Hills Junior Baseball Association

15/09/2026

🚨🚨🚨 ATTENTION ALL BEEBALL COACHES & TEAMS! 🚨🚨🚨

⚾️ IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL BEEBALL COACHES & TEAMS ⚾️

📢 PLEASE STOP AND READ THIS!

Apologising for some confusion I have caused.

After some discussions regarding whether 3 outs should end an inning in Beeball it has been decided to clarify that.

🏳️ Each team bats 5 batters in each inning in the batting order determined at the start of the game. Outs do not affect the game, 5 batters bat each inning.

🏳️ Regarding the 5+1 rule.

The first 5 in the batting order bat in the 1st inning.

When there are only 5 on a team the 2nd player in the lineup is the lead off batter in the 2nd inning. Likewise in the 3rd inning the 3rd in the lineup leads off and so on. Means the same player doesn’t lead off every inning.
If a team has more than 5 on a team number 6 in the order it will lead off at bat the next inning and the order will continue to automatically rollover each inning as the game continues.

15/09/2026

Hi all!

Our new website is your ‘one stop shop’ to find the current draw information, the results and competition tables and much more!

Hills Junior Baseball Association

14/09/2026

Week 2 Draw!

13/09/2026

BEEBALL IS BACK THIS YEAR BIGGER AND BETTER!

Club secretaries please pass this info onto your Beeball Coaches, Managers and Scorers.

The conference sheet for Beeball can be found here.

https://hillsbaseball.com.au/rules/

Go to Conference Sheets
Go to Choose Conference
Scroll to the bottom to find Beeball.

So let’s clear up some confusion from our first round.

1. Batting. First 5 batters hit. If you have more than 5 players then batter 6 in the line up starts the next innings.
Outs don’t count.

2. Fielding. If you have more than 5 players, a 6th player may take the field but must be in the outfield. No player is allowed to sit on the bench for a second time until every other player in the team has had a turn on the bench. (Extenuating circumstances accepted.)

3. If a 6th player is placed in the outfield you are required to have a player in the ‘pitching’ position.

4. There is supposed to be a 20’ foul ball arc in front of home plate.

5. If a fielding team catches a ball in the outfield they receive a point to their run score. There is a special Result Sheet. Link below.

https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:AP:e3cba567-d353-40d9-8139-bd8798aacd11

Any questions feel free to reach out.

Jeff Catt
President

13/09/2026

To all coaches and clubs.
Hawkesbury Baseball Club, Oakville Raiders, Rouse Hill Wildcats Baseball Club, Kellyville Baseball Club, Castle Hill Knights Baseball Club, Baulkham Hills Baseball Club, Schofields Scorpions Baseball Club, Winston Hills Baseball Club, Kings Langley Eagles Junior Baseball Club

As you may now be aware Hills has a new Webpage which contains a lot of information in an easy to navigate format. Club secretaries please make your coaches aware of this.

I also posted today about warming up pitchers. Please ensure coaches are aware of this. It is also an expectation that all onfield coaches in liveball wear hard baseball skull cap. Front toss and coach pitch leagues are advised for your safety that skull caps are advised coaches carrying out this task.

Below is a link where you can find the rules and conference sheets.

https://hillsbaseball.com.au/rule-book/

Coaches - Please read the relevant rules conference sheets for your competition.

Rule Book Hills Junior baseball association 2026-2027 Competition Rules

13/09/2026

🔴 𝗣𝗜𝗧𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗠-𝗨𝗣 𝗥𝗨𝗟𝗘

The only people allowed to warm up a pitcher are 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗛 𝗢𝗥 𝗔 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬𝗘𝗥, either of whom 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗞!

🔴 𝗡𝗢 “𝗜𝗙𝗦” 𝗢𝗥 “𝗕𝗨𝗧𝗦”.

𝗨𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗦 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗘𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗖𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗥𝗨𝗟𝗘!

All clubs are expected to 𝗠𝗔𝗞𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗜𝗥 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 please.

11/09/2026

Congratulations to Hills’ Players Jet Creamer and Beau Stockdale!! Go hard guys!

AUSTRALIA UNVEILS 2026 U15 BASEBALL WORLD CUP ROSTER
21 MAY
2026
By Eric Balnar

Australia’s U-15 National Team for the 2026 WBSC U-15 Baseball World Cup has been announced, with 19 players selected following strong performances across the country throughout the past 12 months.

