Still Time to Sign Up for Fall Baseball

Fall Baseball will start after Labor day. There is still time to sign up by contacting Bob Hamms (633-5495) or Joe Meade (322-7299).

Announcing Fall Baseball!

• Ages 10-12 and 13-14 as of this past Little League season.
• Contact Bob Hamms (633-5495) or Joe Meade (322-7299) before Aug 19.
• Call also if you would like to coach.
• Cost: $75
• Season starts Aug 26 with Sunday afternoon doubleheaders.
• Sponsored by Morgan's Hitting Club

Good Luck District 9 Big League Team!

District 9 is heading to World Series play for the first time since 2004, beginning Saturday in Easley, SC. After a victory in the regional tournament, the District 9 Big League team, comprised of kids from East, GR Christian, Calvin Christian, Union and Kenowa Hills High Schools, will head down on Thursday to attempt to bring home a World Series Championship!

Thanks to Marcia Lewis for sending along this photo.

Southern Senior All-Stars Bow Out in Finals

The 2007 Southern Senior League All-Stars bowed out in the District Finals, losing to a fine Pinery Park team. Southern was one of the last two teams standing in the 15 team District Tournament - with wins against Western (twice), Grandville, West Ottawa and Northeastern. Congratulations to the players and coaches for a strong showing:

Tyler Lewis, Andy Malnor, Alan Snyder, Alec Trierweiler, Chris Blair, Alex Luke, Brandon Cusey, John Szivan, Miles Dankovich, Drew Vos, Louis Soltysiak, Ben Cok, and Trevor Mason. (chosen, but unable to participate - Dan Vicari). Head Coach Steve Lewis, Assistants Daryl Trierweiler and Darrell Mason.








Thanks again to Paul Soltysiak for the coverage and for the great photos.

Good Luck Seniors!

The Senior All-Stars are 2-0 so far in the tournament, with mercy wins over Western and Grandville. You can follow along on their tournament bracket here. Thanks to Paul Soltisiak for the great photos.

Congratulations Boys Junior Class A Tournament Champs!

The Southern Junior team, sponsored by Holwerda-Snoap Sporting Goods, went undefeated winning all five of their games in the Class A team tournament. This team battled together every game and hung on in the championship game to a very exciting one-run victory.

Congratulations to these fine young players:
TAYLOR PRUIS, ZACK MALEWITZ, TRAVIS KRAAI, DEREK ANTHES , NICK MULHALL, DUTCHER SNEDEKER, RYAN ELBLE, MIKE OSHINSKI, SAM WOLLET, JOHN ELENBAAS, BRANDON POTT, ALEC GREEN

Congrats and thanks to our coaches:
STEVE KRAAI, JEFF ELBLE, BERNIE MALEWITZ(pt)

Great job guys!!!

Congratulations Girls Junior Softball Champs!

The Southern Junior Girls Softball team, coached by Steve Parks, won the Class C tournament June 27th. It was a close game but the girls held on to win 13-12. They were 8-4 during the regular season against tough competition from three Pinery Park teams. The girls played great all season and to finish it off with a championship is awesome!!

Majors All-Star Teams

11 & 12 Year-Old East Major All-Stars

Brian Cain, Jake Lewis, Elliot Zimmerman, Jackson Overlund, Max Cothern, Kyle Tietema, Will Barkley, Stephan Gillespie, Connor Genther, John Bouman, Brad Campbell, Matt Hooper

11 & 12 Year-Old West Major All-Stars

Jeff Smith, Michael Priest, Nathan Markum, Josiah Buffinga, Adam Warners, Joel Schipper, Kevin Cross, Brandon Belke, Taylor Martin, Jack Meilner, Patrick Cvengros, Lawrence Houston, Nate Hollern, Jacob Mauer

10 & 11 Year-Old All-Stars

Ben Wollett, Champ McCahill, Grant Knibe, Tristan Thornton, Sam Vaughn, Tommy Doles, Austin Batka, Aaron Jaeger, Drew Danhoff, Austin Huizenga, Alex Hicks, Sam Kuiper, Noah Sullivan

Good luck to all Southern Teams as the District 9 all-star tournaments start this week. You can follow along on the District 9 website here.

Juniors All-Star Teams

East Team:

Zach Weiner, Andrew Vander Lei, Ryan Elble, Nick Mulhall, Travis Kraai, Zack Malewitz, Tommy Schumar, Connor Foy, Robbie Smith, Sam Nystrom, Cory Ditmar, Isaac Berkowitz, Max Zimmerman

West Team:

Alec Rossi, John Nowak, Nate Thompson, Brent Primus, James Karsten, Wes Vaughn, Josh Laarman, Joe Mead, Brett Schepel, Zack Schwenneker, Scott Peterson, Alex Huizenga, Grant Page

All Star tournaments begin right after the fourth of July.

District Team Tournaments are Underway

Good luck to all Southern Teams as the District 9 team tournaments start this week. You can follow along on the District 9 website here. Feel free to post results and chat about how our teams have done by posting comments on this page. If you have any great photos of Southern teams in action, send them along here.

Congratulations Raffle Winners!

