SNOWFLAKE/TAYLOR
SOFTBALL
REGISTRATION 2010
Registration Form
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Registration Deadline
1.
Deadline - Monday - May 10, 2010 by 4:30 PM.
Team rosters and entry fees will be accepted at the
Snowflake Town Hall. Checks should be made out to the
Snowflake/Taylor Recreation and Parks Department.
Teams will not be registered without their registration fee.
Teams will not be able to start play until their
roster has been submitted.
2.
Open to Snowflake and Taylor teams having at least 50% of
its players as residents. Teams from outside areas will be
considered depending on registration numbers.
LEAGUE CLASSIFICATION AND FORMAT:
1. Teams will be divided into the following
classifications:
A.
Men's Open League A, B & C, (boys 15 years or going into
10th grade and older) (includes equalizer status – see Rules
and Regulations)
B.
Women's Open League A & B (girls 15 years or going into
10th grade and older)
C.
Coed - (girls & boys 15 years or going into 10th grade and
older) (includes equalizer status – see Rules and
Regulations)
D.
Church Division: Young Women’s, Young Men’s, Women’s, Men’s
(includes equalizer status – see Rules and Regulations)
E.
The
S/T Recreation and Parks Department reserves the right to
adjust team ranking. Final team placement will be reviewed
at the end of league play to assure proper tournament
placement. A league will be discontinued should both
registration and team ranking fail to establish a sufficient
number of teams in any one league. Registration fees would
then be refunded on a prorated basis.
F.
Teams should use the highest ranking of its best 6 players
to determine which division they should enter. If a team
has 6 or more players that could be considered "A" then that
team should enter the "A" Division.
2.
Women's, Men's and Coed Leagues will have a double
elimination tournament at the end of round-robin league
play.
ENTRY FEE:
1. Women's and Men's City League - $350.00 (14 games and a
double elimination tournament).
2. Coed League - $215.00 (7 games and a double elimination
tournament).
3. Church Division - according to services rendered.
FORFEIT RULE:
1.
Game time is forfeit time, with a minimum of 8 players to
start league and tournament play. There will be no
automatic out for teams with less then 10 players. Batting
orders must be submitted in writing 10 minutes before
game time. At game time, teams must be on the field or in
the dugouts. The umpire will determine if both teams are
ready for regulation play. In league play a regulation team
can give a forfeiting team an additional 5 minutes to field
a team. This time will be considered as part of the
55-minute game time. Batting orders can not be changed once
turned in. Late players will be added to the end of the
order. Home team will be the first team listed.
SCHEDULE:
1. Teams must be prepared to play during the evenings,
Monday through Saturday.
2. Schedules are made for the whole season. Teams
are required to play when scheduled. No rescheduling
– no exceptions.
3. Rainouts will be rescheduled (time permitting) at
the end of league play. No rescheduling – no
exceptions.
INSURANCE:
Medical insurance is the responsibility of the team or
individual. The Snowflake/Taylor Recreation and Parks
Department does not carry team insurance. Insurance is
available through the ASA upon request.
SEASON:
May
24th through mid August, (depending on team turn
out, weather, etc.)
PLAYER ELIGIBILITY:
A
player may play with three teams. One team would have to be
in the Men’s/Women’s, the other in the Church League and the
third in the Coed League. (Example: A player could play City
A ball, Church ball and Coed ball, but not on another City B
or C team.)
ROSTERS:
1.
Fifteen player roster limit. Rosters must be submitted by
deadline. Additions and deletions must be made in person at
the ball fields.
2.
To be eligible for tournament play, a player must have
played with the same team for at least 3 games during
league play. Field supervisors will be checking off
games played on team rosters. Teams that
are forfeited to, or teams with canceled games, can count
the missed games if the games are not rescheduled. In order
for a forfeited game to count as one of the 3 games the team
forfeited to must submit a line up so that names can be
recorded into the score book. If a team is forfeited to and
a roster is not filled out, then that team will use the last
two game rosters as the roster for the missed game. A
player who is not on the rosters will not be able to count
the game for eligibility.
3.
Players can only change teams once during the season.
4.
A
player from one team can play for another team if the game
has been forfeited. If a player from one team plays on
another team, in a game that has not been ruled a forfeit,
then the eligibility rule has been broken and the game is
forfeited.
5.
Player full name - first and last must be submitted on
batting order line-ups.
