June 2020
Hooksett Girls Softball League Newsletter
Hello Hooksett Girls Softball League,
We hope that the girls all had a great school year and enjoy their summer break!
Refunds
All of the refunds have been processed and if you did not receive your refund for the 2020 Spring Season cancellation, please let us know at
Outstanding Candy Bar Fundraiser $
Just a friendly reminder….If you have not forwarded the candy bar fundraiser money to the league, please do so. For those of you that already have, thank you very much. It is $60 for each box you took receipt of and please make the check out to Hooksett Girls Softball. It can be mailed to our Treasurer Jarid Bond. We are hopeful that with things beginning to open up, you can hopefully sell off any candy bars you have left. The league has already paid the candy bar distributor and your support with this is greatly appreciated.
Summer Softball Offering
The HGSL Board has continued to correspond not only internally, but with our sister softball programs that make up our Capital Area Softball league. There is good news for any of you interested in having your daughter out on the softball field this summer…
As you are probably aware, the governor has allowed low contact sports like softball to return with limitations and guidelines that must be followed. Currently, only practices are allowed under a number of conditions. Capital Area Softball is offering a summer recreational softball program for players 6-16 this summer. It will be broken up into AA, AAA, Majors and Seniors. The season will run from July 6th – August 14th and if games are eventually allowed, games will be played by AAA and older with practices continuing for AA. They have designated a day during the week for each age division, which is explained in the CNE flyer attached to this e-mail.
Unfortunately for those T-Ballers that don’t fall into those age parameters, there is currently no offering. The concern is that those players may innocently have difficulty complying with / understanding the safety guidelines that must be followed. We will continue to monitor things and try to offer something for these younger players when we are able to do so.
The summer offering will be formatted like the fall ball offering normally is. The seven softball programs that make up Cap Area will communicate the information out to its members, but registrations will all go through one league’s registration system. Concord Northeast has graciously offered to be that league. Anyone who is interested can register their daughter(s) through Concord Northeast’s system ( http://www.concordnortheast.com/ ) and all of the players from the different towns/city will be pooled together so that balanced teams can be formed. That means that each town’s/city’s players will likely be divided up to form teams.
Please understand that there is no pressure whatsoever to sign your daughter up for summer ball. We all recognize that there are a lot of different and valid opinions relating to the Covid-19 situation and we also recognize that players and families have summer commitments that may prohibit them from participating. This offering is for those that want to participate and fully understand/accept the guidelines that must be followed. For those that chose not to participate, we will hopefully have a fall offering also. The HGSL also hopes to be able to offer off season clinics as we have done for many years now. For those that do want to participate in summer softball, all of us that make up Cap Area Softball are happy to be able to put forth an offering for you.
What follows is the information put out by Concord NE to register your daughter(s) if you chose to do so:
Families that have registered in the fall program through the CNE website http://www.concordnortheast.com/ should already be recognized in the system as having an account, so just sign in. Families wanting to play but not having had registered before will need to take a few extra minutes and create an account through the site, no big deal. Registration does close on June 13th. If we don’t have any games dues to either State guidance, or not enough interest, we will plan for skills sessions for Kiddos so they can keep moving, learning and having fun.
See the attached the CNE flyer to this e-mail (refer to softball section) for more information.
If you register you daughter for the summer offering and have already donated your spring registration fee back to the HGSL, the HGSL will reimburse you for the cost of the summer offering up to the amount of your donation (excluding any monies put towards outstanding candy bar $). You just need to let us know that you wish to be reimbursed by dropping us a quick email at
Please remember that this summer offering will only work if there are parents willing to volunteer some time to coach. If your daughter is playing in the summer offering, please register to coach when you register her through CNE and drop us an e-mail at
so we can coordinate with CNE and the other Cap Area programs with getting coaching staffs put together.
Best,
HGSL
