RULES 
  

Rules/Format/Draw determined at meeting 6/9/02 

Rules that apply to all ages:

1) Age limits will be defined by the ASA rules. ASA Code

2) No varsity players will be allowed to participate. 

3) Players must have participated in at least 50% of the House league season.

4) Roster must have at least 11 players or the 11th position in the batting order is an out. (This rule is waived for Sunday)

5) Every player must bat in the order.

6) Unlimited substitutions - defensively.

7) Tournament will be 3 or 4 games.

8) Pitchers are limited to 3 innings until the 7th inning. One pitch counts as an inning.

9) Only 9 players play defense at one time.

10) Seeding for Sunday will be determined by the won and loss record after 2 games on Saturday. The tie breaker will be  head to head, runs against, run differential, runs scored,  and coin toss. 

11) Tie breaker Sunday. International tie breaker per ASA rules.

12) Max 5 runs allowed for 1st 4 innings. No run limit after 1 hour. 15 run slaughter rule after 4.

13) No new inning after 1:30. 

14) Sunday round robin/bracket winners will receive 18 individual trophies. Second place of championship bracket will receive 18 individual  trophies.


15) Home team is determined by a coin flip.

16) Teams will be placed in brackets by blind draw. Leagues with multiple teams entered will be drawn first to ensure that they are entered in different Brackets.

17) T-shirts $10 and pictures will be available. Show up early for 1st game to get team pictures.

18) The Ball will be yellow core .47.

Rules that apply to12U:

1) 12U will use 40' as the pitching distance.

Rules that apply to10U:

1) No stealing of home. Same as ASA rule.

2) Base runner can leave the base when the ball crosses home plate/foul line. Different from ASA rule. One warning per team.

3) No infield fly rule. Different from ASA rule.

4) 10U will use 35' pitching distance.

5) No dropped 3rd strike. Same as ASA rule.

6) Runner may not take second on a walk. Same as ASA rule.

7) Only one base on a steal. Runner is at risk to be pu2 out if she attempts to advance to another base. Same as ASA rule.