CONDUCT:
1. There will be a display of good sportsmanship at all
times. Players, coaches, managers or other team members
will not make disparaging or insulting remarks to or about
opposing players, officials, spectators or commit other acts
that could be considered unsportsmanlike conduct. The
penalty for violations is prompt ejection of the offended
from the game. The offender must leave the dugout. At
the discretion of the umpire, a player committing a
first offense may be benched from the point of the
infraction and then for the next complete inning. A player
committing a second offense will be ejected from the game.
Ejected players must leave the dugout. A player, coaches,
managers or other team members who continue with
unsportsmanlike behavior shall leave the facility for the
remainder of the game. A game will be forfeited if the
player, coach, manager or other team member refuses to leave
the facility. A player, coach, manager or other team
members will be suspended from the league after their 2nd
ejection from a facility The umpire or field supervisor may
forfeit a game if team payers or their supporters exhibit
excessive public abuse in any form.
2.
Unsportsmanlike penalties:
·
Fighting – Offenders are ejected from all further play and
must leave the facility. Minimum suspension – one year.
Length of suspension in all future programs to be determined
according to the offender’s involvement in the incident.
·
Pushing – Offender is ejected from game. ( see Conduct 1,
results in a fight – see Fighting.)
·
Swearing – see Conduct 1.
·
Intimidating an umpire – Offender is ejected from the game
and must leave the facility.
3.
There will be no drinking of alcoholic beverages on
the premises.
4.
There will be no smoking or chewing tobacco on the
field or in the dugout.
5.
Suspensions in the church leagues will be handled through
church authorities.
PROTEST:
1. All league and tournament game protests must be made
by a team’s coach/caption to the field supervisor before a
game ends. Players should be able to confirm their
identification upon request by the field supervisors.
Rulings will be made after the field supervisor has had a
chance to check records and confer with umpires and the
league director. Players, who are at question, must be
cleared by the field supervisor before they leave the ball
park or the protest could be validated.
2.
All tournament game protests must be resolved before either
team’s next game. Umpires decision with possible
consultation with league officials, (see # 3), will be
final.
3.
Ruling on City League protest will be made jointly by the
field supervisor, umpires and the league director. Church
Athletic Directors will make rulings on church league
protest.
RULES AND REGULATIONS:
1. Games will be one hour long. No new inning
will start after 55 minutes of play. Time will be
checked after the third out of the last inning. Games can
be called after five innings if a team is ahead by 10 runs
and after two innings if a team is ahead by 20 runs.
Championship games - seven innings, with the
ahead rule changed to 15 runs after five innings and 25 runs
after two innings. If a game is tied in tournament play,
the last out will go to second base at the start of the
inning.
2. Batters will come to bat with a one and one count.
They will be allowed two strikes and three balls per
time at bat. Fouls will count as strikes. Strikes will be
awarded if pitched ball hits any part of the base and its
extension, and has a 6ft. to 12ft. arch measured from the
ground.
3. Singles or doubles will be awarded to players hitting
the ball over the right field fence in Snowflake. An out
will be declared on the 5th over the right field fence
single.
4. Games that are tied after seven innings will be played
off if the 55-minute rule has not come into effect.
5. If a team elects to bat only players who take the
field, (including EP), then that team can only substitute a
player back in once, in the same batting order, for who ever
took his/her place. If a team elects to bat all of its
players on the roster, then the substitution rule does not
apply.
6. Courtesy runners must be the last out, and are allowed
for any reason at any point during the inning – 1 per inning
per team.
7.
Equalizer Rule: All teams in all leagues
are playing equalizer games. In equalizer games no team can
be more than 2 out of the park home runs ahead of an
opponent. A third out of the park home run would count as
an out.
8. In case of inclement weather, playing conditions will
be decided at the game site.
9. In the event of rain or any other cause, which
prevents a tournament game from continuing, the game will be
resumed from the exact point of departure and will be
completed at the first opportunity, unless 5 inning rule is
in effect).
10. In games with only one umpire, the umpire may use the
field supervisor to assist with "leaving the base early"
calls.
11. No metal cleats allowed in any play.
12. Women's League will use an 11" ball and the men's will
use the 12" ball. The Coed League will use both.
13. Bats must be ASA certified and must not be included in
the ASA Banned Bat List. List will be posted at the fields.
14.
A base runner is not required to slide at home plate.
However if there is ANY contact between the
base runner and the catcher than the base runner is out.
Catchers can not deliberately cause contact in an attempt to
subvert this rule.
15.
Field supervisors and the league director shall have
complete authority in all situations not herein covered.
