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1st Annual Bowling Benefit a HUGE Success

February 13, 2012 By admin

Thanks to all of our participants who came out and helped make our 1st annual Bowling Benefit a HUGE Success! And Thanks to our Sponsors for the support of our great event!

Schon Industrial (2 lanes)

Custom Construction & Painting (Dave Bucher)

Pinpoint Utility Inspection Services (Kenny Hubbard)

We enjoyed a great afternoon of fun on the lanes, a SUPER display of DANCING and some expert performance under pressure for our STRIKE BALL contest!

Thanks for coming out for the fun. I hope that you all had fun and will plan on joining us at our next event Sunday, May 20th, for our 8th Annual Golf Outing and Charity Auction at Beckett Ridge Country Club. Information and registration form can be found here.

Please contact me if you are interested in helping on the golf outing. We are looking for volunteers, sponsors and collecting auction items!

Our overall total for fundraising for this event was just under $800.00 ($795. and change)

Remember to thanks our sponsors, Pinpoint Utility Inspection,Custom Construction and Painting and Schon Industrial.

See you on the links May 20th!

Beverly Fenton

Fundraising Officer

Butler County Challenger Baseball

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Bowling Benefit for Baseball

December 30, 2011 By admin

Grab your sweetie and show some love for Challenger Baseball

Sunday, February 12 from 2p to 5p please join us at Alleys on the River /COLUMBIA BOWLING LANES located at 954 Pyramid Hill Boulevard, Hamilton, Ohio 45011. Click here for directions

“Best Ball Game” 5 couples per lane, Cost: $30.00/couple. Price includes free shoe rental and each lane receives 2 large pizzas & 2 pitchers of soda.

Together we can raise a lot of money while having fun.

5 couples per lane at $30 a couple = $200 per lane
Our final cost is $50.00 per lane
Cost for Bowling, food and drinks = $50 per lane
Each parent raises $150 per lane
15 lanes x $150 = $2250 for fundraiser
Don’t forget to wear Red or Pink

Click here to register for the event: Bowling Benefit for Butler County Challenger Baseball
For any questions please contact Bev Fenton at beverlyfenton@gmail.com

Thanks to the following Sponsors:

Schon Industrial (2 lanes)

Custom Construction & Painting (Dave Bucher)

Pinpoint Utility Inspection Services (Kenny Hubbard)

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IMPORTANT – Challenger Parent Meeting 11/17

November 14, 2011 By admin

We will be holding a meeting for all Challenger parents/grandparents/guardians on Thursday, November 17th at the Jewish Vocational Services building located at 3400 Symmes Road in Fairfield.

(Map can be found here: http://www.jvscinti.org/Area-Businesses/JVS-Employment-Center.aspx )

The meeting is set to start at 6pm, and we’d like for as many parents to attend as possible. We’ll be giving updates on the new field, going over league rules, and answering any questions or concerns that you may have.

We’d like to know how many folks to expect, so please let us know if you plan on attending by emailing us at bcchallengerbaseball@gmail.com If you cannot make this meeting, but you do have questions or concerns, please email them to us so that they can be addressed. All parents will be getting a copy of the meeting minutes emailed to them as quickly as possible.

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Girl’s Day Out – Online Catalog Show ONLY

October 6, 2011 By admin

{Attention Ladies of Butler County Challenger Baseball League} CATALOG SHOW ONLY – Actual event has been cancelled}

We are now having a catalog show that still benefits Butler County Challenger Baseball. You can use the name Butler county Challenger as the hostess name when placing your order. Orders are due by November 17th and they are shipped directly to your door. Again all profits will be donated to Challenger Baseball. Please follow this link for ordering: www.stelladot.com/amyclipson

**Don’t forget to send this link to family and friends!

Please contact Heather Davis or Beverly Fenton with any questions.

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Join Challenger for our 1st WALK, RUN & ROLL!

August 29, 2011 By admin

Thank you to those who supported us in our 1st annual Walk.Run.Roll.

A great big thank you to everyone who came out in the chilly weather Saturday, October 1 to Walk, Run and Roll in Support of Butler County Challenger Baseball!

