Games are still on for tonight. The fields are chalked, mowed, raked and ready to go according to the city. NWS gives us hope that the rain will stop around 5pm. So we’re going to try and go.

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• Tuesday Open Schedule
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Tuesday Lower

• Tuesday Lower Schedule
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• Tuesday Lower Standings

Monday Upper

• Monday Upper Schedule
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• Monday Upper Standings

Monday Lower

• Monday Lower Schedule
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• Monday Lower Standings

Fall League 2018 Rules

August 27th-October 8th

• $500 entry fee per team (Paid in full by August 23rd, 2018)
  • Pay Doug Wagner at Dakota Sports (605) 838-5031 doug@dakotasportsonline.com
• 6 weeks of double headers (12 games)
• 13 teams per division – first come, first serve
• Four different divisions to choose from
  • Tuesday Open: Open rosters, 6 Home Runs
  • Tuesday Lower: 3 Thursday Players, 3 Home Runs
  • Monday Upper: 2 Thursday Players, 2 Home Runs
  • Monday Lower: 1 Thursday Player, 2 Home Runs
• Players can play on both nights of Fall League.
• Pay fees, pick up schedules/softballs, and/or check your bats at one of two nights
  • Tuesday, August 21st, 5:30-7:00 PM (Championship Night)
  • Thursday, August 23rd, 5:30-7:00 PM

1. Rosters may be copied from summer squads. Players can be added/dropped.
2. All players who have signed waivers, do not need to sign again.
   1. Players that have not signed, will need to sign the waiver.
3. All bats will need the 2018 SF Men’s USA bat sticker, bats that already have the 2018 sticker do not need to be checked.
4. All USA Rules and SF Men’s Slow Pitcher Summer Rules will apply except for those specifically mentioned below.
   1. Each team is provided with 6 Dudley 52 COR/300 compression softballs. Additional purchased balls must be same league approved ball.
   2. All players may bat, but only ten are allowed to play in the field. You must tell the umpire at the beginning of the game how many players you will bat. In case of ejection, you must have an eligible substitute to replace the ejected player to continue play without forfeit.
   3. Females may play in our fall league.
   4. Home Run Rules
      1. Monday – 2 Home Runs
      2. Tuesday Lower – 3 Home Runs
      3. Tuesday Open – 6 Home runs
   5. Run Ahead Rules: 15 runs after 3 innings or 10 runs after 5 innings.
   6. There are no playoffs for fall league. Winners in each division will be given awards. Tie breakers will be broken as such:
      1. Head to Head Play
      2. Highest winning percentage among teams tied (3 or more) using the common record among the tied teams.
      3. Run Differential
      4. Coin toss.
   7. Players may play on both nights provided the teams still follow the roster restrictions.
      1. These players must appear on both rosters.
   8. Managers running teams below the Tuesday Open division will put an asterisk (*) by Thursday players that are playing in their line up on the official line up card.
   9. Rain outs will be determined as soon as possible. Please anticipate playing games unless notified. Makeup games, depending on how many are necessary may be played on a Thursday or Friday if necessary. Schedules, news and notes will be on the website https://sfmensslowpitch.com and on our Facebook page.
5. The Sioux Falls Men’s Slow Pitch League reserves right to alter team’s requested placement to a division that is a fit for competition level. The league nor team are not obligated to participate until the required league fees are paid.

Hello all, here are the game schedules for 2018 Fall League

2018 Fall Monday Lower

2018 Fall Monday Upper

2018 Fall Tuesday Lower

2018 Fall Tuesday Open

The league enjoyed eight championship games last night that featured some of the best weather we have had all summer. The crowds were large for the summer season end and in the end eight champions were crowned.

Congrats to the champions!

• Thursday: River Ridge 16 – Gateway – RPS Painting 10
• Wednesday: Interstate Batteries 15 – Howe Electric 12
• Tuesday Upper: Coast2Coast 16 – Wasted Talent 13
• Tuesday Lower: Mini Critter Scorpions 16 – Corner Pub/Lawn & Snow Co 11
• Monday Upper: The Deuce 11 – CarSwap 3
• Monday Lower: The Rush 17 – Longview Tax Solutions 4
• Friday Upper: Frozen Ropes 13 – Prairie Tickets 12
• Friday Lower: Archer Rebuilders 14 – BarCode 11

Photos from last night:

Balls hand outs, bat checks, and signups will be taken tomorrow night at the league shack at Harmodon. Don’t miss out. If you need to make arrangements, please reach out to any board member!

