Week 3 Games – Sunday, May 18, 2025

10:00 AM – Peaches (Away) vs. Mayhem (Home)
11:00 AM – Mayhem (Away) vs. Pitch Please (Home)
12:00 PM – GBU (Away) vs. Field of Queens (Home)

The forecast for Sunday is partly cloudy with cooler temperature in the low 70s during game times. Please be sure to get to the park well before your game time so you can stretch and warm up!

We cannot wait for more exciting games this week - every player on every team has played AWESOME so far!

Coming up after Memorial Day Weekend, LSA will be doing a trial run of the Women's+ or W+ format. 

W+ is open to all LGBTQ and ally cis women, trans men, trans women and non-binary members and these games are scheduled in the 12:00pm game slot for weeks 4, 5, & 6.

Last Sunday we passed out forms so players could "sign up" for the weeks they would like to participate in the W+ games. We will have forms at the field again this Sunday and we would like to collect all forms so the Board can set up the team rosters for the week 4 W+ game.

We encourage those who participate in these games to provide us any feedback (positive or negative) after each game. Please send feedback to info.lsaiowa@gmail.com with the subject line “W+”. This feedback will assist us in deciding to continue exploring and/or expanding this format for 2026.

For all Women’s+ games we will utilize the 11” ball and will follow the official USA Softball rule book for Women’s Slow Pitch softball. We have also utilized ASANA as our model for W+

ASANA was created in 2007 as a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the participation of LGBTQ and ally cis women, trans men, trans women and non-binary people in organized amateur athletics. ASANA has member leagues in over 30 cities throughout the United States. Please visit https://www.asanaseries.org/ for more information about ASANA.

Our Spring softball season is off to a terrific start, but the online player registration is still open! Please join us now so you don't miss any of the action!

Registration is quick and easy - simply click the pink "REGISTRATION: LSA SPRING 2025" button below.

Here are all the details for our Spring season:

The season will be 8 weeks long and members play 1 to 3 games in any given week.

There are 3 games each week, starting at 10:00am, 11:00am, and 12:00pm at Mercer Park in Iowa City.

The remaining dates for the Spring/Summer season are listed below:

• Sunday, May 11
• Sunday, May 18
• Sunday, June 1
• Sunday, June 8
• Sunday, June 15
• Sunday, June 22
• Sunday, June 29
• Rainout/makeup dates are July 13 and July 20, if needed. 

You get weekly softball for a one-time participant fee of just $40.00. 

The coaches and the LSA Board will gladly find you a team to join once you register. 

Please feel free to reach out to any of the coaches or board members, or email info.lsaiowa@gmail.com if you have any questions at all. 

Here’s a recap of our 6th annual LSA Spring dart tournament on Sunday March 9th which was an absolute blast! Although we had a smaller crowd, the day was still a HUGE success raising a total of $880.00 for LSA!

The event was held at Tailgators Sports Bar & Grill in Coralville and just like previous years, Tailgators were great hosts and partners – The first 5 participants to arrive at the event each received a free appetizer of their choice on the house!

We started the event by handing out some awesome door prizes. Everyone attending got a random number and starting with #1 each person got to choose a door prize. Then every subsequent person could select from the remaining unclaimed prizes or “steal” a prize that was already chosen. This was way more fun than we anticipated.

As the dart tournament was under way, a total of $200.00 in 50/50 raffle tickets were sold. Colton Alexander-Teague was the lucky winner of $100.00 which he graciously donated back to LSA.

On that note - we would like to take a moment to thank several generous cash donors including:

• Colton and his husband Bruce Teague
• Lexi Oakley
• Jose Maldonado & Ted Negus

We also owe many thanks to the LSA Board Members and Volunteers who donated fantastic door prizes, and their own precious time, to create a magical event enjoyed by all!

Now to the darts: The tournament consisted of 6 teams, made up of 2 players paired together by a random draw. Each match was the first team to win 2 out of 3 games of “01” and the bracket was double elimination, so every team played at least 2 matches and a minimum of 4 games.

In the end team Sexy Six Defenders (Tasha Arhart & Zeke Cieslak) defeated team No Nut Airheads (Lexi Oakley & Isaiah Griffith) to win the championship!

Tasha & Zeke each received an official iPride Softball tee shirt and free player registration for our upcoming Spring softball season.

Congratulations Tasha & Zeke!

LSA is eastern Iowa’s premier LGBTQ+ Softball League and was founded in the Fall of 2017. LSA is a non-profit 501(c)3 and is committed to providing opportunity and a safe space where both LGBT and Non-LGBT participants can compete in an environment welcoming and open to the LGBTQ+ community. Participants must be 18+ and pay league fees for each season. Games are played Sunday Mornings from 10:00am-1:00pm at either the Hawkeye Softball Complex or Mercer Park in Iowa City. We have 2 seasons (Spring/Summer and Fall) that usually run from late April to late October. 

See you at the ball field!

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It’s Official: LSA of Eastern Iowa is a member of iPride Softball!

On February 5, 2022, LSA of Eastern Iowa became NAGAAA/iPride Softball's 48th member city/association.

The road to get here was a 2-year process, which included reaching specific milestones and maintaining specific requirements.

International Pride Softball (iPride Softball), which is a division of North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance (NAGAAA), is proud to include 55 cities, more than 1,000 teams, and 20,000 players from across North America in its membership. Each city and its members add rich diversity to the NAGAAA organization.

To see a list of the other 55 member cities, or to learn more about iPride Softball/NAGAAA please visit https://ipridesoftball.org/

Exciting news to share with our LSA family and friends – From Little Village Magazine…

To the leadership and staff at LSA of Eastern Iowa:

It is our pleasure to congratulate you on being recognized by Little Village Magazine readers

and the broader community in Little Village’s annual Best of the CRANDIC poll -- a chance for

the community to recognize the hard work and dedication it takes to operate a business or

serve our communities.

Your work was recognized as: Best Community Sports League

This achievement comes amid a pandemic that continues to influence daily life after having

disrupted the last 18+ months of work; it is no small feat to maintain a level of quality and value

that withstands such a significant disruption to our communities. This recognition serves as a

testament to the tenacity, creativity, flexibility, and dedication of all those involved in making the

work happen every day, and we are excited and honored to share this news with you.

Beyond sharing the news with you and your staff, your achievement will be part of the featured

content for Little Village Magazine’s December 2021 issue, out on stands Dec. 1st.

Please go to https://littlevillagemag.com/ and click on the Best of The CRANDIC edition to view online.

Besides our award recognition which is listed in-column on page 66, there is also a short article about LSA on page 70, and our “Thank You” to the community ad is on page 73 (also below).