WE NEED ANY MISSING SCORES, AND A DIRECTIONS UPDATE (August 29th, 2011)
If your team played at the Ankeny Softball complex the second weekend, please do send the scores to your games to migsoftball@hotmail.com. Also, addresses have been added to the FIELD DIRECTIONS page for those of you that want to program them into your GPS.
THE END OF THE FIRST TWO WEEKENDS OF PLAY (August 28th, 2011)
The MIGS board will be meeting Wednesday night to go over the results of the first 2 weekends of play. They'll look and see if anyone needs to be moved around a little bit, make those changes and then get
working on the schedule for the 2nd half of the season. Please look Monday and Tuesday evening at the results listed for your team's games. If you notice a mistake in who won each game, please do let me know at migsoftball@hotmail.com as soon as possible (before Wednesday for sure) with the correction(s) that I need to make. Also sending the correct scores for your games will help as well, since we also take the scores of the games into consideration. I do not have all the results from every single complex yet, but the ones I do have are listed. The rest should be added sometime Monday evening. Thanks, Will.
NEWEST RULES UPDATE (August 18th, 2011)
The rules have been updated so please do make sure to take a quick read through the Word document or the PDF file.
I know there are still several other teams to add to the list, but I forgot to write them down at the board meeting today. I'll add the rest as soon as I get the newest list by e-mail. Also, HERE (PDF) / HERE (DOC) is the newest rules page for 2011 that I have received. 8andUnder will now be using the hard softball instead of the soft softball. Please make sure to read the newest rules.
LIST OF TEAMS (August 2nd, 2011)
Here are the list of teams that I've received as of the middle of the day on Wednesday. If you don't see your team listed, it doesn't mean that we haven't received your team entry form and check. If you aren't listed and are a little worried, feel free to e-mail and ask. More than likely, it will be on the next day's list if you did send it in.
P.S. I've also been told that many of the host park teams have not been added to the list yet.
*MOVED UP ABOVE*
As for the schedules that I keep getting e-mails asking about, the MIGS board will be meeting this weekend to go over the list of teams and work on the scheduling. I don't have an exact timeline of when that will be finished yet, but as soon as I receive the schedules they will be up on the website. Thanks, Will.
BACK AT IT (July 26, 2011)
After being part of a 3-day cancer fundraiser, I'm finally back and reading e-mails again. I'll get responses to the latest e-mails out throughout the day. I've also added 8U to the playdates in the July 19th section to hopefully clear up any confusion about 8U being part of MIGS this year. Thanks, Will.
CHANGE OF E-MAIL ADDRESS, MORE INFORMATION (July 19, 2011)
For those of you who have sent e-mails to my mchsi.com e-mail account, I've found out that many e-mails have not been getting to me. I've answered what I have received, so if you didn't get a response from me could you please e-mail me at the new e-mail address I've set up? Please send any future e-mails concerning MIGS to migsoftball@hotmail.com. I apologize in advance if you did not receive a response from me.
Since I've received several matching questions in the e-mails that I DID receive, I'm going to try and answer a few here that will hopefully clear up some confusion.
Question: For the play dates that you have listed, do we play Saturday or Sunday (or can we pick which day we want to play)? Answer: We have 8 play dates for 10U and 12U, and 7 for 14U and 16U/HS. As each date is a doubleheader, that means that 10U and 12U play 16 games total, 14U and 16U/HS play 14 games. To hopefully clear up the confusion with that, here is the schedule broken down day by day:
August 20 (Saturday) - all ages play
August 21 (Sunday) - all ages play
August 27 (Saturday) - all ages play
August 28 (Sunday) - all ages play
Labor Day weekend we do not play
September 11 (Sunday) - all ages play
September 17 (Saturday) - 8U, 10U and 12U only
September 18 (Sunday) - all ages play
September 25 (Sunday) - all ages play
Question: I have a daughter who isn't on a team but would like to play Fall Softball. Can you help her to get placed on a team? (Also we've been asked if we hold tryouts for teams). Answer: Mid-Iowa Girls Softball (MIGS) does not actually hold tryouts or set up teams. What MIGS tries to do is bring several local softball parks together to give teams a place to play against other teams of a similar skill level. It's not a place to try and beat up on other teams, but a time to work on skills that you feel your players actually need to work on to better themselves for the next softball season.
