Premier Girls Fastpitch (PGF)
Rules & Regulations

ROSTERS AND ELIGIBILITY-Qualifying Tournaments

At check-in each team must submit a roster printed from the PGF Insurance Menu. All players/teams must have a PGF registration ID printout and show proof of Insurance at all Qualifiers. (Any team insurance is acceptable at National Qualifiers. (PGF, ASA, etc.)  See PGF Insurance menu tab for specific PGF Registration requirements.

Key facts about PGF Registration

• No more plastic ID cards. Everything is done on your computer. Official roster with pictures, age verification, background checks will all be e-verified and approved in hours.
• Age verifications and Background checks, requiring personal information will be performed on a securely protected site.
• Once a member of your team has been verified and approved, your official roster will be the only thing required to show at PGF sanctioned events. If a person is not approved, they will not be listed on the roster.
• The Head Coach may monitor his/her roster at their convenience. It is suggested that each person inputs their own personal information into the system. The Head Coach must first establish the team page and then every other member may go into the site to input their information.
• You will have to create a new userid and password for this site. It will not be the same userid and password that you use for the main PGF site.

All coaches who will interact on the field with any player must have proof of a PGF Background Check. No coach will be allowed to be in the dugout or on the field for warmups or game play without their print out ID, obtained from the PGF Insurance site.

Once a team has submitted its roster at a check-in for a Qualifying Tournament, all players registered to that team are frozen on that team until the team disbands,  chooses not to enter further Qualifying Tournaments or finishes the final Qualifying Tournament and does not qualify for Nationals.

Once a team qualifies for the Nationals, all players on that team are frozen until August 5, 2012. Qualifying teams may add players until the roster deadline TBD. Players may be added from any team in a like or younger age group if the player to be added was not on the roster of a team that qualified for the Nationals in any age group. Invited teams may add to the roster until the roster deadline of TBD, provided the player to be added was not on the roster of a qualifying team at any time after the team qualified. Players who compete in a qualifying tournament at any age group may not be added to a team in a younger age group. Players on an invited team are unrestricted within their age group or an older age group until the TBD, roster deadline

A previously unregistered player may register with PGF and be added to a team until the TBD roster deadline, this player is eligible for all qualifying or national tournaments.

ROSTERS AND ELIGIBILITY-National Tournaments

At check-in each team must submit a roster printed from the PGF Insurance Website administered by SportsAgeID. All players must have a print out of their approved registration ID. ONLY PGF Insurance and Rosters will be accepted at the all National Championships.

National rosters must match the team roster as it was on your PGF Insurance team roster at 11:59 PM, on TBD. No players may be added after this date for any reason.

Players may only compete in only one age group.

GAME RULES

NO METAL CLEATS IN THE 14U DIVISION

National High School Federation Rules will be used with the following exception.

Pitchers must begin with both feet in contact with the pitching plate and are allowed only one forward step with their non-pivot foot.

ORDER OF FINISH-SHORTENED TOURNAMENT

In the event that a tournament cannot be played to its completion of berth awards the following procedure will be used to break ties between teams in the same bracket positions

Head to head competition.

The team that advanced the farthest in the winner’s bracket.

Won-loss records except among undefeated teams.

If only two teams are tied for a position and have played each other, the winner of that game.

The teams will be ranked according to fewest runs allowed per game played.

The teams will be ranked according to the most runs scored per game played. 

A coin toss.

The Tournament Director shall have the right to initiate procedures to complete the berth assignations at any time in the tournament.