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Preseason trip

BU Bill UnderwoodMember
I am looking to take my high school baseball team south for a preseason trip next March (2012). We would like to go to mid to southern Virginia. I would be looking to play 3-4 games within close proximity to each other over a long weekend. We compete in the largest classification in PA.

Any interested parties, please let me know.

Thanks.
Bill Underwood
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Midlo DadMidlo Dad10,000+ posts
One obstacle you'll run into is that VHSL (public school) teams are limited to 20 regular season games. They don't have many openings to work with beyond their district schedule, a spring break tourney and maybe 1-2 other games tops. Also, the VHSL teams don't start their tryouts until around Feb. 20, so they typically don't start "real" games until mid-March at the earliest, some later than that.

That may make it adviseable to set this up with private school teams. They have more flexibility and they are also accustomed to playing Saturday doubleheaders and/or split doubleheaders. Plus most of them have their spring breaks not to coincide with Easter, but to coincide with college break weeks (at the start of March), which would make scheduling perhaps a bit easier.

There are several very high quality private school teams in the Richmond area, especially Benedictine, St. Christopher's and The Steward School. Down in and around Va. Beach you can get Greenbrier Christian and Cape Henry Collegiate among others who seem to be strong year after year. Up in Charlottesville, there's St. Anne's-Belfield ("STAB"), which is located very near UVA so that your guys could squeeze in a visit or maybe a UVA game while there.

Not trying to start a fight because surely I've failed to mention some of the top prep teams, but I hope this points you in the right direction. The main thing is, no matter how you go about it, you'd have to set up the games one opponent at a time.
D dblemup100+ posts
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Originally posted by Midlo Dad:
One obstacle you'll run into is that VHSL (public school) teams are limited to 20 regular season games. They don't have many openings to work with beyond their district schedule, a spring break tourney and maybe 1-2 other games tops. Also, the VHSL teams don't start their tryouts until around Feb. 20, so they typically don't start "real" games until mid-March at the earliest, some later than that.

That may make it adviseable to set this up with private school teams. They have more flexibility and they are also accustomed to playing Saturday doubleheaders and/or split doubleheaders. Plus most of them have their spring breaks not to coincide with Easter, but to coincide with college break weeks (at the start of March), which would make scheduling perhaps a bit easier.

There are several very high quality private school teams in the Richmond area, especially Benedictine, St. Christopher's and The Steward School. Down in and around Va. Beach you can get Greenbrier Christian and Cape Henry Collegiate among others who seem to be strong year after year. Up in Charlottesville, there's St. Anne's-Belfield ("STAB"), which is located very near UVA so that your guys could squeeze in a visit or maybe a UVA game while there.

Not trying to start a fight because surely I've failed to mention some of the top prep teams, but I hope this points you in the right direction. The main thing is, no matter how you go about it, you'd have to set up the games one opponent at a time.


Midlo is right on point with these schools. There are also a bunch of private schools in Northern VA that could give some good competition. The problem for the NOVA schools is the weather is very unpredictable for that time of the year. It could be sunny and 70, or 30 with snow on the ground. If I was bringing a team in from out of town, I'd head further south as well.
PB Prep Ballfan10+ posts
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Originally posted by Bill Underwood:
Thanks for all of the responses. I was expecting that I would have to go the private school route. Thanks Midlo for the insight. I will definitely head in that direction.


Suggest you contact Tony Szymendera at St Christopher's School in Richmond as a possibility. For the last 3-4 years, St C and Benedictine, Collegiate and Steward, have ended the spring break week (usually the 3rd weekend of March) by hosting split DH's in Richmond. Last year, I believe four Norfolk-Va beach teams including Greenbrier Christian and Cape Henry participated. These are some of the top privates in the state (Benedictine state champs of D1 in 2010 and runner-up last year; St C, state runner-up 3 of 4 years from 2006-2010 and greenbrier has been D2 champs 5-6 times in past ten years).
They can probably help you get another game or two with STAB or Covenant (Charlottesville-70 miles west) or ChristChurch (60 miles east).
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