PBR at The Rock Championships

Position
Pitching
Event Info

Details

Date: 06/18/20 - 06/21/20
Class of: 2023 (15U)
Game Guarantee: 4
Type: Regional
Bat Type: Aluminum

INVITE ONLY


PBR at The Rock Championships is an invite only, 32 team tournament featuring the top club programs from the Midwest and beyond. This tournament is geared to put the best talent on the field in one central location, The Rock Sports Complex.

Interested teams should request an invitation by either following the link on the event page, or emailing Steve Nielsen at [email protected]

Age Group: 15U

Number of teams per division: 36

Fees: 15U - $1495

CLICK HERE to Register

In PBR fashion, the event will be highly scouted by the college and professional community.  The event will feature top fall programs and athletes from around the Midwest.  Through various media and social media outlets, Prep Baseball Report will continue to shine the spotlight on the future of the game of baseball and create an atmosphere and platform for the athlete looking to gain national exposure.

Entry Fee: Daily spectator admission will be $5 for adults and $3 for children. There will also be a 3 day pass option for $10. There will be no charge for players in uniform and three (3) coaches per team.

Coolers: No coolers Allowed

Location

Location

The Rock Sports Complex
7900 W. Crystal Ridge Rd.
Franklin, WI
53132

Rules

Prep Baseball Report Tournament Playing Rules

Prep Baseball Report and the on-site tournament director reserves the right to amend these rules at any time for specific tournament play. NFHS rules will be enforced with the following exceptions. All teams and coaches need to review their event rules prior to the start of each tournament.

Age Restrictions: Either/Or

  • Your age is determined by the May 1st date of that year  
  • Your high school graduation year.

Mercy Rules:

  • 15 runs after 3 innings
  • 10 Runs after 4 innings
  • 8 Runs after 5 innings

Coin Flip: In Pool Play home team is determined by a coin flip. The home team will be the official book and will record game start time when announced by umpire. All teams need to be prepared to start 15 minutes prior to their official start time.

Field Dimensions:

  • 9-10uAll games will be played on 46’x65’ fields with a time limit of one hour 45 minutes.
  • 11-12u All games will be played on 50’x70’ fields with a time limit of one hour 45 minutes.
  • 13U: Games will be played on 54’x80’ or 60’x90’ fields depending on the tournament listing with a time limit of 2 hours.
  • 14U-18U: All games will be played on 60’x90’ fields with a time limit of 2 hours.

Time limits:

  • A 1:45 time limit will be enforced with a drop dead of 2:00.
  • Playoff games will continue to follow the 2-hour time limits, except for the Semi-Final and Championship games. Rule is subject to change. The higher seed is the home team throughout the ENTIRE playoffs. If a playoff game (excluding Semi-Finals and Championship) are tied after 7 innings or 2 hours

Extra Innings (Playoff Only):

  • Last hitter from previous inning @ 2nd base
  • Normal substitution rules apply
  • The hitting team starts 1 out and every hitter has a 1-1 count
  • Play continues until one team is ahead at the end of the inning

Semi-Final and Championship will be played and completed with regular extra innings. There is no time limit in the Championship game but run rules will stay in effect.

Complete Games and Extra Innings:

  •  In the event of inclement weather, all rainout games may not be made up due to time constraints and/or field availability. 
  • If rain or weather suspends a game in a 6 inning contest, 4 innings (3 1/2 innings if home team is winning) could be considered a complete game. 
  • If rain or weather suspends a game in a 7 inning contest, 5 innings (4 1/2 innings if home team is winning) could be considered a complete. The host facility and tournament director will make the final decision on all complete games.

Number of Players/Forfeits: 

  • A game can start with either 8 or 9 players. However, if a team drops to seven or less, the game will become an automatic forfeit.  The tournament director and committee reserves the right to look at and rule on all forfeits. A forfeit score will be the average runs scored for the winning team to 0 for the losing team. If you start game with 8 the 9th place in the lineup will be an automatic out.
Injuries: 
  • If a team is hitting a continuous lineup and a player gets injured and can not continue to play, his spot in the batting order will be skipped with no penalty. Once a player’s spot in the batting order is skipped, the player is out for the remainder of the game and can not come back into play.

Pre-Game Infield/Batting Practice:

  • No pre-game infield or batting practice on the field will be allowed during any tournaments unless noted by the tournament director.

Intentional Walks: 

  • Head Coach needs to inform the umpire of the intentional walk and the hitter will be awarded 1st Base. No pitches need to be thrown.

