With rain on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday this week and even a little more predicted for Saturday morning, the NJSIAA has extended the state playoff cutoff for baseball.
Originally, the cutoff was to be this Saturday, with the seeding next week. But baseball director Tony Maselli announced Friday that the deadline will be extended, and the cutoff will now be next Wednesday, with the seeding to be done on Thursday, one day later than originally planned.
No changes were made to the actual tournament calendar, with public schools starting the state playoffs on Tuesday, May 27th, the day after Memorial Day. Non-publics will start the day after, on Wednesday, May 28th.
Maselli said the goal was to allow as many teams as possible to reach the 16-game minimum for power point average calculation, nothing a significant number haven’t due to all the rain this week. Teams that don’t meet the 16-game minimum will have their total power points still divided by 16, which would significantly and artificially lower their average.
In the Greater Middlesex Conference, The only teams not to reach that 16-game threshold are New Brunswick and Somerset Tech, which have 14, and still have a GMC Invitational game to play today (Friday). while Timothy Christian played its 14th game Friday, falling to Dunellen in the Invitational.
In Somerset County, only Bound Brook hasn’t met the threshold yet. They’ve also played 14 games.
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