We are just a few days away until the Softball Leinster 2019 season. The first games are on the 29th of April. Here are some dates and news for you to keep in mind… Please feel free to email us with blitz dates and we’ll add them to this post. SL Team registration ended on the 5th of April and we lost 4 teams this year – SWAT, Springfield, Marlay…
SL Umpire Levy Introduced and other news
After our first Beginner Umpire class did not meet the minimum attendance we were hoping to maintain the necessary umpires to cover the scheduled games for this season, the SL committee have decided that we will have to introduce an Umpire Levy for this season. This release went out to captains today and is also posted on our website along with the 2019 Byelaws and Game Rules. Also released last…
Exciting Website Upgrades and a New Forum
Have you seen our new Forum? We announced it this past Saturday at the captains meeting but it has been up for a few weeks. Anyone can post as long as you are registered and registration only takes a minute from our home page. The new Forum has a few sections detailed below and we hope it will help promote a sense of community and provide services to all our…
Slow Pitch Trials & Open Day
The 2019 Co-ed European Slow Pitch Championship will be held in Budapest on the 15-20th of July. Ireland Head Coach, Senan Dormer has appointed Eoin Coonan and Jonathan Spielberg as his Assistant Coaches. Jay Slevin is going to take up the role of Logistics Manager and Karen Brady will come on board as the team’s Strength and Conditioning coach. The first trial opportunity will be at an indoor session in…
Softball in the News
This year’s IOST is featured in this article on Sports News Ireland. It is always good to spread the word about our sport and we should look at more opportunities going forward. Lovely picture of the Originals in all their glory.
All Star Weekend and Game of the Week 24th and 25th of August
All Star Day – Trinity Cricket Pitch 25th of August As the summer days get shorter and the sunniest Irish Summer in a years (hundreds of years?) winds down so does our softball season. We are excited to announce that we’ll be having our All Star game again at the cricket pitch in Trinity. Like last year, it will be an all day event on a Saturday, specifically the 25th…
2018 Blitz Season
Hey folks, Just wanted to let everyone know about some of the upcoming blitzes that are on this year. This a constantly updated post so check back for more details as the season progresses. Pink Blitz 9th of June Hosted by thew Suspects Kegs Blitz TBC for either the 23rd or 30th of June Renegades Fourth of July Blitz 7th of July Castleknock Blitz 14th of July IOST 18-19th of…
Almost Game Time…
We are just a few days away from the start of the season. As we finalise the last few things to make the season a success we would like to point out a few important things about the upcoming season. Due to the new General Data Protection Regulations, all players will have to register themselves to play on their team. To help us manage with the player registration we are…
Team Registration Page, Byelaws and Rules
To help with team and player registration Softball Ireland and Softball Leinster will be using a new online service that will allow clubs to register teams and individual players to register their players. This will allow us to conform to the new laws General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that will come into force on the 25th May 2018. Team captains/contacts can register their teams here on Klubfunder. You can choose to pay…
Registration for the 2018 Season Starts Today
SL 2018 season registration begins today… Already quite a few teams have indicated that they’ll be returning. If your team is coming back then email us at info@softballleinster.ie to let us know. We are hopeful that Softball Leinster will have a year of growth in 2018 with some new teams, possibly some returning teams and a men’s league. We also hope to have our schedules out by the 16th of April. Dates…
