Queen City Pool
League
Minutes
8/29/2017
Attending:
Ed Caswell (British), Rick Miller, Jim
Rose (Cercle 1)
Billy Gibson, (Cercle 2), Amanda Laverriere, (Cercle 3),
Bryant
Blanchette (Davignon 2), Paul Cere (Davignon 3),
Steve Porter, (Deerhead), Bob Tanner, (Eastside),
George Carter (My Friends), Sue Novak (Secretary),
Tom LeBlanc (Treasurer),
Ron
Michaud (Pres)
Guests:
Ron Phelps, Eric Novak. Any
player is invited to attend board meetings and offer suggestions to improve the
league. They will be involved in the
discussions and can offer opinions. However,
they will not be allowed to vote or disrupt the meeting. Please feel free to attend, this is your
league too!
Absent: Eric Bourgeois (VP)
Location: Davignon, 6 PM.
New Business:
1.
Tournament Locations - Cercle and
Eastside hosted last year. British
American and My Friends would technically be eligible to host the singles but
don’t meet the parking or food service needs.
Deerhead and Davignon would be eligible this year. Deerhead will host the Singles - dates are
January 6th – 28th, Davignon will host the Doubles, dates
are February 17th – March 11th.
2.
Handicap changes – Billy Gibson requested that Ray
Olivier (C2) be lowered to 4 – approved
Rate: Dennis
Deenbow (DH) - 5 Flo Dufield (C3)
- 3 Dick Dumas (C3) - 4
Tom Hanley Jr (C1) - 4 Ron Phelps (C1) - 4 Mike
Galinat Sr. (C3) - 4 Hank Parker (C1) - 4 Don
Brown (MF) - 4 Scott Gammel
(MF) - 4 Jody Gorton (MF) – 3 Crystal
Hamel (MF) – 3 Brett Magnuson
(MF) - 6
Changes made
during the singles league were: Vince
Hurd - 6, Rick Campbell – 5, Ryan Boisvert - 4
Suggested
changes from the singles league: Raise
Nicki Richard to 4 and Steve Ladew to 5 – approved.
Decrease George
Carter, Billy Sconsa, Rick Labrie, Josh Turransky and Bob Provencher to 3 – all
approved. Tom Leblanc - decrese to 3 – he
will remain a 4, however, we will keep an eye on this rating.
Any other
ratings changes? Juan Arce was raise to
a 5 – approved.
3.
“Survivor/Ghost Player Rule” – We used this
rule last year at the end of the season when teams were struggling to get 10
players each week. We elected to
continue with the ghost player (player plays twice), where a team must state
early in the evening (by game 3) that they will be short players and will need
to use a ghost player. The opposing team
will choose the ghost player and they must stay until the ghost match is
played. If the team captain sends players
home before the ghost player is selected, the rule cannot be used and the team
will forfeit that game. If a player
needs to leave, then the opposing team should be notified, they can approve the
use of a ghost match and another player or elect to take the forfeit.
4.
Lagging for breaks in Play-offs - lagging for
break or flip of coin. Neither team
wants to win lag so they both try to lose.
Current rule says team that wins the lag breaks in games 1, 3 & 5 –
revise rule to say team wins the lag has option to break or to give the break
away in games 1, 3 & 5. Voted to
approve the revision.
Old Business:
1.
2017-2018 League set up – British
American, Cercle1, Cercle 2, Cercle 3, Davignon 2, Davignon 3, Deerhead,
Eastside, and My Friends, all have confirmed teams. Davignon 4 was still trying
to put together their team. It was agreed
that we would play each team 3 times, one half with 14 weeks, the other with 13
weeks! It was understood that some teams
may get 2 byes in a half with nine teams but everyone felt that this was
acceptable as it would even out by the end of the season. It was hoped that we would still get a
Davignon 4 team and the bye issue would not come into play. Sue got a call after the meeting from Pete
Vallieres stating that there would not be a Davignon 4.
I
will be placing the available players (played last year who are not on any
roster), on the roster in an available section.
It will be the team captain’s responsibility to ask players from this
list if they want to be play for their team.
2.
Captains and Co-captains. If the captain/co-captain cannot attend a
meeting due to prior commitments they should be sending a representative from
the team for the meetings. We have had
meeting in the past where we did not have enough captains to hold a vote, this
should not happen and there is a rule that states that a captain cannot miss
more than three meetings during the year.
Captains/co-captains
need to collect player fees and pay to the treasurer in a timely manner. It was suggested that it should be collected
and paid by the fourth week of each half.
Fee can be paid for the entire year at any time. If the captain chooses, they can ask their
players to pay for the whole year and pay all at once. Every player on the roster is to pay
the $10/half – this is for the banquet and may go towards prize fund if any
money left after banquet expenses are paid.
3.
Team Fees are to be paid by the hosting club and
will remain at $200 per team. This
should also be paid to the treasurer by the fourth week of league play.
4.
Time Outs – “Time-outs” are those times when the
captain and/or co-captain gives shot advice/instructions; it is not when the
partner gives advice/instructions. A
player giving instructions from the sidelines is also considered a “time out”. We have rules in place to prevent this but we
also understand that it still happens on occasion. The consequence for players giving
instruction is a warning on the first offense and loss of turn for additional
offenses.
After
much discussion it was agreed that we will start with 15 time outs for the
night. Since limiting the “time outs” is
a new concept, be sure to keep track of the “time outs” used on the scoresheet,
warn the opposing captain when they are
approaching the 15 time out maximum. If
they go over the 15 just let them know they are out of “time outs”. We will discuss consequences of exceeding the
limit at a future meeting.
5.
Hall of Fame Committee – Paul Cere is
the committee chairman. Sue Novak, Eric
Bourgeois and Chuck Wiggin Jr. are also on the committee. Sue handed out a questionnaire that can be
given to players for ideas for inductees into the hall of fame (if you need
more let me know). The committee will
take these nominations into consideration when making their decisions.
6.
Banquet committee – we need volunteers, ask your
players to become involved. This is their league as well. Kim Janelle has done a great job with the
banquet the past two years, but she would like help.
7.
Handicap Committee – The committee consists of
Steve Porter, Eric Bourgeois, Ron Michaud, Dan Simoneau and Eric Milanese. The handicap committed did an excellent job
in setting up initial handicaps and the captains felt a committee was not still
needed. It was felt that we should make
changes to handicaps at the captains meeting as it seems to be working
well. Bring your suggestion for changes and your
reasons behind your request to the meetings.
If you send Sue Novak the names of the players who need changing, she
will add them to the agenda.
Next meeting will be between week four
and five of league play. Final rosters
will be due and handicap changes will be made.
Team money and player money will be due.
Meeting will be October 3rd at 6:30 pm at the Cercle.
Meeting adjourned at 7 PM.
Respectfully,
Sue
Novak
Secretary