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2025 Midsummer Festivities July 7th
Eureka United Christian Softball League Presents…
2025 Midsummer Festivities
When: Monday July 7th from 6pm to 10pm
Where: Eureka Lower Lake Park
Schedule of Events:
6:00PM to 8:15PM Midsummer Classic Tournament
8:15PM Midsummer Home Run Derby
Midsummer Classic Tournament:
– Each team can choose how they want to assign players to the Midsummer Classic. It is completely at the discretion of the manager/team.
– Softball games played just like a regular season game, but with mixed squads.
– There will be 4 teams (Saints, Prophets, Angels and Disciples) of mixed players from different league teams.
– The number of players from each team will be dependent on their team’s standings at the time of the Midsummer Festivities.
HOME RUN DERBY RULES:
- Participants not batting or on-deck are expected to field softballs.
- Each player will get 10 outs
- A swing resulting in anything except a home run is considered an out.
- Players can bring their own pitchers if they choose
- Pitches that hit the plate or matt are not considered an out, only swings.
- Swing and miss is considered an out
- Ties
- Tie-breakers will only be played by those individuals that have a potential to be in the top 2.
- Tie-Breaker will consist of each tied player getting 5 more outs. The player with the most home runs out of those 5 will win the tie.
Derby Format:
Consists of 2 Rounds
Round 1:
All players will participate
The 2 players that hit the most home runs will participate in the Championship Round
Round 2 (Championship Round):
The 2 participants will start with zero home runs (home runs from previous rounds are not counted).
The player that hits the most home runs during this round will be the Home Run Derby Champion
Team Rosters:
| Saints | Manager Greg Martin |
| Greg Martin | United |
| Brad Eigsti | United |
| Luke Rasmussen | United |
| Shawn Kennell | Linn Mennonite |
| Trevor Kennell | Linn Mennonite |
| Caleb Yoder | Linn Mennonite |
| CJ Conger | Bethany Community |
| Travis Blunier | Bethany Community |
| Matt Kean | Eureka Bible |
| Garrett Kean | Eureka Bible |
| Prophets | Manager Nevin Kropf |
| Nate Cushman | United |
| Andrew Cushman | United |
| Luke Birkey | United |
| Nevin Kropf | Linn Mennonite |
| Cody Kennell | Linn Mennonite |
| Matt Kennell | Linn Mennonite |
| Bryson Leach | Bethany Community |
| Chris Leman | Bethany Community |
| Cole Mountz | Eureka Bible |
| Michael Franks | Eureka Bible |
| Angels | Chad Fleck Manager |
| Chad Fleck | Liberty Black |
| Brent VanPelt | Liberty Black |
| Keith Grimm | Free Agents |
| Aaron Schmidgall | Free Agents |
| Jayme Belsly | The Bridge |
| Briggs Carlson | The Bridge |
| Mason Stoller | Crosspoint |
| Max Stalter | Crosspoint |
| Ryan Metzger | Liberty Gray |
| Jake Hirstein | Liberty Gray |
| Disciples | Matt Slagel Manager |
| Seth Kauffman | Liberty Black |
| Cody Cramton | Liberty Black |
| Matt Slagel | Free Agents |
| Cass Schumaker | Free Agents |
| Jeremy Sharp | The Bridge |
| Devin Carlson | The Bridge |
| David Stalter | Crosspoint |
| Daniel Kennell | Crosspoint |
| Devin Crews | Liberty Gray |
| Joe Aikman | Liberty Gray |
| Home Run Derby Participants | |
| Brad Eigsti | United |
| Cody Kennell | Linn Mennonite |
| Travis Blunier | Bethany Community |
| Cody Silverthorn | Eureka Bible |
| Chad Fleck | Liberty Bible Black |
| Devin Crews | Liberty Bible Gray |
| Jayme Belsly | The Bridge |
| Mark Stalter | Crosspoint |
| Keith Grimm | Free Agents |
2025 One-Pitch Tournament Results!
Congratulations to Liberty Black for winning our 1st Annual One-Pitch Tournament!
Thank you to everyone who participated and the Team Managers for helping this run smoothly.
While a bit chaotic and fast passed, it appears to have been largely enjoyed.
Plan on this returning next season with a few tweaks we learned from this time around!

2025 One-Pitch Tournament
To kick-off the 2025 season we will be hosting our first ever One-Pitch Tournament.
This will be a fast moving tournament as all teams will participate. Each team will get 1 warm up game, and then a single elimination tournament will follow, all done in 1 night! Have your teams ready to go and in and out of dugouts quickly. Games will only be 30 minutes long
A few important details:
1. You pitch to your own team
2. You get 1 pitch
3. There are NO walks
When: Monday May 5th from 6pm to 10pm
Where: Eureka Lower Lake Park
What: A One-Pitch tournament is just that, a softball game with only 1 pitch per batter. You pitch to your own team!
Format:
Each team will play 1 game before the tournament to get a feel for how it works. (One team will actually get 2 warm-up games since we have 9 teams). All match-ups have been randomly generated. Tournament will be single elimination. The format will move quickly – your team will need to be ready to get in and out of the dugouts.
Schedule:
Pre-Tournament
| North 6:00pm Liberty Black vs Liberty Gray North 6:30pm Free Agents vs Crosspoint North 7:00pm Liberty Black vs Eureka Bible | South 6:00pm United vs Bethany South 6:30pm The Bridge vs Linn Mennonite |
Tournament:
2025 Season Opening Day!
Welcome to the 2025 Season of the Eureka United Christian Softball League!