If you have a young lady who would like to play but doesn't have a team, we will do our best to find a team that needs a few players for the Fall season (but we can make no promises). If you do have a player who needs a team, please send me a little bit of information about her (age, positions she has played, etc.) and I will send your e-mail to the person this year who will be keeping track of these players. Also, if you are a team who is a player or two short and could use another young lady on your team, please do let us know that as well. Once again, please e-mail either to migsoftball@hotmail.com and I will forward your e-mail on to the correct person (I actually don't know who that is yet).
Thanks, Will Reifert
INFORMATION ON THE 2011 SEASON (June 15, 2011)
I've received several e-mails asking about the new Fall Ball season, so I wanted to pass on the information that I do have. The MIGS board will be meeting sometime soon in June. Team entry forms and player lists will be accepted the month of July with the cutoff being August 1st. I will be working on getting the entry form and other documents updated, but if you've all ready downloaded and filled them out then there's no need to fill them out again. The only thing that should be changing is the year listed on the form. From what I've been told, the costs will be the same as before.
The play dates should be:
August 20 & 21 (Saturday and Sunday) - all ages
August 27 & 28 (Saturday and Sunday) - all ages
September 3 & 4 (Saturday and Sunday) - No Games, enjoy your Labor Day weekend
September 11 (Sunday) - all ages
September 17 (Saturday) - 10U and 12U only
September 18 (Sunday) - all ages
September 25 (Sunday) - all ages
If I've messed any of the dates up, I'm sure I'll hear about it and will fix it then. Also, there will be no games at Holiday Park (West Des Moines) this season.
Thanks, Will Reifert
THE END TO ANOTHER FUN FALL BALL SEASON (MINUS THE RAIN) (October 12, 2010)
I'm sorry that it's taken me so long to finally get a message up on the website (I know, it's hard to believe we have work and lives away from the ball fields - lol). I'd like to thank all of the teams who participated in Fall Ball
this season. I hope you had as much fun playing as I did getting out to watch some of the games (and eating way too much food).
I've been asked about refund money from the rainout dates (especially since deposit checks have been showing up in mailboxes). We had a board meeting Wednesday night (last week), and during that meeting the representatives from
the parks went through the list to figure out what teams had rainouts and what teams didn't. Money for the teams that had rainouts wouldn't be going out until probably sometime this week. The reason you received deposit checks back all ready is
that those were mailed out before the board meeting.
I've also been asked about results from the games of the 2nd half. I'm adding all the updated sheets right now, but you'll notice as you check out the divisions that I'm missing a lot of results. If you see one of your sets are missing, feel free to send
them over to me and I'll still get them updated.
I'll be sending the same information out in a blast e-mail to as many 8's, 10's and 12's that I can, but I also wanted to post this here. After working on trying to reschedule all of the games from last Saturday's
rainouts to this coming Saturday, we are giving up trying to make it all work out. After receiving e-mails from 25% of the teams, and many of those being that the teams couldn't play that day or couldn't play at the original times,
it has turned into a logistical nightmare. Just when it would seem that everything was falling into place, something else would come to light that would throw it all for a loop. As well as looking like we're supposed to receive
more rain on Saturday, umpires being tied up with a USSSA tournament at Raccoon River Park and a rec tourney at Ankeny.... it just can't work.
I apologize to all teams who were looking forward to playing more games this Saturday. And to make sure that all teams know, you will be getting refunds for the games that you do not play.
Will Reifert
RESCHEDULED GAMES (SATURDAY) (September 22, 2010)
I'm going through all of the e-mails that were sent to me from teams letting me know whether they can or can't play this Saturday (along with some saying they can't play at 11am or 3pm).
Because of the teams who can't play, we may have to do a little moving around of some of the games (who you play). If you end up playing someone you've played before, I do apologize. Right
now we're just trying to make sure that everyone who wants to play, gets to play. This will be up on the website yet today.
Also, we are only making up the Saturday rainouts. Any games cancelled on Sunday will not be made up (we don't want the schedule to run into October).
GAMES FOR SUNDAY... SOME ON, SOME CANCELLED (part 2) (September 19, 2010)
It's 2PM, and I've just been told that the 3PM set has just been cancelled at the Urbandale complex as it keeps raining and the fields have gotten too sloppy.
GAMES FOR SUNDAY... SOME ON, SOME CANCELLED (September 19, 2010)
As per the hotline, I've been told that games at the West Des Moines and South Des Moines are all cancelled. They could not recover from the rain last night and this morning. Games at Ankeny, Raccoon Valley, Urbandale and
North Des Moines are all still on.
