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    Crash course in dropped-third strike, full stealing 12U town travel

    Thanks everyone for the feedback. I am a former D1 player, so yes, I know the rules already. This is my first year in our 12U league and I am only an assistant, so I had no idea about what rules were and were not in play. Honestly, I am not sure our head coaches even know how D3K works. We...
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    Crash course in dropped-third strike, full stealing 12U town travel

    I am assistant coach for a relatively inexperienced 12U town travel team. We just found out that tournament we are playing in this weekend is using full high-school rules, including unlimited stealing and dropped third, two things most of these girls have never seen before. While I understand...
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    "Natural" curve ball?

    10 year old DD has just started pitching the 12-inch ball in 12U rec games. She still pitches the 11-inch ball for her club team, so she practices with both. It's not really an issue, but I don't know if this factors in. In general she seems to have a lot more spin on the ball than the other...
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    Psat

    This fall was the first administration of the new PSAT. This March will mark the first administration of the new SAT. While in theory, the logic of the percentiles following each other makes sense and pretty much ran true to form for the old SAT, no one has any data for the new SAT, so it is...
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    How much to increase bat size for a 10-year old?

    She has been facing kid pitch for 1.5 years and has played a year of 10U club at this point. She regularly faces (and hits well) pitches 35-45mph. I don't expect the pitching to change much for her next year, as she still has a year of 10U left. She'll also be playing rec and town travel at...
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    How much to increase bat size for a 10-year old?

    My 10-year old loves her CF6 Sprite (30/19) and is killing the ball with it. I bought it a year ago last august when she just turned 9 and it felt a little heavy to her, but by the following spring it wasn't too heavy and then she really started hitting this summer and now fall. So right now...
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    DD can hit against good pitching, but struggles against bad/slow...

    I have the same problem. I had a solid career hitting the fastest stuff and even in my old age, can drill fastpitch balls in a cage. However I only play slow pitch myself now. During the season, if I take my daughter to the cages and dare to jump in to hit off fastpitch to show off, I am...
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    Sharing bats?

    Thanks everyone. I certainly don't want to be seen as a miser, but bats *are* expensive! I have no problem with the girls trying it out to see if they like it, and really don't even mind them using it in a game (though I have seen too many girls slam their bats into fence posts during warm...
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    Sharing bats?

    I have a newbie question. DD is 10 and on a newly formed 10U team. Great team, great coach, great parents, no complaints. I am new to parenting a softball player, but played in college myself a hundred years ago. I know the game, but am by no means an expert on equipment or the club softball...
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