Jan. 12 MBA Board meeting snapshot
Posted on Jan 13, 2013

Posted on January 12, 2013 by CJ Siewert 

If you didn't follow the MBA Twitter feed during the Board meeting today, here's a quick snapshot of what happened.

- Everything is on schedule with preparing for the State tournament in Maple Lake/Delano

- Fox Lake will move to Truman as its new home field/player radius. Current roster will be grandfathered in (pending league approval)

- Sartell Stone Ponies reinstated for the 2013 season

- New Market Muskies and Bryce Rippentropp reinstated for the 2013 season

- Hamel reinstated for the 2013 season

- Owatonna and Waseca were accepted into Twin Rivers League

- New team in Austin joining Twin Rivers

- Mankato Mets reclassified as Class B, Mankato Kubs folded

- Austin, Marshall, Moorhead and Victoria will host the 2013 Class B Super Sections (2 games Friday, 3 games Saturday)

- Sections: will be played out completely, try to be completed by Saturday prior to Super Sections

- 2013 State tournament format will remain the same as 2012 (Class C: 48-team single elimination, Class B: 8-team double elimination)

- Handbook new rule: Class A teams may not go outside the 494/694 loop to obtain players, conversely, Class B and C teams may not go inside the 494/694 loop to obtain players 

The complete meeting minutes will be posted on Monday.