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PRE-GAME AND FIELD REGULATIONS

Teams are required to be present FORTY-FIVE (45) minutes before game time. Team managers and coaches will check-in and present current photo identification and Pitching Logs to site tournament director. Managers, not coaches, will then meet with the site tournament director before each game. Each team will provide three (3) regulation RS-T tournament baseballs along with the teams pitch count data sheet, Little League medical release forms, and four (4) copies of their lineup card. The line-up card must show first and last names for all players, as well as, the manager’s and coaches’ full names. The site tournament director shall go over the following:

1. If a manager is not on time, the site tournament director may proceed without the manager or team representative.
2. All fields are considered neutral. The coin flip shall decide home or visitor. The winner of the coin flip will have choice of home or visitor. Home team shall occupy the third base dugout; visitor shall occupy the first base dugout.
3. Forty five minutes prior to game, if the field is available, only personnel listed on the team roster will be allowed inside the fences, including dugouts. All other persons shall occupy the spectator areas. Managers, coaches or players may not leave the field after entering, without permission of the site tournament director.
4. Players may go to the outfield to stretch their bodies until thirty (30) minutes prior to game time if the field is available. No one is allowed on the infield until thirty (30) minutes prior to game time, and only after instructed to occupy the infield by the site tournament director.
5. All equipment shall be taken to the outfield until thirty-five (35) minutes before game time. No team may occupy dugouts unless instructed to do so by the site tournament director.
6. No later than thirty minutes before game time (provided fields have been prepared and are ready), teams will be on the field and have their equipment laid out in the dugouts.
7. No swinging of bats or batting practice during the last thirty (30) minutes prior to game time.
8. Thirty (30) minutes prior to game time, the site tournament director shall advise the visiting team that they may take infield practice for the next ten (10) minutes.
9. The site tournament director will give the original lineup card and the tournament pitch count data sheet to the scorekeeper, the duplicate lineup card will be given to the plate umpire. During the Plate Meeting with managers, following pre-game ceremonies, the plate umpire will confirm there have been no changes to the line-ups. If changes were made, they shall immediately be reported to the scorekeeper following the plate meeting. The plate umpire will then retain the original copy of the line-up card and present the third and fourth copies to the two opposing managers. Second copy goes to scorekeeper
10. At twenty (20) minutes prior to game time the home team may take infield practice.
11. The last ten (10) minutes are reserved for ceremonies and gro.und crews. When a team is not taking infield practice, they will remain in their dugout, not on the field.
12. At the end of the game it shall be the manager’s responsibility to retrieve their tournament pitch count data sheet from the tournament site director.

The site tournament director or the announcer shall make the welcoming speech.

The Announcer shall introduce the following personnel:

A. District Administrator, whether present or not.

B. Site Tournament Director.

C. League Presidents.

D. Team introductions (rotate players) one from each team starting with the visitors.

E. Umpires.

After introductions, the announcer shall ask for all to

PLEASE STAND FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OR PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND THAT ALL REMAIN STANDING FOR THE LITTLE LEAGUE PLEDGE.

Play the National Anthem or recite the Pledge of Allegiance, recite the Little League Pledge.

Have players, managers, and coaches meet at the mound with the umpires for game instructions.

START THE GAME

SITE TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR WILL BE A DISTRICT 28 STAFF MEMBER

ALL GAMES WILL BE PLAYED ACCORDING TO LITTLE LEAGUE REGULAR SEASON RULES WITH THE EXCEPTION IN MINORS WILL ONLY BAT NINE PLAYERS (NO CONTINOUS BATTING ORDER) AND ADHERE TO MANDATORY PLAY GUIDELINES OUTLINED IN REGULATION IV AND RULE 3.03.

A PITCHER’S ELIGIBILITY WILL BE DETERMINED BY THOSE GUIDELINES LAYED OUT UNDER REGULATION VI.

THE ABOVE IS DISTRICT 28 POLICY AND WILL NOT BE DEVIATED FROM WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR.

The Announcer shall not make any announcements while the ball is in play and shall not make calls such as balls, strikes, outs, fouls, etc. until first announced by the umpire.

In the event of a protest, before or during a tournament game, the following procedures shall be followed:

1. If a protest is lodged during the game, the umpires will confer alone on the field and give the protesting manager their interpretation. If the manager still protests, the plate umpire will confer with the site tournament director for a ruling. If the protesting manager is still not satisfied, the site tournament director, the plate umpire and both mangers will go to the phone where the site tournament director shall place a call to the district administrator for a ruling. The decision of the district administrator is final and binding.

1. District staff personnel are in charge of all tournament sites.
2. No glass containers are allowed in the dugouts.
3. No food items will be allowed in the dugout, including candy, sunflower seeds or gum (except for medial reasons).
4. No noise makers. (Includes but not limited to blow horns, whistles, plastic bottles with rocks/coins inside)
5. No smoking or drinking of beverages other than water or “ades” in plastic containers will be allowed in the dugout.
6. No ice chests or coolers will be allowed inside the park or tournament sites.
7. Rules and regulations will be observed at all times, starting forty five (45) minutes prior to the scheduled game time, by the site tournament director. If an infraction occurs forty five (45) minutes prior to the game or anytime during the game, appropriate actions shall be taken.
8. Managers and coaches shall not wear tank tops, shower shoes or cutoff trousers while on the field. Only appropriate attire will be allowed.
9. All players must be in full uniform when entering the field. Uniforms must be worn properly.
10. Only the rostered manager, up to two (2) rostered coaches and the rostered players are allowed on the field forty five (45) minutes prior to game time. Press personnel & photographers will only be allowed on the field with permission from the site tournament director.
11. Field ground rules will be issued by the umpire five (5) minutes before game time, in the presence of all personnel involved in the game.
12. Managers and coaches shall remain in the dugout during the game and may not stand in the openings unless they are coaching. If coaching, they will remain in the coaches boxes at all times.
13. Managers or coaches shall not act as batboys. Only a player with a helmet may act as a batboy.
14. No pagers, cell phones or electronic devices will be allowed on the field or in the dugouts before or during the game. If a device is found before or during the game, the device will be confiscated by the site tournament director until the game is over.
15. Only the manager, as listed on the roster, may communicate or converse with the site tournament director with regard to the team and play of the team, before or during the game. If the manager is not present or ejected from the game, the coach appointed shall take over control of the team and shall assume all rights of the manager.
16. Only the manager shall communicate with the umpire to obtain the current pitch count from the official scorekeeper.

Two defeats eliminate an entry. The losers of games in the Winners’ Bracket move into specific places in the losers’ bracket. The two teams that advance the farthest in each bracket meet for the championship. In the championship games, the games proceed until one team has two losses.