A BASEBALL club is looking for new players in preparation for re-entering the Northern Baseball League next season.
The club – which plays in the Northern Baseball League – was formed in 2011 as the Newton Aycliffe Spartans before changing its name in 2016 to County Durham Spartans.
The leaguencovers teams from Newcastle to Nottingham and Hull to Liverpool, with gamesnbeing played on Sundays from April to September.
The team’snfirst year in the AA Division of the League was 2012 and since then it hasnperformed well and won the AA Division of the league in 2015 and 2018.
Despite beingncrowned AA Division champions in 2018, the club almost folded when the numbernof players retiring or moving away from the area, left them with only fournregular players.Fortunately,nthe players that remained formed a committee to save the club with the aim ofnrecruiting a squad of new players and training during the 2019 season tonre-enter the league for the 2020 season.
With funding from Shildon Town Council and the County Durham Community Foundation the future of the club has been assured and all that is needed now is to find enough players.
Since the turnnof the year, a number of new players have joined and have been training everynSunday morning at the club’s home on one of the fields at the Shildon SunnydalenLeisure Centre.
