Hi SHLL Members - 

Our Fall Ball season is winding down with tball & instructional baseball and softball finishing up this past week & minors/majors baseball and majors softball playing their last games later on this week.  It's been another busy season with about 170 kids participating and I hope each of them has had a great experience and will come back in the Spring to play again!

Somerset Hills Little League will be holding our Annual Meeting this Tuesday, October 19th at 8:30pm in the Claremont Field Clubhouse (5 Park Ln, Bernardsville).  Our annual meeting is the time when we form the new board for the upcoming 2022 year and start discussing other initiatives and planning for the upcoming year.  All interested SHLL Members are welcome to attend this annual meeting to learn more about what goes on with the league.

I would also encourage our Members to consider joining the board for the upcoming year.  Our SHLL Board is a group of 15-20 volunteers running the administration of our league.  Roles within the board include field maintenance, game and umpire scheduling, uniform ordering, running our snack shack, fundraising, registration, communications, website administration, sponsorships, safety coordination, running our various divisions and more.  

Just to provide a first-hand account for those that might be interested, joining the board 3 years ago was one of the best things I've done since coming to the area.  It's a team effort each year and when you realize that your combined efforts can leave a lasting impact on 400+ kids in our Somerset Hills towns each year and positively influence our baseball and softball programs, it's 100% worth it.  There's a wide variety of jobs on the board that you can do fitting your interests/experience and some of them have nothing to do with having the strongest baseball/softball acumen.

The reality is that we have some long-time, very active board members that will be aging out of the board this year or next and we need others with younger kids in the program to take their place.  I'm extremely excited about the direction the league is going in, but we need more administrative help in order to get there.  I realize that we're all very busy, but if I can lend any insight into what the commitment looks like, please email me at gfreisen@gmail.com.

For anyone that's interested in joining our board for the 2022 year, please contact our President, Melissa Provost (somersethillsllpresident@gmail.com) asap and try to attend Tuesday's annual meeting.

Thanks, 

Greg Freisen

Somerset Hills Little League

VP, Softball

The league will follow the rules according to the CDC and NJ DOH, with the more stringent always taking precedent. Currently Somerset County is listed as a Red County. This means the current recommendations for quarantine, as set by the state of NJ are as follows:

"Outside of high-risk congregate settings, following prolonged close contact (within 6 feet for a cumulative total of 15 minutes or more over a 24-hour period) with someone with COVID-19, persons should quarantine UNLESS:

• Individuals are fully vaccinated , OR
• Individuals have clinically recovered from COVID-19 in the past 3 months.

Since we are currently a RED county; NJ recommends the following for Quarantine:

• 14 days quarantine for group settings and organized activities

It is important to note that this is more stringent the current CDC guidelines and is based on our current "Red" risk level. Note this is an excerpt from the guidance, for those that want to read more; below are the links to the NJ and CDC guidance. 

NJ Guidance

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/documents/topics/NCOV/COVID_updated_quarantine_timeframes.pdf

CDC Guidance

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/if-you-are-sick/quarantine.html

Please contact our league safety officer Chad McQueen (chadrmcq@gmail.com) for any further questions.

Regards,

SHLL Board