The BBA successfully filled its office-bearing positions at the AGM. Had they not been filled, it’s likely the 2016 season would have been abandoned.

Brendan Aikman has stepped up to the role of president, with other office bearers to be Cass Fuller (secretary), Gay Huggard (treasurer) and Trent Anglin (registration secretary). 

John Petri had accepted the role as vice-president, but has since resigned. Nominations are welcome.

“As far as we’re concerned it’s now business as usual as far as the season goes, which we’re looking forward to,” Aikman, 23, said on Thursday.

The season is slated to start on Sunday, April 17.

There were more than 50 people at the AGM, including Baseball Victoria general manager Ashley Blair and president Myles Foreman.

The AGM was held at the Golden Square Football-Netball Club rooms after the BBA’s headquarters at Albert Roy Reserve were last week gutted by fire.

BBA meetings will be held at Sports Focus this year, while games are expected to go ahead at Albert Roy Reserve – the home of the Scots and Falcons clubs – with portable toilet facilities.

Fuller says the BBA has banded together strongly in the wake of last week’s Albert Roy Reserve fire, and expects that to continue going forward.

“There’s a lot more camaraderie because of what has happened. It’s obviously not ideal that it takes something like this to bring everyone together, but it has and that’s a positive,” Fuller said.

The BBA is establishing an Albert Roy Reserve recovery committee.

The committee is likely to use the Newbridge Football-Netball Club’s rebuild of Riverside Park after it was destroyed by floods in 2011 as a source of information.

Meanwhile, it was announced at the AGM that Falcons’ Julie Jones would be inducted as a Baseball Victoria life member.