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read moreThe following 10 teams are entered:STD15UV15RR15GBR-Red15 (has withdrawn per Tom Litz)GBR-Blue15TCB15NISKY15OLDB15BRWK15NCP15(NOTE: The EI/ENYTB League Championship Tournaments at 13U, 14U and 16U were canceled due to insufficient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 moreTo 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 moreNon-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...
read moreTo 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 moreOne 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 moreMoments 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 moreTo: 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...
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