2013-2014 League

1/22/14

 

 

Attending: 

                                                                                     

                                                                                    DAVIGNON 1 – Rodney Mudgett – President

DAVIGNON 2 – John Laliberte                                      DAVIGNON 3 – Paul Cere – VP; Steve Cere

DAVIGNON 4 – Rich Soares                                                     

FISH – Don MacQuarrie, Lenny Pappas Jr                   

EASTSIDE – Kim Janelle                                              PERICLES – Ron Michaud

                                                                                    WORKMENS – Jon Robillard

                                                                                    Sue Davis – Secretary

 

Absent – Ed Caswell, Paul Martin, Keith Laliberte, Frank Labrie, Tom LeBlanc, Hank Attanasio, Ray Paquin

 

 

NEW BUSINESS:

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1.     Rule 10.   TELEPHONING RESULTS – Friday night results, as well as playoff results, shall be phoned to the league's scorer or his/her designee by the home team's captain immediately after the completion of the match.  Six pocket runs or any protests (other than player ineligibility which must be communicated after the game in question) shall be stated at that time.  The league scorer shall advise the league President or Vice President of a protest.  Such protests shall be reviewed and a decision made by the Board of Directors at the next regularly scheduled meeting.

 

Sue asked if Rule 10 could be revised to state that both team captains call in the score.  Since there were not enough captains in attendance to make a rule change it was just agreed that all captains would call in results and report six pocket runs.

 

2.     Rule 20 - SPOTTING THE ONE (l) BALL - The one ball shall be spotted any way you want to spot the ball. (revised 8/22/13).

 

It was brought to the attention of the board that there has been some confusion about spotting the one ball after a scratch or made pocket.  After a bit of discussion the rule is pretty clear; the one ball can be spotted any way the spotter chooses as long as it is on the spot.

 

3.     Rule 49 - FOULING - If a player moves any ball on the table, while in the act of assuming, executing or abandoning the stroke stand with any part of the body or clothing or hand bridge used to take a shot, it shall be a foul.  If any ball is moved the shot should be stopped and the opposing player has the choice of putting the moved ball back as close to the original spot as possible or leaving it where it lies (Rule reinstated 8/22/13).   The fouling player has no say in where the ball is replaced. If the cue ball is intentionally moved (thought it was a scratch but it wasn’t), a foul has occurred and it will be ball-in-hand behind the foul line for the opposing player/team. (Clarified 1/17/13).  During Friday night league play all fouls will be called.  (voted 8/22/13). The captains, co-captains, and players in the game are the only ones who can call the foul.

 

The issue that was raised was for clothing touching a ball. After much discussion is was finally agreed that the ball must move and only the 2 captains, 2 co-captains, and 4 players participating in the game can call fouls.  A foul cannot be called (or pointed out to one of these eight people) by any other member of the team.  Our intent is to play a gentlemen’s game and players should not be calling phantom fouls just to break the concentration of the opposing players.   Any of these eight people should also not be calling phantom fouls just to break the concentration of the opposing shooter if no real foul has occurred.

 

4.        Handicaps – Much heated discussion ensued regarding handicaps.   It was felt by many that the handicaps that were all adjusted downward by at least three points at the beginning of the half only benefitted the zero rated teams and penalized the higher handicapped teams.  Therefore Paul Cere made a motion that all handicaps be adjusted up three points with the exception of Davignon 1 and Davignon 2. 

 

The Deerhead was to be the only team who would not increase three points as they added two more strong players to their roster (Jim Kelly and Tom Walsh IV).  They would also be a zero rated team.

 

Since the Fish lost two of their stronger players (George Tsoutsas and Kevin Lajoie), it was decided that they would increase an additional three points.

 

Workman’s, another team that was decreased by 6 points at the start of the half, would only increase the three points because they added another strong player (Randy Miller).

 

It was also felt that preventing a handicap adjusted score from exceeding 30 was penalizing the weaker teams (higher handicap).  Since a team could not exceed 30 points it did not benefit them to play their final game and only gave points to the stronger team.   It was stated we already have a stipulation in place to adjust a team’s handicap if they exceeded 30 three time in a half anyway.  As a result it was voted on and agreed that a handicap adjusted score could exceed 30.

 

5.         Playing on the second table was discussed.  Decision was to leave it to captains to decide on the night of play.