﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Cotton States Baseball League - North Division Latest News</title><link>http://www.CottonStatesLeague.com</link><description>Latest news about Cotton States Baseball League.</description><copyright>Copyright 2009 CottonStatesLeague.com. All rights reserved.</copyright><item><title>Applications for 2026 due by May 10th</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left;" src="../images/sponsors/MSS-Sponsor-CL.jpg" width="116" height="105" /&gt;We appreciate all of the applications we have already received - we will start approving them soon!! &lt;strong&gt;Approved players&lt;/strong&gt; will be able to see their name on the website and should receive an approval letter with instructions for payment.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;We usually experience some difficulty with the approval letters based on various home filters - if you don't receive it, just give us a call. You still should be able to see your name.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;We are hoping to have&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;at least 6 &lt;/strong&gt;teams this summer and have already been in touch with several of the coaches!&amp;nbsp; For those of you who have not applied,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;please get&amp;nbsp;your application&amp;nbsp;in as soon as possible&lt;/strong&gt;!!!&amp;nbsp; The deadline is&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;MAY 10th&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;for our collegiate league.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;If you have any questions, please feel free to text us at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(662) 539-2440&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; We hope that you are having a great spring and we look forward to seeing you in late May/early June as we celebrate our &lt;strong&gt;18th season&lt;/strong&gt;!!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://cottonstatesleague.com/news.aspx?id=235</link><pubDate>3/9/2026</pubDate></item><item><title>Applications for 2025 Season Due Soon</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left;" src="../images/sponsors/MSS-Sponsor-CL.jpg" alt="float: left" width="78" height="71" /&gt;We appreciate all of the applications we have already received - we will start approving them soon!! &lt;strong&gt;Approved players&lt;/strong&gt; will be able to see their name on the website and should receive an approval letter with instructions for payment.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;We usually experience some difficulty with the approval letters based on various home filters - if you don't receive it, just give us a call. You still should be able to see your name.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;We are hoping to have&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;at least 6 &lt;/strong&gt;teams this summer and have already been in touch with several of the coaches!&amp;nbsp; For those of you who have not applied,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;please get&amp;nbsp;your application&amp;nbsp;in as soon as possible&lt;/strong&gt;!!!&amp;nbsp; The deadline is&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;MAY 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;for our collegiate league.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;If you have any questions, please feel free to call&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(662) 539-2440&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; We hope that you are having a great spring and we look forward to seeing you in late May/early June as we celebrate our &lt;strong&gt;17th season&lt;/strong&gt;!!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://cottonstatesleague.com/news.aspx?id=234</link><pubDate>2/25/2025</pubDate></item><item><title>Our 2024 Collegiate Champions</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img style="float: left;" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/2?ui=2&amp;amp;ik=590a0cf20b&amp;amp;attid=0.3&amp;amp;permmsgid=msg-f:1806494565512986550&amp;amp;th=1911f53c72133fb6&amp;amp;view=fimg&amp;amp;fur=ip&amp;amp;sz=s0-l75-ft&amp;amp;attbid=ANGjdJ-dkR5jykEDCMW6DrrpPb3UZC_Fkb89ncfEDQGd6qOE2Wry7iYvE-rcPfOIwGvQuuZTRYbxNH7-1AfsQa7b68Z-41JDsdPZ61CMrjsyV8dJjc1FZTHFHNuh0s0&amp;amp;disp=emb" alt="Inline image" width="130" height="100" /&gt;Congratulations to Coach Jeff King and our 2024 College LCS Champions!!&amp;nbsp; We thank all of our participants this summer for another great year and hope that you have a good fall and an even better spring.&amp;nbsp; We hope to see you next June!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://cottonstatesleague.com/news.aspx?id=233</link><pubDate>8/4/2024</pubDate></item><item><title>Deadline Extended to May 19th</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left;" src="../images/sponsors/MSS-Sponsor-CL.jpg" width="92" height="83" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Due to the number of former and potential players who are participating in the post-season playoffs (congrats!), we need to extend our deadline by one week!!&amp;nbsp; Applications are due by &lt;strong&gt;May 19th&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp; We will reschedule our draft for next weekend.&amp;nbsp; We are excited about the amount of talent we have once again this summer but we need to fill a few spots.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please get&amp;nbsp;your application&amp;nbsp;in as soon as possible&lt;/strong&gt;!!!&amp;nbsp; The deadline is now &lt;strong&gt;MAY 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;for our collegiate league.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;If you have any questions, please feel free to text or call us at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(662) 539-2440&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; We hope that you continue to have a great spring and we look forward to seeing you in June.&amp;nbsp; Be sure and tag us @cottonstates on Twitter with your various exploits on the field this spring so that we can celebrate and share your successes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://cottonstatesleague.com/news.aspx?id=232</link><pubDate>5/13/2024</pubDate></item><item><title>Applications for 2024 due May 12th</title><description>&lt;img src="../images/Action%20Shot%202019.jpg" height="85" style="float: left" ;=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;The time is now to start sending your application for our&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;16th season&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;this summer!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Approved Players&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;should be able to see their name on the website and should receive an approval e-mail with instructions for payment.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;We usually experience some difficulty with the approval e-mails based on various home PC filters - if you&amp;nbsp;did not receive&amp;nbsp;it but see your name under Approved Players,&amp;nbsp;just send us a text or an e-mail.