Dirt Dawgs Tryout Information:

It's Wayland Dirt Dawgs Tryout Time!
Please fill-out the following registration form prior to attending your player's tryout date: https://forms.gle/eNfwLoPPZMDkT3Qt9
Times and dates are as follows:
9u and 10u tryouts: August 1st, 6-8pm, Hilliards Field
11u, 12u and 13u tryouts: July 27th and August 3rd, 6-8pm at the Hilliards Field
14u tryouts: attend July 30th OR July 31st, 6:30-8, Wayland JV Field
15u tryouts: attend August 7th OR August 12th, 6-8pm, Wayland JV Field
Hope to see you there!
If you have any questions, please send a private message or email waylanddirtdawgsinfo@gmail.com

14u Dawgs Gold Bracket Runner-Up in Omaha!

Great day for the 12u Dawgs at Cal Ripken in Myrtle Beach!

Won their first two games in bracket play!

Congrats on a shut-out by Isaac Kincaid,

a home run by Will Lodenstein,

and 2 home runs by Teddy Parm! 

The whole team was also able to meet Nick Sailor and

he signed autographs for each of them! 

Our 9u Dawgs Had a Blast at their Portland Tournament

Happy Father's Day from the Dirt Dawgs! 

13u Dawgs with their Dads on Father's Day- BATL for the Ring Tournament 2022

11u Dawgs with their Dad's FACES on their SOCKS for Father's Day- BATL for the Ring Tournament 2022

12u Dawgs- Game Day Silver Series Tournament June 11th/12th Weekend

12u Comraderie

Lodenstein and Atwell Pitcher/Catcher Duo

 Drone View of the Dirt Dawgs Home Field at Hilliards

Hilliards Drone View Video 1

Hilliards Drone View Video 2

THANKS to the following Sponsors for helping us to get the Hilliards field in tip-top shape just in time for BASEBALL SEASON!!

Congratulations to Gavin on his first NO HITTER!  Great game for him and the 12u Dirt Dawgs who went 2-1 this weekend in Rockford! 
   

12U Dawgs Go 2-1 This Weekend in Rockford!

TOURNAMENT TIME FOR THE 10U DAWGS! 
   
     
   
   
   

12U Dawgs.Commitment.Dedication.Drive.

10u Dawgs Getting in Some WORK and Challenging the Parents to a Game!

11u Dawgs Enjoying Hittrax Night  

Work Hard.Play Hard.13U Dawgs.

 13U DAWGS- GETTING SOME WORK IN FOR THE 2022 SEASON!

Congrats on your dingers tonight at Gezon Park Will, Brody, and Bryce! #bashbrothers 

CONGRATS TO GERRIT AND HOYT ON THEIR NO-HITTERS THIS WEEKEND IN THE JENISON MEMORIAL BASH!

Thank you to Gun Lake Casino for your Sponsorship of our Dirt Dawgs Teams!

For more information about Gun Lake Casino, visit their website at https://gunlakecasino.com

OR visit the casino at 1129 129th Ave., Wayland, MI 49348

Thanks for sponsoring our Dirt Dawgs, Keli Yonker, from Yonker Realty!

Contact Keli for your broker and realtor needs!

Office: 616-490-9099

Cell: 313-580-1690

Email: kbandosk@gmail.com

We appreciate you!!

Thanks to our newest Dirt Dawgs sponsor, General RV Center right out of Wayland!

We appreciate you and thank-you for your generous sponsorship! 

Contact General RV Center at 269-792-9118 or visit their website at https://www.generalrv.com/rv-dealer/grand-rapids-michigan

Thanks so much to our newest sponsor right in our hometown of Wayland- Papa Mineo's Pizza! Your support means the world to our Dirt Dawgs family and your pizza is YUMMY too! THANK-YOU and WELCOME to the family!

Get your Papa Mineo's orders in today at www.papamineos.com

A big welcome and thanks to Battle GR for sponosoring our Dirt Dawgs! Many of our teams have participated in team building at Battle GR and always have the best time! 

Check out the Battle GR website to view all they have to offer at www.battlegr.com or call Jenny at 616-345-0695.

Thanks so much to Randall L. Oeverman Builder Inc. for sponosoring our Dirt Dawgs! Welcome to the Dirt Dawgs family!

Please give Randy or Tarri a call for all of your building needs at 616-292-5888. 

