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Originally posted by whiskers_ump
For the second weekend, I took part in a college sponsored
tournament. Both tournaments had four college teams playing
RR's[round robins]. In this weekends tournament there were
also 38 18U teams. We were utilizing 12 fields. I am not
associated with any conference, therefore I don't do college
games except in show case and scrimmages.[usually timed games.] In the
18U games utilizing ASA rules. All games seven innings, college and 18U.
The average 18U game was 1hr35mins. The average college game was over 2hrs
and 15mins. The 40+ mins different was because in NCAA a pitcher
is allowed five warm ups but without an allotted time in which to
complete. In ASA you have 5 pitches or 1min from the time the last
out was recorded. Do you guys doing college have a speed up rule
that our UIC was unaware of? She informed us to allow the 5 pitches
and not to rush it. Average time between innings seemed to
be six to seven minutes X seven innings, you are losing lots of time.
How do you guys doing college ball cope with it, or is really not
a big deal once conferences start?
Just wondering.
glen
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Look at it this way. They don't want to upset the coaches with the red pencils
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