Brighton Baseball Junior League

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The Junior League is generally for grades 7 and 8.

Brighton Baseball participates in an inter-town “house” league for Juniors. The inter-town league consists of teams from neighboring towns including Irondequoit, Gates-Chili, Honeoye Falls-Lima, Pittsford, Fairport, Penfield, Rochester, Greece, and others.

The Brighton teams will be selected in early April, and the coaches will then contact players and schedule practices. There are no tryouts or evaluations.

The schedule begins in early May and runs through the end of June. There are two games a week for a total of 16 regular season games.

There are also summer tournament opportunities for this age group, and announcements with regards to tryouts and schedules will be available in June.

Home games are played at the Brighton Varsity field and Moore Corporate Field at Buckland Park, on Westfall Road, with some of those games played under the lights!

Points of interest:

• These age groups generally opt to NOT march in the Opening Day parade. It is up to each team to decide.
• For Juniors, the biggest change from Majors will be the size of the field (90 foot base paths, 60 feet for pitching),on-deck circles and the ability to lead off base. Additionally, the distance for a catcher to throw out a would-be base stealer is that much longer.
• We schedule with an awareness of the school baseball schedules; so players can sign up to play school baseball and also this house league and expect to have few (if any) conflicts.
• For safety reasons it is preferred to use molded cleats and -3 oz length/weight bats.
• League rules do permit metal cleats and do not restrict bat weight.

Pitch Count Regulations

A new official Little League publication, Protecting Young Pitching Arms: The Little League Pitch Count Regulation Guide for Parents, Coaches, and League Officials, has just been completed.

The entire publication is now available for downloading from the official Little League web site, free of charge, at by clicking here. (856 KB pdf)

The publication includes great information on the best ways to implement the Pitch Count Regulation in your league, as well as tips on the care and conditioning of the pitching arm, sample forms, and much more.

Junior League Rules

To read the Brighton Baseball Junior League rules, click here.

Questions?

For additional information about the Brighton Baseball Junior League, please contact the Junior League president Chuck Pattison. He may be reached by phone at 461-4698.