Doubleheaders?

[zoops]

Curious, in your area do high school varsity teams play mostly single games or mostly doubleheaders?

[ousafe]

Seattle metro - never seen anything other than single games.

[Velho]

California bay area - single games (not even JV and Varsity doubleheaders since most fields don't have lights and they keep that practice up on weekends).

[noumpere]

Single on weekdays; DH on weekends (and spring break, and other days when school is out)

[maven]

7 hours ago, noumpere said:

Single on weekdays; DH on weekends (and spring break, and other days when school is out)

Same here.

[NavyBlue]

Lots of varsity doubles on weekdays in city of Austin because they share centrally managed fields.  Singles in surrounding ISDs.

[BLWizzRanger]

Mostly the same, singles on weekdays and doubles on Saturdays (Sunday games are forbidden).  But, I just noticed on one's teams schedule a game at 4PM with Team A and a 7PM with Team B.  Not sure what the purpose of that is....

In WV, v/jv teams are allowed up to 32 non-state playoff games.

[humanbackstop19]

Iowa = Nothing but doubleheaders in our HS summer season.  Schools are allowed to play 40 games, but new this year are limited to 25 playing dates to play those 40 games.  

[MAUmpire]

Never heard of high school doubleheaders in MA/RI, but it's definitely the dominant mode (along with tournaments) for club/AAU come summer. We don't have many central hub fields in my area, though.

[johnnyg08]

Singles until the weather goes mad and they turn into DH

[Velho]

2 hours ago, BLWizzRanger said:

In WV, v/jv teams are allowed up to 32 non-state playoff games.

44 minutes ago, humanbackstop19 said:

Schools are allowed to play 40 games, but new this year are limited to 25 playing dates to play those 40 games.  

That explains a lot about the difference. California is only allowed 28 regular season games. In Bay Area the season runs from late February to mid May, which comes out to 2-3 per week.

[834k3r]

14 hours ago, zoops said:

Curious, in your area do high school varsity teams play mostly single games or mostly doubleheaders?

We have 90+% double headers (at all levels). Even the singles turn into double headers at times--especially trying to make up games postponed due to the splendid and perfect weather we have here in March.

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[BLWizzRanger]

1 minute ago, 834k3r said:

We have 90+% double headers (at all levels). Even the singles turn into double headers at times--especially trying to make up games postponed due to the splendid and perfect weather we have here in March.

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[ousafe]

14 minutes ago, BLWizzRanger said:

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[834k3r]

2 minutes ago, ousafe said:

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Black. Always black.

[Richvee]

On VERY rare occasion I've heard of JV/Varsity DH's in NJ. (95%) no lights on baseball fields. I've never seen or heard about a varsity DH

[orangebird]

Not working HS yet but through the magic of the internet I can still see HS schedules for my county I'm only seeing singleheaders

[834k3r]

1 hour ago, 834k3r said:

We have 90+% double headers (at all levels). Even the singles turn into double headers at times--especially trying to make up games postponed due to the splendid and perfect weather we have here in March.

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I should mention that most of our games are scheduled to start at 2pm and 4pm. Because subvarsity we have a no new after 2 hours and a 2:15 drop dead, most JV second games start at 4:30. The games where daylight is a challenge (only one of the fields up here has lights) are varsity. We end up getting enough innings played to make it an official game, though.

[MadMax]

In the 3 areas of Arizona that constitute “metro” (Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff), everything’s single Varsity. In the outlying regions, on what appears to be a district by district basis, we might have a JV-Varsity “series”. Some smaller (Class 2A) schools in the metro areas will do this, too. 

Then, in Tucson and Phoenix especially, our HSs are famous for hosting these invitationals, where HSs (note: not travel-ball teams) from a variety of states come in and play each other and Arizona HSs in a week-long tourney format (each week, repeated for 4 weeks). Some of these HSs maintain fields and facilities (not so much stadiums) that would make Indy-pro franchises envious. There will be 3-4 games scheduled on those fields, daily, with the host school often participating in the last game of the day. 

Lots of baseball. Some of us (umpires) would be doing 60+ games of actual Varsity baseball when it was all said and done, on top of our college, pro ST, men’s amateur, and youth schedules. 

I have yet to see how Wisconsin HS does it.