Servicing all of Portsmouth, Chesapeake and Northern Suffolk
(Note: Unless noted otherwise, these changes apply to all divisions of baseball and softball)
POLICIES
Residency Eligibility Requirements: Added language to strengthen the policy, including adding a date of February 1 to establish residence for eligibility.
REGULATIONS
Regulation I: Added language that would prohibit league president from resigning in an effort to be tournament team coach, after January 1.
Regulation I – Senior League Softball: Added language allowing Senior Softball Divisions to be chartered at the District level. (This change applies to Senior League Softball only.)
Regulation III – Tee Ball: Added language allowing local leagues to accept league-age 4-year-olds, and reduces the maximum age permitted in the Tee Ball Division to league-age 7.
Regulation IV – Major and Junior Softball Divisions: Added language allowing 12-year-old softball players to play in the Major and/or Junior divisions of softball, if drafted at the same time. Requests for league-age 12-year-olds to participate as pool players (to be move up occasionally to the Junior Division) must be approved by the Charter Committee in Williamsport. (This change applies to Major League Division Softball and Junior League Softball only.)
Regulation VI: Added language prohibiting the catcher from pitching if he/she caught in (4) four or more innings. (This change applies to baseball divisions only.)
Regulation VI – Junior and Senior Baseball: Added language to prohibit players from pitching in more than (1) one game in a day if they exceed 30 pitches in the first game. (This change applies to Junior League Baseball and Senior League Baseball only.)
Regulation IX (f): Added language allowing Tournament Teams to participate in Special Games after June 15th.
Regulation XIII: Added language to preclude an individual or league from receiving compensation for requiring players to use or wear a certain item.