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11U Travel Baseball in Bend and Central Oregon: Clubs and Links

Six Central Oregon clubs have current 11U evidence, and one of them runs two teams at the age. Here are the official links, the 11U eligibility rules, and the pitch limits that apply at 11 and 12.

Which Central Oregon clubs field an 11U team?

Six local clubs have current-season evidence of an 11U team: Junior Ravens (Redmond), Caldera Jr. Wolfpack (Bend), Jr Cougs (Bend), BOSS Baseball (Bend), SunWest Baseball (Redmond) and Premier Baseball Oregon (Bend). BOSS carries two 11U teams, Blue and Black — the only local club running two teams at this age in 2026.

That makes 11U the widest field of any age band in Central Oregon. At 9U and 10U some of these clubs are absent; at 12U and 13U the roster of clubs shifts again.

Central Oregon Crush belongs in a separate line. Its only 11U evidence from play is 2025 — the demonstrated 2026 footprint was 9U and 10U — but the club has now published a 2027 tryout that groups 11U with 12U and 13U on September 13 at Pine Nursery Fields, so an 11U team is planned for the coming season. Its published roster page is still headed “2024 BASEBALL TEAM ROSTER,” so use the tryout announcement rather than the site when you are checking details.

The 11U club directory for Bend and Redmond

Every club below publishes its own current roster, fee schedule and tryout detail on its own channels. That is where the live information is — this table exists to get you there, not to substitute for it.

Club City Official site Facebook Instagram 11U in 2026
Junior Ravens Redmond juniorravens.com juniorravensbaseball none published Yes
Caldera Jr. Wolfpack Bend jrwolfpackbaseball.godaddysites.com jrwolfpackbaseball @calderajrwolfpack Yes — posted roster
Jr Cougs Bend cougsbaseball.com/jrcougs Jr Cougs Baseball none published Yes — 5th grade team
BOSS Baseball Bend bossbaseballperformance.com bossbaseballco @bossbaseballperformance Yes — 11U Blue and 11U Black
SunWest Baseball Redmond sunwestbaseball.com RedmondSunWest no confirmed official account Yes
Premier Baseball Oregon Bend premierbaseballoregon.com Premier Baseball Oregon @premierbaseballor Yes
Central Oregon Crush Bend centraloregoncrush.com centraloregoncrush @co_crush_official 2025 evidence; 11U tryout set for 2027

A few notes that are hard to pick up from the links alone. Caldera Jr. Wolfpack is the Caldera High School feeder and the most consistently active multi-age club in the region, entering 10u through 14u at both of the 2026 local events; its roster pages are posted as images, so the 11U details are easy to scroll past. Jr Cougs is the Mountain View High School feeder and runs one team per grade — 11U is the 5th-grade team — with indoor practices starting in January and tournaments from March through June; the contact is Matt Gylling at gyllingm@gmail.com. Junior Ravens describes itself as serving 8U to 14U in baseball and softball, and has an indoor facility with turf and a classroom at 1910 S Hwy 97 in Redmond. SunWest serves Redmond youth baseball and softball, though its site content is stale — the most recent news post is from October 2024 — and its public presence leans toward American Legion ball. Premier Baseball Oregon trains at the Bend fieldhouse and is oriented toward instruction and college recruitment; it publishes no age groups of its own, so the 11U listing here comes from tournament entries, where the team name appears variously as “Premier Oregon,” “Oregon Premier” and “Premier Baseball Oregon.”

If you want to see which clubs actually showed up rather than which ones list an age group, the local tournament results at centraloregonbaseball.com are the most direct check available — the Battle at the Hub bracket from June 13–14, 2026 and the Rock Chuck Classic from May 2–3, 2026 between them cover most of the region’s teams.

Two teams at one age: what that means for a family

BOSS Baseball’s 2026 youth lineup is 9U, 11U Blue, 11U Black and 13U. Two teams at a single age is unusual locally, though not unheard of — Junior Ravens has run two 9U teams, Black and Purple. BOSS does not publish which of Blue or Black sits where, or how players are sorted between them, so treat the names as names and ask the question directly.

