Will ASA go 43' for 14u

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Do you think it will happen this year or will they be as stubborn as Mike Brown at a Carson Palmer auction?

 

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Re: Will ASA get their head out of their arse and go 43' for 14u

It should have happend for this year....And it didnt so i wouldnt expect it to change for next year.

I still cant think for a good reason of why it didnt change......it will prepare the 13u's for winterball with their high school which will be 43' and the 14u's already had a season at 43' with their high school and they had to go back to 40' for this summer.......lets take a tough game and make it tougher ....doh !

 

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Do you think it will happen this year or will they be as stubborn as Mike Brown at a Carson Palmer auction?

Hey where the heck have you been?

 

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Welcome back Ringer!

Ready to take back the polls?

 

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Welcome back Ringer!

Ready to take back the polls?

I hope so!!

 

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Ha. One of Ringer's few posts in months and we immediately hijacked it.

 

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I hope they move back. It is screwed up that USSSA and NSA are at 43 and ASA is at 40.

Makes a huge difference for hitting.

 

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It also give you more ball movement on pitches to stikout those hitters. Have been praticing at 43 feet for well over a year now and the ball move so much more at 43 then at 40.

 

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It would be nice for that age group to be uniform. It would help if OHSAA would go 43 for 8th graders. That may be the holdup. Whatever happens Berliner needs to remove the 40' rubbers when pitching from 43' which they DID NOT two weeks ago for their tournament. Really bothered pitchers.

 

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Well, I'm glad we won't have to deal with it anymore. DD is moving up to 16U, and is a HS freshman. (Although frankly, dd bounced back and forth between 40-43 feet since last fall, and it never bothered her.)

 

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Any clue when ASA will make the announcement?

 

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I believe ASA will move 14U back to 43 feet. The announcement will come in December or January.

Len

 

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Any clue when ASA will make the announcement?

November 5-11 - ASA makes Code and Playing Rule changes at its annual National Council Meeting.

The Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America, the National Governing Body of Softball in the United States, in cooperation with the South Carolina ASA, will host its 80th National Council Meeting at the Hilton Myrtle Beach Resort in Myrtle Beach, S.C., November 5-11, 2011.

 

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THANKS!! guess i'll have to wait and see. Wonder if OHSAA will follow suit (middle school ball)

 

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At the coaches' meeting for the 14U ASA Northerns, the UIC (or TD, I forget which) asked coaches to give their opinions on a move to 43 for next year. He said they would be reconsidering it at the November ASA meetings.

 

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Well, until it becomes official, these posts sound exactly like last fall.

 

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For those of you with 14u experience, how did your pitchers handle the tournaments where one weekend its 40 ft and the next its 43ft (or those 7th and 8th graders who threw from 40 and then made the adjustment to 43 for travel ball). I'm thinking more along the lines of drop balls, curves and screws, not necessarily fastballs and changes