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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]

I’m not in the area, but can understand the splintering. I see it happening with my daughter’s 10u team. It happens when daddy ball runs rampant and people get tired of it.

On her team, the head coach’s daughter has decided she wants to pitch. She’s no where close to ready (and this is C level), but she seems to be one of the 4 girls they have practice pitching. There are a number of girls who are better than her, but are not getting the chance. There were no “tryouts” for pitching, they just pulled aside the 4 the first day of practice. Of the 4 pitchers, 3 have dads as coaches. The 1 that does not is by far the best of the 4. Four girls doesn’t seem like enough, but it’s what they’re doing.

I could completely see pitcher #5 (not my daughter) bailing and starting a new team next year. She’s into it, better than the coach’s kid and the parents can see that she’ll never get the chance. Yea, she could (and is) doing lessons, but it’s hard to jump 3 coaches’ kids in travel softball. [/quote]

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