Major League Baseball Coach impressed with enthusiasm, discipline displayed in Guyana

May 06, 2014 Sports

The Guyana Baseball League Easter Baseball Camp series sponsored by E-Networks Inc., Sterling Products Limited, Fly Jamaica Airways and Nobel House Sea Foods concluded over the weekend, with camps in New Amsterdam Berbice, Cornelia Ida and Tuschen West Demerara and Georgetown.
Three Hundred and twenty children participated in all camps combined; including newcomers Fly Jamaica Airways William Street Warriors, an enthusiastic group of girls have formed themselves into a team under the management and coaching of Ms. Inga Henry of the Ministry of Education, Allied Arts Division.

The participants assembled at the GCC ground during the Baseball clinic last weekend.

Mr. Elias Sosa a former major League Pitcher with a distinguished career, who is now Latin America Coordinator for Major League Baseball, who assisted the GBL coaches and conducted coaching sessions for camp participants at the Georgetown Cricket Club, Georgetown on the 2nd,3rd and 4th May, was very impressed with the enthusiasm and discipline on display by the attendees.
Mr. Sosa has indicated that Major League Baseball (MLB) would be interested in conducting a coaching seminar for the entire English and Dutch speaking Caribbean and Latin America area in Guyana, President of the GBL, Mr. Robin Singh has pledged to make this offer a reality in the near future.
The GBL President also expressed thanks to the Georgetown Cricket Club for the use of its facility and to the coaches and children who participated in all of the camps, he said, “Baseball is a relatively inexpensive sport to play and with the invaluable work of our US based Vice-president Mark Gafur in securing equipment donations, more children are being afforded the opportunity to play as our participation numbers grow so does our partnership with our sponsors, a pleasing momentum has been achieved.”
In a release, the League stated, “Baseball will now take a break for eleven weeks as our players turn their attention to CXC and end of term exams, camps and tournaments are planned for the long school break in July and August.”