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Eastern Officials Association Baseball Umpires

Eastern Officials Association provides umpires for all levels of baseball in the greater Hampton Roads region of Virginia.

Eastern Officials Association (EOA) Baseball Umpires are dedicated to providing the highest quality officiating for all levels of competition in the greater Hampton Roads area, including parts of eastern Virginia and North Carolina. EOA umpires include officials with professional, collegiate, scholastic, and recreation experience. Our intense training program is designed to provide both new and veteran umpires with the skills, mechanics, and rules needed to effectively officiate baseball in a professional manner. EOA Baseball Umpires are certified to officiate: NCAA, NFHS (VHSL), PONY, Little League, American Legion, AAU, Nations, and USSSA.

02/16/2026

Great day in the cages for our umpires. New umpires learning positioning behind the plate and veteran umpires training on our new Trackman system. Thanks so much to Aragona Pembroke LL for the facility and all the guys who helped out with training. VERY successful day because of you!!

02/03/2026

2 of our best getting some innings in today!!

01/23/2026

Let the 2026 season begin!!

01/17/2026

Thanks to Eric Byrum and The Barn for hosting our first training of 2026! Thanks to all the guys who came out. Season is right around the corner!!

01/01/2026

EOA has 4 of our umpires traveling to Florida this weekend to attend umpire school. We are cheering for each of them to do well and grow as people and umpires. This will be one of the best times of your lives!!

There’s a connection umpires share that’s unique. We are competing but cheering for each other. We bond over the work we put in and the families we represent and support. And whether we are on a youth field, high school field, college or professional, we recognize those of us who put in the work to get better and let that desire drive us.

Come be part of the team. New umpires class: January 28th. Information meeting tonight!!

12/01/2025

In 2025 EOA held our first meeting of the year on January 12. We had 15 training sessions (not including new umpire training) before the first pitch of the VHSL season. Throughout the year, we offered our umpires over 70 hours of training and many participated in a large number of those hours.

Our last games this year were November 16, 2025.

That’s 11 full months of baseball. Our guys have earned some time off to recover and prepare for 2026!

I want to thank all of our umpires for every game that they worked (approx 7,000) so that kids could play baseball in the 757.

I’d like to thank all of the teams who gave us the opportunity to be around the sport. An overwhelming majority of the players, coaches, and parents in our area are wonderful supporters of ours. They treat us great, they have our backs to maintain a safe environment for us, and they understand that this game is for the kids and we all just get to be part of it.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season! I can’t wait for new things in 2026!n

10/27/2025

Chesapeake Middle School championship game!! An exciting day for all involved!

09/13/2025

Aren’t Saturdays in the fall the best?

09/07/2025

Presenting the EOA Baseball Bob Hood (Umpire of the Year) 2025: Frank Eduardo

We are very proud of Frank. A great umpire on the field and even better guy off the field. Frank never complains, he never turns back games. He goes anywhere we ask and is a shining example when he’s on the field. Frank worked his first state quarterfinal game this year and we are proud of the way he represents our association. Congratulations Frank!!

08/24/2025

We had a great time at today’s all-umpire first ever EOA Classic golf tournament! Thanks to all the guys who came out to play. Info coming in the next couple months on our big golf tournament in the fall of 2026! Stay tuned!!

08/19/2025

Good luck to American Legion Post 280 in the World Series championship game tonight! Just proof of the talent of players and coaches in the 757 area. We are proud to work with you all throughout the year.

As umpires, we don’t often get to cheer so tonight we join the rest of the 757 in cheering for these guys!

08/15/2025

Congratulations to our guys who worked the PONY World Series this week in Washington, PA!

We are proud of their hard work and dedication to baseball and to the development and growth of their umpire careers!

Congratulations Joe Pallazzo, Mikel Davis, Mark Hotaling, and Zach Marraccini!

Address

PO Box 12453
Norfolk, VA
23541

Website

http://www.evoa.com/

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