Hitmen fundraiser helps Strikers baseball

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

The Langdon Little League Strikers baseball club is doing a ‘Night with the Hitmen’ fundraiser on March. 15 when the Calgary Hitmen take on the Lethbridge Hurricanes at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
The club is selling tickets to the game and proceeds raised will go towards new equipment and pitching mounds for the association.
“We certainly need a portable pitching mound because currently ours doesn’t fit the new standards that they have. Those things aren’t cheap, they’re around $4,000-$5,000 to get here,” said Denis Gosselin, Langdon Little League president. “We don’t need one, we need two or three to legitimize what we do. You can’t have older kids in there throwing on flat turf when they should be on a mound.”
The association knows it will not make much off of the fundraiser, but it is a great opportunity to watch great hockey.
“You hope something bigger becomes of it, we’re not making a fortune on this, it’s a good opportunity for us and we’re grateful for it,” said Gosselin. “It was one of the district-B teams is what it was. They kind of made an agreement with the Hitmen and everybody got an opportunity to be a part of it.”
Ticket sales could be better for the event as the purchases have been slow.
“We’ve only sold 23 tickets and we have to sell another 77. You get a night out, you get a voucher for a playoff game for a kid, and a good opportunity to go to another game,” said Gosselin.
Tickets are available for $20 each at the Mountain View Credit Union in Langdon or by logging onto www.strikersbaseball.ca and e-mail one of the representatives from the team.