The question matters more than it sounds. When a club runs two teams at one age, some form of sorting happens at the tryout, and the two rosters usually do not have identical schedules, coaches, tournament levels or expectations. None of that is a problem in itself — a second team is often the reason a player gets a spot at all, and playing time on a well-coached second team beats a bench role on a first team for almost every eleven-year-old. But you want to know which season you are being offered before you accept it.

Three things are worth asking before you say yes:

  • Which team is my child being offered, and what distinguishes the two? Schedule, tournament mix, practice load, coaching staff. Ask for specifics rather than a general reassurance that both teams are treated the same.
  • What is the expected role? How large is the roster, how are innings and positions shared, and will a player who sits in one game start the next? At 11U, repetitions are the development, so a role that produces few of them is a real cost.
  • Can players move between the teams during the season? Some clubs move players up and down; others fix rosters at the start. Either is defensible. Not knowing which one applies is what creates a bad February.

BOSS is at 1305 SE Armour Rd Suite 120 in Bend and reachable at 541-389-BOSS. The club describes its own aim as, in its words, “we are not here to be the best team, we are here to deliver the best experience,” and it explicitly welcomes multi-sport athletes and does not discourage Little League — which is directly relevant to the workload question further down this page. If you are still weighing the two paths generally, the comparison in Little League vs. travel baseball covers that ground.

FCA Bend Saints: a 10U and 11U tryout on September 12

FCA Bend Saints is holding tryouts for 10U and 11U on September 12 from 12 to 2 p.m. at the yellow field at Pine Nursery Park. Registration runs through Nate Bamford at nbamford@fca.org, and the announcement is posted on Instagram.

One thing to know before you go looking: the FCA Bend website does not currently list a baseball program at all. That is not a red flag about the tryout — it simply means the announcement post and that email address are where the detail lives. If you want to know about fees, coaches, season length or tournament schedule, email Nate rather than hunting through the site for a page that is not there.

When do 2027 tryout dates appear?

Three are already on the calendar for 11U.

Club 11U tryout for 2027 Where
Premier Baseball Oregon Saturday, August 29, 9:30 a.m. (10U–14U) Bend Elks Fieldhouse
FCA Bend Saints Saturday, September 12, 12–2 p.m. (10U and 11U) Pine Nursery Park, yellow field
Central Oregon Crush Sunday, September 13 (11U, 12U and 13U) Pine Nursery Fields

Premier’s tryout covers ages 10U through 14U, with sign-up through the link on its Instagram announcement. FCA Bend Saints follows on September 12 for 10U and 11U.

One absence is worth explaining, because it is easy to misread. BOSS Baseball ran two 11U teams in 2026 — Blue and Black — and has now published its full Spring 2027 tryout schedule covering 9U, 10U, 12U Black and 13U, with 12U Blue and 14U returning without tryouts. There is no 11U on that list. Those 2026 11U players age into the two 12U teams, and the club has not announced an 11U group behind them. If your player is 11U for 2027, BOSS is not currently an option to plan around; ask the club at info@boss-baseball.com rather than assuming a date is still coming.

Central Oregon Crush groups 11U with 12U and 13U on September 13 at Pine Nursery Fields, per its tryout announcement. The rest have not posted 11U dates. Junior Ravens shows a “’27 Registration” menu with no programs behind it, Jr Cougs has a live 2027 registration form with no date or location attached, and Caldera Jr. Wolfpack and SunWest have not announced anything for 11U. Local tryouts cluster in late August and September, so expect those to land in the next several weeks.

Historically these dates land in a burst from late August into September. The Junior Ravens pattern has been late-August tryouts at Ridgeview High School. The practical approach: follow the two or three clubs you are seriously considering on the channels in the table above, and check weekly through September. Our Central Oregon tryouts guide tracks the same question across all age groups.

