TPS HomeTown Challenge 2022

HomeTown Challenge Rules:

Teams are built and coached by parents or volunteers. If you would like to put a team together and play in this event or need any information please contact:

Scott Henry 903-812-4230

David Cornelius 903-603-3545

In the event of a cancelation of weather we will push this event to the next weekend November 19-20, 2022

Divisions:

1st  & 2nd grade will be 8U and play 40/60 Coach Pitch

3rd & 4th grade will be 10U and play 46/65

5th & 6th grade will be 12U and play 50/70

7th & 8th grade will be 14U and play 54/80

9th & 10th grade will be 16U and play 60/90

Teams:

Teams must consist of players from each town unless they are in a town with multiple school districts. In that case players must play for their school district (example a player that is in Pine Tree ISD must play for the Pine Tree team and can not play for Longview or Spring Hill). The only exemption for this is a player that lives in one school district but go to a different school may play with either teams. Also a player may play with an adjoining town if their school is 1A or 2A school district or a private school. This will allow all kids a chance to play that want to play. Players can not play down in age but are allowed to play up 1 grade division. 

Player Classification:

For this NCS event ONLY. All team will be classified as D3 teams. Players that have a classification in the NCS system higher than D3 are still eligible to play and pitch. There will be no disqualification for this.

Game Rules:

We will follow bat and game rules from NCS. You can find those rules below.

National Championship Sports | Baseball | National Baseball Rules (playncs.com)

9th & 10th Grade must use -3 BBCOR 

7th & 8th Grade must use -8, -5 or -3 BBCOR

1st - 6th Grade all bat sizes are legal but must be under the NCS bat guideline.

1st and 2nd grade division is allowed to play with only 9 players and are not required to take an out for the 10th spot. 

Any rules not listed will revert back to NFHS rules.

Pitching Rules:

3rd - 8th Grade: 24 outs per weekend. Max of 18 outs in one day. If you pitch 7 outs in one day you can not pitch the second day.

9th & 10th Grade: No pitching restrictions

Uniforms:

TPS will provide up to 12 jerseys per team. Teams will provide their own hats. Hats do not have to match.

Schedule:

Teams will play 2 pool games on Saturday. Sunday will be broken down into a single elimination bracket based on seeding from the pool games. We will play this event out until we have a champion. 

Other useful information:

Teams must provide 2 baseballs per game for the event.

Please check game cards before signing. Once a card is signed it will be used as the official score and pitching for both teams. 

In the event of bad weather the tournament will be pushed to the following weekend November 20/21.

Due to time to get jerseys made teams that do not sign up and have jersey orders in by October 19th may not get jerseys.