Courtesy Runner: 

  • Courtesy runner is optional for pitcher/catcher at anytime. The courtesy runner must be a legal sub or the last batted out if you are batting a continuous lineup.  The courtesy runner will never be mandatory.

Tie Breaker and Advancement Rules (Within Pool):

  • Win Loss Record
  • Head to Head 
  • If three or more tied, record vs. teams tied with
  • Runs Allowed
  • Runs Scored
  • Runs allowed in games against teams tied with
  • Runs Scored in games against teams tied with
  • Coin Flip

Pool Winners will always be the higher seed than a non pool winner.  From there all wild card teams will be determined based on the rules below. After Pool winners, pool seed will have no barring on who advances, i.e a 2-0 team who finished 2nd in there pool will be seeded behind a 1-1 team who wins their pool.

Tie Breaker and Advancement Rules (Wild Cards) pool seeding does not matter for Wild Cards:

  • Win Loss Record
  • Head to Head 
  • Runs Allowed
  • Runs Scored
  • Runs allowed in games against teams tied with
  • Runs Scored in games against teams tied with
  • Coin Flip

Pitching: 

  • The MLB balk rule will be enforced and will be LIVE, not a dead ball. 
  • 3rd to 1st pickoff move is legal. 

All teams in PBRT events are strongly encouraged to follow the USA Pitch Smart guidelines that are displayed below. PBR Tournaments officials will not police these, they are simply guidelines to take care of your pitchers arms.

 

Age

Daily Max

0 Days

1 Day

2 Days

3 Days

4 Days


13-14

95

1-20

21-35

36-50

51-65

66+

15-16

95

1-30

31-45

46-60

61-75

76+

17-18

105

1-30

31-45

46-60

61-75

76+

 

Protests: 

  • A protest is only available for a violation or misapplication of a rule, not for coach/fan/player disagreement with an umpire’s judgement call (ie. ball and strikes, out and safe). Pitching limitations are not eligible for protest. Protests must be filed and ruled on before the next pitch if during a game, or before umpires leave field if after a game. The team protesting must make cash payment of $100 at the time of protest and the protest will only be heard and ruled upon by the tournament committee. If the protest is ruled in the protesting team’s favor, the $100 will be refunded to the team.

Sportsmanship:

  •  It is required that all teams, coaches, and fans comply with all tournament and facility rules. Team managers/head coaches MUST have full control of their players and parents at all times. This means “on” and “off” the field. Tournament directors and hosts have the authority to eject a player, fans or team anytime during the tournament for threatening with physical harm, physical attack, abusive language, destruction of property, or failure to pay. The tournament committee reserves the right to eject any person from the site for unruly or unsportsmanlike behavior. Any physical altercation between two teams before, during, or after a contest could result in the removal of both teams from the remainder of the event and future events.

Ejections: 

  • Any player, coach, manager, spectator and fan that is ejected from a game shall be suspended and removed for the remainder of that game only. Any individual ejected must leave the complex and exit to the parking lot. *If a team is hitting a continuous lineup, the ejected player’s spot in the lineup will remain and his team is forced to take an out. Any player or coach that acts maliciously or performs an act with intent to injure, the tournament committee has the final say in the penalty for that individual(s). Any individual that gets ejected for a second time in a tournament shall be removed and eliminated from participating in the remainder of that tournament.

 

Hitting Lineups: 

  • All coaches/teams must turn in a lineup card to the umpire at the plate meeting prior to the start of each game. Once the first pitch has been thrown, the number of batters must stay the same for the entire game and the lineup is locked in.

You will have three lineup options:

  1. Hit 9 hitters with a DH or no DH. We will honor the High School DH Rule.
  2. Use one EH and hit 10 with or without a DH
  3. Use one EH and XH and hit 11 with or without a DH.
15u and up will play by a modified College DH rule where the pitcher can be P/DH. (This means that once you pull the pitcher out of the game he can remain in the batting order as the DH.) (Can DH for anyone, not limited to the pitcher) 

            *In the situations 1 and 2, you will have to follow high school substitution rules.*

Rosters: 

  • All rosters should be submitted prior to the start of the tournament. A player may not be listed on more than one roster. No player can appear in a tournament game for more than one team (regardless of age group). Playing a non rostered player will result in removal of the player from the contest, cannot participate. If a team has multiple non rostered players participate, this will result in a forfeit. Once a player plays in the event,  Each manager is responsible for all aspects of his roster and must carry photocopies of birth certificates and/or high school transcripts to provide proof. An illegal player may be suspended until documentation is provided or removed from the entire tournament if proven illegal.

