It’s a tough reality to accept, but one that local Valley Baseball League officials deem appropriate given the circumstances.

The 2020 Valley Baseball League season has been canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The Valley Baseball League is still a few months away, but right now the season is up in the air.

WOODSTOCK – A pair of Woodstock River Bandits swept the Valley Baseball League’s top player awards.

Maynard “Mo” Weber, an iconic figure in the Valley Baseball League and the New Market Rebels organization, passed away Friday at the age of 96.

FRONT ROYAL – Front Royal may have been eliminated from the Valley Baseball League playoffs, but it didn’t show in the team’s final games of the season.

STRASBURG – With players hailing from all levels of college baseball and from all corners of the country, teams in the Valley Baseball League can sometimes need time to develop a winning chemistry. Count Furman University right-hander Mason Kenney among those pleasantly surprised with just h…

STRASBURG – Strasburg has been a little up and down lately but the Express still control their own destiny heading into the final games of the season.

NEW MARKET – Christian Horner sees the looks.

WOODSTOCK – Mick Bocock knows there’s a virus going around the Valley Baseball League, as it does every year at this time, and he just wants to keep his team far away from it.

WOODSTOCK – As Woodstock River Bandits pitching coach Charlie Shepard got to know Tristen Bayless at the start of the Valley Baseball League season, he was shocked to learn just how limited the left-hander’s role has been at the college level.

WOODSTOCK — New Market appeared to be getting hot at the right time, winning six of seven Valley League Baseball games with the end of the regular season closing in and finally finding some pop at the plate after the league’s all-star game on July 7. However, a return to the VBL playoffs for…

FRONT ROYAL – Twenty-eight days passed between Tre Dabney’s last game of the 2019 season at James Madison University and his Valley Baseball League debut for the Front Royal Cardinals on June 20.

After a 9-0 win over Winchester on July 8, Strasburg boasted the best record in the Valley Baseball League and held a five-game lead over Woodstock for first place in the North Division. The Express are now trying to survive an untimely slide and keep its grip on its division lead.

WOODSTOCK – While not yet officially eliminated from the Valley Baseball League playoff hunt, Front Royal would need something miraculous to happen in order to keep playing ball after the regular season ends next Thursday.

WOODSTOCK – Just over a week ago, Woodstock sat five games behind first-place Strasburg in the Valley Baseball League North Division standings with the end of the regular season closing in. There’s a week left before the start of the VBL playoffs, and the River Bandits have erased that deficit.

NEW MARKET -- Before New Market played its 31st game of the Valley Baseball League season, head coach Matt Schaeffer tried to simplify the remainder of the schedule for his players.

WOODSTOCK — Offense has not been a problem for the Woodstock River Bandits all season.

FRONT ROYAL — Trey Fields has always enjoyed the challenge of being a pitcher and a hitter and he’s brought that dual role to the Valley Baseball League.

STRASBURG — Strasburg Express head coach Brock Moss got to do a little extra coaching this past weekend as he was the head coach of the North Division team in the Valley Baseball League All-Star game on Sunday.

STRASBURG — Tyler Johnson wasn’t planning on being in the Valley Baseball League’s Home Run Derby on Sunday. Just minutes before it began, one of the players decided not to participate and Johnson was happy to take the open spot.

WOODSTOCK — Sometimes a step back can give athletes a new perspective and that’s exactly what happened to Aidan Nagle.

NEW MARKET – Jonah Seagears hadn’t batted in the leadoff spot in a long time, but this season for the New Market Rebels it’s been the perfect spot for him.

WOODSTOCK – Woodstock River Bandits head coach Mike Bocock said things are finally coming together for his team.

STRASBURG – Sonny DiChiara took a tough break and turned it into a new opportunity.

NEW MARKET — New Market’s offense and pitching have been a little up and down throughout the season, but one steady component for the Rebels has been their defense.

WOODSTOCK – The Woodstock River Bandits aren’t where they want to be yet, but head coach Mike Bocock is OK with that.

STRASBURG – Things couldn’t be going much better for the Strasburg Express.

STRASBURG – New Market hasn’t gotten off to the start it wanted to this season, but head coach Matt Schaeffer is seeing some good signs from his Valley Baseball League squad.

Whether it was a quarterback lighting up the stat sheet, teams enjoying playoff success, pitchers getting drafted or new faces taking over key positions, a lot happened in the local college athletics landscape in 2018.

The defending Valley Baseball League champions will have a new manager next season.