If you didn’t make it, you missed a great time. Our teams ended up on local and national news, we hung out with Twister from the Cincinnati Cyclones and Gapper from the Cincinnati Reds. We even managed to get everyone together for some great group photos!

If you MEANT to come but just couldn’t break yourself away from your cozy fireplace and snuggly, you can still support the walk by sending your tax deductable donation to: Butler County Challenger Baseball, PO Box 18748, Fairfield, OH 45018

Thanks again for everyone’s support. Together we raised $3,242.00 for Challenger Baseball!

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Please join Butler County Challenger League for our first annual Walk, Run, and Roll to benefit Butler County Challenger League Baseball on Saturday, October 1, 2011 9 am to 12 pm at Fairfield Waterworks Park located at 5133 Groh Lane, Fairfield, OH 45014.

Money raised from the Walk, Run, and Roll will help pay for player’s uniforms, field maintenance, and other league expenses. If you register by September 15, 2011, you will receive a FREE event tee shirt. After September 15th, event tee shirts will be available for $10.00. Mail-in registrations and payment accepted till September 24, 2011, after this date please bring your registration and payment to the event. For those who register at the event, the price will be $15.00 per person.

We are going to have a great time walking, running and rolling together for Butler County Challenger Baseball.

NEWS FLASH: Guest appearances by Gapper of the Cincinnati Reds and Twister of the Cincinnati Cyclones (bring your camera)!

Plan on being part of the fun:

Please fill out the Walk, Run, and Roll registration form and return payment + form to:

Butler County Challenger Baseball PO Box 18748, Fairfield, OH 45018

*Don’t forget that you can create a team (and could win a prize for the largest team) of walkers!

For those who are walking, please download the pledge form to help get support and sponsor pledges for a flat fee for the entire event. Check with your family, friends, neighbors, school, church and places where you like to hang out. For those who sponsor you, pleasedownload and give them this receipt if they need it for their records.

Challenger Players – there is a chance to win prizes for your sponsorship pledge efforts!! Prizes will be awarded for:

  • Most money raised by an individual
  • Largest individual team
  • Largest “Challenger” team (ie: Cubs, Nationals, Angels, etc)

**All registration fees are non-refundable. Butler County Challenger League is 501 (c3) TAX ID #26-4537630

We are also looking for volunteers and sponsors for this great event! If you know someone in the business community who would like to support us or if you would like to join our fundraising efforts, please contact Beverly Fenton or the Co-Chair of this event, Heather Davis.

Thank you to the following sponsors:

  • Grippos
  • Wal-Mart of Fairfield Twp
  • FRAME USA
  • The Eisen Agency
  • us digital partners
  • The Peck Family
  • First Star Safety
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Groundbreaking Ceremony – August 18, 2011

August 18, 2011 By admin

Welcome to our new "Baseball Complex"

{Challenger Baseball Groundbreaking Ceremony}

This morning was both fun and exciting for Butler County Challenger Baseball as we broke ground in our official ground breaking ceremony surrounded by supporters and friends of Challenger. The ceremony began at 8:30 am on Thursday, August 18, 2011 with sunshine, donuts, and orange juice for all the guests – our players especially enjoyed the donuts the most and asked if they could have seconds a few times!

We were fortunate to have the Hamilton City Mayor, Patrick Moeller join us along with Bernadette Zimmerman with the Hamilton Community Foundation and Sam Hennelgarn, a senior at Ross High School, with the Youth Philanthropy Foundation and other supporters such as the Fairfield Township Fire Department and Jason Williams with the Butler County Convention and Visitors Bureau.  Of course we had many Challenger Baseball Players and their families join us as no ground breaking ceremony would be complete with out them. It was great to see our players so thankful and appreciative for everyone supporting them and their new field this morning. The players were especially happy to see the Fairfield Township Fire Department as they brought along several of their trucks for each of the kids to see and even get a chance to sit in the driver’s seat.

