Minor ball season will get underway as soon as weather permits with all teams looking forward to an exciting season.
Jeff Lee of Stettler Minor Ball Association said there was no ground for predictions that Stettler community was losing its appetite for baseball and minor ball.
“We have as many minor ball teams as Camrose, which is twice the population of Stettler,” Lee said in reference to the popularity of the sport in town.
He said they were still waiting for the game schedules to be produced to start playing for the travelling teams.
Apart from the rookie ball program, which has registered more than 60 young enthusiasts, there will be more than 15 minor ball teams playing on Stettler diamonds this summer.
According to the local schedule, two girls’ mite teams will be playing at the Parkdale diamond on Mondays and Wednesdays while two girls’ squirts teams use the same diamond to play on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Peewee girls will play on hospital diamond #1 on Mondays and Wednesdays with bantam girls playing on hospital diamond #2 on the same days. Midget girls will be playing on West Stettler diamond #1 on Mondays and Wednesdays.
Three mosquito boys’ teams will be playing on Fairgrounds diamond #3 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with two peewee boys’ teams playing on West Stettler Park diamond #2on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Bantam boys will be playing on Wednesdays on West Stettler diamond #2 and midgets on Fairgground diamond #1 on Thursdays.