A total of 16 American Legion baseball teams will be broken down into their respective Senior and Junior pool along with several youth baseball teams making up a weekend tourney played in Wakefield and Wayne.
For the 2025 Wakefield/Wayne Wood Bat Tourney, the Wakefield Post 81 Seniors will take part in Seniors Pool A (no Wakefield Juniors team in action) while Rolling Hills Supply Wayne Post 43 Seniors will be in Seniors Pool B with the Post 43 Juniors in Juniors Pool B.
In the Seniors pool for Wakefield, Post 81 will open Friday night hosting Pierce at 8 p.m. followed by a Saturday game against Sutton at 8 p.m. and Sunday 1 p.m. contest against Pender all in Wakefield.
For the Post 43 Seniors, Wayne will host Lennox at 10 a.m. and Wisner-Pilger/Dodge-Howells at 2 p.m. both on Saturday while on Sunday, Post 43 will host BDS at 3 p.m.
In the Juniors Division for Wayne, Post 43 will open against Wisner-Pilger/Dodge-Howells in Wakefield at 2 p.m. on Friday (play a league game against Tekamah-Herman in Wayne along with Srs at 5:30/8 p.m.) before hosting Lennox at noon on Saturday in Wayne and closing out pool play hosting O'Neill on Sunday at 9 a.m.
2025 Wakefield/Wayne Wood Bat Tournament finals will be played at Eaton Field in Wakefield. The Juniors championship game will start at 5 p.m. with Seniors to follow around 7 p.m. on June 8.
Check Wakefield Legion Post 81 Facebook page for the complete schedule.
Also, several 14u, 12u and 10u youth baseball teams will be in Wakefield from June 7 - 8.
Wakefield Ponies (14u) will open against Laurel at 10:45 a.m. on Saturday and also face O'Neill at 4 p.m. The Pony League finals will be played at 7:30 p.m. Saturday evening.
Wakefield Broncos (12u) will play Sunday at 9 a.m. against Vermillion and take on Wahoo Blue at 4 p.m. The Broncos league finals are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Wakefield Didgets (10u) will start with a 1 p.m. Saturday showdown against Hartington on Saturday followed by a 1 p.m. game against Wahoo on Sunday. The Didget league finals will be played at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday.
