The YULA and Shalhavet baseball groups have been banned from collaborating 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 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 match. pic.twitter.com/uz9rNBXeyX
— eric sondheimer (@latsondheimer) Could 21, 2025
The very fact two Jewish faculties determined a Jewish match was extra vital than the Southern Part baseball playoffs is okay — if that they had not accepted playoff invites. However they received 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 collaborating in CIF sports activities critically and that ought to be a regarding message to folks and athletes on the two faculties.
It’s powerful sufficient for youths of Jewish religion to be taken critically once they play sports activities and need to be one of the best. This episode perpetuates stereotypes and harms the progress made on the two faculties by different coaches and different athletes.