To all the people who e-mailed me this morning, I do apologize. For some reason, power is out for me, and I ended up over-sleeping. So much for that idea working well. Here are a few tips though:
1. If the rainout hotline tells you that the games at a certain complex are cancelled for that day, you probably don't need to e-mail asking if that is correct.
2. If the rainout hotline hasn't been updated yet... I don't know either. At 7:30 in the morning, the complexes probably haven't decided yet.
3. I have no idea what model/equipment North Des Moines uses for the messages. I also don't know why, at 8AM or so, all it said was "message box full" and didn't play the message.
Thanks, and have a great Sunday.
THE RAINOUT HOTLINE (part 2) (September 18, 2010)
I've been getting e-mails telling me that the mailbox is full on the MIGS hotline. This is due to the fact that for some reason people feel they need to leave a response after the outgoing message plays.
Here's the deal... please listen to the message telling you that games are on or off, and if you feel you need to leave a message please don't do it on the hotline. If you feel you need to tell someone what you think
about the games being cancelled or a problem that you're having, please do it in an e-mail. In fact, ONLY for times like this, you can e-mail me directly on my cell phone at reifert@tmo.blackberry.net with the
urgent message you need passed on. Please do not abuse this, as it's for urgent messages only. By the way, even if the mailbox is full you still get to listen to the games on/off message to know if games are being played.
As for the cancellations today, I've been told that we are planning on moving today's schedule to next Saturday. If you can or can't play next Saturday (September 25th), please do send me an e-mail either way at c.reifert@mchsi.com (not at the
blackbery address) and I will pass all e-mails on. Thanks, Will
THE RAINOUT HOTLINE (September 18, 2010)
Due to the fact that we might have some rain all weekend, I wanted to remind everyone that if any games are cancelled at any of the complexes then the rain-out hotline is updated to show that. That number is
515-280-8620 (it's also listed on the "FIELD CONDITIONS" link at the left of this page). The message at that number is updated as soon as the complex gets the information to Keith Fraser.
Thanks, Will.
A MESSAGE FROM MIGS (September 9, 2010)
A message to coaches, parents, players and fans.
Fall Ball by design is intended to be an extension of the softball season giving players and coaches an opportunity to continue to hone skills or try new positions.
It is also an opportunity for players that will be moving into the next older division next spring to stretch and "move up" early to get used to a 12" ball or dropped third strike or any other condition that is different.
With all that said it is important to also understand that with violations of the rules there are consequences. Mid Iowa Girls Softball uses a variety of rules including High School, ASA, USSSA and some from the individual association's league rules. We want to be as consistent as we can in operating at six different softball complexes so we have decided that our position with respect to an umpire's decision to eject a coach that the following consequence will apply.
If the coach is ejected during the first game of the double header they will NOT be allowed to finish that game and will serve a one game penalty which will be the second game of the double header. They will not be allowed in the complex and will be asked to leave if necessary.
If the coach is ejected during the second game of the double header they will NOT be allowed to finish that game and will serve a one game penalty which will be the first game of the next playing date.
In the event a coach is ejected a second time in the season they will be removed as a coach for the remainder of the fall season with a suggestion that they not be a coach next fall without some mentoring by someone in their association and their conduct in the fall program will be monitored.
We feel this policy is consistent and in keeping with generally accepted practices. The point we are making is this is still a game and it is for the kids.
2ND HALF SCHEDULE COMPLETED (September 8, 2010)
Here are the links to the schedules with the rest of the dates on them:
2ND HALF SCHEDULE (September 6, 2010)
Due to a few technical difficulties, part of the second half of the schedule hasn't been completed yet. What's listed in the following links are the games scheduled for the 1st play date of the 2nd
half (September 12th). I apologize for the hassle, and the rest of the schedule will be up some time Wednesday night.
*MOVED UP TO THE FIRST SECTION*
RULES PAGE HAS BEEN UPDATED (August 27, 2010)
Changes to the page are that it lists that a legal slide can be feet first or head first, as well as reiterating that metal cleats are only allowed in the High School division in Fall Ball.
BALLFIELD ADDRESSES, AND FIELD CHANGES (August 24, 2010)
For anyone playing at Raccoon Valley on Sunday, the games from field 5 have been moved to field 6, and the games from field 8 have been moved to field 5. Schedules have been updated.
