Tournament Rules

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  • Base Rules: HS Federation Rules
  • Substitution Rule: HS Federation Rules
  • Mound Visits: HS Federation Rules
  • Metal bat
  • No new inning for 1 hour 50 minutes 
  • Home/Away: 
    • Pool Play: Coin flip each game
    • Championship: Higher seed is home 
  • Mercy rule
    • 7 inning game
    • 12 runs after 3, 10 after 4, 8 runs after 5
    • Equal number of at bats 
  • Seeding tie breakers 
    • Head to head
    • runs allowed
    • run differential 
  • Batting:
    • Teams may bat as many players as they’d like. No restrictions on lineup length
    • The use of the Extra hitter will be optional 
  • Speed up rule:
    • Managers discretion at any time for the catcher and pitcher. Runner must be last batted out 
  • Pool play games can end in a tie