Opening day will be on May 5th.
We will kick off the season with something new this year, a One-Pitch Tournament! – More details to come!
You can find the schedule on the website by going to the Schedule link or viewing on the homepage.
You can download a pdf version of the schedule here, but it will not be updated after today.
Any changes to the schedule will be posted here, in addition to any rain-out information.
A Few things to note this season:
- Due to the success of the Midsummer Festivities last year we will again do a similar format on July 7t. The Midsummer Festivity will include our a Midsummer Classic Game(s) followed by a Home Run Derby. More details to follow!
- Rain-Outs may be scheduled on Tuesdays throughout the season.
- Tournament will be played on August 4th, 5th and 11th. The 12th will be reserved for Tournament Rain Make up date.
I wish everyone the best of luck and to have a great season!
God Bless
Devin Carlson
Director
Congratulations to United, the 2024 Tournament Champions!!!
Congratulations to the 2024 Eureka United Christian Softball League Champions, United!!
Also congratulations to the Free Agents for their 2nd place finish!
United finished with a regular season perfect record and secured the Tournament Championship beating the Free Agents in back to back games. As the 4th seed the Free Agents had an impressive tournament run, but fell just short.
It was a great season with a lot of close games and win/loss records!
A huge thanks to all of the teams, players and coaches this past season. Without you we wouldn’t have a league to play in and the opportunity for some great Christian fellowship.
Thanks for making the 2024 season a success and I look forward to a great 2025 Season.
May God bless you all this off season.
Devin Carlson

2024 Tournament Schedule
The 2024 Eureka UCSL Tournament is here!
Tournament Dates:
8/6, 8/12, 8/13
Day 1 Schedule
TUESDAY August 6th 2024
Game 1 – 6:00 PM Bethany (9) vs Crosspoint (8) North Field
Game 2 – 6:00 PM Eureka Bible (6) vs Linn Mennonite (3) South Field
Game 3 – 7:00 PM Liberty Black (5) vs Free Agents (4) North Field
Game 4 – 7:00 PM The Bridge (7) vs Liberty Gray (2) South Field
Game 5 – 8:00 PM Winner Game 1 vs United (1) North Field
Game 6 – 8:00 PM Loser Game 1 vs Loser Game 4 South Field
Game 7 – 9:00 PM Winner Game 3 vs Winner Game 5 North Field
Game 8 – 9:00 PM Winner Game 2 vs Winner Game 4 South Field
Please refer to the Link for the complete 2024 Tournament Bracket
A few things to note:
All plays at home are a force out – fielders play home plate, runners play the mat, collisions must be avoided, a runner being called out due to non-compliance will be strictly judged by the umpire.
There is absolutely NO Sliding into home plate, any slide into home will be ruled an automatic out.
Runners must do everything possible to get out of the way of a play after they have been forced out at any base. Runners can slide, duck, dodge, any best effort to avoid being in the way of the fielder throwing a ball. If a runner does not make an attempt to get out of the way, the player that the fielder is attempting to throw out will also be called out. This rule is strictly enforced at the umpire’s discretion.
Good Luck to ALL Teams!!!!!!
Congratulations to United, 2024 Regular Season Champions!
Congratulations to United, the 2024 Regular Season Champions!
United joins a rare club finishing with a perfect record of 16 wins and 0 losses!
2024 Final Season Standings and Tournament Seeds:
| Team | W | L | T | % | Seed |
| United Softball | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1 |
| Liberty Bible Gray | 11 | 5 | 0 | 0.688 | 2 |
| Linn Mennonite | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0.625 | 3 |
| Free Agents | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0.563 | 4 |
| Liberty Bible Black | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0.563 | 5 |
| Eureka Bible | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0.375 | 6 |
| The Bridge UMC | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0.250 | 7 |
| Crosspoint | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0.250 | 8 |
| Bethany Community | 3 | 13 | 0 | 0.188 | 9 |
Tie breakers are determined by head to head matchup record, then least amount of runs allowed.
2024 Tournament Brackets and Schedules will be posted shortly!
Monday July 15th NORTH Field Cancelled
Due to the rain last night, the NORTH FIELD is unable to be played on today, so the following games that were scheduled for Monday July 15th on the NORTH FIELD have been cancelled:
The Bridge vs Eureka Bible
Bethany vs United
These games will be made up on Tuesday July 23rd at the same time:
6pm and 7pm – The Bridge vs Eureka Bible
8pm and 9pm – Bethany vs United
The following games for July 15th on the SOUTH FIELD will be played as scheduled.
6pm and 7pm – Liberty Black vs Free Agents
8pm and 9pm – Crosspoint vs Liberty Gray
So North field games are cancelled, South field games are still on.
Thank you
Midsummer Festivities Results
The Saints narrowly beat the Angels 10 to 7, in a great game!
Our Home Run Derby Champion is Devin Crews – Liberty Gray!
Devin hit 8 home runs (6 of those with only 1 out left) in the final round to defeat the runner up Mark Stalter. Mark had 12 dingers of his own in in the first round alone.
Thank you to everyone who participated, assisted, and came out to watch the festivities!
I hope to expand upon this next year!
