SPAA will be renting the Strehl fields (Strehl 92, 93, 94 and 95) and batting cages (A & B) at Strehl (6000 Hwy N in Cottleville) at a rate of $16 per 90 minutes to teams in good standings with SPAA. Strehl 94 is a small field that will hold up to 65-foot bases. There are no lights at Strehl. Portable mounds will be available for use. ABSOLUTELY NO METAL SPIKES ARE ALLOWED! Bases are not provided. 

If you wish to reserve practice time, reservations for 2023 will be accepted in email form only beginning November 15 at 9 AM.  Emails have time stamps and those sent prior to 9 AM will go to the bottom of the list.  Once SPAA confirms your dates and times, we will send you an email with the amount you will owe.  You will be given 7 days to either get us a check or call in with a credit card to cover the payment. After 7 days if you have not paid your balance due, your rental time will be given to the next person requesting it. Once we receive your payment, we will email out a permit for you to keep with you at all times.

You may request rental time for April 3, 2023, through October 2023. April through July time will be billed right away and requested time for August, September and October will be permitted out with 50% of the fall payment, minus any accumulated credits from April through July 2023, being billed at the beginning of August.  Balance will be billed the end of October to ensure as many credits are able to be used as possible. Once again, all permitted time for April through July must be paid within 10 days of receipt of bill. All credits for 2023 will expire October 31, 2023.

February 25 through March 31 practice times will be available for registered SPAA teams only at no charge. Once registration opens (December 5, 2022) and you set up your team, you may request the free time. These are only free for February 27 thru March 31.  Starting April 3 all teams pay $16 per 90 minutes.

The following times will be offered:

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays

5 – 6:30 and 6:30 - 8  (February 27 - March 31 and after Labor Day there is just one time slot - 5 to dark)

Saturdays and Sundays (February 27 thru March 31)

9 – 10:30; 10:30 – noon; noon – 1:30; 1:30 – 3; 3 – 4:30; 4:30 – 6

Your request must include the following:

Team name and Name of person you want the reservation under

Age group

Baseball or Softball

Contact phone number

email address

Specific dates you want (not just the day of the week)

Specific times you want (choose from above)

Facility requesting if you have a preference (Cage A, Cage B, Field 92, Field 93, Field 94, or Field 95)

Earlier this fall, SPAA sent out a recommendation to change the age graph for the younger girls.  We received only a few comments back and all were ok with the change, although most would like to have an age graph to match the school districts.  Unfortunately to do this would put SPAA teams at a disadvantage if and when they play tournaments. 

SPAA has adopted the below age graph for SPAA Softball, with hopes this will make the younger girls feel more at ease as they begin.

4T and 5T will continue to be coed leagues, unless we have a large influx of girls at these age groups and we can get 3 or 4 all girl teams.  6U will be a girl’s league unless we do not have enough registration, then we will have to make this coed once again.

The 7U age group is new.  We feel very confident we will be able to pull this league off for 2023, as we had 6 teams in the girls 6U in 2022.  We are attempting to get enough teams in the 8 & Under, 9 & Under and 10 & Under so each may run independently.  Time will tell.  If we do not have enough in the 7U or 8U, we will have to combine and put in the 8U girls  age group.  If we do not have enough in the 9U or 10U, we will combine and put them in the 10U girls age groups.  With this, we will try again next year. 

Teams may still form with combined ages if they wish.  The team will need to play in the age group their oldest player falls in. 

Girls may always play up to play with a friend(s), but they may not play down.

Please feel free to contact the SPAA office should you have any questions. 636-397-3149