For those of you looking to add the addresses of the complexes to your GPS devices, here you go:
TURNING IN SCORES QUESTION, AND MOVED SCHEDULES (August 23, 2010)
I've had a few questions on what scores teams need to turn in, and what scores they don't need to turn in. After each weekend of play, the complexes turn the scores from every game played into me, and I log
those scores. So technically, you shouldn't have to send me scores from your games. However, if you look Tuesday morning and see a blank after your game (meaning I haven't received those scores), please do
send me the scores for your games at that time. As I do receive a ton of e-mail every day, I'm trying to cut some of it down (and keep you from having to e-mail me). Thanks, Will.
And here are the schedules, updated and moved up a little higher on the page. Yes, I will still be moving them to their own page, I'm just running behind:
A Raccoon Valley 10&Under-C team is desperately in need of extra players. Contact for more information is Jim Reese, or feel free to contact me for a telephone number you can call.
UPDATES OF THE SCHEDULES PART 2 (August 16, 2010)
Due to the changes that had to be made... please please please, everyone please recheck the newest schedules that are up. Please pay attention to any lines with green, as they are the ones I had to
change due to the 3 fields that came to be available at West Des Moines. Plus, we did find a few other errors out there (partly thanks to my fat fingers). So please do check the schedules again. I'll start e-mailing teams that this affects
tomorrow (Tuesday). Thanks!
UPDATES OF THE SCHEDULES, AND CLEARING UP ONE MISCONCEPTION (August 16, 2010)
Due to a tournament that was going to happen at West Des Moines on August 28th and 29th, many of you might have noticed that there were three sets of games scheduled for Urbandale.
These were going to be at 10AM, 2PM and 5:30PM. Due to flooding that Holiday Park had over the past week or two, their tournament was cancelled. I've been asked to change the schedules
around tonight so that the teams playing the late set at Urbandale will be moved to Holiday Park fields. It may also change a few other 10U games, but I won't know for sure until I get home tonight
and work on the changes. I apologize for the hassle, but please do look for changes for the SECOND weekend of play late tonight. The FIRST weekend of play should not be affected. Thanks, Will.
Now for the misconception: I'm sorry that some people thought that each team plays one game each day. Each set of games on each play date are actually double-headers. This is the reason why you might have noticed the wording
on each schedule that says "Team listed first is Home team first game, Visitors second game". Also, if you'll please take the time to read the "Rules & Regs" page, rule #8 states "The break between doubleheader games will be 20 minutes,
unless both teams coaches agree to make it shorter (such as if games are running long)"
I just wanted to make sure that everyone understands that you're playing 2 games each day instead of 1.
TOURNAMENTS-CAMPS-TRAINING (August 12, 2010)
I do have the TOURNAMENTS - CAMPS - TRAINING page back up. If you have something that needs to go on
one of those sections, please let me know.
UPDATED LIST OF TEAMS (August 5, 2010)
Here's what I have up to this point. If you sent in a team entry form and don't see your team
listed here, please send an e-mail.
8U WAC 8U Gold - Ben Woodworth
8U WAC 8U Purple - Steve Wheeler
8U DCG Fillies - Jeff Vandekieft
8U Urbandale
10U Johnston Jaguars Black - Tim Ford
10U Johnston Jaguars Purple - Jason Olson
10U Johnston Jaguars - Rich Heil
10U ATK Attack - Arnie Mercer
10U Johnston Crush - Dennis Hackman
10U Johnston Panthers - Mark Morris
10U Altoona Rams Blue - Craig Ruhl
10U EDM Red - Jim Randolph
10U Altoona Rams - Clint Edwards
10U Indianola Heat - Dan Thomas
10U WAC 10U Gold Jrs - Jeremy Kroll
10U WAC 10U Purple - Laurie Mardis
10U WAC 10U Black - Chris Costa
10U WAC 10U White - Doug Glade
10U Winterset Huskies - Terry McNamara
10U Winterset Sharks - Scott Stover
10U NDM Flame - Matt Dobson
10U Pella Pride 10U White - Shawn DeWaard
10U Pelle Pride 10U Black - Jennie Hedrick-Rozenberg
10U DCG Fillies - Clark Lundy
10U Newton Cardinals - Pete Jenkins
10U EDM Extreme - Kevin Kelly
