Congrats to the following players who made the 12U Travel Lite team:

Congrats to the following players who made the 2023 13U Travel Lite team:

Andrew Abernathie
Braden Blakely
Grayson Bryant
Ryan Clauson
Bennett Kohler
Ben Roth
Keegan Wright
Cooper Zobrist
Roger Kniep
Neal Comer
Joshua Rutledge

-Coach Bryant

Congrats to the following players who made the 2023 11U Travel Lite team:

Nixon Albers
Jayden Davis
Jaxon Flaughter
Cru Garcia
Ruxin Higgs
Tyler Hurst
Drew Kominkiewicz
Peyt Malson
Abe Mischley
Ben Volpert
Bryant White
Hudson Zeller

-Coach Kominkiewicz

Thank you to all the players and evaluators for making the 2023 8U Travel Lite evaluations a success.   We will be fielding two teams at this age level, an “A” team (8U Red) and a “B” team (8U Gray). 

Congratulations to the following players who made the 8U Red team:

Bradley Adolphson

Hayes Austin

Jeter Bell

Jens Birkey

Kaden Byard

Griffin Geerts

Jett Herring

Nolan Hoffman

Tate Larson

Lincoln Miller

Knox Parnham

Reed Stephens

Thanks,

Coach Larson

Congrats to the following players who made the 8U Gray team:

Jackson Butler

Rhys Cashdollar

Angelo Cordina

Henry Fleer

Titus Geil

Ramsey Menold

Kian O’Brian

Landon Ohnesorge

Jonah Smith

Dylan Stephens

Grayson Valerio

Karson Wright

The MBYA board is looking for a head coach for the 8U Gray team.  Anyone interested should contact our Travel Director, Brayton Boss ( ) by Monday, October 3rd.     

MYBA will be hosting Travel Lite tryouts for 2023 teams on the date and times listed below:

Moving forward, the MYBA Board of Directors has made the decision that All MYBA travel tryouts will be closed to the public.  The decision was made to align our evaluation process with the goals of the organization which is to provide a supervised baseball program that will be enjoyable, educational, and challenging for our youth.

Parents can assist players with check-in and return to Westwood Park when the tryout is over or return to their vehicle in the parking lot for the duration of the evaluation. MYBA coaches, board members, and associates will be onsite to ensure a positive and safe tryout experience for the players. We believe this direction removes potential player distractions and stresses that result from open tryouts and aligns with other sports programs in the area.

Players are only required to attend one tryout but are encouraged to attend both.  Participants are not to wear any previous Morton Travel uniforms or hats. Players should bring their own glove, bat, and batting helmet (if you do not own a batting helmet, extras will be available for use upon request). 

Please arrive 15-20 minutes early to check-in and warmup.

Players need to be pre-registered for tryouts.  Click the link below to sign up if you haven’t done so already:

https://forms.gle/sZX5oG3BySdCF34E8

Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns (see contacts below). Thank you!

MYBA Board of Directors

Jason Vallar: jvallar9@gmail.com

Luke Parnham: parny1@me.com

Congratulations to the newly elected MYBA Directors for 2023:

Funraising Director - Steve Smith

Field Maintenance Director - Josh Hermann

Registration Director - Ryan Luginbuhl

Equipment Director - Rob West

Indoor Cage Director - Tony O'Brian

Tournament Director - Chad Bell

Treasurer - Chris Sharp

Vice President - Luke Parnham

For anyone interested, we still have openings for Umpire Director and Concessions Director.  Please reach out to any of the current MYBA Executive Board members.

Congratulations to the following who were named as Travel Lite coaches for the 2023 season:

8U: Axel Larson

9U: Josh Hermann

10U: Ryan Luginbuhl

11U: Ryan Komenkiewicz

12U: Drew Pershing

13U: Justin Bryant

14U: Curt McQuellen

Travel evaluations for the 8U-14U age groups will take place in the coming weeks.  We hope to have the evaluation dates finalized and posted within the next few days.  Please be on the lookout for further communication that will be sent out with those dates.  

Pre-registration for Travel Lite evaluations is currently open for the 2023 season.  All players will NEED to be pre-registered prior to tryouts.  You can register using the following link:

https://forms.gle/sZX5oG3BySdCF34E8

2023 Travel Lite Coaches Needed! If you are interested in Coaching a MYBA Travel Lite team next year, please contact Travel Director, Brayton Boss via email at braytonboss@yahoo.com. Travel Lite age groups will be 8U, 9U, 10U, 11U, 12U, 13U, and 14U (Lite/Heavy combo) for the 2023 season. If you have any questions, please reach out Brayton Boss, or any member of the MYBA Board of Directors.

MYBA Executive Board

Please ignore the previosu emails, we accidentally omitted some information.

Morton Youth Baseball Association will be holding tryouts for our Travel Lite teams for the 2023 season in the coming weeks.  If your child is interested in trying out for an MYBA Travel Lite team you will need to sign up before tryouts using the link below.  This will be used for check-ins at tryouts and as pre-registration should your child make the team.

