A Baseball Division - LEAGUE AGE  7-8  (Age the player will be on August 31):  No Evaluations - No Draft

• Fundamentals of baseball are reinforced and the game is played with standard baseball rules
• Recommended for Ages 7 (with one year experience with Coach Pitch) and 8 year olds.
• A-Ball will utilize a Pitching Machine.
• A-Ball rules will follow South Hill Little League's A-Ball Rules
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Practice Season Opens: Expect to start practices the middle/end of March. This is subject to change.

Game Season: Game Season opens the middle of April/ around the time of our annual Jamboree. Game schedules won't go out until at least the 2nd or 3rd week of practice season. Just like practice season, your player won't necessarily play their 1st game on opening day - this is just the overall Opening Game Season for the lower divisions. Teams are scheduled 2 games per week, most games are weeknights at 6pm but an occasional Saturday game may be scheduled, especially if we have a lot of rain outs to get rescheduled. Once games begin most teams don't have any more practices but an occasional coach may try to schedule a practice if there's a field available.

Equipment Needed  South Hill Little League supplies the T-shirt jersey and hat that each player gets to keep at the end of the season. Equipment needed for player's 1st practice is:  Batting helmet, comfortable shoes/cleats, baseball pants or sweat pants and a baseball style cap, long sleeve or short sleeve shirt, and comfortable jacket or hoodie. 

BATS must have the "USABaseball" logo.


USSSA (U-Trip bats) ARE ILLEGAL TO USE in Little League. Penalty for use of an illegal bat is coach and player suspensions.

ON DECK BATTERS ARE NOT PERMIITTED

To measure a bat for your child, while having your player hold one end of the bat under their chin, they should be able to place their fingers over the other end of the bat. Not "finger tip touch" the other end, but "cup" their fingers around the end of the bat. 

Uniform Information: 
Do not purchase baseball uniform items ie; belt, uniform pants, or socks until you have met with your player's coache. Coach's won't know their uniform colors until we have the Coach's Meeting and even then, color variances don't translate over emails so most coach's will not have you purchase the additional uniform items until you all meet in person.

A-Ball Rules