Provincial Baseball Championship

1.     DEADLINE DATES

Tournaments must be registered online at the MHSAA website at least one week prior to the tournament start date.

Online ROSTER is due by MAY 17. All teams must enter their roster online regardless of whether or not they will be attending the Provincial Championships.

Zone and Interzone playoffs must be completed by May 23.  Please inform the MHSAA as soon as your representative has been determined.

WILDCARD APPLICATIONS are due by MAY 22 at 1:00 pm sharp.  Wildcards are open to zone semi-finalists and finalists only.  Applications must include the following:

- Letter of intent to participate signed by the Principal.

- All Schools applying for a wildcard must pay a $25 non-refundable application fee.  Schools selected to play in a wildcard game will additionally be invoiced for the wildcard game fee of $125.  The school will then have 20 working days from the date of the invoice to pay the fee(s) or they will be subject to further sanctioning.

- All teams applying for a wildcard will have their season record taken from the MHSAA website.  Teams applying must ensure their online record accurately reflects all games played (league, exhibition, & tournament). Additionally, any team that participates in an out of province tournament or exhibition game must email greg@mhsaa.ca with the date, opponent(s) and scores of those games by the deadline above.

If your application does not include the letter of intent, and/or is late, the application will not be considered.  Wildcard game date and location will be determined once the teams have been selected. Automatic wildcard spots may be awarded.  

SEEDING INFORMATION will be taken from the MHSAA website. All teams will have until MAY 24 to ensure their season record accurately reflects all games played throughout the season. Additionally, any team that participates in an out of province tournament or exhibition game must email greg@mhsaa.ca with the date, opponent(s) and scores of those games by the deadline above.

 

2.     FORMAT & RULES

A) FORMAT: both the boys and girls championship will be twelve (12) team round robin with four (4) pools of three (3).  There will be a championship play-off with no consolation.

B) RULES: Baseball Canada (18U A category) and Softball Canada (U19 category) rules will be in effect.  Special playing rules approved by the MHSAA will take precedence over playing rules in the official rule book.

It is expected that all teams attend Opening Ceremonies and related functions. Non-attendance may result in fines, and/or further sanctions against the school.

Uniform Rule: Style and colour of uniform must be consistent throughout the team. Each team must have matching caps (no commercial advertising allowed on them) and shirts with clearly visible numbers on the shirts.  (No commercial or ‘club’ shirts permitted.) Coaches must wear school team cap.

Coaches should be advised that if the uniform rule is not adhered to, the team may not be allowed to compete and may be fined up to $200.  The school may also be put on probation (probation being that if the school violates the infraction again, the school may be fined $200 and be suspended from all MHSAA activities).

Advertising on uniforms must adhere to guidelines as outlined on pages 136-137.

The maximum number of coaches, trainers, etc. allowed on the bench will be 4.

Pitch Count is in effect for high school baseball.

All games will be seven (7) innings with 10-run rule after five (5) innings.

The following procedure will be used to break any ties in the pool following the completion of pool play:

Two Teams Tied - Round-robin winner in game between tied teams shall advance.

Three Teams Tied for first- When three teams are tied for first place in a round-robin draw the team with the best win-loss record in the game(s) played between or among the tied teams will place higher in the standings.  Following this, if the three teams are still tied for first place, one team will be awarded first place based on the three teams tied formula (as shown below).  2nd place will be determined by continuing on through the formulas as listed until the tie is broken.

Three teams tied formula (use these in the order they are listed)

1) Runs Against
Defensive Outs (= Lowest Ratio Advances) (Games between tied teams only)
Example:
Team A - 11    Team B - 1                 in 15 defensive outs
Team C - 9     Team A - 8                 in 21 defensive outs
Team B - 15   Team C - 13               in 21 defensive outs

                                                        Team A       Team B    Team C
Runs against                                      10                24             23
Number of defensive outs               36                36             42
Ratio                                                 0.278           .667          .548

In this example, Team A is declared first

2) Runs For
Offensive Outs (= Highest Ratio Advances) (Games between tied teams only)

3) Runs Against
Defensive Outs (= Lowest Ratio Advances) (All games included)

4) Runs For
Offensive Outs (= Highest Ratio Advances) (All games included)

5)Three-way coin flip.

NOTE: When a multiple tie occurs and is only partially resolved, the remaining ties will be resolved by continuing on with the remaining tie breaking priorities until all 5 priorities have been exhausted. In continuing, the statistics of all the originally tied teams are still used until all priorities have been applied.  Then and only then will the remaining tied teams return to priority number 1 and proceed though the order again.

 

3.     AWARDS 

The winner will receive the championship banner, championship t-shirt, and 1st place medals (16 each).  

The finalists will receive the finalist banner, and 2nd place medals (16).

For fast pitch only the third-place team will receive a plaque and bronze medals (16).

An all-star team along with a M.V.P. will be selected.

Schools with team rosters that exceed the allotted number of awards would be responsible for the cost of any additional awards required.