Twenty Game Season Leaves Broward Teams With Few Scheduling Options

By now, everybody knows about the cutbacks that have taken place in the state of Florida. Unfortunately, baseball is one of the sports that has been hit hardest by the latest round of cuts in Broward.

The BCAA, which many high school programs have abandoned because of tightening restrictions, allows member teams to only play twenty games this upcoming season. That has made scheduling more difficult than in the past.

Teams have become accustomed to playing all of their district rivals, and an additional six or seven games against other teams throughout the county. In past years, this has allowed traditional powers to play each other outside of district play.

Broward’s largest district, 10-6A, has eight teams. This year, those teams must play each other twice, leaving only six games left to schedule. Throw in the pre-season and Spring Break tournaments that these teams play in, and some are left with zero out of district games.

The smaller districts will have a slight advantage in flexibility. Having to only play eight or ten games in district leaves half or more of the schedule free. That is where fans will get to enjoy the traditional rivalry games that have developed in the past decade.

The cuts in the schedules has caused some schools to look outside of the BCAA for relief. Of the over fifty high schools in Broward County, only thirty-two are BCAA members.

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