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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are a ton of teams in NOVA (as someone posted upthread there are weekly double-headers in Loudoun).  Why isn't that league play?[/quote]

Because there is no league.

[b]Most travel softball teams are tournament teams. [/b]They only play a couple of doubleheaders in a season.

[b]There are a handful that might play more DHs than tournaments but they tend to be newly organized or young (I.e. a 9U team forced to play in a 10U division at tournaments)[/b] and they don’t want to spend $600 every week to get beat by older teams. And when I say handful I mean maybe less than six doing this in any age group. It wouldn’t be much of a league. [/quote]

Is this true in our area?  There seem to be a lot of B teams doing double-headers ... these are just some of 12U teams that  DD has played against on Sundays: Smash, Great Falls Flames, McLean Magic, Firebirds, Sage, Sharks, Inferno.   
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See upthread where someone mentioned the continuous splintering of softball in our area. Around 12U especially it seems to get bad with teams breaking up and multiple new teams forming from the splinters. Just look at the Alexandria Royals this year.

But I'm not sure what having a league unrelated to one of the mass number of existing travel softball governing bodies would do.[/quote]

In soccer, leagues with limited membership keeps clubs together because splinters would have to play at a lower level. I think that has it's pluses and minuses [/quote]

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