14U will be a combined Heavy/Lite team for 2023.

Anyone interested in being a head coach for a Travel Lite team for the 2023 season should reach out to our Travel Director Brayton Boss.

Here are the teams for MYBA Travel Lite based on the grade they will be in during the 2022-23 school year:

8U - 2nd grade (and 1st graders who have had at least 1 year of coach pitch)

9U - 3rd grade

10U - 4th grade

11U - 5th grade

12U - 6th grade

13U - 7th grade

14U - 8th grade

Travel Lite coaches will be elected at the next board meeting on September 12th.  Tryout dates will be posted shortly after this meeting but could start as early as Thursday, September 15th.

Here is the link below to sign your child up:   

https://forms.gle/aYK45kDKzwwmqFAT7

Players must be a Morton resident or attend Morton schools to be eligible to try out for an MYBA travel team.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to our Travel Director, Brayton Boss, at  .

We are seeking volunteers for the following MYBA Board of Director Positions for 2022-23, elections will be held at the September Board Meeting:

Vice President

Treasurer

Indoor Cage Director

Equipment Director

Field Maintenance Director

Findraising Director

Umpire Director

Tournament Director

Registration Director

If you have any interest in these positions, please reach out to Dave Hoffman, Jason Vallar or Mike Mckie.  We are more than happy to answer any and all questions.

If you plan to submit your name for consideration, please email Mike McKie (mjmckie96@gmail.com) as soon as you can, but no later than Friday, Sept. 9.

We wanted to provide a quick update on a potential MYBA Fall Baseball option, since we have received a lot of questions and interest.   Right now we are exploring options for  days, and age groups for a potential MYBA Fall Baseball league, that would be 6-7 weeks long.  

We can tell you that we will not be offering an option for 13 &14 year olds due to fields 5 & 6  being completely booked for Jr. High baseball season.  There will also not be a high school option, as those 2 fields will be undergoing routine maintenance this fall.  Leagues would most likely be comprised of 7-8 year olds, 9-10 year olds, and potentially even 11-12 year olds. depending on the level of interest.

If we did offer a fall league, it would be a more informal league option like we have done in the past, there would be no standings or end of season tournament, just 6-7 weeks of baseball, at a reduced registration rate.  

While we would like to be able to offer an option to those boys who are interested in playing fall baseball, we will need a lot of volunteer help to do so.  A lot of us on the Executive Board will have kids playing Jr High baseball, or helping coach football or even Jr. High baseball, so we will need as much help to run this as we can get.   We will need at least 1-2 volunteer parents to oversee each league, as well as head coaches and assistant coaches.   Please take the time to fill out the following survey, we will need answers no later than next Monday at 4:00PM, prior to our monthly board meeting so that we can vote on how best to proceed.   

Fall League Volunteer Survey:  https://forms.gle/WGh1XnBLweS1MZZa8

If you have any questions, please reach out to an MYBA board member for more information.

Thank you,

MYBA Executive Board 

Morton Youth Baseball Association will be holding tryouts for our Travel Heavy teams for the 2023 season in the coming weeks.  If your child is interested in trying out for an MYBA Travel Heavy team you will need to sign up before tryouts using the link below.  This will be used for check-ins at tryouts and as pre-registration should your child make the team.

Here are the teams for MYBA Travel Heavy based on the grade they will be in during the 2022-23 school year:

9U - 3rd grade

10U - 4th grade

11U - 5th grade

12U - 6th grade

13U - 7th grade

14U - 8th grade

Travel Heavy coaches will be elected at the next board meeting on August 8th.  Tryout dates will be posted shortly after this meeting but could start as early as Wednesday, August 10th.

Here is the link below to sign your child up:   

https://forms.gle/eLoWHeXifaVUX4rv6

Players must be a Morton resident or attend Morton schools to be eligible to try out for an MYBA travel team.

If you have any questions please feel free to reach out to our Travel Director, Brayton Boss, at  .

Hello, we want to thank everyone who helped make the 2022 Morton Youth Baseball Association season such a huge success.  This year was our biggest year of enrollment ever, and it took almost literally a village to pull everything together.  We truly hope that all of the kids and families enjoyed the season, that the kids had fun playing baseball, and that they are excited to play again next year!

With that said, we would like to invite everyone to participate in our 2022 End of Season Survey, as part of this, we are exploring the possibility of offering fall baseball again this year.   This is obviously a time sensitive situation, so if you do have any interest in playing this fall, please fill out the survey as soon as you can.  

Here is the link: https://forms.gle/8QAc7s7VWM2LSwPSA 

We also want to thank all of the our board members, our volunteer coaches and assistant coaches, our concessions staff, our field crew, our sponsors, and all of the family members who made this all possible this summer!

Thank you for a great year, and we look forward to another great year next year!