The regular season of Little League for most towns is over and league playoffs will be starting soon. Once all the league playoffs are finished the District 2 all-star playoffs will get under way and run into July.

Locally here in the Midcoast Camden-Rockport Little League finished up their regular season games Saturday. The softball playoff schedule will be posted below and we will post the baseball if we receive it.

In Rockland the season was completed Sunday and the Softball playoffs begin Tuesday and baseball Wednesday. If weather corporates they will be crowing the softball champion Sunday, June 9 or Monday, June 10. Baseball will be Saturday, June 15.

We have received no information from any other leagues in Knox or Waldo Counties.

Camden-Rockport Softball playoff schedule.
Game 1: Monday June 3, EBS vs CNB at 5:30 at Marge Jones Field in Rockport
Game 2: Thursday June 6, Winner game 1 vs Cedarworks, 5:30, Rockport
Game 3: Friday June 7, Loser game 1 vs Loser Game 2, 5:30, Rockport
Game 4/5: Saturday June 8, Winner game 2 vs Winner game 3, 10 am, repeat at 1pm if necessary

Rockland Little League Baseball Playoff Plan
We are excited to include teams from Thomaston and St. George into our schedule this year, and to incorporate true road games into our schedule.  Our plans for playoffs this year are designed to reward higher seeded teams with a home playoff game, while also ensuring that league championships take place on our league-owned fields.  The following playoff plan for Major League Baseball has been approved by the Rockland Little League Board of Directors for 2013.

Playoff games will be single elimination until there are four teams remaining, when the tournament will convert to a double-elimination format.  All single-elimination games will be held at the home field of the higher seed.  Once the playoff field is reduced to four remaining teams, all games will be held at Gordon Field in Rockland until a league champion is determined.  The higher seed shall be designated the ‘home team’ for purposes of batting order throughout the playoffs, including games at Gordon Field (which may or may not be the true home field of the home team).

Since there are 9 teams, the playoffs will begin with a single-elimination ‘play-in game’ with the #9 seed versus the #8 seed at the home field of the #8 team.  Weather permitting, this game shall be held at least four days in advance of the next round, so that the winner will have all pitchers available for its next game.  

Once the field is reduced to 8 teams, the winner of the play-in game will face the #1 team at the home field of #1.  Also, #7 will play at #2, #6 at #3, and #5 at #4.  All of these games will be at the home field of the higher seed, and will be single elimination.  Fields eligible to host playoff games include Gordon Field in Rockland, Thomaston Little League Field, Leppanen Field in St. George, and the Vinalhaven High School Field.  

Once the playoff field is reduced to four teams, the playoffs will convert to double-elimination, and all remaining games shall be held at Gordon Field in Rockland until a league champion is determined.  The higher seed shall be the home team and bat last throughout the playoffs.  

Baseball Playoff Schedule
Play in Game - Wed. June 5 - No. 8 Elks vs No. 9 Rotary, loser is eliminated.
Saturday June 8
09:00 am - No. 4 Fisher vs No. 5 St. George - Gordon Field - Loser eliminated
11:30 am - No. 3 Lions vs No. 6 Kiwanis - Gordon Field- Loser eliminated
12:00 pm - No. 2 KDK vs No. 7 Touch of Glass - Thomaston LL Field - Loser Eliminated
TBD         - No. 1 Ravens vs winner of plain game - Vinalhaven High School field - Loser eliminated
On Monday, June 10 the double elimination kicks in She picture of bracket for more info.

Rockland Little League Softball Playoff Plan
We are excited to include teams from Thomaston and St. George into our schedule this year, and to incorporate true road games into our schedule.  Our plans for playoffs this year are designed to reward higher seeded teams with a home playoff game, while also ensuring that league championships take place on our league-owned fields.  The following playoff plan for Major League Softball has been approved by the Rockland Little League Board of Directors for 2013.

