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December minutes

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Kley opened the tournament by throwing eight shutout innings in a 3-0 win over
Lamberton Saturday, Aug. 29. He gave up
just four hits, walked one, and struck out
15.
The hard-throwing righty followed it up
by pitching Plato to a win in their second
game of the tournament Saturday, Sept. 5,
again throwing eight shutout innings in a 60 win over New London-Spicer. He gave up
five hits, walked one, and struck out 10.
Plato then defeated Cannon Falls in the
quarterfinals, 8-5, on the morning of Sunday, Sept. 6. Three pitchers not named Kley
combined for the victory.
The Bluejays then faced Nisswa later
that same day in the semifinals.
Starting pitcher Adam Prehn gave up two
runs through four innings, and Plato trailed
2-0 in the fourth, when the game was postponed until Monday due to rain.
When the game picked up Monday
morning, Kley was back on the mound, and
in his usual form. He threw five scoreless
innings, giving up just two hits while striking out four, allowing Plato to come back to
win the game, 3-2.
That win, Kley’s third of the tourney, set

the Bluejays up in the championship game
Monday afternoon against Region 7C foe
Green Isle, who had come back to defeat
Howard Lake 13-7 in the semifinals.
Plato’s Chris Odegaard started the final
game on the hill, but was unable to get a
single out, giving up two walks and a threerun homer in the first inning to put his team
down 3-0.
The Bluejays once again turned to Kley,
and despite pitching five innings earlier in
the day, and eight innings two days before,
Kley once again delivered.
He went a full nine innings in the championship game, giving up three runs (his
only three of the tournament) on three hits
and two walks, while striking out seven.
By holding the Irish in check, he allowed
Plato to come back to win the championship game 14-6.
His statline for the tournament: 30 innings pitched, 14 hits, 3 runs, 5 walks and
36 strikeouts. He pitched 21 scoreless innings in his first three games, and finished
with a 0.90 ERA (Earned Run Average).
It was, without question, a performance
for the ages.

Thank you

The Crow River Baseball League would like to thank Jason Kuerschner for his hard
work and readiness. Throughout the season, he has been very prompt when sending out
emails to keep everyone in the loop and that makes everyone’s job easier.
The Crow River Baseball League would also like to thank Brad Johnson for contributing to this year’s edition with his article on field maintenance.

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cept the NW Umpires contract for 2016 and 2017 upon receiving it; Denis Zabel (St.
Bonifacius) seconded, motion carried.

Scheduling committee

Adam Dammann (Plato) led the group through the procedures that the scheduling committee recommended to follow, and the group proceeded to follow those directions.
The South League broke out to discuss and finish their voting from the October meeting. By roll call vote, the South League chose scenario 2, which was opposite of the North.
So, both leagues came back together to discuss further details. Doug Schuette (Brownton)
brought up the topic of playoffs, and discussion on this topic commenced. Ultimately, the
playoffs stayed off the voting table at this time.
The two leagues then broke off to discuss the eight scenarios presented by the committee. Each league, upon conclusion of the discussion roll call, voted to see which scenarios
would be in play. At which time, each league then ran a run-off roll call vote to come up
with one scenario that they would bring back to the entire group.
The North chose scenario 3:
West
Central
North
Brownton
Norwood
Winsted
Glencoe
Young America Watertown
Plato
Waconia
New Germany
Hamburg
Cologne
Mayer
Green Isle
Carver
St. Bonifacius
The South chose scenario 6:
League A
League B
League C
Plato
Green Isle
Waconia
Winsted
Hamburg
Carver
Brownton
Young America Watertown
Glencoe
Cologne
St. Bonifacius
New Germany
Norwood
Mayer
There was time allotted for discussion/review of the two options. When there was no
further discussion, a roll call vote was taken to determine which scenario to use going
forward:
Scenario 3
Scenario 6
Mayer
Glencoe
New Germany
Carver
Brownton
Cologne
St. Bonifacius
Green Isle
Waconia
Hamburg
Watertown
Plato
Winsted
Young America
Norwood
Scenario 3 won, 8-7.
The existing North and South leagues again convened individually to vote on dissolving
the existing leagues (North and South).
The North voted 4-3 to dissolve, and the South voted 6-2 to dissolve. As a result of these
votes, the Crow River Valley League now consists of three, five-team leagues as listed in
scenario 3, above.
Discussion ensued now regarding the playoff system. After much discussion, Brandon
Stender (Young America) moved to seed all 15 teams following the regular season, the
number-one seed would automatically move into the final-eight tournament. The remaining 14 teams will play a best-of-three series to determine the other seven teams to advance.
Seed number-two will play number-15, number-3 will play number-14, and so on. Dustin
Brockoff (Carver) seconded, a roll call vote was taken:
Agree
Disagree
Brownton
Glencoe
Plato
Waconia
Hamburg
Winsted
Green Isle
Watertown
Norwood
Mayer
Young America
St Boni
Cologne
Carver
New Germany
By a vote of 9-6, motion carried.
The CRVS met Jan. 11 at Dubb’s in Glencoe. Meeting notes not available at press
time.
At the January meeting, the new presidents will be voted on and a new league-wide
vice president will be voted on, as Tom Lemke is stepping down as he is now a state board
representative. Secretary/Treasurer Kuerschner informed the group that he would remain
in that capacity, if the league wished to have him continue.
With no other business to discuss, Dustin Brockoff (Carver) moved to adjourn, Adam
Dammann (Plato) seconded, motion carried.
Meeting adjourned at 8:52 p.m.