The 2019-20 Oahu AJA Baseball season opens on December 15, 2018 (Sunday) with 2 games @ Hans L’Orange. Defending champion Waipahu will open with the 10am game vs Ewa while the 1pm game will feature Kaneohe vs Waialae. On December 18, 2018 (Wednesday), in the 7pm game, Manoa vs McCully opens their season at CORP4, while at Hans L’Orange, Pearl City vs Sheridan opens their season
There are a few major few changes the season. The League returns to wood bats or wood composite only. Regular season games will return to 9 innings with no new inning to begin after a 2 hour 30 minutes time limit. Playoff games will be 9 innings with no time limit.
The league remains divided into Town & Country Divisions. In the regular season, teams will play teams within their Division twice and teams in the other Division once for a total of 10 regular season games per team. The Town Division is made up of Manoa, McCully, Sheridan, & Waialae. Ewa, Kaneohe, Pearl City & Waipahu belong to the Country Division.
The End of Season Championship Tournament will include all teams for this year. In the 1sr round, a Single Sudden Death Elimination game between the regular season’s 4th and 3rd place teams within each Division will start the Tournament. The 2nd round will feature a Single Sudden Death Elimination game between each Division’s 2nd place team vs the winner of that Divisions’s 1st round. The winner of the each Division’s 2nd round game will advance to play their Division’s #1 seed in a Division Championship best of 3 series.
The 2 Division Championship winners will then move on to play each other in a best 2 of 3 League Championship Series to determine the Oahu AJA Baseball League Champion. The Championship Tournament is scheduled to begin February 23, 2020 and culminate with the League Champion being crowned on March 15, 2020.
The Oahu AJA Baseball League Champion will represent Oahu in the 85th Annual Hawaii State Championship Tournament hosted by Maui AJA Baseball on April 4-5, 2020 in Maui’s Iron Maehara Stadium.