The Bethlehem Eagles 18OL22, managed by Tim Bruculere. The Eagles clinched the berth last night virtue of a 2-0 win over runner-up, Brunswick Buckeyes 18 Red. The Eagles will join host Chatham Reds in the PONY Regional, to be held beginning July 25 in Chatham, NY. Gerry Patnode of the Columbia Patriots organization will be Co-Tournament Director an... read more

The following 10 teams are entered:STD15UV15RR15GBR-Red15 (has withdrawn per Tom Litz)GBR-Blue15TCB15NISKY15OLDB15BRWK15NCP15(NOTE: The EI/ENYTB League Championship Tournaments at 13U, 14U and 16U were canceled due to insufficient entries.) Hybrid Hosting Format - The first two rounds will be played on Tuesday through Friday nights, on the home fie... read more

To ALL Tournament Eligible Teams:(1) Please let me know ASAP if your team intends to accept a berth in next week's PONY13 or NABF14/PONY14 tournaments, if you win one. To say yes you must guarantee that if you win a berth to advance from this tournament, you will take it and go.Check website Tournament Board for dates and sites of progressive tourn... read more

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Non-playing forfeits shall be penalized as follows:Teams sometimes wrongly assume that non-tournament qualifying games can be canceled w/o penalty because they don't count in the competitions for tournament berths. This is NOT the case. Forfeit penalties apply to ALL league scheduled games equally. (The only exception is early in the season, when a scheduled game may conflict with a team's school baseball season and/or post-season. In such cases, requests for postponement should be granted as a non-weather postponement, provided the request was initiated at least 72 hours before the league game's scheduled start time.)The league prefers that teams provide their opponent AT LEAST a 7 to 10 day advance notice on all requested non-weather schedule changes, including forfeits. Postponement requests within 72 hours of the game's scheduled start time shall not be allowed, except for bad weather. Such games must be either played or forfeited, unless they qualify under the no harm, no foul cancellation provision. ----------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE #1: NO harm-no foul cancellations. When both teams are in agreement not to play or make-up a league game, neither party is harmed. Because neither party is harmed, a forfeit penalty shall NOT be assessed. This provision shall apply to non-tournament qualifying games. It shall also apply to tournament qualifying games, provided there is another game already scheduled between the same two opponents that can replace the "canceled" game to fulfill the must play requirements between the two teams. If there isn't, then this provision would not apply and the game would convert to a PASSED game 7 days after it was scheduled to be played if it isn't rescheduled or scored. PASSED games carry no forfeit penalty either but both teams would permanently forego any standings points for this "must play" game. (If a 3rd party team is disadvantaged from winning a tournament berth as a result of a PASSED game, the league can require the game to be played.) To effect the outcome of a no harm/no foul cancellation, teams go to the game on their schedule and click Update Game Status > No Harm/No Foul Cancellations > Request-----------------------------------------------------------------------Also, "late notice" forfeits i.e., when notice is within 72 hours of the game's scheduled start time, shall incur a more severe penalty. In addition, the penalty for a forfeit shall increase according to its frequency. The list below shows the schedule of penalties applicable to forfeits. 1st NPF this year ……3 days notice – warning #1……………………….less than 3 days notice - $502nd NPF this year ……3 days notice – warning #2……………………….less than 3 days notice - $1003rd NPF this year …… 3 days notice - $100 fine----------------------------less than 3 days notice - $150 4th NPF this year …… 3 days notice - $150 fine---------------------------less than 3 days notice - $200 fine5th NPF this year ……Loss of ALL post-season tournament eligibility.NOTE: Three non-playing forfeits in the same division shall disqualify a team from a berth award in that division. 6th NPF this year ……Team is indefinitely suspended from league participation.------------------------------Thus, any team that forfeits a 5th league game, regardless of whether any of those games are tournament qualifying games, shall be disqualified from ALL post-season tournament eligibility. A 6th non-playing forfeit of ANY league game shall result in the indefinite suspension of the offending team. In addition, whenever the offending team is the visiting team, it also shall be responsible for making its opponent financially whole for any reasonable and unavoidable expenses incurred as a result of this offense.All revenues from these fines shall be placed in an escrow account and 50% of this account shall be applied in to the cost of hosting sanctioned tournaments in the following year, thereby lowering league fees. The remaining 50% shall carry over to the next year and combined with any additional fines collected in that year and applied in similar fashion. It is assumed that once offending teams feel the pinch of these fines they will change their ways and these fines will become a dwindling source of league revenue in successive years but time will tell.

To All Teams:Common mistakes by teams during first week:(1) Mid-game Rain-Outs are RAIN-OUTS, NOT suspended games.Games that are rained out before the trailing team has 5 complete offensive innings are NOT suspended games. They are rain-outs and must be postponed and replayed from their beginning (unless teams agree to do otherwise). NOTE - W/o doc... read more

One of the goals at Extra Innings is to help teams continue their developmental efforts together for longer into the year. To accomplish this, EI has set up a special team training summer program, headed by Coaches Michael Hubbs and Virgil Chevalier. Together with other local college coaches, these two Extra Innings pro coaches have provided priva... read more

Moments ago I switched the league over to the new "situational-based" [UPDATE GAME STATUS] function. This replaces the old [postpone] and [reschedule] game functions. Every game on your schedule now has its own Update Game Status game function. This function allows you to keep current the status of every game on your schedule. Keeping your online s... read more

To: All 13/18U Teams,For those of you used to my long emails and wondering what is wrong, fear not, this one will make up for what you have been missing. I have put a major announcement at the very bottom to force you to read it all!As most of you know, the league schedule is usually completed by about now. However, this year, largely because of my... read more

[17U DIVISION NEWS]
22U and UNL = Wood Bat (Regular Season and NABF Post-season)AABC POST-SEASON = METAL/Wood17U and 18U = Wood Bat (Regular Season and NABF Post-season)AABC Post-season = Metal (last Year)PONY Post-Season = Metal/Wood16U = Metal/Wood Bats Except For NABF Post-season (incl PONY Sectional Tournament Only that we host because it is a double sanctioned ev... read more