Category: Door County League Baseball
The Door County League is an amateur baseball league made up of eight teams with contests held each Sunday at 1 :30 p.m., always beginning on Mother’s Day. Most estimate the level of competition is somewhere near or just a notch below Division III college baseball, with players ranging in age from about 14 to some in their 50s.
Schedule
May 19, 2019
Institute @ Maplewood
Egg Harbor @ Sister Bay
Kolberg @ Washington Island
Baileys Harbor @ West Jacksonport
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DCL BASEBALL: Can the Ports Top the Braves?
We are at the halfway point in the 2022 Door County League baseball season, and it’s time to see what we’ve learned. Sister Bay and Kolberg are still the two teams, but they have some company. Washington Island was a playoff participant last year, and the team is once again chasing a spot. West Jacksonport […]
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DCL BASEBALL: Hall of Fame Help Wanted
A Hall of Famer is defined as a person who’s recognized as one of the top performers in an activity, especially a sport. The Door County League started a Hall of Fame during the early 1990s to recognize those players who had stellar careers not only in the county league, but also during their time […]
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The first texts came Saturday night, telling me I would need to suit up for the Institute Cubs for Sunday’s game against Kolberg. A family emergency, a sudden illness and graduation events were going to pull reguler players out, leaving them without enough to field a team. So, there I was Sunday morning, laying out […]
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DC League Baseball: Week-Four Surprise
I hope everyone had a safe and relaxing Memorial Day weekend – a great opportunity to spend time with family and friends and enjoy each other’s company with cookouts and get-togethers. What was more important was the recognition of those who sacrificed their lives so that we could have the freedoms to do these very things. […]
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Door County League: It’s Just a Game
If you’ve ever competed in a sport or played some sort of game, chances are you’ve heard, “It’s just a game.” If you lost a tough one or got into a heated exchange during the contest, you were probably reminded, “It’s just a game.” Even professionals are reminded sometimes that when the dust settles, they […]
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A Week of Upsets: Kolberg, Sister Bay knocked off in week 2
It’s a new year in County League baseball. The top two teams of a year ago, Sister Bay and Kolberg, were upset on Sunday. The first two or three weeks of every season is hard to gauge because many teams are missing key starters who are finishing a high school or college sports season commitment. […]
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DC League Baseball: And They’re Off
As we all know, nobody’s perfect. Not even a perfect stranger. In a quick haste to get the first article out, I butchered a couple of names last week. For Kolberg, I forgot Nick LeCaptain in the preview, partly because at the time I was watching a spring-football press conference with his brother and had […]
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Door County Baseball League starts season May 8 The 2022 Door County League (DCL) baseball season will swing into action this Sunday after coming off a 2021 campaign that saw a slight return to normalcy. By “normal,” I don’t just mean the easing up of a pandemic, but also Sister Bay returning to the championship […]
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Sawyer’s Dramatics Give Bays DCL Playoff Title
Tom Sawyer was this year’s Door County League (DCL) batting champion. He was also the league’s MVP. And in the final game of the DCL baseball season, he was the hero. Sawyer went to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning with a man on first, his Sister Bay Bays home crowd tense […]
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Door County League Baseball Results and Standings: June 14-16