Fall League 2018

August 27th-October 8th

• $500 entry fee per team (Paid in full by August 23rd, 2018)
  • Pay Doug Wagner at Dakota Sports (605) 838-5031 doug@dakotasportsonline.com
• 6 weeks of double headers (12 games)
• 13 teams per division – first come, first serve
• Four different divisions to choose from
  • Tuesday Open: Open rosters, 6 Home Runs
  • Tuesday Lower: 3 Thursday Players, 3 Home Runs
  • Monday Upper: 2 Thursday Players, 2 Home Runs
  • Monday Lower: 1 Thursday Player, 2 Home Runs
• Players can play on both nights of Fall League.
• Pay fees, pick up schedules/softballs, and/or check your bats at one of two nights
  • Tuesday, August 21st, 5:30-7:00 PM (Championship Night)
  • Thursday, August 23rd, 5:30-7:00 PM

Other Notes

1. Rosters may be copied from summer squads. Players can be added/dropped.
2. All players who have signed waivers, do not need to sign again.
   1. Players that have not signed, will need to sign the waiver.
3. All bats will need the 2018 SF Men’s USA bat sticker, bats that already have the 2018 sticker do not need to be checked.
4. All USA Rules and SF Men’s Slow Pitcher Summer Rules will apply except for those specifically mentioned below.
   1. Each team is provided with 6 Dudley 52 COR/300 compression softballs. Additional purchased balls must be same league approved ball.
   2. All players may bat, but only ten are allowed to play in the field. You must tell the umpire at the beginning of the game how many players you will bat. In case of ejection, you must have an eligible substitute to replace the ejected player to continue play without forfeit.
   3. Females may play in our fall league.
   4. Home Run Rules
      1. Monday – 2 Home Runs
      2. Tuesday Lower – 3 Home Runs
      3. Tuesday Open – 6 Home runs
   5. Run Ahead Rules: 15 runs after 3 innings or 10 runs after 5 innings.
   6. There are no playoffs for fall league. Winners in each division will be given awards. Tie breakers will be broken as such:
      1. Head to Head Play
      2. Highest winning percentage among teams tied (3 or more) using the common record among the tied teams.
      3. Run Differential
      4. Coin toss.
   7. Players may play on both nights provided the teams still follow the roster restrictions.
      1. These players must appear on both rosters.
   8. Managers running teams below the Tuesday Open division will put an asterisk (*) by Thursday players that are playing in their line up on the official line up card.
   9. Rain outs will be determined as soon as possible. Please anticipate playing games unless notified. Makeup games, depending on how many are necessary may be played on a Thursday or Friday if necessary. Schedules, news and notes will be on the website https://sfmensslowpitch.com and on our Facebook page.
5. The Sioux Falls Men’s Slow Pitch League reserves right to alter team’s requested placement to a division that is a fit for competition level. The league nor team are not obligated to participate until the required league fees are paid.

Friday night was a beautiful August summer night out at Harmodon. A great time for some softball games. The night started out with The Misfits winning in shutout fashion 7 to 0, and almost clawing their way into the championship. However, Bar Code held on for victory winning the semi-final round game over the Misfits 4 to 3.

TK Granite faced off against Tinners in a high score affair, TK outlasting Tinners 24 to 15. Back to back wins were hard to come by through the night though as TK Granite ran into Archer Rebuilders who won 18 to 3.

Archers will face off against Bar Code on Championship Night tomorrow at 6:30 PM.

In the upper brackets it started with an upset. Gateway Lounge had the early lead against Black Angus. However, in the bottom of the 7th Black Angus put together many runs to tie the game 19 to 19. Gateway Lounge scored their revenge in the top of the 8th and took the game 24 to 19.

Gateway then faced off versus the Frozen Ropes and the number two seed Frozen Ropes won 13 to 5 despite only having 9 players available to play.

Prairie Tickets faced off with Sioux Empire Auto in the fourth corner of the bracket and got away with the classic 5 vs 4 upset. Prairie Tickets scored 14 and that was enough to outlast Sioux Empire Auto who managed 8 runs.

Finally Prairie Tickets put together the night’s only back to back victories, when they took on number 1 seed and regular season champion CarSwap/NCI and beat them in a 9 to 3 battle.

Prairie Tickets will take on the Frozen Ropes on tomorrow night at 6:30 PM.

Friday Upper

Friday Lower

Thank you again to all the volunteers who helped get the fields ready to play for last night’s playoff games. The fields were not perfect, but they came a long ways because of the work from Sioux Falls P&R and volunteers from the league. It was a beautiful sight to see so many guys out there excited to play ball enough to come out and rake in some dirt. Just for some idea how quickly our fields at Harmodon can clear:

This was taken at 12:30PM yesterday (and it rained until closer to 2PM):

And at 5:30PM, after some work from our volunteer crew:

Brackets

Playoffs moved on and we have two more match-ups for championship Tuesday next week. Good luck to Gateway-RPS Patining, River Ridge, Interstate Batteries and Howe Electric!

We worked on the fields as much as we could and will continue to do so throughout the night. Thank you to all the managers and players who helped getting the fields ready to play some ball tonight!  Updated bracket:

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Due to rain we are working with the city of Sioux Falls to determine the readiness of the fields for tonight’s games. We hope that the rain will stop and the city crew has enough time to prep the fields into a playable condition. We will not make a call on tonight before 4 PM. Either way, when we do make the call, we will update the website and our Facebook page. Thank you for understanding.

If we do have to postpone due to water, the reschedule for tonight’s games would be played Monday August 20th. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to Jeff Oltmanns or Jordan Gillis. Thank you!