Los Angeles Pool League

Welcome to Spring 2025

Welcome Campers!!!!!! to the Spring 2025 Los Angeles Pool League 8 Ball Season.

I have lots to share………first off, we have 2 new additions to our Board. (Looking for more).  Lori Perry will be helping to answer your rules of play questions that come up during Tuesday night matches, some of our Secretary duties and helping as a fundraising co-chair.  Tod Davenport is going to take over the duties of our Statistician, keeping our weekly results accurate and updated for our BCA sanctioning. Tod will also help as a fundraising co-chair.  We say thank you and goodbye (over an unknown transition period) to Bryan Haneiwich, our current Statistician and web master who has served on this Board for a more than 8 terms.  We also say thank you to Al Ballesteros who will continue as a Captain after 10 terms of service as a member of our Board.  Jon Bourgault is our Treasurer/Secretary/Social Media guru and I, Steve Duckman, President, head of complaints and fundraising co-chair.

We have 9 teams this season and the top 8 will qualify for our play offs.  Due to the odd number of teams and need to get 9 to 10 weeks of total matches played, we will have an 11 week regular season followed by 6 rounds of play off matches.  This season’s play offs are on Tuesdays only.

Mark your calendars and be sure to support your League and attend at least 4 of the 7 fundraisers we are holding this season.  They are posted on our web site calendar, and each tournament format is explained on the stats page under the tab ‘How to play fundraiser tournaments’   The top Winners receive trophies at the end of the season and if you qualify to play in the West Coast Challenge in Long Beach , you will receive a one night room stipend for registering to play in at least 4 fundraisers.

Captains…  Please be patient with any new players in our League.  They are learning new rules, and if playing their first season in our League get 8 - 30 second time outs. Anybody can call a time out and any number of players can help the shooter.  All other players on a team get 4-30 second time outs.  Captains, make sure you keep track of time outs on your score sheet.  It is mandatory you mark down the time a game starts.  Any individual game that reaches the 14-minute mark must be put on a 1-minute shot clock at 15 minutes until that game is completed.

Scoresheets are available for printing out on our website home page.  CAPTAINS!!!! Be sure you add up the winning matches at the end of the night, sign the bottom and send a picture of the filled out sheet to the statisticians number found on the score sheet.

As part of our 50th Anniversary celebration, we still have souvenir T shirts available to custom make for a $20 suggested donation.  They will be available at our fundraisers or email the Board and request a flyer.

Please contact a Board member if you have any questions or constructive criticism on League night and thank you for participating in this event filled West Coast Challenge season.


Steve Duckman
President
Los Angeles Pool League

Spring 2025 Schedule

Motions

This will be a running list of motions proposed prior to the members meeting.

Motion from John Clark:
I’d like to file a motion for this Tuesday’s meeting. I think it should be added into the league’s bylaws that playoffs for West Coast Challenge seasons should only be scheduled for Tuesday nights.  Since it is a Tuesday league, and many members may be unavailable on other nights due to other commitments, I think playoffs should only be scheduled for Tuesdays, especially during WCC seasons, even if that limits the number of teams who can play in the playoffs based on the number of weeks available between the end of the season and WCC. I also think there should be some attempt to limit playoffs to Tuesday nights in non-WCC seasons as well (or at least some attempt to accommodate teams who want to play in playoffs but can’t play on Thursdays).

Motion from Bryan Haneiwich:
Reduce playoffs from 12 to 8 teams in any season with less than 14 total teams.  In seasons with 14-18 teams 12 would make the playoffs, is seasons with 18+ teams 16 teams would make the playoffs.