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Friday, March 1, 2013

SOCCER

BAC registration open

The Bedford Athletic Club Rec Soccer program is now open for spring 2013 registration. All age groups are welcome to register. Registration will remain open until April 15. The season starts right after spring break and runs until June 14.

To register, visit www.
bedfordrecsoccer.org and click on ?register online? at the home page.

BSL holding registration

The Bedford Soccer League and NHPSA are holding registration for Bedford Rec Spring 2013 Soccer. BSL has been running the recreation soccer program in Bedford since 1978, and 2012 saw the 34th Bedford Fall Rec Season as well as the addition of the first Spring Rec Soccer Program. With almost 300 players at age groups from preK-third grade, it?s back for 2013.

This year the program will expand to include fourth- and fifth-grade players. For more information, or to register online, please visit www.nhpsa.net. Anyone with questions, or anyone interested in volunteering as a coordinator, coach or in sponsorship opportunities, please contact Mark Beaumont at mbeaumont@nhpsa.net.

FOOTBALL

Jags registration nights

The Bedford Jaguars will be holding registration nights on March 5 and March 19 from 7-9 p.m. at McKelvie Intermediate School in Bedford. All registration details can be found on the Jaguars? website, www.bedfordjaguars.org.

Jr. Bulldogs holding event

The Bedford Jr. Bulldogs football and cheer programs will be holding a 2013 kickoff event from 6-8 p.m. on March 12 at the McKelvie School cafeteria. For more information, go to www.juniorbulldogs.org.

Jr. Bulldogs get
new helmets

The Bedford Jr. Bulldogs Football and Spirit Association, the local Pop Warner organization, announced it will invest up to $40,000 in new Riddell 360 helmets utilizing exclusive HITS technology. Riddell, one of the primary helmet makers in the industry, has created the Riddell 360, a new helmet with the primary goal of improving the health of football players.

The primary piece of technology is a hexagonal liner system inside of the helmet that is made up of energy managing materials, which, coupled with strategically-placed face mask hinge clips, help to reduce forces from frontal impacts. In terms of reducing concussions, there?s not a whole lot more that football player needs than the reduction of those impactful blows.

Virginia Tech does a series of helmet ratings, designed to assess a football helmet?s ability to reduce the risk of concussion, and in a recent examination of the 360, the study concluded that it and other new helmet technology performed best among the helmets they tested with the 360 receiving a five-star rating.

?We are very excited to provide this new technology in an effort to reduce concussions, reduce the forces of side impacts, and advanced frontal protection in a youth football helmet.? Bedford Jr. Bulldogs football equipment coordinators, Bill Kramer and Steve Krasinski said. ?Similar to any sport with contact, the Jr. Bulldogs view concussion issues very seriously.?

Shaun Kelley, President of Bedford Jr. Bulldogs football add, ?Our organization wants to do everything possible to keep our children as safe as possible while they learn and enjoy the sport of football.?

Fund raising is now under way to raise additional money needed to purchase these new helmets for every player in the Bedford Jr. Bulldogs Organization regardless of age level. The Bedford Jr. Bulldogs invites anyone interested in seeing the next evolution Riddell 360 football helmet to attend our upcoming 2013 Kick-Off Event.

Source: http://www.cabinet.com/bedfordjournal/bedfordsports/995315-308/bedford-sports-talk.html

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