Meetings & Key Dates

All in-person meetings will be held at 8 Chestnut St., Foxboro, MA unless otherwise noted.

2026 MASSASOIT DATES

March 8th @ 7:00pm: Meeting
March 22nd - March 27th: Team Declarations
March 27th @ 7:00pm: Team Declarations Review Meeting (Virtual)
April 4th @ 6:00pm: Coaches Meeting/Schedule Release
April 13th: Season Start
May 31st @ 7:00pm: Coaches Meeting (Virtual)
June 1st - June 5th: Playoffs

2026 HOCKOMOCK DATES

March 29th @ 7:00pm: Meeting
May 10th @ 7:00pm: Meeting
May 24th - May 29th: Team Declarations
May 29th @ 7:00pm: Team Declaration Review (Virtual)
June 14th (7:00PM D1/D2; 8:00pm D3): Coaches Meeting/Schedule Release (Foxboro Community Center: 76 Main St., Foxboro, MA)
June 14th: Schedule Change Window Starts
June 21st: Schedule Change Window Closes
June 22nd: Season Starts
July 26th @ 7:00pm: Coaches Playoff Meeting D1/D2 (Virtual)
July 27th - July 31st: D1/D2 Playoffs
August 2nd @ 7:00pm: Coaches Playoff Meeting D3 (Virtual)
August 3rd - August 8th: D3 Playoffs

Participants

Towns MUST identify a representative to attend meetings and advocate for their town with the league. While multiple people from a town may attend, the official town rep is the accountable individual who is responsible for completion of deliverables required for a town's participation in a given season. Non participation in meetings does not constitute an excuse for missing key league deadlines. It is SEMA Baseball's responsibility to share key dates, clearly explain and provide guidance on processes, relay rulings and changes, and to answer questions. However, it is NOT SEMA Baseball's responsibility to track down town reps and make sure they understand important milestones and steps which need to be completed to ensure team eligibility.

Each season, SEMA Baseball will announce team declaration dates for each league. Participating towns declare teams for each age and divisional level by the required date. The SEMA Baseball format is that team rosters must consist of players who are attending the same school system together at the same age group (9U, 10U, etc.). Baseball age is a player's age as of April 30th in a given year. If a player is home schooled or attending a private school, they must be rostered in the same town/zip code. If a town has players wishing to play, but not enough to form a full team, that town should contact SEMA Baseball as there may be other towns in similar situation who they can be connected with.

Towns should never:
   - Roster an older player to a younger cohort team (i.e., 10U player playing on a 9U team)
   - Share jerseys in an attempt to pass off a player as a different player
   - Call down a player to play in a lower level division (i.e., a Division 1 player substituting on a Division 2 or 3 team).
   - Collude with towns across town lines/zip codes to build teams.
   - Double roster players on multiple teams

Towns may:
- Allow players in lower divisions to be "called up" to higher level divisions to sub in and ensure teams have enough players for a given game.
- Allow younger cohort players to play on an older team (i.e., a 11U player playing on a 12U team)

Local town baseball boards may have additional placement guidelines through which they roster teams. SEMA Baseball fully supports local baseball board guidelines around roster construction as long as they do not violate HSL rules (i.e., older players playing down, etc.)

Teams submitted to SEMA Baseball must be approved and sponsored by their town program boards. SEMA Baseball does not accept independently formed teams.

Exceptions to any of the above situations need to be brought to the SEMA Baseball board for review. Any town found to be in violation of the above policy is subject to penalty, which could include disqualification of that team and removal from participation in future years.

New Town Membership

If you are a town who is not currently a SEMA Baseball member, you may request to join. Towns must make their request to join by December 31st for the forthcoming year. If accepted, the organization must identify a town representative and begin attending key meetings. If a town has not requested membership, gone through the review process, and been accepted, then they are not eligible to submit teams and must wait until the following year. SEMA Baseball does not accept teams without towns having gone through the membership review process.

Initiation & Registration Fees

$300 Initiation fee for all new towns joining SEMA Baseball who did not play in the previous year. If you are an existing town who played in the prior year, or you are already a member of one of the other SEMA programs, this fee will be waived.
$200 per team is the current registration fee for participating in any SEMA Baseball programs.

Team Declarations & Schedules

Team declarations consist of a two-part process. The first step is to complete the team declarations submission form by the communicated deadline in a given year (see Meeting Dates above). The second deadline is an actual live review of the teams to confirm, this usually occurs 2-5 days following the initial submission. This is a final, hard deadline. Once the final live review is concluded, SEMA Baseball does NOT accept changes. Given the size of the league, there are a massive amount of games that need to be scheduled in a way that result in equitability for all teams. This cannot be done if team declarations are continually shifting.

Hockomock Summer Declarations

Towns are required to submit a minimum of four teams at any division/age level in order to be eligible for Hockomock summer league play in a given season.

Particularly for summer, towns may not declare more than one D2 team unless they have at least one D1 team. Towns may not declare more than two D3 teams unless they have at least one D2 team. SEMA Baseball is very sensitive to the experience of ALL players. As a result, towns should never place teams well above or below their perceived competition level. If there is uncertainty, it is better that teams play in a higher level division than dominate in a lower level division. Please see our detailed division breakdown with examples for more detail.

Failure to adhere to these standards may result in penalties being levied, including fines, ineligibility for playoffs, and/or direct assignment to a division the following year.

Massasoit Spring Declarations

There are no minimum team declarations for spring. However; if a town submits more than one team, these teams must be balanced. If a town submits more than one team and through the course of the season it is determined that one or more of these teams are significantly stronger than the other(s), some teams may be deemed ineligible for the playoffs.

Schedules

Schedules will be communicated one week prior to the start of the season. SEMA Baseball provides a one week window immediately following the release of the regular season schedule and the start of the season for coaches to share the schedule with their teams.

Please visit the league specific pages for more information on schedules and rescheduling games.

SCHOLARSHIPS

SEMA Baseball awards $1,000 scholarships for students who have been rostered and participated in any of our Leagues and are planning to continue their education at a vocational school or college, two-year college, or four-year college or university. The scholarships are named after Frank Giffune who started the Hockomock Summer League in 1995; longtime former President Leo Johnson; longtime former Secretary Erik Everton; Mark Boulter, former Hockomock VP during one of the largest expansions of the league and continued service well beyond the time he had any children in the program; and Chris O’Halloran, dedicated Treasurer for the Hock for over a decade, who enabled us to increase the ability to award more scholarship funds to our players.

Applicant Requirements:

Candidates must be entering college in fall of the current year of application.
Must have played a minimum of three (3) years of league play in the Massasoit Spring League, Hockomock Summer League, and/or Barnstormers League (do not have to be consecutive years)
Complete the Hockomock Summer League Scholarship Application, available on the Hock website.
Applications must be submitted by the start of the Hockomock Summer Season in the given year.

The applicants will be checked to confirm they meet league scholarship qualifications. The SEMA Baseball Executive Board of Directors will choose the finalists based upon a comprehensive review of all the applications submitted.

Scholarship applications need to submitted via the online from below (See URL below to apply):

Hockomock Summer League Online Scholarship Form

Thank you and good luck!