The YULA and Shalhavet baseball groups have been banned from taking part in subsequent 12 months’s Southern Part playoffs and positioned on probation for pulling out in the midst of this 12 months’s playoffs to take part in a Jewish baseball match in Ohio.
CIF guidelines don’t permit faculties to play in non-authorized occasions through the season of their sport.
Messages left for YULA haven’t been returned. A Shalhavet athletic consultant stated he was not allowed to remark.
The actual fact two Jewish faculties determined a Jewish match was extra essential than the Southern Part baseball playoffs is ok — if that they had not accepted playoff invites. However they gained their first-round playoff video games, then forfeited to play within the Jewish match.
It offers clear proof that whoever is in cost doesn’t take taking part in CIF sports activities severely and that must be a regarding message to folks and athletes on the two faculties.
It’s powerful sufficient for teenagers of Jewish religion to be taken severely once they play sports activities and wish to be the very best. This episode perpetuates stereotypes and harms the progress made on the two faculties by different coaches and different athletes.
