Over the Line is an awesome, fast modified version of softball .
Over the Line is great for Business house leagues, small communities, schools, club training sessions and just some good old sport with banter. 


What is Over the Line (OTL)?
• OTL softball is a game related directly to softball.

• It only requires 3 people per team (however you can play 4 aside or 5 aside).

• Because a game requires only three people per team, it's considerably easier to get a good informal game going or have a competitive element to it like beach volleyball.

• Like softball, you have the batter, pitcher, and fielders. It can be played on a normal grass fields, or indoors.

• Equipment consists of a rope (or lines marked in the sand or a strip mown on some grass ), an "official" softball bat and a rubber softball. When playing OTL indoors we can use the original markings inside the gymnasium (ie: basket ball lines etc)

• Unlike softball, the batter and pitcher are on the same team

• The official OTL ball is soft and spongy so no one should get injured by it, and it will cause no damage to an indoor facility

• Teams can be mixed gender or single sex. There is no advantage having an all boys team.

• Rumour has it that recently a game was played at the Softball NZ headquarters in Wellington with the SNZ staff. 1 team consisted of 3 players (from a non softball background) vs a team of 4 players (all softball playing background). After some good banter, and some laughs, and some great hitting, the inexperienced softballers came out on top....awesome


Where can we play OTL 
Anyw here - that is the beauty of this game.
It can be played outside in a park, at the beach,  or in a larger indoor area (school gym, community centre etc)


We want to Play! How do we do this? 
Watch this space as a Business House league might be coming your way.

If you and several others are keen to be involved, email your South Island Softball Representativw;
Lesley McIntosh on 021 537 069
softball@sporttasman.org.nz