Baseball: Avon expansion team expected to be called Lake Erie Crushers
Shaun Bennett | The Chronicle-Telegram
The new Avon professional baseball team has a name, and it appears the team will be known as the Lake Erie Crushers.
Team spokeswoman Nicolle Meyer said Avon Professional Baseball had a winner in the “Name Your Team” contest that has ran for the last six weeks on their Web site, but she said the official release of the team name won’t happen until a news conference at Avon City Hall on
Dec. 4 at 1 p.m.
But a domain search of all available combinations between the listed locations and mascot names revealed just two possibilities had been procured. LakeErieWalleyes.com is a fishing charter Web site, meaning the new baseball team will probably be known as the Lake Erie Crushers.
Avon Pro Baseball purchased the domain name LakeErieCrushers.com on Oct. 17, and will own the rights to the Web site until Oct. 17, 2018, according to GoDaddy.com, Inc.’s WHOIS database. According to GoDaddy.com, the domains LakeErieCrushers.net and LakeErieCrushers.org have also been purchased by Avon Pro Baseball.
“I’m not sure who purchased the (domain) names out of our front office group, but I don’t have a comment at this time,” Meyer said.
The contest, begun on AvonProBaseball.com on Oct. 6, drew over 800 entries from fans. The team’s judging panel then whittled the choices down to five location names — Lake Erie, Cleveland, Avon, Ohio and Lorain County — and seven mascot titles — Groove, Crushers, Red Tails, Artichokes, Ironmen, Walleyes and Woolies — and posted those on their site on Oct. 21 for fans to choose from.
Although it’s uncertain if the second listing of names decided the team’s final choice, the contest’s official rules said the secondary vote, “may or may not determine the winner.”
Contact Shaun Bennett at 329-7137 or sbennett@chroniclet.com.
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Filed by Shaun Bennett | The Chronicle-Telegram November 26th, 2008 in Sports. Popularity: 2% |
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