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 course of this 12 months’s playoffs to take part in a Jewish baseball event in Ohio.
CIF guidelines don’t enable 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.
YULA and Shalhevet baseball ineligible for subsequent 12 months’s playoffs as sanctions for pulling out this season to play in a Jewish event. pic.twitter.com/uz9rNBXeyX
— eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) Might 21, 2025
The very fact two Jewish faculties determined a Jewish event 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 event.
It offers clear proof that whoever is in cost doesn’t take taking part in CIF sports activities critically and that needs to be a regarding message to oldsters and athletes on the two faculties.
It’s powerful sufficient for teenagers of Jewish religion to be taken critically once they play sports activities and need to be the very best. This episode perpetuates stereotypes and harms the progress made on the two faculties by different coaches and different athletes.
