Hi all!! This is my first post, although I've been reading this great baseball forum for a couple of weeks now.
Situation:
My son and three other 8th. graders' were invited a couple of weeks ago to play on a Colt team comprised of returning high school players of the local high school. The high school in question lost their first CIF playoff game, so they are done for the year.
These 14 year-olds' are also playing for the local little league which feeds the high school with players. All of the 14 year-olds' will be going to this high school in September.
All of the 14 year-olds' will be graduating on June 22 of this year.
This particular Colt league allows 14, 15 and 16 year-olds to play.
The coaches of this Colt league are coaches of record of the high school they will be going to.
When my son got invited to play with this team, we were pretty excited. It was quite an honor to be selected. We played three games with this Colt league and ready to play the 4th. game when the s**t hit the fan!!
It seems one of the parents of our Little League team, whose son is also an 8th. grader, but did not get invited to play with the the "big boys", called the CIF Southern Section and stated it was a "recruiting violation" for allowing the 8th. graders' to play with high school players!!
Well, I guess it's true, because they told us we had to quit the team and gave us our sign-up check back when we arrived to play our 4th. game.
What gets me, is that this disgruntled parent of the son who wasn't invited, plays on three different teams already. No way would he have been able to play for this team!! She just should have minded her own business and stayed out of it!! But no, her jealousy cost us a great chance to get our kids' some experience playing on the next level.
Sorry for the long post, but I just had to vent!!
Can anybody quote the so called "recuiting violation" rule?
Thanx, Garry
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