*click the picture to see more 11u baseball pics*

10u Baseball

Head Coach:  Mark Musgrave    Assistant Coach:  Tom Harrison

11u Baseball

Head Coach:  Chris Kincaid    Assistant Coach:  Joe Weber

12u Baseball

Head Coach:  Joe Borgic    Assistant Coach:  Nic Ford

16u Baseball

Head Coach:  Brian Risner

10u Softball

Head Coach:  Julie Mulder    Assistant Coach:  Ryan Mulder

12u Softball

Head Coach:  Kim Akkerman    Assistant Coach:  Jake Cartwright

18u Softball

Head Coach:  Chris Kincaid    Assistant Coach:  John Liceaga

Dirt Dawgs Baseball and Softball would like to welcome and thank Boniface Heating and Air Conditioning out of Shelbyville for becoming a sponsor for the 2021 season.  Please visit Bonifaceheating.com for more information on our new sponsor.

The 3rd Annual Battle at the Dawg Pound will be held July 9th-11th in the Otsego/Wayland area.  Registration forms can be found under online forms here on our website.

Gavin Mulder ended how he started the season.....ON FIRE

14u Softball took their lumps this year but learned a lot in the process.

15u Dawgs take home the title after an undefeated weekend.

Akkerman with the hit

Isaac Kincaid with the acrobatic tag

Anika Clark the heartbeat of the 15u team

Atwell ready to apply the tag

Borgic hammering the ball

Brinks with the throw to first

Brett Hunter 13u Dawgs

Brody Vigansky behind the dish

Brooke Hunderman bringing the heat

Could use a little rain

Hoyt Borgic with the out at 2nd

Dave Lodenstein with the slide into second

Kincaid being a true Dirt Dawg

Dust Bowl 2019

Tucker Farmer at the plate

Gerrit Vanlonkhuyzen at the dish

Grace Kincaid speeding around the bases

Grey Savas delivering the pitch

Tim Bradt and Tom Harrison part of our field crew

Louis Harnish tracking the pitch

Hoyt Borgic bringing the Gas

Bat on Ball

Homerun Kincaid

Will, Dick and Dave Lodenstein

Kalin Kanis with the tage at the plate

Robin Maday

Marcus Doyle making the play

Bailee Merren with the Web Gem

Mia Liceaga Suns out Guns out

Mia Liceaga literally carrying the team

Devin Miller locked in

Atwell with the play at the plate

Mulder waiting to apply the tag

Big Thanks to our Tournament and Season Sponsors

Tommy Perrin ready to hit

Sliding back into first base

Isaac looking to make a play

Our wonderful volunteers

Coach Tucker getting in on the Coaches Home Run Derby

Will Lodenstein locked in on the mound

Zadok Schafer took home the 14u Home Run Derby Trophy

Our 10u Baseball Dawgs and our 15u Fastpitch Softball Dawgs each went and won titles in the 1st Annual Battle at the Dawg Pound. Both teams won in convincing fashion going undefeated in their title runs. Great jobs young men and young ladies. 

10u Boys took home the hardware again this weekend.

10u 1st Place Trophy

16u Tournament Champs

Our 14u Lady Dawgs came out and played great softball in Davison over the weekend.  Dawgs jumped all over Mid-Michigan Reapers 12-0 and beat the Oxford Wildcats in a nail biter 8-5.  14u continued the good play on Sunday morning beating Cards Fastpitch 8-2 in the semi-finals.  Ladies learned a tough lesson in the title game about keeping up energy and level of play and fell to a very strong Xtreme Synergy team.  Great weekend ladies keep up the momentum.

Beautiful group of ladies inside and out.  Very proud of their progress.

Akkerman and Diaz

Akkerman and Sidebotham (A pitcher and her catcher)

Our ladies know how to lean on each other (Haley Nagel and Mahala Wierenga)

Masyn Dewing is the vocal leader of the 14u team.  Her positive attitude and drive is contagious.

Future of Wayland Union Softball, Class of 2023 and 2024

(Bailee Merren, Kylie Spicer, Kyra Snyder, Carli Miklusicak, Ruby Sidebotham, Haley Nagel, Mahala Wierenga, Masyn Dewing)

The only thing hotter then the weather last weekend was the 10u Dirt Dawgs and their bats.  Boys went 3-1 and had winning scores of 34-1, 14-7 and 22-7 in taking home the championship.  Great job boys, keep the momentum going.

Boys after a days work in the heat.   Champions!!!!!!