Bats:

  • 13u BPF 1.15 or BBCOR.  Max Difference of Drop 8

  • 14u BBCOR (Wood Bats noted in Fall events)

  • 15u-18u BBCOR (Wood Bats noted in Fall events)


Illegal Bat Penalty:

  • It is the responsibility of each teams head coach to monitor bats  that are in play. If a player uses an illegal bat. The umpire must be notified prior to the first pitch of the next batter or before all defensive players leave fair territory.

  • If the bat is found illegal, the batter will be ruled out and runners will not be allowed to advance.

  • If a team has three illegal bat rules infractions the Head Coach will be ejected for the rest of the tournament.

Skunk in the Outfield Play - 

  • Play where the runner on 1st creates his own path in the baseline by backing up in the outfield WILL NOT BE ALLOWED. Runner must take a lead with a direct line from 1st base toward 2nd base.
  • First Offense, Umpire will call time and issue an official team warning putting all players back to their starting base.
  • Second Offense, Runner will be declared out and any pitch or action by other runners will be nullified.

Refunds:

  1. If Zero Games are played 75% of entry fee will be returned as a credit for a future event run by PBR Tournaments
  2. If 25% of your guaranteed tournament games are played 50% of entry fee will be returned as a credit for a future event run by PBR Tournaments.
  3. If  33% of your guaranteed tournament games are played 40% of entry fee will be returned as a credit for a future event run by PBR Tournaments.
  4. If you play 2 or more of your scheduled games, that is considered a full tournament.
  5. Credits are valid for 12 months from the time of the cancelled event.

Gate Fees are non refundable. PBR Tournaments will do everything we can to play all scheduled games.

Teams that pull out after an event is sold out will not receive any refund or credit.

Teams that pull out with 90 days of an event will not receive any refund or credit.

Teams that pull out prior to the 90 days of an event will receive a refund minus their deposit.

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Teams

Registered Teams

15U

  Team Name City State Roster
1 Brew State Baseball Academy 15u Milwaukee Wisconsin View
2 Cangelosi Sparks - Mensik Lockport Illinois View
3 Cangelosi Sparks North - Black 2024 Bensenville Illinois View
4 CBT 15U Appleton Wisconsin View
5 Chicago Elite Billo 2023 Mokena Illinois View
6 Chicago Elite Kemp 2023 mokena Illinois View
7 Edge Baseball 15u Verona Wisconsin View
8 Go Pro 2023 Shelley Plainfield Illinois View
9 Hounds Baseball 15u Willowbrook Illinois View
10 Illinois Lightning - Hart Lindenhurst Illinois View
11 Illinois Premier 2023-Lis 535 anderson dr Illinois View
12 Illinois Steel Peoria Illinois View
13 ISA Stars Fall DePere Wisconsin View
14 Kenosha Braves 15u Kenosha Wisconsin View
15 MASH 17U Hebig Eagan Minnesota View
16 Midwest Halos Red 2024 Milwaukee Wisconsin View
17 Minnesota Starters - 15U Black Shakopee Minnesota View
18 MN MASH Eagan Minnesota View
19 MVP Elite Baseball 2023 Brown LAKE ZURICH Illinois View
20 Naperville Renegades American 2023 Naperville Illinois View
21 NorthStar 15u Neon Burnsville Minnesota View
22 NorthStar 16u Navy Burnsville Minnesota View
23 P2P Millers - Boxwell Chanhassen Minnesota View
24 P2P Millers - Brown Chanhassen Minnesota View
25 PBA Gold Kenosha Wisconsin View
26 Phenom Wisconsin 16u - Lesnik Kenosha Wisconsin View
27 Pro Player Canes-Padjen Mchenry Illinois View
28 PTA Cardinal Franklin WI View
29 Raider Baseball Academy - Adams Huntley Illinois View
30 Rhino 2023 Appleton Wisconsin View
31 Rhino Baseball - McArthur Shorewood Illinois View
32 Slammers-Coyote 15u Lake Forest Illinois View
33 STiKS Academy Red 15u Waueksha Wisconsin View
34 Top Tier 2024 Schaumburg Illinois View
35 Top Tier Nationals 15U Chicago Illinois View
36 Triboh 15u St. Charles Illinois View
37 Windy City Chicago Illinois View