League News
A New Season
A new bocce season will soon be upon us. We are looking forward to seeing some old faces and hopefully some new faces to join us this year. We welcome all interested parties to join us. Fill out the Membership application which allows you access to the shed that contains bocce balls, court broom and scoreboard for you and your family. Dues are $20 for an individual, or $40 for a family. Also, if you currently have a team, make sure to indicate it on your membership application. If you are short a player or two perhaps we can fill those slots with new players. So far we may have two new teams joining us.
If you have any suggestions or thoughts about the upcoming year’s season, please email Rob Singer our commissioner. He'd love to hear from you. rsinger1347@gmail.com
Continue to keep an eye on this site. Perhaps before the season starts we can all get together and discuss rules, start times and scoring.
New Club Leadership
Since Lou Danielczyk resigned as Commissioner two years ago, our interim Commissioners both Glenda Leake and Jeannie Shepard found how much work was involved while the rest of us just showed up to play. Running the club and administering to our court is too much for one person to handle alone. Which is why we have instituted an IBC Executive Committee to run the club. Several of our members have volunteered to head up the sub-committees and if you have an interest please reach out them. We're sure they would appreciate the help. The whole committee should meet sometime in late April to plan for the upcoming season and as needed afterwards. Inter-committee meetings can be held as needed to establish total number of teams, schedules, requirements for court maintenance etc. The committee leadership is as follows. Contact addresses and phone numbers will distributed when teams are established. Until then use the club's email:Island Bocce Club- Commissioner: Rob Singer
- • Face, phone call and decider.
- Membership: Paula Irish
- • Collect member fees
- • Assigns unattached members to teams
- • Develops final rosters
- • Works closely with treasurer & Commissioner
- Treasurer: David Leake
- • Collects membership fees from Membership.
- • Banks funds & keeps accurate record of Clubs finances.
- • Pays bills
- Court and Shed: Terry Benetto & Jim Falby
- •In charge of the condition and reconditioning of the court & shed.
- • Responsible for recruiting help from membership for projects.
- Communications and score keeping: Bill Ryan
- •Responsible to maintain website
- •Distribution of intra club and public information.
- •Posts scores on website & keeps record of scores.
- Scheduling: Marcia Ryan
- •Schedules matches
- •Offers alternatives for scheduling conflicts.
Tentative Schedule
To the right you will see a tentative schedule for the upcoming season. We've used numbers rather than team names as at this stage we do not know how many teams will be playing, who they will be and who will be on them.
We've heard that there might be more teams this year so we've expanded the schedule to accommodate at least two more teams. What that will mean is expanding the schedule to play two games on Tuesday rather than the just one and perhaps an added early game also. On your registration, please indicate your ability to attend a game that starts at 4:30PM.
About Referees
In general we've asked players from a team playing earlier or later in the evening to referee the match they are not playing in. It makes for a long night for them, especially if they've skipped dinner to ref. But in cases where matches have been moved to accomodate conflicting schedules, where there is no second game, we've suggested that the side not throwing referee the side throwing, with both teams conferring. As far as we've heard, this has worked well enough to consider using the method of refereeing for all our games. Comments are welcome.