Congratulations to our lucky prize winners:

• 42-inch TV: Myra Warners
• $300.00: John Amato
• $200.00: Dan Tietema
• Ucellos gift certificate: Brad Banazak

Coaches: Please return any unsold tickets to Lisa Buth at 243-5545 or email lsbuth@sbcglobal.net as soon as possible. The state of Michigan requires us to account for all tickets sold and unsold.

Juniors Photos

Tom Betts has sent along a couple of photos of the Berger Chevrolet team that he coaches with Rick Otte.

Raffle Drawing Saturday, June 8 at 3pm

Southern is holding a raffle on Saturday, June 9. Items for the raffle are:

• 42" HD pure vision plasma screen TV
• $300.00 cash prize
• $200.00 cash prize

Tickets are $20.00 each. We are asking that each family buy or sell one ticket.

The drawing will take place on Saturday, June 9 at 3:00PM. You need not be present to win.

Attention all coaches and all individuals who were allotted Raffle Tickets:
Please turn in all SOLD and UNSOLD raffle tickets and cash/checks by Saturday June 9 at 3:00. Drawing will immediately follow. Tickets may be turned in between 10:00-3:00 at the raffle table that will be set up by the concession stand.

If anyone would like additional tickets to sell, please call Lisa Buth at 243-5545 or email lsbuth@sbcglobal.net.

Thanks for supporting Southern little League!

Attention Umpires

No sign up this Saturday June 9th!

All games except the following have been filled:

• 1 umpire needed for June 9 @ 5:00 Minors West
• 2 umpires needed for June 9 @ 5:00 Minors East
• 1 umpire needed for June 14 @ 5:30 Minors West
• 1 umpire needed for June 14 @ 7:30 Minors West
• 2 umpires needed for June 12 @ 5:30 Majors West
• 2 umpires needed for June 12 @ 7:30 Majors West

Please call Jeff Elble at 942-0956 if you want to sign up for any of these games

Thanks for a Great Family Day!

All Southern Little League Families,

The board would like to thank all of the volunteers and participants who helped make this year’s family day successful. Although the day was interrupted by rain, everyone pitched in to minimize the delay.

All that is great about Southern Little League was on display throughout the day. Kids of all ages playing without a care in the world, great food prepared by parents enjoying themselves, and of course some great baseball.

The lasting impression that I will have of family day ’07 is immediately after the rainstorm, everyone that remained including 20-30 kids, grabbed a rake or a shovel, got the grills fired up and started cooking, and took care of everything necessary to be ready for the all-star games. This all happened without ever being asked. It truly was an impressive sight.
Despite the rain, we were able to come very close to our financial projections for the day. Thanks to all of you for supporting the food tent, concessions, and the fun kid's activities. As a reminder, we are still selling raffle tickets. The drawing will be held this Saturday, June 9th at 3 p.m. All tickets need to be returned to Lisa Buth by Saturday morning. Anyone needing more tickets to sell please let us know. Once again, thank you to all that made family day a fun success.

Juniors Standings

This is where we post the Junior League standings as they become available.

FINAL JUNIOR STANDINGS:

1. Kraai 17-1
2. Paige 11-4-1
2. Otte 12-5-1
4. Tuuk 9-7-1
5. McWebb 6-13
6. Banaszack 5-12-1
7. Malewitz 0-18

The Weather has Cleared

Now that the storm has passed, here is our revised plan for tonight:

• The Senior game scheduled for 7:15pm has been canceled
• The Major League All-Star Game will be played at 7:30pm
• The Minor League All-Star Game will be played at 7:30pm
• We will also hold the awards ceremony tonight to hand out scholarships

It's nice out right now at Southern, so come on back out to the park and cheer on your all-stars!

Run for Cover!

Another rainy afternoon for Family Day!

All remaining games for today have been canceled EXCEPT we will try to play the following games after the rain lets up:

• The 7:15pm Senior game
• The 7:30pm Major All-Star game
• The 7:30pm Minor All-Star game

Keep watching southernll.org for another posting when we make our final decision about these games.

11th Annual Family Day

Saturday, June 2nd - All Day!

• Mom's Marinated Steak-on-a-Stick.
• Marinated Chicken Sandwiches
• Hamburgers, Hotdogs and Brats - Meal Deals
• Famous sauteed onions
• Corn-on-the-Cob
• Bounce Land
• Raffles

7:30pm: Major and Minor League All-Star Games

Bring the whole family and have fun at the ballpark!

Raffle Tickets

Southern is holding a raffle on Saturday, June 9. Items for the raffle are:

• 42" HD pure vision plasma screen TV
• $300.00 cash prize
• $200.00 cash prize

Tickets are $20.00 each. We are asking that each family buy or sell one ticket. Coaches, please distribute your tickets to all of your team families.

A raffle table will be set up at Family Day from 9:00AM to 3:00PM this Saturday so people can purchase tickets and so coaches can turn in stubs and money from ticket sales.

The drawing will take place on Saturday, June 9 at 3:00PM. You need not be present to win.

If anyone would like additional tickets to sell, please call Lisa Buth at 243-5545 or email lsbuth@sbcglobal.net.

Thanks for supporting Southern little League!