    | Oil City Junior League baseball players won the District 25 championship las week in a very well fought battle against Titusville/AC Valley. However, a few days later District 25 administrator Bob Wilson was at a Titusville’s practice facility presenting T/ACV coach Keith Klingler with the championship banner. Little League ruled that Oil City had ineligible players who did not compete in the proper number of games prior to the all-star tournament. According to the Little League Baseball tournament rule book, a “league must have scheduled and played, at a minimum, a 12-game (per team) regular season…” Oil City, which is made up of players from Oil City, Franklin and Rocky Grove, did not fulfill this requirement. “We had eight games,” said Paul Myers, the OC coach and Oil City league president. During the seventh inning of the championship game Klingler said he learned about Oil City’s failure to have the proper number of prerequisite games when he asked someone to check Game Changer, an online program that teams use to keep their stats and game books. Learning, that at least Game Changer indicated Oil City had not played enough games, he issued a protest prior to the end of the game which T/ACV lost 4-3. The protest was heard and investigated by the league who requested all the game books and paperwork, By late Thursday the ruling was handed down and Titusville/AC Valley were now named the District 25 champions. “It just tainted the best junior league game I’ve ever seen,” Klingler said echoing what he stated after the loss. Myers admitted the mistake was something he missed. Now Titusville moves on to play in the section tournament beginning Tuesday at Guys Mills against the Fairview/Lake City/Girard team from District 3. |
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