YAC BASEBALL BANTAM DIVISION (Ages 7 & 8)

The Bantam baseball program is completely instructional, with both practices and games geared to teaching fundamental skills and having fun.  Catching, throwing, hitting, fielding, and game concepts are a major part of all instruction. All participants are allocated onto teams of approximately 9-13 players.  Teams will practice once per week.  Each team will play one game per week lasting 6 innings or approximately 2 hours.  Games are currently scheduled to be played Saturdays at approximately 9 & 11 AM. Each team will play their entire team while in the field, with a maximum of 8 players in the infield, and the remainder of the players in the outfield.

Items each child should have in order to play:

A heart guard shirt

A protective cup

A fielding glove

a Bat and a Batting helmet

Cleats (does not need to be baseball specific, soccer cleats are fine)

During the spring Season YAC will provide a jersey, pants, socks and baseball hat.  During the fall Just a Jersey and hat are provided to each player.