Congratulations to Iron Ridge and Newburg for winning the first half in their respective divisions. They will receive automatic bids to the Round Robin Tournament and also will be hosting the second half winners in the playoff for the League Regular Season Championship.

Here's a recap of last week's West finale from Scott Oshefsky from Iron Ridge:

Thank you to everyone who is continuing the great tradition of Lutheran church dartball into 2024-25. We will miss Slinger this season and hope to see them back in the league soon. We also welcome TCC 2, many of whose faces should be familiar if you remember the previous River Church 2 team.

This season we will be figuring out the first night handicap after the games. It is recommended to keep track of the games on paper if you are unfamiliar with how to navigate the app to accomodate this (you can then go back and enter in the games into the app afterwards to upload the games and statistics). Because of this, please play all 9 innings of every game. Even if the game is tied at the moment, do not continue the games. After the handicap is figured out, if there are any tied games please then go back and continue the game (where it would have picked up in the batting order had the game continued as normal).

Good luck to everyone this season. If there are any questions or problems with the technology or anything else during the year, please reach out to an officer and we will be happy to try and help. Look forward to seeing everyone again during the season. Play ball!

Thanks to everyone who came out to the 2024 Round Robin Tournament. Special thanks to the St. Andrews dartball team and youth for hosting the tournament. They did a fantastic job. Here are the results of the tournament:

1st Place: HUILSBURG. 4 wins--1 loss--34 runs--66 hits

2nd Place: TRINITY COMMUNITY CENTER:  3.5 wins--1.5 losses--30 runs--62 hits

3rd Place: HUSTY-WOOD: 3 wins--2 losses--21 runs--51 hits

4th Place: SHEPHERD OF THE HILLS: 2.5 wins--2.5 losses--34 runs--75 hits

5th Place: PILGRIM: 1 win--4 losses--18 runs--49 hits

6th Place: GOOD SHEPHERD: 1 win--4 losses--17 runs--45 hits

Everyone is welcome to attend the 2024 Round Robin Tournament, February 18, 2024 at St. Andrews Lutheran in West Bend. Matches start at 1pm. Concessions will be provided by the St. Andrews Youth Group to help fund a youth rally/gathering this summer.

Here is the schedule and run averages for the 2024 Round Robin Tournament held Feburary 18, 2024 at St. Andrews Lutheran in West Bend:

Team Run Averages

Shepherd of the Hills-6; Good Shepherd--7; Pilgrim--5; TCC--6; Husty-Wood--3; Huilsburg--4

The semi-annual meeting will be held Monday, December 4 at St. Paul's, Slinger at 7pm. We will be finalizing the end of season activities (tournaments, banquet) as well as electing new officers for 2024-25. We would encourage everyone to consider serving as an officer. We are always looking for new people to help run the league and bring new ideas and thoughts to the officer team. If you have any questions please contact a current officer.

We will also be having the second reading of the proposed bylaw changes. If approved at this meeting, they will become effective. All captains should have received the bylaws via email. If anyone else is interested in receiving them, please contact Jeff Moldenhauer.

Reminder: Teams with a bye in Week 1 should use their previous season's run average for their first match in Week 2. 

EAST

Good Shepherd--6;  Hartford--7;  New Fane--4; Newburg--4; Pilgrim--5; Shep of the Hills--5; Slinger--2; St. Andrew--2; Allenton will need to establish their handicap after the first night and apply it retroactively to their Week 1 games. 

WEST

Browns Corners--4; Horicon--5; Huilsburg--5; Husty-Wood--2; Iron Ridge--3; Kekoskee--3; Neosho--4; TCC--6; Zion--4

Congratulations to all the teams who made it to the Round Robin Tournament in 2023. Special thanks to the Husty-Wood dartball team and Bethany Lutheran School for setting up and hosting the tournament and providing concessions.

Special congratulations to the champions of the tournament: Shepherd of the Hills. The results are as follows:

1st Place--Shepherd of the Hills (4-1 record, 30 runs, 63 hits); 2nd Place--New Fane (3.5-1.5 record, 27 runs, 61 hits); 3rd Place--Horicon (3-2 record, 18 runs, 44 hits); 4th Place--Neosho (2.5-2.5 record, 15 runs, 42 hits); 5th Place--TCC (2-3 record, 31 runs, 65 hits); 6th Place--Good Shepherd (0-5 record, 15 runs, 46 hits)

Thank you to everyone for a successful 2023 League Tournament. Special thanks to: St. John's Newburg for hosting the tournament and all the work they put in to make it happen; St. Lucas Kewaskum for allowing us to host the tournament at their school; Rachel Steger and Jackie Bertram for handling the scorekeeping and standings; and all the teams and players for fun and fellowship.

Additional congratulations to the top teams in the tournament: 1st Place--Huilsburg; 2nd Place--St. Andrews; 3rd Place--Kekoskee; 4th Place--Newburg. And to the top shooters for the weekend: Leon Schmidt (Hartford)--595, Jeff Kummrow (Kekoskee)--550; Kevin Nank (Good Shepherd)--537; Keith Moldenhauer (Huilsburg)--521; Jeff Moldenhauer (Huilsburg)--511.

Mark your calendars: The 2022-23 League Tournament will be February 25th and 26th at St. Lucas Lutheran School in Kewaskum. Start times will be 7pm on the 25th and 12:30pm on the 26th.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving weekend. 

We will be having the KMLDL Semi Annual Meeting on Monday, December 5th at 7pm at St Paul's, Slinger. 

We will be discussing issues from this season, finalizing year end tournaments and the banquet, and electing officers for 2023-24.

We are always looking for new members to join the officer team. If you have any interest, or if any one on your teams might be interested, please let us know at the meeting or ahead of time if you are unable to attend. 

I hope to see you next Monday. 

The 2022-23 Officer List can be found on the "Officer" tab.

https://wisdartball.com/league/kmldl/officers

The teams, playing locations, managers, and manager contact information can be found on the "Teams" page of this league.

https://wisdartball.com/league/kmldl/teams

Congratualtions to Horicon for winning the West Division! After winning the first game 6-2, they hold on in a tight second game 8-7 to take the match.

Congratulations to TCC for winning the West Wildcard playoff against Huilsburg. Scores were 6-8, 12-5, 8-7

Congratulations to New Fane for beating Newburg to get into the round robin tournement. Good luck to New Fane in the round robin and good luck to all in the year end church tournement.

Congratulations to Pilgrim on becoming the eastern division champions. Good Shepherd did not go down without a fight. It was a tough match and it went all 3 games. Game 1 was 16-6 (Pilgrim), game 2 was 5-0 (Good Shepherd) and game 3 was 7-5 (Pilgrim). Good luck in the round robin to both teams and good luck to all in the year end tournement!

Captains: You should have received an end-of-year letter from the Secretary via email. If you did not receive it please let us know. Please get your team statistics into the Secretary as soon as possible. Make note of whether your team is scheduled to bring their board, stand, and light to the League Tournament and if you are unable to please let us know as soon as possible.

Congratulations to Shepherd of the Hills for winning the East Division and to Trinity Community Center for winning the West Division First Halves. SOTH won their division outright while TCC takes the crown based on a head-to-head matchup win over Iron Ridge 1. The season starts anew this week meaning that everyone still has a chance to qualify for the post-season tournament.

Just got done installing the 2019-20 season. Good luck to all. Have fun!