- Jan 20, 2010
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There were two forfeits in our district this all-star season. One at the 12u level, one with the 10's ( different towns)
In both cases they could have rescheduled, even pushed it back a couple hours ( they were Sunday afternoon games) if they REALLY wanted to get the games in, but opted not to.
Not complaining, that's their prerogative, but I feel like they're missing the bigger picture. This year 1/3 of the leagues in our district that normally play didn't field teams this year ( and two of those towns brought back state championships the last 3 years) and I think part of the fallout from this season will mean the two towns above won't field teams next year.
They can have all the righteousness they like, but they continue pushing players away with decisions like this.
And in our case they knew of the conflict months ahead of time and tried to set the schedule around it. When rain screwed things up they would not push the games 2 days despite both teams remaining begging them to do so. I figured worst case is that they would double forfeit and we would win the title in a crappy way but in the first time in history the DQed teams for something other than a blatent roster violation.
It was total BS. We actually filed for an injunction and were able to talk to little league and found out the district completely lied to get us DQed. We thought they would fix it but I am sure after calling the district and region they circled the wagons and lawyered up to buy time. In the end the Judge agreed with us as to right and wrong but siad he could not tell little league what to do.
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