How 11U age eligibility works, and why Little League says something different

For USSSA play in 2027, the simple version is that a player born on or after May 1, 2015 is age-eligible for 11U. Most families can stop there.

The part that trips people up is that the rule is a dual cutoff with a grade exception. Applied to 11U: a player who turns 12 before May 1 of the season is not eligible unless they are in 5th grade — and separately, any player turning 13 before August 1 is not eligible regardless of grade. The grade pairing at this band is 11U with 5th grade. A player may always play up an age group, never down. The exact wording is in the USSSA national by-laws, and the USSSA age calculator will resolve an individual birthdate faster than reading the rule.

Little League uses a different date entirely — a player’s actual age on August 31 — which means the same child can be one “age” in Little League and another in USSSA travel. The two bodies simply measure differently, so a family playing both will sometimes see two different numbers attached to the same kid. Little League’s 2026 chart is published and the 2027 chart is not out yet; the determine league age page is the authority, and our age chart guide explains the mechanics.

The workload numbers that apply at 11 and 12

At 11U most players fall into the 11–12 band of the MLB Pitch Smart guidelines, which raises the daily maximum from 75 to 85 pitches. The rest thresholds are unchanged from the younger band:

Pitches thrown in a day Required rest
1–20 0 days
21–35 1 day
36–50 2 days
51–65 3 days
66–85 4 days

The single most useful line in that document for a travel parent is this: “It is the responsibility of the parent and the athlete to ensure that the player follows the guidelines for the respective age group over the course of a year – given that the player will oftentimes play in multiple leagues.” Counts follow the child, not the roster. No coach or tournament director sees the yearly total unless someone in the family is keeping it.

Playing all-stars and travel in the same summer

This is the age where the calendars start overlapping in earnest, and it is where the American Sports Medicine Institute’s position statement for adolescent pitchers becomes directly practical rather than abstract. Two of its guidelines apply almost word for word to an eleven-year-old playing Little League all-stars and travel in the same June: “Do not pitch more than 100 innings in games in any calendar year,” and “Avoid pitching on multiple teams with overlapping seasons.”

A hundred innings sounds like a lot until you total a tournament season plus a district run plus fall ball. It is worth actually adding up. The same statement asks for no overhead throwing of any kind for at least two to three months per year, with four months preferred, and no competitive pitching for at least four months — which is a scheduling decision a family makes in October, not something that happens by accident. It also advises that a pitcher should not also be his team’s catcher, and to avoid radar guns at this age.

Watch for the fatigue signs the statement names: decreased ball velocity, decreased accuracy, an upright trunk while pitching, a dropped elbow, or more time between pitches. And know the stop-throwing red flags from OrthoInfo’s page on elbow throwing injuries in children: elbow pain or swelling, especially alongside lost velocity, feeling a “pop,” numbness or tingling, restricted range of motion, or locking. The STOP Sports Injuries guidance is blunter still — a youth player should never throw with pain, should take active rest of at least three months each year, and following pitch recommendations may reduce overuse injuries by roughly half.

What actually changes at 11U

The competitive framing gets louder at this age, and the development literature does not follow it. USA Baseball’s Long-Term Athlete Development plan explicitly emphasizes postponement of single-sport specialization, names early specialization and year-round play as problems to solve, and criticizes what it calls the disproportionate ratio between development and competition. Its “Advanced Track” does not begin until ages 14 to 16. If you feel pressure to intensify at eleven, that document is a reasonable counterweight to have read.

Practically, what changes at 11U is that the sorting gets real — two teams at one age, more clubs to choose among, tighter rosters — while the child is still three years away from the point at which the national curriculum thinks specialization is appropriate. Both things are true at once. The families who navigate this well tend to be the ones who pick a coach and a role over a name, keep a second sport, and keep their own count of the innings. If the total commitment is the open question, our 11U-and-under commitment guide lays out what a season actually asks of a household.

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