A sports net assembly for allowing users who play sports that require a goal to replace damaged netting without disassembling an entire net. The cleat member includes an outer layer formed from a first material and an inner layer formed from a second material. The invention also relates to a procedure for the control of the velocity. In another embodiment the flexible polymer substrate comprises poly. The disclosed methods and systems may be used in conjunction with adaptive character recognition training and word recognition training of the OCR engines.