House League Oakville – The Oakville Angels

The Oakville Angels House League is an all-girls, public softball association run by volunteer parents, coaches and other community members for girls aged 4 to 21, for both beginner and experienced players.

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2024 DIVISIONS & REGISTRATION FEES

* Home game nights and times, practice times, and park locations are all subject to change and will be based in part on pod sizes and COVID-19 safety restrictions. Please check back closer to the start of the season. For full schedule details including practices and locations, please see the League Schedule.

PLEASE NOTE: Interlocking means teams play Home and Away games within their division. Game nights listed above are for Home Games only. Away Games may be on different nights and times. OGSA (Oakville Girls Softball Association – play within Oakville) HGSL (Halton Girls Softball League – play within Oakville, Georgetown, Milton, Burlington, Stoney Creek) MGSL (Mississauga Girls Softball League – play within Mississauga & Oakville)

The House League program provides girls with a fun and safe environment to learn the key skills of softball (i.e., pitching, catching, running, fielding, and more).

During the regular season players have one practice a week and one game a week. Depending on their division, teams may have a Championship at the end of the season.

For more information on the OGSA league and what equipment you need, please see below.

WHAT’S INCLUDED WITH REGISTRATION?

16 weeks of practices and games (subject to COVID-19 restrictions)
Opening and Closing Gala Playoffs
Uniform: Shirt, Socks, Shorts for players 4-10 and Pants for players 11-21
Coach bags have balls, bats and catching equipment included
Instruction from Softball Ontario Guidelines
End of season medal
A Summer filled with FUN!

WHAT WILL YOU NEED?

Helmet with face cage
Running shoes
Sized fielding glove
Squirt Divisions and higher – fielding Rip-it cage

For more details on what you need to play Softball, please see the Required Equipment page.

HOW ARE TEAMS MADE?

The House League program is divided up by Divisions, so that girls play with other girls their same age and skill level. All players get an equal chance to play and an opportunity to learn all the skills they need to have a fun and enjoyable playing experience.

The process is very involved, and the overall goal is to ensure that as a League we have a fair distribution of ages and skill levels across all teams in each division.

The team selection process involves reviewing each player’s application, and selecting teams based on criteria that includes coach availability, ages of players, years of relevant ball experience of players, skill of players where information is available, and overall equitable weighting of each team.

The hope is to have an even distribution of ages, years experience, skill, positions played such as Pitchers and Catchers, and of course a coach for each team.

The objective is that all teams within a division are as equal as possible to ensure fairness throughout the season so every team enjoys a great season.

Special requests for Coaches, family, friends, and transportation reasons are taken into for consideration but not guaranteed. Any ‘friend requests’ must be reciprocated one to one for consideration only and friend ‘links or chains’ to a group of players are strictly prohibited.

This can cause vastly unbalanced teams in being ‘stacked’ or ‘under-developed’ and this causes a huge issue for the overall performance of a division and a player’s’ enjoyment.

Requests are are looked at in terms of how they affect the overall goal of Team Selection, and not compromising the objectives of fairness and equality.

The OGSA reserves the right to rebalance teams through an evaluation of team & coach performances after a few weeks of participation to ensure that all teams are equitable.