Scheduling Policies
If Chris Whetstine & his Heartbreakers should show up and need a field for practice, a game, or any reason whatsoever, your team must immediately vacate the field even if you are in the middle of a game. You must do so within 7 minutes and apologize if it takes you longer than 5 minutes to vacate the field.
Oh yeah . . . Be sure to clean your dugout and leave Chris a dollar in case he gets thirsty and wants an RC.
01) Chris Rutherford is the NGS Field Scheduler. In Fact, he is the
New King. . . He's the King, I tell you!
03) League Presidents cannot schedule field time for the coaches.
04) Games take precedent over practices and practice times can be canceled by the Field Scheduler to accommodate a league sanctioned game. Practices will only be canceled to accommodate a game as a last result. A practice will not be canceled by the Field Scheduler with less than 12 hours notice given to the Coach.
05) To schedule an extra practice or game the coach must do the following:
A) Check the NGS web site for available
practice times.
B) E-mail Chris Rutherford at
crutherford@wowway.com
C) The e-mail needs to contain the field number, date of practice, time of
practice, coach's name, team name, e-mail and telephone number.
Chris will then send an e-mail to the coach confirming if the practice request can be fulfilled.
DO NOT ASSUME YOUR PRACTICE OR GAME HAS BEEN SCHEDULED UNTIL YOU RECEIVE CONFIRMATION FROM CHRIS.
06) Extra practices can be scheduled no more than 15 days in advance.
07) There are 35-40 teams trying to use the park. Coaches, please be courteous and do not schedule more practice times than you will use and please notify the scheduler of any practice times you do not need or intend to use.
08) A coach may schedule no more than 3 field practice times in one week and no more than 3 batting cage times may be scheduled in one week.
09) If the Scheduler finds a particular team is not using their scheduled practice times, the Scheduler will send an E-mail notification to the Coach and will delete the remaining practices for the team not using their field or cage times. The offensive coach may reschedule no more than 1 field practices per week and 1 cage practice per week.
10) Rainout practices are not rescheduled.
Rainout Games
01) Every attempt will be made to reschedule rainout games. Sometimes it may be necessary to reschedule a rainout game away from Newburgh. For example, the "away team" may have more field time available for makeup games.
02) Check the web site for available field times.
03) Contact the "away team" Coach and work out a tentative date for make up games.
04) E-mail Chris and include the date, time and field number of the tentative makeup game. Include all pertinent information.
05) After confirming with the Umpire Scheduler, Chris will send you an e-mail confirming whether or not the time can be used for the makeup game.
06) Contact the away Coach with the rescheduled date.