When Brad Tice moved to Little Egg Harbor about a year ago, his daughters, Ivy and Emma, had been playing recreation softball in Waretown.

“I was looking around for a travel organization, and there weren’t any for kids under 10,” he said this past Sunday at Frog Pond Elementary School, as his Jersey Shore Ospreys 8-and-under team’s players arrived for practice. “So it was time to start one.”