Playoff games will be single elimination until there are four teams remaining, when the tournament will convert to a double-elimination format.  All single-elimination games will be held at the home field of the higher seed.  Once the playoff field is reduced to four remaining teams, all games will be held at George Hall Field in Rockland until a league champion is determined.  The higher seed shall be designated the ‘home team’ for purposes of batting order throughout the playoffs, including games at George Hall Field (which may or may not be the true home field of the home team).

Since there are 7 teams, the #1 team from the regular season will receive a bye in the single-elimination round and automatically advance to the double-elimination round.  The #7 team will play at #2, #6 will play at #3, and #5 will play at #4.  All of these games will be at the home field of the higher seed, and will be single elimination.  Fields eligible to host playoff games include George Hall Field in Rockland, Thomaston Little League Field, Town Landing Ballfield in St. George, and the Vinalhaven High School Field.  

Once the playoff field is reduced to four teams, the playoffs will convert to double-elimination, and all remaining games shall be held at George Hall Field in Rockland until a league champion is determined.  The higher seed shall be the home team and bat last throughout the playoffs.

Softball Playoff Schedule
Tuesday, June 4
05:30 pm - No. 2 Kenniston vs No. 5 St. George - George Hall Field - Loser Eliminated
05:30 pm - No. 6 Coppola at No. 3 Vinalhaven - Vinalhaven High School Field - Loser Eliminated
Wednesday, June 5
05:30 pm - No. 4 McDonalds vs No. 5 St. George - George Hall Field - Loser Eliminated
Double elimination starts Thursday, June 6 - See the photo for the bracket for softball.

Recent games From Camden-Rockport Little League
Cedarworks 16, EBS 6… Cedarworks played a double header Saturday beating EBS and falling to Camden National Bank in the second game.

Hitting for Cedarworks were, Emily Tassi  (1 hit 2 runs), Alyson Glasier (1 hit 2 runs), Laticia Billings (2 hits 2 runs), Payton Wiley (3 hits 3 runs), Ashley Williams (1 hit 1 run), Dani Cayouette (1 run) and Olivia Ogier (1 hit 2 runs).
 
For EBS, Zoey Morris (1 hit 1 run), Nicole Brown (1 run), Audrey Bowman (1 hit 1 run), Alexandra Southworth (1 run), Olivia Brown (1 run) and
Katherine Upham (1 run).

EBS    0  2  1  3  0  6
CW     3  1  4  4  4   16

CNB 12, Cedarworks 2… The hot sun Saturday, may have gotten to the Cedarworks players as they played the second game in 80 plus degree weather.

Hitting for CNB were, Amanda McFarland (1 hit 2 runs), Meghan Gallagher (1 hit 2 runs), Capri Buck (1 hit 2 runs), Hannah Nolan (1 hit 2 runs), Sadie Mills (1 run), Bella Christie (1 run), and Caroline Contento (2 runs).

For CW, Alyson Glasier (1 run) and Jenna Stearns (1 run).

CW   1  1  0  0  2
CNB 4  7  1  X  12

Cedarworks 21, CNB 8… On Thursday, May 30 the two teams played at Appleton Ridge with Cedarworks 12 hits on their way to a 21-8 win.

Hitting for CW were, Dani Cayouette (1 run), Emily Tassi (1 hit 3 runs), Laticia Billings (2 hits 4 runs), Payton Wiley (4 hits 4 runs), Ashley Williams (2 hits 2 runs), Sydney Lytton (2 hits 3 runs), Jenna Stearns (1 hit 1 run), Brooke St. Laurent (1 run) and Kat O'Brien (2 runs).
 
For CNB, Kaitlyn Kessel (2 hits 2 runs), Amanda McFarland (1 hit 1 run), Capri Buck (1 run), Sarah Contento (1 hit 1 run), Lydia Bragg (1 run), Kendra Merrill  (1 run) and Hannah Nolan (1 run).

CNB   0  0  0  2  1  5  8
CW     6  6  3  0  6  0  21

 Ron Hawkes can be reached at sports@penbaypilot.com