Sell out Crowd came out to support the Dawgs

The Medal says it all

Gerrit Vanlonkhuyzen enjoying the moment

Ford Family showing support for big brother

15u Dirt Dawgs once again were thrown into an 18u tournament and held their own.  Ladies played great and fell to the eventual Champion Sabercats 18u in semi-finals.  The 15u Dawgs have fallen to the eventual champion in all 3 of their tournaments this season.  Keep working hard ladies. 

15u Lady Dawgs

Akkerman when she isn't pitching, picking up hair design

Normal Tradition in 2019...........Rain Delay.  Playing Tic Tac Toe with the opposing team with the ball

Kincaid, Vanderkooi, Mohon and Clark

Grace Kincaid excited to catch

Pick your weapon of choice

Mia Liceaga enjoying the music

Great job by our 8u boys, they went undefeated and won the Big Rapids tournament last weekend.  Good job boys, keep up the good work. 

Our 15u Softball team kicked off their season with an 18u tournament in Battle Creek last weekend.  Ladies played great going 2-1 before bracket play was rained out on Sunday. Congrats to Grace Kincaid and Brooke Hunderman for taking home player MVP's.

Dirt Dawgs Softball is happy to announce that Scott Kliphuis will be joining our program for the 2019 fall season and 2020 season.  Scott will be leading our 14u team for next year.  Scott comes with several years experience and has recently been part of the Michigan Thunder organization.  We look forward to having Scott, his family and the girls he is bringing to our program as we continue to grow our program.  Welcome aboard Scott.

The 14u and 15u Dawgs began their league play last night with 4 combined wins.  Masyn Dewing scampered home with the game winning run in Game 1 for the 3-2 victory.  Anika Clark dominated in the circle both games and led the Ladies to a 10-4 win in Game 2.

Across the parking lot our 15u Dawgs were jumping all over Martin-Norrix with wins by the score of 12-7 and 15-4.  Rya Vanderkooi led the hitting attack with a 4-4 day including a 3B and HR and 6 RBI.  Also, coming up big was Kayla Reed and Cami Morse with 4 hits a piece on the day.  Kennedy Cole and Grace Kincaid both contributed 3 hits a piece on the day.

Both Dawgs teams will be in action this weekend at the Mayor's Classic in Battle Creek put on by GameDay USA.  Good job and good luck ladies.

Vanderkooi was 4-4 with a 3B, HR and 6 RBI on the day

Cole added 3 hits on the day for the Dawgs

Big 4 hit day for Kayla Reed

3 hits and 6 sb for the Dawgs speedster Kincaid

Gavin Mulder of the 9u Dawgs went big fly last night on the first pitch of the game.  Gavin has come so far in his 3rd year in the program and we couldn't be more proud of the work he has put in and progression he has made.  Gavin also struck out 10 batters last night.  Great job Mulder.

Special attention needs to be given to the little siblings of our players that hang out weekend after weekend while their older brothers and sisters play.  One day it will be there turn to shine in competition.

Caitlynn Akkerman will test from her Black Belt on June 15th

Our Dawgs Family likes to spend the holidays together

Cameron Weber likes to hunt with Dad

Cameron Weber also enjoys hitting the links

Carter Decker of the 13u enjoys anything with a ball

Logan Hoevenaar enjoys riding his dirt bike

Our Dawgs enjoy bowling

Our players are in the Orchestra

And they Play Soccer (Landon Atwell)

Our 13u guys play tennis

 And our ladies play basketball

All of our Dirt Dawgs teams battled this weekend but in the end only one team took home hardware this weekend.  Congrats to our 9u team.  Fought hard for 4 games and went 2-2. 

Pictured above: Louis Harnish, Tucker Farmer, Gavin Mulder, Teddy Parm, Will Griffith, Landon Atwell, Lennon Nesbit,

Grey Savas, Isaac Kincaid, Cameron Weber

Landon Atwell

Atwell and Parm during lightning delay

St.Joe Trophy Presentation

Boys waiting on their game next

When you bribe the boys that a comeback win gets them Ice Cream (Boys responded with 13 run inning)

St.Joe we will be back and better then ever

Brody Vigansky 8u with the Big Fly!!!

Will Lodenstein Goes Yard!!!!!

Teddy Parm with the inside the park Home Run.  Had to use Teddy's last year pic.

10u Boys in the Dugout

Our weekly 2019 Rain Delay

11u Post Game Meeting

13u Post Game Handshake

13u Boys waiting it out

8u Boys

Ice Cream after a long day of Baseball

Dawgs flooded the Best Western

Zadok taking one high and tight

After baseball games all day, what else would you do to end the night!!!