The squad was selected based on performances at the U16 Australian Youth Championships (AYC), assessments within local training and competition environments, and opportunities through previous World Cup qualifying events.

Team Australia U15 Manager says there were tough decisions to make with the group, but there is a lot of flexibility at his disposal.

“I believe this playing group shows versatility. We have a lot of players that we can throw on the mound and be comfortable with them attacking the zone,” he says. “In this age group with tournament baseball, two-way players are extremely important and most importantly we need to catch the baseball. We have chosen a squad around these priorities.”

The Australian Youth Championships again proved a key part of the selection process, giving national selectors the chance to evaluate the country’s top young talent against elite opposition in a tournament environment.

Andy Kyle was there watching it all unfold.

“I think it’s been exciting to see the majority of this group over the past 6 months in different contexts. We have had the qualifiers in Guam, the AYC’s in January and then evaluation sessions,” he said. “I feel this has provided a solid baseline of information for each athlete. We now have an opportunity to work with each Performance Program and prioritise areas we need to focus on during this Winter with individuals.”

Australia qualified for the World Cup by winning the WBSC Oceania Qualifier in Guam last December, going undefeated across the event to secure a place on the world stage.

Kyle says that tournament helped bring the group together. He’s excited to see 15 players return from that squad.

“I think consistent touch points with the players has and will provide a better chemistry within the group and direction around our Team Australia foundations,” he says.

The WBSC U-15 Baseball World Cup will now be held in Mérida, Mexico from September 25 to October 4 after the tournament was moved from its originally scheduled host nation of Italy earlier this year.

Before heading to Mexico, the team will take part in a five-day training camp in the United States as part of final preparations for the tournament.

Australia will compete against some of the world’s top baseball nations at the event, including World No. 1 Japan, No. 2 Chinese Taipei, No. 3 USA, No. 5 Venezuela and host nation Mexico, ranked No. 6 in the world. Cuba, Dominican Republic, Czechia, Germany, Nicaragua and South Africa have also qualified for the tournament through their respective regional pathways.

The groups have yet to be decided.

The coaching staff will be led by manager Andrew Kyle, alongside pitching coach Kai Meuronen, assistant coaches Kelii Zablan and Scott Meager, and Executive Officer Michael Crooks.

Victoria leads the roster with six players selected, followed by New South Wales and South Australia with four apiece.
Queensland has three representatives, while Western Australia has two.

There are 15 players who overlap between Australia’s 2025 U15 Oceania Championships roster and the newly announced 2026 U15 World Cup roster. The four new players added to the 2026 U15 World Cup roster are: Chase Crew (QLD), Felix Oliver (SA), Tom Skinner (VIC) and Seb Watts (SA).

The team also features nine players who were on Australia’s 2023 U12 World Cup Roster (Thomas-McLean, Tayler, Petersen, Morris, McCabe, Leigh, Evans, Crew, Chase).

Further information on the tournament can be found on the WBSC U-15 Baseball World Cup website.

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11/09/2026

Congratulations to Jet Creamer and Beau Stockdale. Good luck guys.

Australia’s U-15 National Team for the 2026 WBSC U-15 Baseball World Cup has been announced, with 19 players selected following strong performances across the country throughout the past 12 months.

The squad was selected based on performances at the U16 Australian Youth Championships (AYC), assessments within local training and competition environments, and opportunities through previous World Cup qualifying events.

The Home of Baseball in Australia. Baseball.com.au is the media and content division of Baseball Australia (BA), the governing body for all levels of baseball, T-Ball and Little League across the country.

10/09/2026

Calling all coaches and umpires. Hills are very aware that slow game play is a major negative in our sport.

Coaches have to organised and umpires have to be proactive in making change overs quicker. You should be able to have inning changeovers in max of 2 minutes!

Teeball, Beeball and Modball should be even quicker.
A simple trick here. Use some flash cards to plan your individual innings the night before. All you have to do is to write them down on the flash cards and read them out quickly when your team is about to leave the dugout! The kids pick up very quickly that what is on the card is where they are going. Takes a lot of stress off coaches when kids asking ‘can I’.
Also helps in making sure kids all get a fair allocation of game time.

Simple but so much easier.

10/09/2026

A huge congratulations to Hills Juniors, Noah Rowley and Daniel Price for their selection Australian U/18 Selection Camp!
We are all so very proud of you!