The Major league level is a competitive level that continues to stress fundamental baseball and introduce more advance baseball techniques and strategies. Players will continue to have fun building life-time memories with other teammates. At this level, players will remain on the same team once drafted.
Major Level:
- Age: 10 – 12 years old (A 9yo can "play up" with Admin. approval)
- Age as of December 31, 2024 (Fall '24/Spring '25 Seasons)
- Game: 6 innings or 1:45 time limit (No new inning) with at least one (1) umpire.
- Hitting: Players will be hitting off of a player for the duration of the game.
- Baserunning: Players will be allowed to steal upon release of the ball from pitcher's hand per normal fastpitch rules.
- Field Size: The field size is a traditional 200' fence softball field, but utilizing a 60' base path and pitching is at 40' distance.
- Ball Type: 12″ softball
- Team Formation: Spring seasons will hold a skills assessment and subsequent draft where coaches will select their teams. Fall seasons the teams will be formed as competitively as possible based on the known skills of returning players, with new players being evenly distributed.
- Competition: Players compete in a full season, with the Fall season offering approx. 8 games, and the Spring season approx. 12 games. Teams will play other VBLL Major teams as well as home and away games against teams throughout District 8, with a post-season Playoff (Spring only) and are eligible to be selected to participate in All Star competition (Spring only). If only two (2) Majors teams in the Spring season, there will be a best-of-three series to determine the champion.
- All Stars: A 10/11/12 All Star team is typically formed near the end of the Spring season for the District tournament. The team will compete in the District tournament, and then can advance to the State tournament if they are the District champion.