June 14 Results West Jacksonport 15, Institute 8 June 16 Results Kolberg 4, Egg Harbor 9 Washington Island 6, Sister Bay 5 Baileys Harbor 0, Maplewood 6 Standings Egg Harbor 5-1 Sister Bay 5-1 Washington Island 3-2 West Jacksonport 3-2 Institute 2-3 Kolberg 2-3 Maplewood 1-4 Baileys Harbor 0-5 Schedule June 21, 7:30 pm Institute […]
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Door County League Baseball: June 7-9
June 7 Results Egg Harbor 9, Baileys Harbor 0 June 9 Results Institute 9, Washington Island 7 Sister Bay 13, West Jacksonport 1 Kolberg 7, Maplewood 0 Standings Sister Bay 5-0 Egg Harbor 4-1 Institute 2-2 Kolberg 2-2 Washington Island 2-2 West Jacksonport 2-2 Baileys Harbor 0-4 Maplewood 0-4 Schedule June 14, 7:30 pm West […]
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Door County League Baseball: May 26, 27 Results
May 26 Results Sister Bay 10, Institute 2 Baileys Harbor 5, Kolberg 7 West Jacksonport 0, Washington Island 5 Maplewood 3, Egg Harbor 8 May 27 Result Sister Bay 4, Egg Harbor 1 Standings Sister Bay 3-0 Egg Harbor 2-1 Institute 1-1 Kolberg 1-1 Washington Island 1-1 West Jacksonport 1-1 Baileys Harbor 0-2 Maplewood 0-2 […]
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2019 Door County League Baseball Schedule
May 12Kolberg @ InstituteWest Jacksonport @ MaplewoodWashington Island @ Egg HarborBaileys Harbor @ Sister Bay May 19 May 26Sister Bay @ InstituteBaileys Harbor @ KolbergWest Jacksonport @ Washington IslandMaplewood @ Egg Harbor June 2West Jacksonport @ KolbergInstitute @ Egg HarborMaplewood @ Sister BayWashington Island @ Baileys Harbor June 7Egg Harbor @ Baileys Harbor June 9Institute […]
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Door County League Baseball Information Meeting March 30
The Door County Baseball League will hold the first spring meeting of the 2019 season on Saturday, March 30, 1 pm, at Bley’s Bar in West Jacksonport. The meeting is open to the public.
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UPDATED: Sister Bay Wins Door County League Baseball Playoffs
Sister Bay didn’t bring home the title they wanted, but they got the consolation prize by beating West Jacksonport Sunday in the Door County League playoff championship game. The Bays topped the Ports 4 – 2. In the playoff semifinals Aug. 26 the regular season champion Egg Harbor Indians fell to West Jacksonport, 7 – 3. […]
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Ben Junion’s Spirit Lives on in Egg Harbor’s Win
Thirty days after the biggest fan of the Egg Harbor Indians died unexpectedly due to complications from the muscular dystrophy he was diagnosed with in the 1st grade – 23-year-old Ben Junion – Jennifer Kacmarynski was wearing the war bonnet Ben wore to every Egg Harbor Indians game as she attempted to enthuse the crowd […]
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Sister Bay Seeks Record 5th Straight DCL Title Sunday
Door County League Baseball history will be on the line Sunday, Aug. 12, when the Sister Bay Bays host the Egg Harbor Indians. With a win the Bays will secure a league-record fifth straight regular season championship, surpassing the record set by Sister Bay from 1988 – 1991. It won’t be easy. Egg Harbor already […]
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Door County League Leaders: July 15
July 13 & 15 Results West Jacksonport 15, Institute 7 Kolberg 6, Egg Harbor 2 Washington Island 8, Sister Bay 6 Baileys Harbor 2, Maplewood 4 Standings Sister Bay, 8-2 Egg Harbor, 7-3 Washington Island, 7-3 West Jacksonport, 6-4 Baileys Harbor, 4-6 Maplewood, 4-6 Institute, 2-8 Kolberg, 2-8 Schedule July 22, 1:30 pm […]
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Obituary: Jonathan ‘JB’ Bastian
Jon Bastian, known to his hundreds of friends simply as “JB,” died Oct. 30. A fixture of Sister Bay, Bastian loved his hometown and especially his Sister Bay Bays, for whom he starred throughout the 1980s and 1990s. In 1982 he was named the Door County League’s Pitcher of the Year after leading the Baileys […]
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Bays, Ports Will Square Off for DCL Title Sept. 3
Two of the most dominant franchises in Door County League history will face off in the playoff championship game Sept. 3. The West Jacksonport Ports aim to upset the regular season champion Sister Bay Bays in the Door County League playoff championship game Sunday, Sept. 3. The Bays won their record-tying fourth straight regular season […]