the Active GCSS members at the December 11th Meeting has been completed. Active members include 59 players from the 2020 season and 12 members who prepaid for the 2021 season. A total of 71 members. A quorum on 30% of the Active members, 22, are required to participate in the voting. Due to the COVID situation the December Meeting was postponed. All voting was done by Absentee Ballot submitted by Text, Email and USPS to Wayne Repko, GCSS Board Member, by noon Friday, December 11th. the following are the results : As of 2:21 pm on Friday December 11th the votes have been received and counted by Wayne Repko. Text votes - 7 Issue 1 Pitchers
must wear protective face mask. Yes - 20 No - 4 Both Issues passed. GCSS Executive Board Bruce
Pleskovic Posted Mon, Oct 29, 2020 Members, A number of you likely remember Cliff Schmidt, especially you old timers. Cliff was still playing in the GCSS when I joined the league in 2011. He was on Mike Bloch's AMR team that season. He was a good guy and a good player. Cliff passed away on October 27th.
Rest in peace, buddy. Mike Doyle Posted Mon, Oct 26 at 2:49 PM GCSS Members Share this with anyone that you think might be interested in joining the GCSS League. October 23rd GCSS Meeting Minutes at Harvest Saloon Board Members Present
: Commissioner Bruce opened the Meeting at 11:14 am. Agenda was reviewed and Al Karla was introduced as appointed by the Board as the new Treasurer replacing John Caruso. Bruce thanked John for his years of service. Treasurer Al reviewed the 2020 financial balance and the projected 2021 income and expenses for 2021 four and five team options. Secretary Ken explained that the Board is proposing two possible Rule changes to be voted on by the active members at the December Meeting : To Rule 2a : For the 2020 season the Board put a Rule into affect that requires that all players playing the pitcher position must wear a protective face mask while in the field. If Approved the face mask requirement will be added to the existing Rule 2a. To Rule 2a : The Board has purchased two new pitching screens that are 6'-6" tall and 4'-0" wide to be used during all league games to protect the pitchers. The proposed Rule change involves the placement of the screen. Currently the screen is placed at the pitchers mound at the glove side of the pitcher. The proposed placement of the screen will be fifteen ( 15' ) feet in front of and centered on the pitchers mound. The pitcher will pitch the ball over the screen. If Approved the screen placement and pitching over the screen requirement will be revised to the existing Rule 2a. No other motions for rule changes were presented. Commissioner Bruce opened the floor for discussion by the members. A motion was made and seconded to place both issues on the December Meeting agenda for a vote to change Rule 2a. Each issue was approved unanimously by a vocal vote. Wording for each issue will be prepared and an Absentee Ballot will be forwarded by email to all active members as soon as available including info to return the ballots. Ken thanked John Miller for donating, designing, making and maintaining the existing pitching screens for their many years of use by the league. The vote for the Jerry Kopacko Award was tallied with absentee ballots and live voting by the active members. Congratulations to GREG SHEEHAN ! A plaque will be presented to Greg at the December meeting. 2021 SUMMER SEASON : League Registration Forms were available at the meeting and will be at the December meeting as well. They will also be available on the GCSS web site soon. Forms and $100 registion fee can be mailed to Treasurer Al Karla at 405 Plymouth Court, Brunswick, Ohio 44212 or submitted at the December meeting. WINTER LEAGUE : There was a signup sheet for the Winter League starting in January. Everyone interested Must submit their Name, Email and Phone Number to Wayne Repko by email ( wpr6148@aol.com ) or Text ( 440-384-5990 ) by the December 18th meeting. There are only 11 signed up now. Last year we were able to setup 4 - 10 man teams and play 2 double headers. Any thing less than 40 will mean pickup games similar to our Fall schedule. Bring a friend interested in playing next summer. Price will be the same $10 per player for each 10 Fridays. A $100 fee is due on the first day. The 50-50 Raffle : Members donated $105. League Backer and Member Bill Winar & Lucky John Seaman each won $25 and $55 went into the GCSS checking account. Thanks to all for participating. The next GCSS meeting will be on Friday December 18th at the Harvest Saloon starting at 11:00 am. The Meeting was adjourned at approximately 12:30pm. The Harvest Saloon bar & kitchen were open for drinks & lunch. Thanks for the meeting space. Wayne
Repko Posted Mon, Oct 26 at 2:49 PM 2020 Jerry Kopacko Award Congratulations to GREG SHEEHAN ! A plaque will be presented to Greg at the December meeting. Have a great Holiday. Wayne Repko
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