| POPS Philosophy: To provide a safe, friendly, and fun environment to play competitive softball, for all levels of play. |
POPS Fields Status Spring/Summer Monday, July 26th 9:00am 
* If there is a chance of rain... Check back to this site at around 4-5pm. POPS is not informed a decision by every field until 4-5pm. If no updates are given after 5pm- Contact your manager, as they will be the 1st to be informed once the parks make decisions about the fields.
TBD = To Be Determined by the Parks. We have NO control over the availability of any field. This also means go to the park, if not updated by 6pm or later. The decision to play the game will be made at the field. ______________________________________________ Which Fields, What Days, What Times? As of July 1st, 2021 Below is a list of fields we play on with the times of games on those fields. Note that adjustments to days/times may be made on occasion during the season.
* NEW times for this year | Interested in "Joining POPS" as a player or as a whole team? Click here to find out more about POPS. ---------------------------------------------------- |  Commish Corner UPDATED 7/23/2021 UPDATES- The POPS Playoff schedule is now up and official. It is double elimination. There will be NO changes. Every player must be prepared to play any night in case of rainouts, to ensure all leagues continue their brackets. There will however be NO conflicts with other leagues in POPS. Good luck and have fun. POPS FALL Ball league will be starting September 8th and play until the last week in October. Deadline for all applications is August 20th. Teams and individual players interested should contact the Commish. ____________________________________ It is now official, we have started Monday, June 28th, where POPS will have back the Oceanside HS and then on July 1st the Bellmore JFK HS field permits. Additionally, we started on June 21st with games at Shell Creek at 7:00 pm & 8:30. That now eliminates 9:30pm games and allows for 9 inning games at all fields. Enjoy the rest of the season. * Check on this site weekly for updates, field availability, scores and standings. ____________________________________ POPS SCHOLARSHIPS 2021 : Congratulations POPS Scholarship Winners LASH Memorial: Carolyn Doyle John Gresio Memorial: Jordan Gluck Rick Holle Memorial: Tyler Cox Ed Cain Memorial: James Bodendorf Stephen Klein Memorial: Ryan Burke Dave Kerner Memorial: Cassandra Nochowitz POPS Softball is a league that allocates any additional monies raised or left over to help others. We do so with "scholarships" to kids going to college, to helping "families in need" come the holidays. If any POPS player has a kid who is graduating high school this year and going to college, they are eligible for a scholarship. The deadline to apply in June 4th. To apply for this scholarship contact the "Commish" at commish@popsoftbal.com ____________________________________________ GREAT News- We have gotten "Official" notification that POPS Softball will NOT have to wear masks at our games. The "No Tag" play is being eliminated and we are back to allowing run downs & tag plays. Hand shakes at the end of games are in order. Welcome back to the beginning of normalcy. Have fun out there and have another great season in POPS Softball. ____________________________________________ Thanks to all the POPS Managers and Directors, registration is complete. With over 560 players, 34 teams in 3 leagues, POPS Softball is officially full. * However, we are still taking additional players for the POPS waiting list, many of which we hope to get in. ____________________________________________ This year POPS has expanded and will have 2 divisions in the 40+ & 60+ Over leagues, an A & B. In addition to 3 divisions in the 50+ league an A, B & C. Our season starts May 3rd. The schedules are now up on this website in a tab above. Then check in weekly for updates, scores, standing and schedules. ___________________________________________ As promised, due to the unusual amount of rainouts in 2019 a CREDIT was given for each team that did not play their allocated number of games during that season. The credit was distributed to each manager in 2021. The credit will only be given to returning players from 2019. Your manager will be informed of the credit given to each team and pass it onto you. ____________________________________________________ xxx |