Schedules! April 4th Jamboree and 2009 Season Schedules are now online!

It's time for softball!

Saturday, April 4th...yes, that's this weekend...is our Opening Day Jamboree for the 2009 Mad River Girls Fastpitch Softball Season. A schedule of the days events - which includes team photos, 1-inning mini-games, chocolate bar fundraiser distribution, and the concession stand - is posted in the link to the right.

Game schedules for the complete season are located to the right as well. This season as in the past, we will be partnering with the Cutten-Ridgewood Softball Association, our ASA neighbors in Eureka, for a 12-13 game season. Games begin on Monday, April 6th and will run through the end of May. A championship tournament and divisional all-star games will close our season the first week of June.

We'll see y'all on Saturday!

It's 2009! Spring Softball is just around the corner!

Has it really been this long?

By mid-June last summer, our seasoned players had drifted off to summer camps and family vacations. The Mad River 12 & Under travel team played on a while longer, competing in tournaments across northern California in July.

By August our softball players had become soccer players. Older coaches took their kids to college while our older players headed off to high school. October slid into November which eased into December. Soccer goalies became basketball point guards.

And now, finally, it's a new year. Mad River Girls Fastpitch Softball Association's spring season is barely a month away. We're pulling our gloves out of the closets or breaking in the new ones we got for Christmas. When the sun shines (which it's doing quite frequently these days), you'll even hear the sharp pop of ball on leather. Muddy cleats, still stinky from last season, begin to scratch the edges of the community center grass.

Spring Softball. You can feel it. It's almost here.

Your Mad River Girls Fastpitch Softball coaches and board members are already hard at work getting ready for the coming season. Registrations for returning players are stamped and on their way to your mailbox.

Stay tuned to these pages in the coming days for important dates, updates, registration forms, schedules, and all the info you'll need for the coming season.

Let's play some softball!

...And the weather holds on for a great opening week of softball!

The north coast's weather teased us a bit both on opening day and the middle of this week, but the skies stayed mostly dry for us. Despite the wet threats and a few showers, the Mad River Girls Fastpitch Softball Association's 2008 spring season kicked off this week. Even a brief hailstorm on Tuesday night couldn't drive our teams off the fields!

16 games have already been played in this young season, in three towns, on five fields, and among 21 teams. And there's plenty more to come.

Check out the photos from last Saturday's games between our own Mad River 10 & Under teams. Our youngest pitchers are already looking like seasoned pros out there.

We'd love to share your photos or hear your softball stories on this website. Coaches, parents, kids, grandparents...please email us your photos, classic moments, or play-by-play game commentary, and we'll do our darnedest to get them up for all to see. It'll be great to share the fun we're having playin' softball in Humboldt County.

And if you want to catch some really great softball, the HSU softball team begins their hunt for the CCAA championship tournament this week, and HSU and the city of Arcata host the NCAA Division II Western Regional Tournament May 7-11 at HSU. Check out the papers or the HSU softball website for updates.