The last week of Brownwood Youth Baseball signups is underway and the deadline to register is Wednesday, March 28th. Registration forms are available at Weakley-Watson Sporting Goods Store. Cost is $35 per player or $50 for 2 or more children in the same household playing baseball. Brownwood Youth Baseball is a program for ages 5-14.
There are 5 different divisions of play:
6U: (Ages 5-6) is T-ball. Each player will get 3 pitches from their coach. If they don’t hit those 3, they will get a chance off the T.
8U: (Ages 7-8) is a Machine pitch league. Each player will get up to 5 pitches from a new wheeled pitching machine.
10U: (Ages 9-10) is a tight base, player pitch format with 60 ft bases.
12U: (Ages 11-12) is Freshman Open base with 70 ft bases.
14U: (Ages 13-14) is Sophomore league. It is open base with the bases 80 ft. Tryouts are slated for the first week in April at 6:15 pm at the Blue Fields at the Bert Massey Sports Complex. The following dates are scheduled:
6U-T-ball will not tryout.
Monday April 2nd at 6:15pm
8U: Machine Pitch 7-8 yr olds
14U: Sophomore 13-14 yr olds on sophmore field.
Tuesday April 3rd at 6:15pm
12U: Freshman 11-12 yr olds
Thursday April 5th at 6:15pm
10U: Senior Midget 9-10 yr olds