Picture credit to Giselle Marstellar

The Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League is excited to announce its schedule for the 2025 season. The 38th season of GLSCL action gets started on Friday, June 6 with four games on the docket.

The first pitch of the season is scheduled to take place on June 6 at Montgomery Field as the Grand Lake Mariners host the defending GLSCL champion Hamilton Joes at 6:35pm. Three other games that day will follow shortly thereafter at 7:05pm.

The GLSCL is fielding eight teams split evenly into two divisions in 2025. All seven teams from last season return welcoming the Flag City Sluggers as the league’s newest franchise.

The Sluggers are based in Findlay, Ohio and will be play its home games at Marathon Field behind The Cube. The facility is also the home of the University of Findlay baseball program during the spring.

The North Division will feature Flag City, the Lima Locos, the Muskegon Clippers and the Michigan Monarchs. In the South Division the four teams will be the Grand Lake Mariners, the Hamilton Joes, the Southern Ohio Copperheads and the Xenia Scouts. 

The 2025 schedule increases to 42 games from 36 in 2024. The league will play six-days per week with Mondays designated as a league-wide off-day. Each calendar day will have four games scheduled with limited exceptions such as the occasional double header. The schedule of games are set-up as a three-game series between the two opponents.

The GLSCL All-Star break takes place during the third week of July. The All-Star game and Prospect Showcase are both being held once again at Prasco Park in Mason, Ohio on Tuesday, July 22 at 7:05pm.

The final day of the regular season wraps up the 42-game schedule on Saturday, July 26.

ABOUT THE GREAT LAKES SUMMER COLLEGIATE LEAGUE 

The Great Lakes Summer Collegiate, founded in 1987, is a wood-bat league that is certified by the NCAA and is partially funded by Major League Baseball. The GLSCL is a non-profit 501(c)(3) entity that is one of 12 members of the National Alliance of Collegiate Summer Baseball (NACSB). The league currently consists of 8 active franchises in Ohio and Michigan boasting several players that have earned service time in major league baseball.