United Christian Softball League

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

Here are the results from Day 1 of the Tournament

Next games will be Monday Aug 12th!

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, 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:

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!

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

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!

July 1 will be our Midsummer Festivities
6:45pm Midsummer Classic Game
8:00pm Home Run Derby

Midsummer Classic Game:
– Each team can choose how they want to assign players to the Midsummer Classic. It is completely at the discretion of the manager.
– One Hour and 15 minute time limit or 7 innings 
– Softball game played just like a regular season game, but with mixed squads.
– There will be 2 teams (Saints and Angels) 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.

Game Play:
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 with 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

PARTICIPANTS:

SAINTS (Coached by Jordan Ulrich (United))
Jordan Ulrich – United
Andrew Cushman – United
Luke Rasmussen – United
Devin Crews – Liberty Gray
Clayton Waller – Liberty Gray
Jason Miller – Liberty Gray
Briggs Carlson – The Bridge
Jayme Belsly – The Bridge
Corban Ausfahl – Bethany
Tyson Leman – Bethany

ANGELS (Coached by Chad Fleck (Liberty Black))
Dana Martin – Eureka Bible
Josh Bennett – Eureka Bible
Cody Cramton – Liberty Black
Chad Fleck – Liberty Black
Shawn Kennell – Linn Mennonite
Cody Kennell – Linn Mennonite
Gavin Stalter – Crosspoint
Jake Moudy – Crosspoint
Tyler Rocke – Free Agents
Matt Slagel – Free Agents

Home Run Derby:
Kody Silverthorn – Eureka Bible
Shawn Kennell – Linn Mennonite
Greg Martin – United
Tyler Rocke – Free Agents
Mark Stalter – Crosspoint
Devin Crews – Liberty Gray
Chad Fleck – Liberty Black
Jayme Belsly – The Bridge

Games from May 13th have been rescheduled to July 22.

6pm to 8pm North – Linn Mennonite vs United
6pm to 8pm South – Crosspoint vs Eureka Bible
8pm to 10pm North – Free Agents vs The Bridge
8pm to 10pm South – Liberty Gray vs Bethany

Due to rain and poor field conditions all games cancelled for the reminder of the evening.

games will be rescheduled

Welcome to the 2024 Season of the Eureka United Christian Softball League!

Opening day will be on May 6th.

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.

2024 Downloadable Schedule

Any changes to the schedule will be posted here, in addition to any rain-out information.

A Few things to note this season:

1. I have added our first annual Midsummer Festivities on July 1st. The Midsummer Festivity will include our fist Midsummer Classic Game (2 teams consisting of players from all teams), and followed by a Home Run Derby. More details to follow!
2. Rain-Outs may be scheduled on Tuesdays throughout the season.
3. Tournament will be played on August 6th, 12th and 13th.

I wish everyone the best of luck and to have a great season!

God Bless

Devin Carlson
Director