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Originally Posted by Applepie
Checked with hubby. As of now, there is no team from Fernandina in the neighborhood league. Fernandina is such
a new village that sometimes it takes awhile to get one started. Check with the rec department. They can tell you how to start a team.
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I went through this situation in July of 2011 when I moved into the new village of Tamarind Grove. At that time it was less than half build, for example I'm in Southern Star Villas, which was the first villa community and was the only one built. Three more CYV communities were built for a total of four in Tamarind Grove. The home building in cottages and designers were also at about less than half built. Now our village is completely built and only St. James is the only remaining village north of 466A that is not built out.
Before anyone can play softball they must be evaluated, this means going to Tuesday mornings evaluations at 7:30 at least three times within a year. After I moved in I found out the only time this is not available was late August and early September while the fields are in repair. So I had to wait until September and went three consecutive weeks.
When finished I turned in my 'blue sheet' at Saddlebrook Rec Center and figured I would be a sub for the remainder of the fall season. That first night three managers called me to play full time on their time. I only wanted to play neighborhood ball on Saturday so I chose the Calumet Grove team. I played Oct, Nov and Dec for the team.
Around Thanksgiving a fellow in our village let it be known he wanted to start a TG team. We met at his house and we had about 15 players. We started play January 2012 in the Level 4 neighborhood league and finished the season in the middle of the pack at 8 and 6. I also played on our TG team in the summer and fall seasons of 2012. We have a lot of turnover with players becoming injured, leaving for the summer and new people being evaluated. I'm probably only one of five players from that original 15 that started that team.
Beginning this year we had enough players that we split into two TG teams. We just played the last game of this season today and will start the summer season in about three weeks. We will only have about 9 players this summer on the team I play so we are joining with one of the Liberty Parks teams that is also shorthanded and then we will have a full roster. We normally play with 11 players and it's good to have about 15 on the roster since poeple are always out for various reasons.
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