Pizza Anyone

8u

Landen Cardosa    .846 BA

Will Lodenstein     .727 BA 

Derek Ford            .600 BA

Jackson Kositsky  .600 BA

9u

Gavin Mulder       .571 BA 

Isaac Kincaid       .556 BA

Lennon Nesbit     .400 BA

10u

Tyler Ford            .667 BA

Gerrit Vanlonkhuyzen   .429 BA

Devin Miller         .600 BA

11u

Ethan Pratt          .400 BA

Tyler Pehrson      .400 BA

Zephen Shafer     .400 BA

13u

Elijah Kincaid      .500 BA

Scotty Ladere      .500 BA

Zadok Shafer       .200 BA

Who wants to go?????

Carlton Tucker (Left) and Chris Kincaid (right) lead several Dawgs teams each weekend.  They coach the 9u and 13u Baseball teams and the 14u and 16u Softball teams. 

Mike Akkeman and wife Kim help lead the 14u Softball Dawgs

Dick Lodenstein (Right) is our 8u and 10u Dugout Manager

Kim Akkerman (Assistant Coach-Head Coach) 14u Softball

Josh Vigansky (8u Head Coach, 9u Assistant Coach and Team Bouncer)

Check back in soon to see more pics of our coaches!!!!!!!!!!

Dirt Dawgs will load up and head down to St.Joseph for the South Coast Blues Invitational next weekend. 

This place will be under attack next Saturday night as all of our 5 teams will be staying.

That's a huge Dawg Park

Gavin Mulder    .889 BA   2 Doubles, 2 Triples, 5 RBI

Isaac Kincaid    .500 BA   6 runs scored, 1 Double 3 RBI

Will Lodenstein   .600 BA  Triple, 3 RBI

Hoyt Borgic       .600 BA   5 Doubles, HR, 3 RBI, 7 runs scored

Tyler Ford         .444 BA   2 Doubles, 3 runs scored

Devin Miller      .364 BA   Double

Lucas Varnagatas   .500 BA   Double, 2 RBI

Elijah Kincaid     .600 BA   2 runs scored, 4 RBI

Zander Davenport  .500 BA  2 RBI, 2 runs scored

Yulisa Diaz        .400 BA   Triple, 3 runs scored

Kyra Snyder      .375 BA   Double, 2 RBI

Caitlynn Akkerman  16 ip, 4 pitched games in 2 Days

Hannah Brinks (ball to the eye)

Gerrit Vanlonkhuyzen (Ball to the eye)

Caitlynn Akkerman (Ball to the arm)

The ladies showed up for their first ever tournament.  Tied their first ever game and continued to improved against good teams all weekend.  Sky is the limit for this group of Dirt Dawgs. 

Dirt Dawgs 14u Softball

Haley Nagel at the Dish

Akkerman getting in those practice swings

Robin Maday working small ball

Akkerman ready at 1st

Nagel in position at SS

Miklusicak having a discussion with coach in the circle

Is this seat taken????

Akkerman throwing one of her 256 Weekend Pitches

Girls looking on

Bailee Merren ready to go to work

Representing the most iconic number in baseball or softball

Coach Akkerman probably at the end of Saturday's 3rd game

Bailee Merren

Robin Maday with the RBI single

Leadoff Batter Isaac Kincaid to start off the mud game

Zander Davenport after playing in the mud

Zephen Schafer getting dirty

The Dirt Dawgs program held a team bonding event on April 28th, at the Allegan Event Center.  A big thanks to Lori Atwell for putting together such a great outing. 

Members of our 14u Dirt Dawgs Softball team.......Plus Sam

6'8 and still just a big kid (Coach Mike Akkerman)

15u Softball Players Ainsley Ashton, Zoey Hornbugor, Grace Kincaid and Mia Liceaga.  Can't forget 14u Spicer as well.

Softball Players and Coach Tucker

Caitlynn Akkerman from our 14u and 15u teams.

How many different expressions can you get from 8u, 9u and 10u boys. Another version of a Dawg Pile

Vigansky, Bradt and Lodenstein from the 8u, Weber, Atwell, Mulder and Kincaid from the 9u enjoying the Rock Climbing Wall.

Dirt Dawgs 9u BATL fell to RBA on Tuesday night 14-0.  Brody Vigansky was 1-2 and Tucker Farmer was 1-1 for the Dawgs. 

