OBA Rep 14U AA and Below

Friday, June 14, 2024 to Sunday, June 16, 2024

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS to the Milton Mets, winners of the 2024 14U Kanata Cubs Classic! Shoutout to the Waterloo Tigers (Black) for a great game!

 

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Hello teams,

 

Thank you to all of you for attending our 14U Kanata Cubs Classic! The teams advancing to the semi-finals are Waterloo vs Kanata (9:15 Upper Kinsmen) and Milton vs High Park (9:00 Lower Kinsmen).

 

Here are the winning names of the 50/50 and Raffle Basket:

 

50/50 (Winnings $100) : Jason Easton

Raffle basket winner : Matt Tweedy

 

Winners have been notified by text and can claim their prizes by presenting their ticket at the convener's table on Sunday.

 

Found: Contigo coffee cup and black size 9 crocs at Upper Kinsmen. They will be at the convener's table.

 

Thank you to everyone for your support of our tournament and we hope to see you all back again next year!

 

Sarah Aikman

Tournament Convener

 

Krista Chambers

Tournament Coordinator

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June 14-16, 2024

Enjoy great OBA baseball in the Nation's Capital! All Baseball Ontario and Baseball Quebec 14U AA-and-below are welcome. Teams are guaranteed three games on Friday and Saturday with play-off round on Sunday. Game MVP awards. Tournament awards for winning team and runner-up.

Fields are located 5-10 minutes from hotels, restaurants and shopping.  Parliament Hill is 15-20 minutes away in downtown Ottawa.

HOTEL INFO

Holiday Inn & Suites Kanata

A 5-minute drive from the tournament's primary ball diamonds. Rooms are limited with the following 2 options:

• Two queen standard : $179/night + taxes
• King suite (has queen pull-out) : $204/night + taxes

Site has free parking and is minutes walk away from the largest shopping/dining complexes in Ottawa's west end. Cots available at $10/night + taxes (first come first serve basis.)

Booking Link: KB3

Alternatively guests may call the hotel at 613-271-3057, or the Central Reservations Department at 1-800-465-4329. Refer to the Kanata Baseball Tournament and quote the block code "KB3" when making or amending a reservation.

All rooms are required to be guaranteed by a credit card.

Holiday Inn Express Ottawa West

A 10-minute drive from the tournament's primary ball diamonds. Rooms are limited with the following 2 options:

• Two queen standard : $185/night + taxes
• Two Queen Suite : $195/night + taxes

Site has free parking and is minutes walk away from the largest shopping/dining complexes in Ottawa's west end. Cots available at $10/night + taxes (first come first serve basis.)

Guests may call the hotel at 613-690-0100, or the Central Reservations Department at 1-800-465-4329. Refer to the Cubs Classic 14U when making or amending a reservation.

All rooms are required to be guaranteed by a credit card.

Tournament Rules

• no infield pregame warmups
• all round-robin games will be a maximum 7 innigs and follow a "no new inning" after 2 hours rule.
  
• Semi-final will follow a "no new inning" after 2 hours rule, no time limit for Final
• Round robin game may end in a tie, no extra innings will be played in round robin games up to a maximum of seven (7) full innings.
• Extra innings may occur for semi-final and final games until there is a winner. For all extra innings the hitting team start with a runner on second base at the start of any and all extra innings. All OBA pitch count rules apply for extra innings.
• all OBA Arm Care rules must be followed 
• OBA rep bat rules must be followed (USSSA, drop 5 (-5) weight.
• the "Home" team will be designated by coin flip, conducted by the site supervisor, and called by the team having travelled the furthest to Kanata.
• the "Home" team shall provide the official scorekeeper.
• the "Visiting" team shall provide the official pitch-counter
• game is to be added to the Pitch Count App before the game and it's Game ID noted on the official score sheet
• pitch counts are to be completed live-in-game pitch-by-pitch on the OBA Pitch Count App
• pitch counts are to be submitted before teams leave the park
• the official score sheet, signed by a coach from each team, must be submitted to the site supervisor before teams leave the park
• In the event of any challenges or rule clarification(s) the tournament convener will have the final ruling. 

• RP7.4 Tie Breaker Rules
  1. Where tie breaking rules are required, the following tie breaking rules will be used for each placement independently:
     1. Teams with a forfeit loss are ineligible for tiebreakers
     2. head to head record among tied teams;
     3. team with the smallest runs against ratio (runs allowed / number of defensive innings played) in all games;
     4. team with the highest runs for ratio ( runs scored / number of offensive innings played) in all games;
     5. coin toss
  2. When there are 3 or more teams tied, the tiebreakers will exclude RP7.4(a)(ii). After the winner of that tie breaker is determined, the tiebreakers will continue, if necessary, excluding RP7.4(a)(ii) as long as there are 3 or more teams tied. When only 2 teams remain, the tiebreaker will start at RP7.4(a)(i).
• No new inning may be started after the time limit or curfew.  An inning shall be deemed to have started immediately after the last out in the bottom of the previous inning has occurred.
• In all games the following mercy rule shall apply:
  1. 18 runs after 3 innings
  2. 15 runs after 4 innings
  3. 10 runs after 5 innings or any subsequent inning thereafter.
• If the home team leads after the top half of any such inning, the game shall be considered a mercy and the home team will not bat.
• Where the home team scores to take the lead in the 7^th inning, any extra inning or any inning that will be the last inning because of a time limit, the game ends immediately. Similarly, if the home team scores a run that results in a mercy condition, the game ends immediately with that run.