City of Hamilton Mayor, Patrick Moeller

Jesy Herron and Alan Lakamp began the ceremony by thanking the sponsors and supporters of Challenger Baseball and then turned the microphone over to Mayor Patrick Moeller to say a few words. One thing that really stood out from us was when Mayor Moeller stated the following, “this field is love in action.” How appropriate as it has taken a lot of hard work and dedication from many who love Challenger Baseball to make our new field a reality.

Just as we were wrapping up we were surprised by two local news stations that wanted to cover our groundbreaking ceremony. Thank you to Channel 19 and Channel 5 local news for helping us to spread the good word about Challenger Baseball. Also, thank you to 700 WLW for announcing our ceremony early this morning on the radio. We hope to have a copy of the videos from Channel 19 and Channel 5 to share with you but you can also look out for our news coverage today and this evening. Be sure to let us know if you saw Alan Lakamp and Challenger Baseball Players on the news! I think the kids did a great job of breaking ground 2 more times and standing by the sign for the media just so that they could have the chance to be on TV! Here is the actual video from FOX 19 News :

Hamilton Community Foundation and Youth Philanthropy Foundation - Thank you to our generous supporters!

Finally, thank you again to our sponsors and supporters who so graciously donated funds to Butler County Challenger Baseball allowing us to build this second field:

Hamilton Community Foundation
Youth Philanthropy Foundation
Hamilton & Fairfield Rotary Clubs
And all the Families & Grandparents of our baseball players!

**Our Field Manager, Dave Bucher, has recently informed us that progress for the field should begin next week and will take approximately 60 days to complete. Feel free to stop by our complex at Crawford Woods in Hamilton to see the progress for yourself.


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What does the State Tournament mean to you?

July 25, 2011 By admin

Thank you to Jim Patton for the image!

After you have have all made it safely back home from Barberton, OH and the 2011 State Tournament I’d like to ask you all the same question. What does the Challenger Baseball State Tournament mean to you?

Lynn Cox, mother to Logan Cox from the Butler County Cardinals team has answered the question like this:

COACHES ARE EXCEPTIONAL WITH THE CHILDREN
HAPPY TO BE PART OF SUCH A FUN TIME
AWESOME PEOPLE TO SHARE THE WEEKEND WITH
LOADS OF FUN
LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT
EXCITING TO WATCH THE KIDS ENJOY IT SO MUCH
NICE PEOPLE AND A NICE TIME
GREAT FOR MAKING NEW FRIENDSHIPS
EVER LASTING MEMORIES
REMARKABLE

One of our coaches, George Herron, wrote a great blog post on the weekend and his experience with Challenger Baseball over the last four years. You can read his post here: Challenger Weekend

Tell us how you would answer the question! Don’t forget to view our photos and you have any to contribute, please email to bcchallengerbaseball@gmail.com

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2011 State Tournament – Here we come!

July 19, 2011 By admin

{2011 State Tournament – Barberton, OH}

The Butler County Challenger Baseball League will be bringing seven teams comprised of 68 players to this year’s State Tournament on July 23, 2011 at the Foundation Fields in Barberton, Ohio. This year’s tournament is expected to bring in over 1,000 children and their families from all over the state of Ohio. The Ohio State Troopers Coalition will be sponsoring this year’s event and will present each child with a medal at the end of the tournament.

Due to the hard work and dedication of the golf outing committee, Butler County Challenger Baseball League is pleased to announce that enough money was raised to fund $119.00 of each player’s hotel stay. Be sure to thank Beverly Fenton and others from the golf committee next time you see them around.

{Details}

The 68 players will be broken out to the following teams:

Nationals and Angels

Cardinals, Athletics and Cubs

Pirates and Diamondbacks

Braves

Marlins

Reds

Rockies

We will be playing at The Foundation Fields which are located at 841 Wooster Road, North Barberton, OH 44203. The hotel we are staying at this year will be the Akron Hilton Fairlawn located at 3180 West Market Street, Akron, OH 44333. Their phone number for questions with directions is 330.867.5000.

Marlins and some of the Nationals team will be staying at a different hotel – they will be staying at the Double Tree Fairlawn located at 3150 West Market Street, Akron, OH 44333. Their phone number for questions with directions is 330.869.9000. Our hotels will be sharing a parking lot.

