The La Rochelle baseball club, the Boucaniers, is organizing an inter-leisure center event on July 9. Nearly 11 leisure centers, homes and social centers have confirmed their presence for this day. Around 200 children will be welcomed to come and discover this sport, supervised by the club’s professional players, and enjoy an introduction to baseball followed…
The La Rochelle baseball club, the Boucaniers, is organizing an inter-leisure center event on July 9. Nearly 11 leisure centers, homes and social centers have confirmed their presence for this day. Around 200 children will be welcomed to come and discover this sport, supervised by the club’s professional players, and enjoy an introduction to baseball followed by a mixed tournament by age group with the presence of the club mascot. The objective of introducing this sport to younger people and perhaps making new fans of it.
This type of activity is not new for the club, which regularly organizes events to popularize baseball and unite a community around this sport in Charente-Maritime. Many activities such as internships, the organization of birthdays and bachelor parties. are offered It is also through these events that some of the young players have joined the club like Gauthier, 12 years old, who has been playing this sport for a year and a half: “one of my friends celebrating his birthday here, it’s a team sport that I really liked, so I signed up for it.”
A high-performance team
The Boucaniers club is made up of eight teams: three youth teams between 9 and 15 years old and four adult teams playing respectively in D1 (Division 1 the highest level in the championship), D2 (division 2), in R1 (regional 1) and in R3 (regional 3). A final team, “Les Meilleurs Pas Morts”, plays leisurely. The Division 1 team is also ranked among the 10 best in France.
Pascal Regnier, president since the founding of the club, says, “the goal is to win a national title”, enough to motivate the troops and show the confidence he has in his players. Division 1 is second in the standings for the season which is still in progress, with a record of 6 victories for 4 defeats.
The history of a club
The club was born in 1985, initiated by a group of friends who initially played football. After several visits by some of the members to the United States to see family, big fans of baseball, they decided to import it to La Rochelle. First of all by playing in parks to attract people and by posting announcements on signs. The club was then called West Cubs which later became Ocean Cubs and finally adopted the name Boucaniers in reference to piracy and the ocean which borders the coasts of the La Rochelle city.
Gradually, they began to play on sports fields, because playing baseball in parks could quickly become risky. Later, after administrative requests, the club can play on a field dedicated to baseball on which numerous facilities are set up, to accommodate the players in the best conditions. The club continues to grow and today it has more than 160 members and around fifty dedicated volunteers, with the ambition to continue to improve the infrastructure.
2024-05-20 09:07:09
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