The Dirt Dawgs 10u BATL team only had 7 players at the start of the game on Tuesday.  By the 2nd inning the roster filled out to 9 and the Dawgs took down the Grand Haven Bucs 5-3.  Kincaid led the attack going 2-3 at the plate and Hoyt Borgic dominated on the mound.  Dirt Dawgs 10u BATL is back in action tonight at 6:15pm at Gezon. 

The Dirt Dawgs 10u BATL team will be in action tonight against the Grand Haven Bucs at 6:15 in West Olive and tomorrow against North Coast at Gezon. 

9u BATL will be in action tonight at Christian Athletic Complex at 6:15 against Rockford Baseball Academy

6 Teams (5 Boys,1Girls) teams will be vying for hardware like these two brought home earlier this year.  Go DAWGS!!!!!!!

Boys are at the Rivalry on the River hosted by Northern Little League

Ladies (14u) will be traveling to Lansing to play in the Stars and Stripes Tournament.

Dirt Dawgs boys teams will travel to St.Joseph the first weekend in June to participate in the South Coast Blues Invitational.  Our 8u team went undefeated and won the title last year. 

The boys Dirt Dawgs teams will be battling in Jenison over Memorial Day Weekend.  Last year our 9u team took home 1st place hardware in this tournament.  Hope to see you all there rooting on our Wayland Dirt Dawgs. 

The Wayland Dirt Dawgs are now in their 9th year of existence.  The Dirt Dawgs were created after Chris Kincaid took over a previous travel program known as DHW Baseball Club.  DHW was primarily for the Dorr, Hopkins and Wayland areas.  Chris's vision at that time was to expand the reach of the program and bring players in from all over West Michigan to make the program more competitive.  After an overhaul of the program name and logo the program was relaunched as the West Michigan Dirt Dogs.  The Dirt Dogs at the time were basically one team (12u) and was comprised of mainly Caledonia, Byron Center and East Kenwood students.  That lone Dirt Dogs team went on to finish 29-24 that year after the previous team had gone 1-25 the previous season.  The success of that Dirt Dogs team continued over the next few seasons with seasons of 34-16, 36-13-1 and 21-7 and many championship trophies. 

The Dirt Dogs during those early years had a few spin off teams that only lasted a season or two.  In 2014, Kincaid added a second Dirt Dogs team which was a 9u team and mostly had players from the Wayland, Hopkins and Byron Center area.  This team stayed together for 5 years and exceeded their previous years wins in each of their seasons. 

Starting in 2017 a third Dirt Dogs team was created which was an 8u team.  This team is now in it's 3rd year of existence and is a 9u team. In 2018 The Dirt Dogs welcomed 3 new teams to the program adding a 9u and 13u baseball team and a 14u softball team.  To differentiate the baseball and softball teams the softball program went with the name Dirt Dawgs. 

Fast forward to 2019, we have now grown our program to 7 teams total. 

BASEBALL

8u Vigansky

9u Kincaid

10u Borgic

11u Ellis

13u Kincaid

SOFTBALL

14u Akkerman

16u Kincaid

Our baseball teams now are almost entirely comprised of players from Wayland Union Schools.  Our 2 softball teams are full of diversity and players from several different school districts with the core of both teams still in the Wayland School District. 

Our goal as a program, is to improve the skill set of our players so they are prepared to compete at the high school level and beyond.  Our primary focus is the Wayland Union Schools baseball and softball programs, but we are out to help any player in our program to be the best player they can be.  Below is a look at where our players come from

Wayland Union Schools

South Christian Schools

Hudsonville Schools

East Kentwood Schools

Caledonia Schools

Godwin Heights Schools

Kelloggsville Schools

Wyoming Schools

Hopkins Schools

Grand River Prep

For such a small program we are rich in tradition and have had several players play at the next level in different sports.  Here is a look at where some of our players have gone to play and in what sport

Aquinas - Baseball

Davenport - Baseball

Davenport - Bowling

Davenport - Hockey

Olivet - Baseball

Hope - Baseball

Calvin - Baseball

Ohio State - Basketball

KVCC- Baseball

Kalamazoo College - Baseball

Frontier Community College - Baseball

Louisiana Drillers - Hockey

We look forward to sending more players to the next level of their sports and academic careers.

We always want to remember where we got our start.  Dirt Dawgs is in its 9th year of existence with only a change of the spelling in the name over the years.  Here is a look back at some of our great teams of the past.