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Welcome back for the 86th year of SHBL baseball
May 2019
With Opening Day games rained out last weekend, the 2019 SHBL regular season campaign will kick off on Tuesday May 21st, 2019; the defending SHBL Champion Bain Excavating Rockies will play Gerard Farrell Excavating Melrose Shamrocks at 6:15 pm on Jim Uens Field, in a rematch of last years SHBL final series. The late game will feature the 2018 Regular Season pennant winners Maclan Designs and the Read Young Guns at 8:30pm.
The Tyendinaga Mudhens and Parkhurst Pirates will start their season on Wednesday May 22nd at 6:15 pm on Thornton Portt Field.
Meanwhile Uens Pole Line will face off with Melrose Tal Trees on Thursday May 23rd at 6:15pm on Jim Uens Field.
The SHBL executive and league representatives have voted and decided on the following changes for the 2019 Season:
Here's to another exciting year of SHBL baseball!
With Opening Day games rained out last weekend, the 2019 SHBL regular season campaign will kick off on Tuesday May 21st, 2019; the defending SHBL Champion Bain Excavating Rockies will play Gerard Farrell Excavating Melrose Shamrocks at 6:15 pm on Jim Uens Field, in a rematch of last years SHBL final series. The late game will feature the 2018 Regular Season pennant winners Maclan Designs and the Read Young Guns at 8:30pm.
The Tyendinaga Mudhens and Parkhurst Pirates will start their season on Wednesday May 22nd at 6:15 pm on Thornton Portt Field.
Meanwhile Uens Pole Line will face off with Melrose Tal Trees on Thursday May 23rd at 6:15pm on Jim Uens Field.
The SHBL executive and league representatives have voted and decided on the following changes for the 2019 Season:
- It will be a 20 game regular season. Unfortunately the Shannonville Hawks were unable to field a team this year, so the league is down to 8 teams. Each team plays each other three times. Each player must play in 5 regular season games to be eligible for playoffs.
- The Playoff format will be changed this year. The top 3 teams from the regular season will make the playoffs and compete for the Thornton Portt Memorial Championship trophy as League Champs. The 4th and 5th place team will playoff in a one game wildcard game at the end of the Regular Season to determine entry into the 2019 Playoffs. The winner of this game joins the top 3 teams in the playoffs. The remaining 4 teams will playoff for the SHBL "B" Championship similar to what the league has done in past years.
- There has been some discussion over the past number of years about transitioning to wood bats. This year the league has imposed a mandatory minimum bat length to weight ratio of -3, meaning the if the bat is 34 inches long it cannot be any lighter than 31 ounces (33in/30oz, 32in/29oz). The batdrop must clearly be marked on the bat, to be clearly visible to the umpire upon inspection. Any illegal bat discovered will be removed from the game.
- The league will be having a 4-person best ball golf tournament again this year on Saturday July 13th, 2019, hosted by Cal Dunville and family at Briar Fox Golf & Country Club in Marysville. The cost for 18 holes with a cart and dinner will be $70 per person (only $20 for any Briar Fox Club members). Please contact Bat or utilize the Email us portion of this website to book your spot or foursome team.
- The league is also pleased to welcome Adam Dutton to the League Executive as Vice President and Brad Casey as the Umpire-in-Chief.
- The Regular Season schedule will be uploaded to the website upon its completion.
- The next SHBL meeting will be Monday June 10th at 7pm at the Tyendinaga Rec Hall.
Here's to another exciting year of SHBL baseball!
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