Northwoods League - Baseball

Date	R	In casa v Fuori casa	-
07/23 18:05	-	Wisconsin Rapids Rafters v Fond Du Lac Dock Spiders	5-3
07/23 17:35	-	Kalamazoo Growlers v Traverse City Pit Spitters	11-8
07/23 00:05	-	Willmar Stingers v Thunder Bay Border Cats	12-2
07/22 23:35	-	Fond Du Lac Dock Spiders v Wisconsin Rapids Rafters	1-6
07/22 23:35	-	Lakeshore Chinooks v Madison Mallards	3-4
07/22 23:35	-	Kenosha Kingfish v Rockford Rivets	3-2
07/22 23:35	-	Eau Claire Express v La Crosse Loggers	6-9
07/22 23:35	-	Minot Hot Tots v Duluth Huskies	14-19
07/22 23:35	-	Rochester Honkers v Waterloo Bucks	Postponed
07/22 23:35	-	Mankato Moondogs v Minnesota Mud Puppies	16-2
07/22 23:05	-	Wisconsin Woodchucks v Kokomo Jackrabbits	8-12
07/22 23:05	-	Green Bay Booyah v Battle Creek Bombers	4-3
07/22 23:05	-	St. Cloud Rox v Bismarck Larks	4-3
07/22 22:35	-	Kalamazoo Growlers v Traverse City Pit Spitters	2-7
07/22 00:05	-	Bismarck Larks v Minot Hot Tots	0-7
07/22 00:05	-	St. Cloud Rox v Willmar Stingers	9-13
07/21 23:35	-	Rockford Rivets v Wisconsin Woodchucks	8-1
07/21 23:35	-	Madison Mallards v Green Bay Booyah	1-2
07/21 23:35	-	Lakeshore Chinooks v Fond Du Lac Dock Spiders	4-5
07/21 23:35	-	Wisconsin Rapids Rafters v Battle Creek Bombers	6-2
07/21 23:35	-	La Crosse Loggers v Eau Claire Express	10-5
07/21 23:35	-	Rochester Honkers v Thunder Bay Border Cats	5-2
07/21 23:35	-	Mankato Moondogs v Waterloo Bucks	3-6
07/21 23:35	-	Duluth Huskies v Minnesota Mud Puppies	9-5
07/21 23:05	-	Kokomo Jackrabbits v Kalamazoo Growlers	10-20
07/21 23:05	-	Traverse City Pit Spitters v Kenosha Kingfish	4-3
07/20 23:35	-	Rockford Rivets v Wisconsin Woodchucks	4-7
07/20 23:35	-	Wisconsin Rapids Rafters v Battle Creek Bombers	5-7
07/20 23:35	-	Fond Du Lac Dock Spiders v Lakeshore Chinooks	3-0
07/20 23:35	-	Minot Hot Tots v Bismarck Larks	8-12

Wikipedia - Northwoods League

The Northwoods League is a collegiate summer baseball wooden bat league. All players in the league must have NCAA eligibility remaining in order to participate. The league is amateur, and players are not paid, so as to maintain their college eligibility. Graduated senior pitchers are also eligible to play in the Northwoods League. Each team may have four of these players at a time.

Teams play 72 games scheduled from Memorial Day to the 2nd Saturday in August, while the playoffs take place the week after, starting on that Sunday and ending usually on Friday. The season itself is broken into two halves, with the winners of each half in each of the four sub-divisions playing against each other to determine a sub-divisional champion in a best-of-three series. The sub-divisional champions then meet in a winner-take-all game to determine a divisional champion. The divisional champions then meet in a winner-take-all game for the league championship.

In 2020, some teams cancelled their season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For those teams that did play, instead of playing within their usual divisions, they played in hub regions, with some creating "temporary teams".

In 2023, the Northwoods League announced plans to create a new professional softball league. The softball league will initially consist of four teams based in Madison, WI, La Crosse, WI, Mankato, MN, and Minot, ND.

History

Established in 1994, the Northwoods League was the first for-profit summer collegiate baseball league. It has more teams and plays more games than any other summer collegiate baseball league. The Northwoods League drew over 1.1 Million fans for the fourth consecutive year in 2017. The purpose of the league is to develop players while college baseball teams are not allowed to work out. Many of the teams in the league play in ballparks formerly occupied by professional clubs from the Midwest League, Prairie League, Northern League, and Frontier League. The wooden bat circuit allows communities deemed too small for professional ball to continue to enjoy high-quality, competitive baseball during the summer months. The Northwoods League was the first summer collegiate baseball league to broadcast on the ESPN network, and currently webcasts all of its games.

The teams are located in the Northwoods region of the Upper Midwestern United States and Northwestern Ontario, mostly in the U.S. states of Minnesota (five teams) and Wisconsin (nine teams); also with three teams in Michigan, two in North Dakota, and one team each in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ontario.

Over 200 league alumni have gone on to play in Major League Baseball (MLB) with 91 alumni entering the MLB ranks from 2013 to 2017. Alumnus Max Scherzer, the 2017 National League Cy Young Award winner, and American League runner-up Chris Sale faced each other as the starting pitchers in the 2017 and 2018 Major League Baseball All-Star Games.

La Northwoods League è un torneo di baseball negli Stati Uniti che si svolge durante l'estate. È una delle leghe di baseball estivo più prestigiose e competitive del paese. La lega è composta da squadre provenienti da diversi stati del Midwest degli Stati Uniti, come Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan e molti altri.

La Northwoods League offre ai giovani giocatori di baseball l'opportunità di competere a un livello elevato e di sviluppare le proprie abilità. Molti dei partecipanti sono studenti universitari che giocano a baseball durante la pausa estiva, ma ci sono anche giocatori provenienti da altre leghe minori o che cercano di farsi notare dagli scout delle squadre professionistiche.

Le partite della Northwoods League sono molto emozionanti e coinvolgenti, con un'atmosfera da stadio entusiasmante. I giocatori dimostrano il loro talento e la loro passione per il baseball, cercando di ottenere risultati positivi per la propria squadra.

La Northwoods League è un'occasione per gli appassionati di baseball di vivere l'esperienza di un vero e proprio torneo professionistico, con partite di alto livello e giocatori talentuosi. Se sei un amante del baseball e ti trovi negli Stati Uniti durante l'estate, non perdere l'opportunità di assistere a una partita della Northwoods League e tifare per la tua squadra preferita.