For any questions regarding your hotel or general questions about the tournament, please call or email Carol Wenstrup at 513.226.8203 carolwenstrup@hotmail.com or Kenny Hubbard at 513.839.0383 pinpointutility@aol.com

{Schedule}

Saturday Schedule – Saturday Schedule_2011 State Tournament

Sunday Schedule – Sunday Schedule_2011 State Tournament

Good Luck Butler County Challenger Baseball League and have fun at the 2011 State Tournament!

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Awards Picnic at Monkeyland

July 6, 2011 By admin

The players and coaches LOVE Monkeyland!

Every year we come together as an entire league to celebrate our end of the year picnic. We have been so graciously hosted by the Monkeys at their park called Monkeyland and this year we are doing it again! Please join us on Sunday, July 17th – the day runs from 1pm to 5pm full of food, carnival games and prizes, friends and family, hay rides, a DJ for the dance party and of course the awards ceremony.

The Monkeys will be providing the hamburgers, hot dogs and water this year. They ask that each team bring the following:

  • Angels: Covered Dish
  • Athletics: Dessert
  • Braves: Covered Dish
  • Cardinals: Dessert
  • Cubs: Covered Dish
  • Diamond Backs: Dessert
  • Marlins: Covered Dish
  • Nationals: Dessert
  • Pirates: Covered Dish
  • Reds: Dessert
  • Rockies: Covered Dish

* If you would like to bring your own drink (water will be provided) please bring in cans or plastic only – NO GLASS ALLOWED!

What you can also expect at Monkeyland is the following information to be passed out:

  • State Tournament Packets
  • Walk-a-thon Information
  • Sign-ups for Fall Ball

Address and Directions:

Monkeyland is located at 1901 Trenton Oxford Road (this is also Route 73)

From Hight St in Hamilton, off 129 Hwy, keep going straight through Hamilton, pass the River, pass Meijer and Lowes and keep going on Route 177. You will pass through Darrtown and then turn right at the light – Route 73 (Can’t miss – there is road work going on). Two miles down on the right is Monkeyland (before Route 127) Look for the SIGN!

(You can also go Route 127, pass New Miami and Seven Mile then turn Left on 73 at the light. Monkeyland is about 1 mile down on the Left – again look for the sign)

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Spotlight on our President, Alan Lakamp

June 23, 2011 By admin

<Article originally written in the Springfield Township E-Newsletter>

Springfield Township Police are here to protect and serve our community. We regard our officers as heroes of our community – so we thought you would find it fascinating to see what makes them true heroes. In this newsletter and in following issues, we would like to introduce you to one of our own!

We are pleased to introduce you to….
Officer Alan Lakamp

Officer Lakamp has been an officer with Springfield Township since 1987. He grew up right here in Springfield Township, and was raised in the Finneytown school district. In his twenty-four years on the force, he says the best part of his job is in helping the residents. He enjoys working one-on-one with people, solving their issues and providing the help they are looking for.

Officer Lakamp has a special skill – one that is never taught in the academy, but can only come from real life experience. He has a real knack for communicating with children and adults with special needs.

Officer Lakamp’s 16 year old son Tyler has Down Syndrome. The disability, though, does not define Tyler or keep him from doing what he loves – playing baseball.

As a parent, Alan Lakamp knew the importance of providing a balance of recreational activities in his son’s life. He tries to integrate Tyler with team sports and has found the competition level higher than what was best for his son. He searched high and low and with the help of a teacher’s aid, came across the Butler County Challenger Program. The baseball league coaches 5 – 22 year olds with any I.E.P. (independent educational program).

Lakamp and his family have found a camaraderie with the players and with their parents. Over the years, Officer Lakamp has increased his commitment to the organization, first coaching, later serving on the board and currently serving as president of the organization. Busy as ever, the Challengers are in the planning stages of creating another wheel chair accessible field.

“By working with these kids, I am a better person. They have taught me just as much as I have taught them” explains Lakamp. In the field, Lakamp’s communication skills have served him well and he is a more understanding person because of it.

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