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July 13, 2020 Update from Baseball Ontario - Stage 3

Currently, as we understand it from the Ministry of Sport, Recreation and Community Programs what stage 3 means:
 
If you live in a Stage 3 centre, you can:
  • resume full team practices (full team to mean those individuals who appear on one team roster) and those practices can include scrimmages.
  • start games, however:
  • Leagues (loops) must contain no more than 50 participants total. Players are not yet permitted to play against players outside of their league or group.
  • Example: ICBA has 6 10U teams from Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Woodstock, Brantford and Guelph. Each team has 13 players and 3 coaches. ICBA can create 2 loops of 3 teams each, and those teams can play each other, but cannot play any of the other 3 teams in the other loop, or any other teams from any other leagues or loops. The same limit of 50 participants would apply to a local house league program and the teams within it.
  • Umpires are included in the maximum of 50.
  • Example: in the ICBA example above, 48 of the 50 participants in each loop will be players and coaches. That leaves 2 spots open for umpires. 
  • Spectators at all sporting events will be subject to gathering limits and physical distancing measures, with assigned seating where possible. Currently, we’re recommending that spectators:
  • Ensure physical distance from participants and between spectators
  • Spectators are encouraged to bring their own chairs for personal use or bring disinfectant wipes to clean the area where they sit. Municipalities and/or facility owners may or may not be cleaning bleachers on a regular basis.
  • Spectators are encouraged not to wander to other areas of the park in which the diamond is located.
  • For fall tryouts, all sessions must be restricted to 50 participants, including coaches/evaluators. Participants, including coaches/evaluators, must stay within the same group of 50 for all events.
  • Facilities and shared equipment must be sanitized between tryout sessions.
 
 
 
If you live in a Stage 2 centre:
  • You can continue to practice in groups of 10, with up to 2 groups on one diamond as long as they are physically distanced and participants don’t go back and forth.
  • You cannot travel to a Stage 3 centre in order to practice or play. You are restricted to the activities permitted within the area that you live.

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