The page contains information about the Spring softball season. This page will be updated throughout the season with new information as it becomes available.

Important Dates

Please mark your calendars or add the KYSLL Events calendar to yours to keep track of these important events.

• 4th Sunday in April : Picture Day
• June : All Star Try-Outs
• Final week of June : Metro Tournaments (see information below for specific dates).
• July : All Star Tournaments (see information below for specific dates).

As part of the 2021 season will be following the guidelines as set forth by the state of Illinois as well as best practices and procedures outlined by Little League. I encourage you to read the information on both the links below.

• Illinois Youth Sports Guidelines
• Little League Return To Play

Additionally please review the KYSLL Return To Play guidelines.

Team Formations

Teams will be formed after evaluations the week after evaluations and will posted on the web site shortly after. Practices may begin the week after evaluations for Minor A, Majors and Juniors at the discretion of the head coach and depending on indoor facility availability. Minor B practices will not start until mid-April.

Regular Season

The regular season start and end dates depend on the division of play. Our district will attempt to only schedule games on the days of the week listed for each division, however there may be instances where games will be played on other days of the week due to rain outs or field conflicts. Expect to play 1 to 2 games per week.

Division	Number Of Games	Day Of Games	Season Start	Season End
Minor B	12	Mon,Wed and Sat	2nd week of May	Last week of June
Minor A	16	Tue,Thur and Sat	1st week of May	Last week of June
Majors	16	Mon,Wed and Sat	3rd week of April	Last week of June
Juniors	16	Tue,Thur and Sat	3rd week of April	Last week of June

Practices usually start one month prior to the season start date and may be indoors. Practices are scheduled at the discretion of the head coach and are usually about 1 hour for Minor B, 1 1/2 hours for Minor A and 2 hours for Majors and up.

Weekday games start at 5:45 PM, Saturday games start at 9 AM, Noon or 3 PM.

Once the season starts there may be a practice every other week depending on number of games played.

Metro Tournament

The following are the dates for the Metro Tournament, more details about the Metro Tournament can be found on our District Website.

Division	Teams	Type	Start
Minor A	All teams qualify.	Single Elimination	Late June
Majors	Top 4 Teams from Season Standings by Points	Double Elimination	Late June
Juniors	All teams qualify.	Single Elimination	Late June

All Star Tournament

The All Star tournament gives our league the opportunity to enter a team from each division listed below. This team competes against other teams from our district and has the opportunity to play in a state championship for Minor A and the nationally televised Little League World Series for Majors and above.

See our All Star Information page for more details.

Evaluations

Evaluations will be conducted for Minor A, Majors and Juniors. Evaluations will be held on the second Sunday in March between Noon and 4 PM, but players will only need to attend the session they are assigned. More information can be found on our Evaluations Page

Uniform Fitting

The uniform fitting will be on the between Noon and 3 PM during the evaluation session. 

Your player has an opportunity to verify the uniform size they ordered is correct, you will just be verifying sizing, not picking up your uniform. Their actual uniform will be delivered to your players coach.

We will have various sizes of pants and jersey samples to try on in order to check the sizing.
   
It is important to attend this event because softball pant cuts are not quite the same as regular pants and do not always fit the same as pants you would buy in the store.  If you cannot make this fitting then the size that you ordered is what will be delivered with your uniform