Summary of MSHSAA Baseball Advisory Committee
Held June 5, 2008
** 1. Recommend that beginning with the 2010-2011
school year for a two-year experiment that Class 4 be divided into 32 districts
and that the district tournaments be double elimination, then four district
winners play in eight regionals with double elimination, then four
super-regionals with two teams each play a best two-out-three series, then four
teams advance to the finals with single elimination.
The
dates for the state tournament levels would be as follows:
Districts
– Thursday-Tuesday Week #45-#46
Regionals
– Thursday-Tuesday Week #46-#47
Super-regionals
– Thursday-Saturday Week #47
Finals
– Friday-Saturday Week #48
It is
recommended that this item be taken to the 2008-2009 area meetings as an item
for discussion
** 2. Recommend that MSHSAA By-Law 326 a1 and c1 be
amended to increase the number of allowable contests by two games in each of
the three options: 22 games (now 20) and
1 tournament, 20 games (now 18) and 2 tournaments, or 16 games (now 14) and 3
tournaments, be taken to the 2008-2009 area meetings as an item for discussion.
3. Recommend that the MSHSAA follow the lead of
the National Federation regarding the use of metal baseball bats in
interscholastic competition.
*** Amend: Recommend that the MSHSAA continue to follow
the NFHS Baseball Rules Book regarding the use of metal and/or wood bats in
interscholastic competition.
** Tabled
for further study
*** Approved as
amended