10U Central Iowa Explosion - Mark Sherwood
10U MSA Black - Dan Twelmeyer
10U Beaverdale Panthers - Jim Weatherall
10U Lady Warhawks - Troy May
10U Aftershock - Shawn Essex
10U WDM Panthers - Kevin Kellner
10U Carlisle Wildcats - Chad Parsen
10U Urbandale
10U Urbandale
10U Urbandale
10U Urbandale
10U Urbandale
12U Mystique - Tom Gish
12U Johnston Jets - Marc Maresca
12U MSA Black - Brad Moriarty
12U Dirt Divas - Chuck Polke
12U Norwalk Purple Aces - Joe Hoch
12U Diamond Dirt Devils - Kandace Sage-Ellis
12U WAC 12U Gold - Nancy Shepard
12U WAC 12U Purple - Gary Schaefer
12U WCV Wildcats - Angie Beane
12U Rams - Joel Fini
12U SEW Warhawks - Todd Johnston
12U Winterset Huskies - Eric Johnson
12U NDM Liberty - Greg Barton
12U Pella Pride 12U White - Dean Dingeman
12U Pella Pride 12U Black - Jason Arkema
12U Pella Pride 12U Green - Joe VanHemert
12U DCG Fillies White - Kathy Fistler
12U DCG Fillies Red - Dan Endicott
12U Thunder Softball - Karl Ekstam
12U Indianola Indians Purple - Cory Kralik
12U Sharks - David Lawyer
12U Raccoon Valley Roughriders
12U Denison Gold - Steve Mahlberg
12U Urbandale
12U Urbandale
12U Urbandale
12U Urbandale
14U NDM Glaciers - David Ash
14U Sully Stars - Matt Rasmusson
14U Indianola Crush - Allan Keller
14U Pleasantville Heat - Kim Friday
14U Johnston - Kevin Dotseth
14U Indianola Strikers - Tina Talbot
14U WAC 14U - Bryan Schleisman
14U Martensdale St Marys - Todd Verwers
14U Pella Pride - Tracy Rozenberg
14U Iowa Impact
14U Twisted - Jeff Rodman
14U Urbandale
High School Newton Cardinals - Doug Smith
High School Martensdale St Marys - Mike Gerdes
High School Pella Green - Krista DeMeulenaere
High School Pella White - Krista DeMeulenaere
High School Des Moines Christian - Don Borcherding
UPDATE OF FORMS (July 16, 2010)
I updated the team roster and team entry forms to show 8U. If you've all ready sent in the old form, please just let me
know when you get a chance that you are an 8U team. Thanks.
TIME FOR A FEW UPDATES (July 7, 2010)
There have been a few questions about having an 8&U division, as well as what the pitching distances are going
to be this year. It does look like there will be an 8&U division, so please do let us know if you have an 8&U team that you
want to play. As for the pitching distances, from what I've been told they will be the following:
8&U and 10&U - 35 feet (even though it looks like 8U would be coach pitch)
12&U - 40 feet
14&U through HS - 43 feet
I've also uploaded the newest 2010 rules as a pdf file. You can either click the link to the left,
or click HERE.
Wow! It's that time all ready!! (June 14, 2010)
I can't believe it's June of 2010 all ready. It's time to start sending in team entry forms and payments
if you would like to have a team play in the Fall league this season. The play dates for this year look like they will be:
August 21 & 22 (all age groups)
August 28 & 29 (all age groups)
Sunday September 12 (all age groups)
Saturday September 18 (10U and 12U only)
Sunday September 19 (all age groups)
Sunday September 26 (all age groups)
I don't have a cutoff date for the team entry forms yet, but last year was right near August 1st. I'm betting
it will be the same sort of time frame again this year.
As far as I know at this time, the rates will be the same as last year. I'm working on updating the team entry forms and team roster forms at this time, but if you've all ready downloaded the old ones they should work just fine. Just in case the forms have the very old address on them,
any forms filled out and mailed in need to go to:
Mid-Iowa Girls Softball
PO Box 65074
West Des Moines, IA 50265
NEW RULES LIST (August 19, 2009)
You can download it HERE or by using the link to the left.
SCHEDULES UP (August 17, 2009)
8 and Under Division (trying again for July 24th, 2009)
If you have a team of younger players and you might be interested in an 8&U division, please let Jim Reese or me
know as soon as possible. A little bit of info about the possible division:
Q. Will there be an 8U Division this season?
A. There can be if there is enough interest. And most likely they would be single games rather than double headers. Possibly a five game format on Sunday’s only.
Rainout Hotline Number - 515-280-8620
Questions, comments, complaints and ideas on items you'd like to see on this site should be e-mailed to migsoftball@hotmail.com
