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HEWYBL currently offers the following youth sports programs:

• Mercer East Babe Ruth Baseball for 13-15 and 16-18 Year olds
• HEWYBL Basketball for 5-18 Year Olds
• NFL Flag for 5-14 Year Olds

The following is the current schedule for the optional indoor workout sessions. The sessions are open to registered players only. These sessions take place at the Hightstown High School Gym Annex (located at the back of the school next to the tennis courts). The address is 25 Leshin Lane, Hightstown, NJ. Note these are indoor sessions so sneakers only please. You can bring some turf shoes if we do any pitching on the portable mounds. Sessions generally run about 2 hours, but could be less pending the number of participants.

Dear HEWYBL Flag Football Families:                                                        

 Registration is now open for the HEWYBL’s 2020 spring flag football season.  Flag football is a great sport for both GIRLS AND BOYS.  We had an outstanding turnout last fall and are looking forward to an awesome spring season!  All games are played at Disbrow Hills Park in East Windsor.

Please register on line at www.HEWYBL.com.   Select REGISTER at the upper right-hand corner of the screen and follow the instructions.

Registration Details:

• Late Fee of $20 starts on March 1
• Registration closes March 15

Divisions and Costs:

Freshman (4-5 years old as of February 1, 2020) -- $85

Sophomore (6-8 years old as of February 1, 2020) -- $145

JV (9-11 years old as of February 1, 2020) -- $160

Varsity (12-14 years old as of February 1, 2020) -- $160

Sr. Varsity (15-18 years old as of February 1, 2020) -- $100

Evaluations, Player Draft and Season:

Freshman:  This division runs as part-clinic and part-game as the coaches teach kids the most basic fundamentals of flag football. For this division, there are no evaluations and no player draft.

Sophomre, JV and Varsity: Evaluations are scheduled for the mornings of March 14 and 15 as well as the evening of March 17.  All players in the Sophomore, JV and Varsity divisions must attend ONE evaluation session.  Team drafts will take place on March 19.  We use the evaluation and draft process to try and assemble teams of equal physical ability.  We also believe that flag football is a great place to make NEW friends.  As a result, we do not accept requests to be placed with a specific or with another specific player.  Siblings in the same age group are automatically put on the same team (unless requested otherwise).  Each team may have up to two coaches, and each coach will automatically get his son/daughter in the draft.

Senior Varsity: This is set up as a more competitive division.  If you are in the Senior Varsity division (15-18 years old), and have a group of friends or teammates from your high school that would like to form a team, please reach out to me at and we will place you on the same team.  Players in Senior Varsity may also sign up as “free agents” and will be assigned to one of the Senior Varsity teams.

HEWYBL flag football typically draws players from Allentown, Cranbury, East Windsor, Hamilton, Hightstown, Millstone, Robbinsville, Roosevelt, West Windsor and other surrounding towns.

Game Schedule

Games will start with scrimmages on March 28 and will run through the championship games and end-of-season BBQ on June 7.  We will not play on April 11 (overlapping Spring Breaks) or May 23 (Memorial Day Weekend).The game schedule will depend on how many players sign up, but in general, here is what to expect. 

Freshmen play on Saturday at 10 a.m.  There are no practices.

Sophomore, JV and Varsity will play each Saturday – Varsity at 9 a.m., JV at 10 & 11 a.m. and Sophomore at 11 a.m. & Noon   Starting in May, teams in these divisions will also play one weeknight game per week at 6 or 7 p.m. Sophomore will play on Tuesday, JV on Wednesday and Varsity on Thursday.  Teams typically practice once per week for an hour to an hour-and-a half at a place and time decided by the coach.

Senior Varsity plays only on Sunday evenings.

Playoff games will be held on May 30 & 31 and June 6 & 7 (Championships).  

Equipment

HEWYBL will provide each player with a set of sonic-pop flags and a reversible NFL Flag team jersey.  You need to provide a mouth guard (players may not participate without one), cleats and shorts/pants (without pockets, if possible). Receiver’s gloves are acceptable, but not required.

Volunteers

HEWYBL is a non-profit organization run 100 percent by volunteers.  If you can help with coaching or player evaluations, please note that on your registration and/or email hewyblflag@optimum.net.

Coaches Clinic:

We will hold a coaches clinic in mid- to late-March.  If you are interested in coaching, but feel you would like to have a better understanding of the game, how to run a practice, etc., please reach out to me at the address below so I can get you more details as they become available.  We are a league run by volunteers and we DO need parental involvement, particularly as coaches.

If you have any questions about HEWYBL Flag Football or the upcoming season, please do not hesitate to contact me at .

Regards,

Eric Updegraff

VP-Flag Football

Western Monmouth – Mercer East Babe Ruth Registration is Open for the 2020 Season

The spring season is for ages 13-15 years old on the 60/90 field and is open to players from Millstone, Roosevelt, Upper Freehold, Allentown, Robbinsville, East Windsor, and Hightstown.

Please register on line at https://www.leagueathletics.com/Registration/Default.asp?n=56395&org=HEWYBL%2Ecom&cat=Baseball.

Registration Details:

Registration Deadline is March 15.  After March 15, a late fee will apply.   For this season, we will have a flat registration fee per player.  

• Registration fee - $250  
• Late Fee of $20 starts on March 16.

Note:  Players receive full uniform that includes jersey, pants, belt, and cap.

Winter Workout Sessions:

Indoor workout sessions will take place on Fridays or Sundays starting January 17 at Hightstown HS Annex (exact days and times to follow).   The sessions are open to registered and paid players only for insurance purposes. 

Season Details:

Games will start on or about Tuesday, April 7 and the season ends by the first weekend in June followed by All-Stars in June and July.   Teams generally play 2 games per week that include a game on Tuesday or Friday night and Saturday afternoon.  We primarily play in-house games with some interleague games against other leagues such as Lawrence and West Windsor.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Steve Burd at or Bill Zolnowski  at  .

Regards,

Steve Burd

Western-Monmouth Mercer East Babe Ruth

As many of you know, HEWYBL requires all coaches to take the Online Consussion Training offered by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC).  We are now rolling this awareness program to parents/guardians of our youth athletes. Attached is a link for the Concussions Awareness Fact Sheet which all should review.  This Fact Sheet is also located in our Documents tab from the Home Page.  The Online Concussion Training is required for coaches and recommended for parents and others helping to keep athletes safe from concussion.  The free course takes only 30 minutes to complete and keeps our children safe.

For Coaches and Parents

Concussion Awareness Fact Sheet

Required for Coaches and recommended for Parents

Online Concussion Training

For the safety of your children HEWYBL uses a on line service call "Protect Youth Sports" to run background checks on all our coaches.  The link can be found on our home page on the right hand panel.

Are you looking for a way to give to a great non-profit organization (HEWYBL) which gives a lot to the kids of the Hightstown/East Windsor Community?  Just by being a member of TD Bank you can help!

Please review the documents below.  If you have accounts with TD Bank, starting Monday you should call Bridget Wiese and tell her your name and account numbers and HEWYBL will receive a donation every year.   

If any other family, friends or business have TD Bank accounts, please provide our name to them and they can also have us affiliated with their accounts and we will receive a yearly donation.

If people want to open new accounts the bank will give them $25 and we will also get a donation every year.

Thank you for your continued help and support!

Affinity Bank Document 1
Affinity Bank Document 2