News & Updates

Wolfe P.A.C.K | New Bat Specs| Follow PR Baseball on Twitter | Baseball Schedules | T-Shirts for Sale | Scholarship Award |

Player Volunteer Organization Formed -- The Wolfe P.A.C.K.

PR Baseball Boosters announce the formation of the "Wolfe P.A.C.K".  The Wolfe P.A.C.K. (Players About Community and Kids)  is a player initiated and led organization of PR baseball players whose intent is to volunteer in various opportunities within the community and to mentor the youth baseball players of Pine Richland.  The players are actively involved in their first service project--providing instruction and encouragement at the Pine Richland youth winter baseball training sessions.

New Bat Specifications Coming for High School

Planning to purchase your son a new bat for the 2011 baseball season?  There are some significant changes coming in College and High School baseball that will affect what bats are allowed in the coming years. So before you purchase, you may want to learn more. Here is some terminology that may be useful as you begin your search!

BESR: Ball Exit Speed Ratio (up to now bat specifications have been based on BESR standards)
ABI: Accelerated Break-in  
BBCOR: Bat-Ball Coefficient of Restitution  (new bats must conform to ABI/BESR or BBCOR standards)
NFHS : National Federation of High Schools (the governing body of high school sports)

The goal of the new bat guidelines is to improve safety and prevent injuries by slowing the exit speed of the ball off of the bat. Therefore, many bats that were approved for use in the past will not be allowed in the future.

In order for a bat to be approved for use in 2011 it must meet NFHS specifications.  This link provides details on the most up-to-date NFHS guidelines. In general, the NFHS guidelines are set to lag NCAA guidelines by one year.  So before you make a purchase, you may want to make sure that the bat meets NFHS guidelines.  In addition, be advised that according to this statement by the NFHS, the guidelines for the 2011 season are likely to be changed for the 2012 season.

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How to Follow PR Baseball on Twitter

Receiving text updates is a great way for you or your relatives from out of town to be able to follow your favorite PR player's games.

Each PR Baseball team has a Twitter name:
Varsity: prbaseball1
Junior Varsity: prbaseballjv
Junior High: prbaseballjrhi
Middle School: prbaseballms

There are several ways to follow your favorite Rams baseball team on Twitter:

1. If all you want to do is follow the Twitter updates on the web, no Twitter account is needed:
a. Go to www.pinerichlandbaseball.org and click on the Twitter link to the right for your team, or          
b. Go to www.twitter.com/yourteamtwittername
           
Either way, you’ll be at the Twitter site that displays the “tweets” for your team.

2. To follow your team on your own Twitter account, and even on your cell phone:
a. First joint Twitter by going to www.twitter.com
b. Click on "Sign Up”
c. Enter information to create an account 
d. In step 2 (Find Friends) type in the Twitter name for the team that you want to follow
f. Click the +Follow button. 

 Your Twitter account will now receive the updates for that team.  You can add other teams by clicking on the “Who to Follow” link at the top of the page.

3. You can receive Twitter updates on your cell phone as regular, automatic texts.  To set this up, log in to your Twitter home page (as set up in step 2), click on “Set up mobile notifications” and follow the instructions.

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Baseball Schedules

Varsity

Junior Varsity

Junior High

Middle School

The baseball schedule for each team can be found at www.highschoolsports.net.

Please note that there are often schedule changes due to inclement weather and other reasons, and to be up to date with game scheduling, please call the Rams Sports Line with daily updates at 724-625-4444, Extension 7.

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T-Shirts for Sale

Pine-Richland Rams Baseball t-shirts are available for purchase at $10.00 each. Please contact Mary Berezo at 412-480-2812 or mkb at zbzoom.net. All proceeds benefit the baseball program.

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Scholarship Award

Due to its successful fund raising efforts, the Pine-Richland Baseball Boosters has been able to sponsor a Player Scholarship Award for the past several years.

The $1,000 award is based on academic excellence, and demonstrated traits of leadership, integrity and role model behavior. The player must:

1. Be a senior and member of the Pine-Richland Varsity baseball team.
2. Plan on attending a 2-year or 4-year college or technical school.
3. Have a GPA of 3.0 or higher.

Interested seniors are asked to fill out an extensive application. Application questions and GPA’s are rated and assigned point values by a committee of 3 volunteer parents. The review process is coordinated by a non-voting facilitator.

Prior award recipients are: Matthew Berezo (2010) - Duke University; Mitch Elliott (2009) - Xavier University; Stephen Freehling (2008) - Virginia Military Institute; Derek Schleiden (2007) - Air Force Academy; and Mike Morgan (2006) - University of Pittsburgh.

The Boosters organization plans to continue this tradition of recognizing academic, teamwork, and leadership excellence through a Player Scholarship program.

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