Welcome Back and Week One Stats

Dear Members,

After more nearly 18 months, we are back playing again...!

It's great to see many of our former players. Also, a big warm welcome to all the new players, and we have many. We have 12 teams this season which is not bad considering the league has lost several venues to the pandemic and after effects.

Important notice: The Green Room is not going to work out as a playing venue. Both Rack'em Up teams - captains Ran Refael and Mathew Bradbury will need to move to Jerry's Billiards as the home venue starting this next week #2. There may be a couple of names mis-spelled on the scoresheet - please check this information and let us know. On some of the team rosters, we only got the first names and on others, we could not read your beautiful hand-writing. Our apologies. Please correct information by PRINTING clearly each name. Also, please please write every team member's email address CLEARLY on the scoresheet next week.

To recap this season's members meeting: This season is free to all LAPL players. We are accepting a $40 donation per team for those incline to make this contribution that can. The members voted to keep the LAPL BCA sanctioned, which means that all players will need to pay their BCA dues of $15 for this year. We will need to ensure all are paid by the end of week four. We will be in touch with the captains on the collections of these BCA dues. The members voted to play its first tournament in honor of Allan Montalbano, past president and long-time league member who passed away recently. Funds raised will be sent to his mother.

We have a seat open on the Board of Governors for playoff chair given Malisa Mapu has moved to Washington state. We want to thank Malisa and her wife Kerri for all their years with the LAPL. It's hard to see friends like Malisa and Kerri move away but they are for sure LAPL family now and forever and I'm sure we will see them soon. If you are interested in serving on the Board, please let me know.

We will have a Board zoom meeting this coming Monday, July 26 at 7:30 p.m. We will post the zoom meeting invite on the LAPL Facebook page or will send it in an email to the league by Sunday.

Thank you,

Al Ballesteros