ABOUT THIS DIVISION
18U AA is the House/Recreation League for Vancouver Community Baseball's 18U age group. New players are welcome to join ....even if you've never played baseball before!
Vancouver Community Baseball's 18U AA Spring season division typically consists of 10-11 teams, depending on the number of players registered with 13-15 players per team.
Spring Season Schedule Overview
- February or early March - New Player assessments are done for all players who did not play 18U AA in the previous year
- mid-March - Teams are formed. Returning players are placed onto the same team they played on the previous year. New players are placed on teams via draft.
- mid-April: season begins - typically play 16 games at either Nanaimo Park or Hillcrest fields
- mid-June - Playoffs begin - Single or Double elimination tournament
- June 30 - The latest date for the Championship game
Each team will play approximately 16 games during the regular season. Most weeks each team will play two games, one on a weeknight and one on a weekend. There may be some variance of this, depending on how many teams there are. We schedule 20 games between April 1st and June 15 knowing that a handful of games will be rained out. We do not reschedule rainouts so teams play approximately 16 games per season. Our standings are based on Winning Percentage.
At the conclusion of the regular season, there is a playoff to determine a season champion.
Fields
18U AA games are played at Hillcrest and Nanaimo Park in Vancouver. Practices will take place at Trafalgar or Killarney parks. The U18AA division does not interlock with other associations so there will be no travel outside the City of Vancouver.
Rules
All games are 7 innings or darkness (whichever comes first). There may be extra innings for playoff games.
18U AA is a "bat through the order" division. Each player must play a minimum of 3 defensive innings. There are pitching limitations (# of pitches dictates the # of days rest; maximum # of innings pitched per game....) that all Coaches are aware of.
Equipment and Uniforms
All players are to provide their own uniform belt, socks and baseball pants. A Baseball hat and dri-fits uniform are provided by the league - both yours to keep following the season. Each player should have their own glove and helmet. Players may use their own bats (wood, aluminum, composite...) as long as it's a Drop3 and BBCOR-certified. VCB provides each team with a handful of bats as well.
Summer Season
For interested players, there is a second baseball season which follows the spring season. This is a tryout-team(s) drawn from across the U18AA division.
The summer season runs from late June until the Monday of the BC Day long weekend in August. During that weekend, a provincial tournament is held to determine a Provincial 18U AA Champion team.
In late April or early May, players will be asked to submit applications to play on the VCB summer team. The roster is usually 13 players, so if more players want to try out, the head coach will conduct a try-out to select the most capable players.
BC Minor Baseball rules require that players play a minimum number of games in their association's spring house league to be eligible to play on a summer team.
