Calling Smyrna-Vinings Sports Fanatics

It's been wet this weekend, but hopefully it will be dry with plenty of sunshine for this coming Saturday’s opening day parade and games for the 2011 Smyrna Little League season.

Practices have been in full swing and soon the home plate umpire will be yelling, "play ball!''

Do you follow a favorite team? Is your son or daughter involved in little league? Smyrna-Vinings Patch wants to post your pictures, game scores and team news. we need your help.

This area is thriving with sports and we don't want to miss a thing. Coaches, and team moms and dads can easily post game reports, photos and videos. It's so simple that even students can post!

Here are easy instructions for posting your team's activity on Smyrna-Vinings Patch:

1. Register as a user. It's easy. No spam, we promise. Once done, you can post the practice and game schedule, fundraisers, and more to our Calendar of Events, and team news and scores to Announcements.

2. Let's talk about the Calendar of Events. Login, click on Calendar of Events. A form downloads. You fill out the form and upload any pictures.

3. Next, let's cover Announcements. Login, click Announcements. A simple form opens. A win, scores, a Most Valuable Player, Susie's homerun..... post the announcement. Add pictures, if you like.

Psst! Here's a really cool option to post games news and scores live: the Shout Box. It's the box on the upper right of the site that asks, 'What do you have to say?" Login, post game highlights and scores to the Shout Box as they happen. In real time.

Follow-up the Shout Box by creating an Announcement with the game highlights and pictures.

Have some fun with it and let's see and hear about those great (and not-so-great) plays!