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SWAT HANDBOOK

RULES FOR THIS EVENT

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AGE DIVISION8U Coach Pitch 40 ft pitching plate · 60 ft bases

FIELD40 ft pitching plate · 60 ft bases

GAME6 innings

TIME LIMIT60-minute Night Lights games; 75-minute Night Lights championships.

Cannot turn 9 before May 1 of the current season. Grade-exception players must meet the handbook’s 2nd-grade criteria.

No bat size restriction under the 12U-and-below rule; banned/altered bats remain illegal. Wood bats are approved.

Coach pitch from the 40-foot pitching plate/line.

Roster-bat all present players.
Free defensive substitution; batting order stays the same.
Nine or ten defensive players are allowed.
Each batter gets six pitches or three strikes; a foul on pitch six extends the at-bat.
One bunt per inning.
Seven-run maximum per half-inning except the sixth inning, when runs are unlimited.

Pool-play home/visitor is determined by coin toss; higher seed is home in bracket play.
No fake bunt-and-swing (slashing).
Legal courtesy runners may be used for the pitcher or catcher of record under the handbook rules.
Pool games may end tied. Bracket games use the SWAT California tiebreaker after regulation.

AGE DIVISION10U 46 ft pitching distance · 65 ft bases

FIELD46 ft pitching distance · 65 ft bases

GAME6 innings

TIME LIMIT1 hr 30 min Night Lights games and championships.

Cannot turn 11 before May 1 of the current season. Grade-exception players must meet the handbook’s 4th-grade criteria.

No bat size restriction under the 12U-and-below rule; banned/altered bats remain illegal. Wood bats are approved.

6 innings max in one day · 8 innings max over 3 consecutive days. More than 3 innings Saturday means no pitching Sunday.

Standard NFHS/SWAT baserunning rules apply unless modified elsewhere in the handbook.
Balks are strictly enforced without warning.

Standard SWAT lineup, substitution, courtesy-runner, and roster-batting options apply.
No designated hitter in 10U.

Pool-play home/visitor is determined by coin toss; higher seed is home in bracket play.
No fake bunt-and-swing (slashing).
Legal courtesy runners may be used for the pitcher or catcher of record under the handbook rules.
Pool games may end tied. Bracket games use the SWAT California tiebreaker after regulation.

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