Southern's Big Leaguers Win Wooden Bat Tournament

Congratulations to the Southern Big League team who recently won the Wooden Bat Tournament in District 9. This is the second straight year that this team has won this event.

Juniors Baseball Championship at Southern Monday

Southern East All-Stars vs Western at 6:00pm tonight!

Western is undefeated and Southern has a loss so if Southern wins there will be a final game tomorrow night.
If Western wins they will be the champs.


Come out and cheer on your team!

Southern to Host Major and Senior Baseball Championship Games Sunday

Sunday, July 15:

1:00pm - Rockford National vs. Hudsonville - East Field - Major Baseball Championship Game

3:30pm - Western vs. Greenville - Henwood Field - Senior Baseball Championship Game

Southern will also host the Southern East all stars in the losers bracket final
at 1:00pm for the right to face Western in the final on Monday in Junior Baseball.

Also at Southern at 3:30pm is the 9/10 baseball losers bracket final.

Come out and enjoy baseball at Southern tomorrow. The grills will be fired up
so have some lunch and please volunteer to help wherever needed.

Big Games Tonight at Southern

Friday night at 5:30pm at Southern, the Southern East and Southern West Junior Baseball All-Stars play each other in the first round of the championship bracket. Should be fun. Bring out the family for some really good baseball between these two teams. Southern's Senior Baseball All-Stars follow at 7:30pm in their championship bracket.

Coaches: Equipment Return

Hello Southern Coaches,

We will be having equipment returns next week Mon-18-Jul and Wed-20-Jul from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Please make sure you count your jerseys and also let us know about any equipment that may be bad or missing. This will help us prepare for next season. The jersey count and return is extremely important. If you have not collected all of your jerseys please do so. 78ers coaches do not need to return jerseys.

If you have already returned your equipment to someone please email jmoore@foxmotorsusa.com and be sure to mention to whom you turned it over. If you are a coach that is still playing please let Jerry know and he will handle your return at a later date. If you are a coach that is planning to coach fall ball you may keep your equipment, but we will still need to collect all jerseys.

Thanks and see you next week.

Jerry & Tim

A Huge Thank You To the Southern Grounds Crew

I would like you all to join me in thanking the grounds crew for doing a fantastic job, especially in these unprecented temperatures. Joe Malewitz is the director of the grounds and Zack Schwenneker, Phil Allen, Joe Malewitz, Brendan Brouwer, and Will Zawacki are the staff. They have worked countless hours over the last few weeks to maintain and improve playing conditions and to make our fields the best in the area. If you see any of them around the Little League please take a moment to say thank you.

Bob Hams
President, Southern Little League

Congratulations Baseball Seniors All-Stars

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Big Game Day at Southern Thu-5-Jul

Happy Fourth of July, everyone!

Thursday evening at Southern, we have six all-star and team tournament baseball games going on:

• 9/10 West Baseball All Stars - 5:30pm West Field (Please note field change)
• 9/10 East Baseball All Stars - 7:30pm West Field(Please note field change)
• Majors East Baseball All Stars - 5:30pm East Diamond(Please note field change)
• Majors West Baseball All Stars - 7:30pm East Diamond(Please note field change)
• Seniors Class A Team Tournament - 5:30pm Henwood Field
• Seniors Class D Team Tournament - 7:30pm Henwood Field

All 5 Senior Baseball teams will be playing games around the area in the finals.

Come out and join the fun Thursday at Southern!!

Congratulations GRCHS Eagles!

Congratulations to the GRCHS baseball team as they won the Division 2 State Championship. Southern was well represented as seniors (Travis Kraai, Dave Pluymert, Brandon Pott, Brent Primus, Taylor Pruis), juniors (Tyler Boyd, Austin Huizenga, Joel Schipper) and sophomores (Austin Batka, John Vanvliet and Adam Warners) all contributed to a school record 36 wins and just 5 losses. They won the OK White with a 14-1 record and then won 8 straight games to cap off their first ever State Championship in baseball. Great job guys....Southern is proud of all of you!!!

Congratulations Juniors Baseball Team Old Orchard

Congratulations to Coach Jim Vandenberge's Old Orchard team in juniors baseball. They won the Class A District Championship 15-13 against Western.