Something has to change.
Because of the new region format and tournaments having no impact on Power Points, baseball and softball teams are playing one another three times in the next three weeks.
In most of the other 4A and 5A regions, teams play each other either two or three times, depending on the number of teams.
Since the Central and Desert Valley regions have four teams each, they’re most affected.
It’s ridiculous. Good luck finding a team which wants to play three games against one another, and that’s before the state tournament.
It’s overly repetitive. It’s boring. And eventually it’s like watching a team practice against itself. By that time, everybody knows everybody else’s softball and personal history.
What’s the point?
It would be a logistical challenge for sure, but if tournaments aren’t going to count toward Power Points, perhaps everyone should play 30 regular season games against 30 different opponents.
Or, at least, replace the absurd number of region games with a few more non-region contests. It may diminish the significance of region games, but minimally if teams play quality opponents from the outside.
It may also keep us awake.
