Lucas99 has a point... but the SPSL is clearly the best over time.
It's a legit point you bring up. They should send your district's 2 or 3 seed over to the westside for regionals probably.
The SPSL gets an opportunity to do this because their district (West Central) combines with the Narrows and GSHL leagues to make one district. That's a district that takes the best from about 50 4A high schools (21 SPSL, 18-20 Narrows, however many are in the GSHL). So, if the SPSL dominates their district... which usually happens, they have many of the West Central's 8 seeds to state. They usually get 5 or more of those 8 seeds to regionals. This year, 5 made it to Regionals and 3 to the Final Four (all 3 being from the North Division of the SPSL!!). In 2003, 5 of the final 8 were from the SPSL. That's crazy too.
That's the answer to your problem... combine with other leagues (other than the joke that the GSL is) to make your district. But wait, that'd make sense if you could play Couer D'Alene and Boise for Idaho's title, but... it's geography, man. Is the WIAA seriously going to make teams practically fly to E. Wash for a district game? No. So, I guess you could petition the Idaho Interscholastic Association for membership?
The simple truth is that there is just more baseball being played at a high level on the westside. The Eastside does a good job in a few places... especially Tri-Cities, but they just aren't quite at the level that the westside is at. The SPSL has earned it's stripes as THE power league - in all sports, really - over the last 10 years. I'd have to say that the Big 9 is right behind in baseball, though. The others... KingCo 4A, Wesco, GSL, GSHL and Narrows aren't quite there in baseball. They always have the top heavy (one or two legit teams), middle light to weak, bottom horrible - type league.
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