Pittsfield Park District adds flag football
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By BETH ZUMWALT
The Pittsfield City Council learned of a new addition to the Pittsfield Park Board list of programs at their Feb. 4 meeting.
Flag football will be coming to Pittsfield the end of March and will conclude the first of May.
Games will be played Sunday afternoons on the soccer fields at the Pittsfield Lake.
“The program is ran through the NFL,” Gary Mendenhall, Mayor of Pittsfield said. “It is for boys and girls, kindergarten through eighth grade.”
A registration fee will get each participant a reversible jersey, and flags and for every number of shirts ordered, the NFL will donate footballs that are smaller than regulation size. Scholarships are available.
Dalton Barnes, Saukee variety football coach and Justin Poor, organizer of the Pike County
Soccer league will be in charge of the program with freshmen and sophomore Saukee football players serving as referees and junior and senior players serving as coaches. The Saukee coaching staff and members on the park board will also help with the games.
The field will be 50 yards with two end zones.
“Teams will be five on five and can either pass or run the ball until they are inside the 10,” Mendenhall said. “Then they must pass the ball.”
Mendenhall said Barnes was affiliated with the program in his previous employment and has a child growing up. He has had the training and is well qualified to be the commissioner of the league.
Registration forms were distributed to the schools Monday, Feb. 2 and within two days, 60 had returned registrations.
Mendenhall said there would be concessions at the games and proceeds would benefit Saukee football.
“We are going to call it “Faith, Family and Friends,” Mendenhall said.
In other news Mendenhall reported the transition to the new part of city hall is going smooth and the outside and replacement of the upstairs windows remain to be done.
“We are looking for furniture now,” he said.
The city will be starting on the budget process soon, according to Mendenhall and hope to have it completed by May 1, the beginning of the city’s budget year.
“We are mainly under budget in spending this year,” Mendenhall said.
The city has had four water main breaks since the cold weather and all have been able to be fixed in record time.
