2012 Junior High Baseball Rules

 

  1. All Players must be a full time student at the school for which they are playing.  Small Catholic Schools may combine if their numbers are to low.
  2. Students must maintain a 1.5 G.P.A.
  3. Any student with 2 F’s on his report card for the 6 weeks prior to baseball season will be ineligible.  A student must satisfy eligibility with the next report card to become eligible.
  4. Students must attend school at least ½ day on game days.
  5. Official practice may not begin prior to Jan. 9th.
  6. N/A
  7. Any player who turns 15 for 8th Grade Teams & 13 for 5th & 6th Grade teams prior to Sept. 1st will be ineligible.  THIS IS THE SEPT. 1ST @ THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR!
  8. We will play high school rules with the exception of the following:

a.)    A minimum bat weight of 9 oz. length to weight differential, Must be a big barrel bat 2 5/8” No little league type bats are allowed.  This is for 8th grade teams only.

b.)    Our Jr. High Pitching rules will be used see below

c.)    Games will be 6 innings or 1 hr 45 min for 6th grade, 7th and 8th grade will play 7 innings or 1 hour 50 minutes which ever comes first.  No new inning will start with 10 min left in the game.

d.)    JV teams will have free substitution rules.

  1. All teams will have gate duty.  That team is responsible for paying the umpires ($55 per game) Also a Field Fee of $25 per field used that night. A schedule will be posted.
  2. Game balls will be furnished by the home team of each game.
  3. Admission will be $4.00 for adults $2.00 for students.  All coaches will be admitted to any game free.
  4. Balks- 5th, 6th, & 7th Graders Dead Ball- Each pitcher will receive 1 warning per game.  On the 2nd incident that game by the same pitcher will be an out.  8th grade is playing High School Rules.
  5. The home team is responsible for the Score Book.  This saves each school $25 on the night they have the gate.  Please get book from concession stand and return after your game.  This is where we get scores from so please return.

 

Pitching Rules

  1. A calendar week is from 12:01 a.m. Monday to 12:00 midnight the following   Sunday.  A pitcher is charged with the number of innings pitched regardless of whether they are the resumption of suspended games, or games ruled no contest.
  2. Any pitcher who is removed from the mound shall not be allowed to return to the mound.
  3. A pitcher MUST have forty (40) hours rest after pitching in more than four (4) consecutive innings regardless of the calendar week. 
  4. The max innings a pitcher can pitch in a week is 7 innings in 1 Calendar week.  The most a pitcher can pitch in one (1) game is 7 innings.  If you have 3 games per week the max in a week is raised to ten (10) innings, 4 games eleven (11) innings.  (40 hours rule will still apply)
  5. Innings are based on outs made while pitching Example: pitcher gets two (2) outs in the first inning and is then pulled he will be charged with 2/3 of an inning.
  6. No game will be forfeited because of the violation of one of the pitching rules because it is the manager’s responsibility to both know the rules and ascertain the eligibility of the opposing pitcher prior to each game.  If however an ineligible pitcher is used during the course of a game, he shall upon the protest of the opposing manager, be immediately replace on the mound by an eligible pitcher and all occurring while the ineligible pitcher was on the mound shall become official.  The ineligible pitcher will further become ineligible from pitching in team’s next game. That he would have been eligible to pitcher.  The manager will be ineligible to participate in the team’s next game.  A forfeit shall not be considered to be a game to determining the next game that a pitcher would be eligible to pitch or a manager to coach in.  The discovery of an ineligible pitcher may be made and the aforementioned penalty imposed up to one-half (1.2) hour prior to the scheduled time of the team’s next game.  NOTE:  For the purpose of determining a violation of a pitching rule, an ineligible pitcher shall violate the rules only when he throws a pitch to a batter in an inning, not when he takes warm up pitches.

 

 

Each team must provide their own insurance to play in the league. 

The fee is $100 for entry into the league and payable to Alexandria Athletics  PO Box 6142 Alexandria La 71307.

If it is your gate night the payment of the umpires and field fee is your teams responsibility. Please have someone at the gate in plenty  of time.