The Nebraska Reserve Baseball League, which has
provided summer league play in the Omaha Metro Area for high school
players fifteen years of age and younger for the past three seasons,
has added three Lincoln “select” teams for 2009. The addition of the
Lincoln Dodgers, Dominators and Rebels plus several new Metro teams
raises to thirty-two the number of Eastern Nebraska teams playing in
the league for next season. League coaches met on December 7th at
Westside High School to finalize the 2009 league schedule.
The 32 teams are assigned to one of three divisions and will each
play a league schedule consisting of thirteen games. Each team will
play the other teams in its division plus three or four
cross-divisional games. League games will begin on Tuesday, May 26
and must be completed by July 16. The league schedule will mirror
the Metro League Senior Legion and Junior Legion schedules with
games being played on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.
At the conclusion of the League’s regular season, the teams will be
ranked 1 through 32 based on their League win-loss records.
Tie-breakers for teams with identical League records will be results
of head-to-head competition followed by aggregate League opponent
win percentage. After the teams are ranked, each team will be
assigned to one of four eight-team state tournaments in the
following manner:
Class A State Tournament: Top 8 teams
Class B State Tournament: Next 8 teams
Class C1 State Tournament: Next 8 teams
Class C2 State Tournament: Next 8 teams
The four state tournaments will be played July 22nd through July
26th. The tournament sites will be announced in January.
The NRBL was founded in 2006 by current League Commissioner Mike
Castagnoli. During the 2006 and 2007 seasons the League was
comprised of twenty-four teams, consisting of Metro Area high school
teams and 14-and-under select teams. The number of participating
teams increased to twenty-six in 2008.
“Attracting teams from Lincoln is a very positive development for
the League,” noted Castagnoli. “We feel that the addition of these
top-quality Lincoln teams will lead to more teams from that area
coming into the League in future years. Over the past three years
teams in the League have seemed to enjoy the mix of high school and
select teams that the League offers as well as the opportunity to
compete in a post-season tournament.”
Other new teams in the League this season include the Rattlers,
Fremont, Kingswood, West Omaha Warriors and the Omaha Tigers.
BaseballNebraska will provide complete coverage of the League’s
regular season games and standings as well as the four state
tournaments.
Division Assignments:
|
Creighton
Prep |
Bellevue
East |
Cardinals |
|
Elkhorn |
Bellevue
West |
Fremont |
|
Gretna |
Gladiators |
Lincoln
Dodgers |
|
Kingswood |
Millard Red |
Lincoln
Dominators |
|
Millard Sox |
Omaha Bryan |
Lincoln
Rebels |
|
Millard
West |
Omaha Gross
Catholic |
Millard
North |
|
Omaha
Central |
Omaha North |
Millard
South |
|
Omaha Skutt
Catholic |
Omaha
Tigers |
Omaha
Burke |
|
Pacesetters |
Papillion
LaVista South |
Omaha
Roncalli Catholic |
|
Sun Devils |
Rattlers |
Omaha South |
|
Westside |
West Omaha Warriors |
|
For more information about membership
in the NRBL, please contact Mike Castagnoli at
michaelcastagnoli@yahoo.com.