Southern California Collegiate Baseball Association

The Southern California Collegiate Baseball League is a collegiate summer baseball league, formerly the SCCBA (Association). Founded in 2007, the SCCBL is a member of the National Baseball Congress. The SCCBL League Champion represents the league annually at the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kansas. The 2012 SCCBA champions are the Palm Springs Power of Palm Springs, California, the most successful team to date, by defeating the East L.A. Dodgers. The Power was the Pacific Southwest Baseball League (PSWBL) champions in 2009.

2013 season

The SCCBL have six teams: the High Desert Heat in Victorville, California; Inland Valley Pirates in Pomona, California; Long Beach Legends of Long Beach, California; Palm Springs Power; Riverside Rebels in Riverside, California; and Team San Diego in San Diego, California. They play some games with 9 non-SCCBL teams - the Long Beach Elite; Los Angeles Brewers of Los Angeles; So Cal Catch of Carlsbad, California; So Cal Sklz of Escondido, California; Arroyo Seco Saints of Los Angeles; Bisbee Ironmen of Bisbee, Arizona; Casa Grande Cotton Kings of Casa Grande, Arizona; Orange County Cannons of Newport Beach, California; and Tucson Nationals of Tucson, Arizona.

History

2009 and 2010 seasons

In the 2010 season, they admitted four collegiate teams: the Elite Kings then in El Cajon, California, the San Diego Stars, the So Cal Cardinals of Carlsbad, California and Tijuana Toros. In 2011, only the Stars and Elite Kings remained in the SCBBA.

2011 season

In 2011, the Cardinals/Waves, Mariners/Storm, Pioneers, Yuma Bandits of the PSWL, and Team Thunder (now Team San Diego) and the Toros are in the Sou. Cal. League, a competing collegiate baseball league in the region.

In 2011, the SCCBA played games with other leagues' teams: the Orange County Waves/Wolves of Fountain Valley, California and San Diego Waves of Oceanside, California; the San Diego Force of Vista, California; the Bay Cal Yankees of Calistoga, California; and the San Francisco Seals (2011) and San Francisco Seagulls of the San Francisco Bay Area.

2012 season

In 2012, formerly the SCCBA consisted of 9 other teams: the Palm Springs Power, the High Desert Heat (formerly of Lake Havasu City, Arizona); the L.A. Thrashers of Brea, California; the Long Beach Legends; the Orange County Hitmen of Orange, California; the Pasadena Pros; the SoCal Athletics of Irvine, California; the SoCal Bombers of Carson, California; http://socalsklz.com/teams/?u=SKLZBASEBALL&s=baseball&t=c the So Cal Sklz of Escondido, California; and the Diamond Valley Sabres of Hemet, California. In the schedule the SCBBA played with 5 non SCCBA teams - the Pomona Pride of Pomona, California; the Banning Hermits of Banning; the System 5 (Moreno Valley Yuppies) team of Moreno Valley, the Inland Empire Aces/California Dreamers of Riverside; and the El Centro Aces of El Centro, California representing the Imperial Valley.

http://sccbaseball.com/southern-california-bombers/inland-empire-aces-schedule/ SoCal Bombers season schedule

The Western Baseball Association based in San Diego have 8 teams in 2010, 4-6 teams as of the 2011 and 4 of them in the 2012 seasons to represent an area left out by the SCBBA and Sou. Cal Leagues. They are the San Diego Stars, La Jolla Fire (in San Diego), Mira Mesa Mavericks (also in San Diego), Coronado SeaGulls, Elite Kings of El Cajon, California, Escondido Coyotes, San Marcos Knights again a non-league member team, Carlsbad/Oceanside Cougars and Oceanside Reds whom folded right before the 2012 season.

http://www.baseball-links.com/links/College_Baseball/Summer_Leagues/Western_Baseball_Association/

San Diego has the US Armed Forces League: the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and Border Patrol amateur baseball teams.

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