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;We are hoping to have&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;6 very strong&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;teams again this summer so space is somewhat limited!! We plan to play all of our games on&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, and Sunday afternoon&lt;/b&gt;. This will allow the players who travel to stay and get their reps done without so much back and forth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please get&amp;nbsp;your application&amp;nbsp;in as soon as possible&lt;/strong&gt;!!!&amp;nbsp; The deadline is&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;MAY 12th&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;for our collegiate league.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;If you have any questions, please feel free to text or call us at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(662) 539-2440&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; We hope that you are have a great spring and we look forward to seeing you in June.&amp;nbsp; Be sure and tag us @cottonstates on Twitter with your various exploits on the field this spring so that we can celebrate and share your successes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://cottonstatesleague.com/news.aspx?id=229</link><pubDate>3/7/2024</pubDate></item><item><title>Schedule Change</title><description>&lt;img src="../images/schedules.jpg" height="80" style="float: left" ;=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;We will need to adjust the schedule for June 24-25 due to the Tri-State Championships being hosted at BNA Bank Park.&amp;nbsp;After that, everyone will have a nice long break for the 4th of July!!&amp;nbsp; Stay safe and we can't wait to start the second half of the season and welcome the high school and junior high teams to the park.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://cottonstatesleague.com/news.aspx?id=228</link><pubDate>6/20/2023</pubDate></item><item><title>Applications for 2023 due May 14th</title><description>&lt;img src="../images/CSBL%20logo.jpg" width="80" style="float: left" ;=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;The time is now to start sending your application for our &lt;b&gt;15th season&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;this summer!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Approved Players&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;should be able to see their name on the website and should receive an approval e-mail with instructions for payment.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;We usually experience some difficulty with the approval e-mails based on various home PC filters - if you&amp;nbsp;did not receive&amp;nbsp;it but see your name under Approved Players,&amp;nbsp;just send us a text or an e-mail.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;We are hoping to have&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;6 very strong&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;teams again this summer so space is somewhat limited!! We plan to play all of our games on&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;Friday evening, Saturday afternoon, and Sunday afternoon&lt;/b&gt;. This will allow the players who travel to stay and get their reps done without so much back and forth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please get&amp;nbsp;your application&amp;nbsp;in as soon as possible&lt;/strong&gt;!!!&amp;nbsp; The deadline is&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;MAY 14th&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;for our collegiate league.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;If you have any questions, please feel free to text us at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(662) 539-2440&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; We hope that you are have a great spring and we look forward to seeing you in June.&amp;nbsp; Be sure and tag us @cottonstates on Twitter with your various exploits on the field this spring so that we can celebrate and share your successes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://cottonstatesleague.com/news.aspx?id=227</link><pubDate>3/4/2023</pubDate></item><item><title>This Weekend's Schedule</title><description>&lt;img src="/images/schedules.jpg" height="80" style="float: left" ;=""&gt;&lt;font face="Verdana"&gt;Due to a number of state tournaments, we have revised this weekend's schedule.&amp;nbsp; Please double-check the schedule online before you make your travel plans.&amp;nbsp; We hope you enjoy a Sunday off!!!&lt;/font&gt;</description><link>http://cottonstatesleague.com/news.aspx?id=226</link><pubDate>6/21/2022</pubDate></item><item><title /><description>&lt;img src="../images/CSBL%20logo.jpg" height="80" style="float: left" ;=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;We appreciate all of the applications we have already received - we&amp;nbsp;have started approving them!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Approved players&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;should be able to see their name on the website and should receive an approval letter with instructions for payment.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;We are hoping to have&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;at least 8&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;teams again this summer and have already been in touch with several of the coaches!&amp;nbsp; For those of you who have not applied,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;please get&amp;nbsp;your application&amp;nbsp;in as soon as possible&lt;/strong&gt;!!!&amp;nbsp; The deadline is&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;MAY 8th&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;for our collegiate league.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;If you have any questions, please feel free to text or call&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;(662) 539-2440&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp; We hope that you are having a great spring and we look forward to seeing you in late May/early June as we continue getting bigger and better!!!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://cottonstatesleague.com/news.aspx?id=225</link><pubDate>3/7/2022</pubDate></item><item><title>Rained Out for Sunday June 6th</title><description>&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="/images/rain%20and%20baseball2.jpg" height="85" style="float: left" ;=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;We are rained out for Sunday, June 6th.&amp;nbsp; Other than the weather, it was a great start to our 2021 season which we believe will be our best ever!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Thank you to all of the coaches, players, field crew and Cotton States staff for a very successful first two days!!&amp;nbsp; We can't wait to see all of you play again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Verdana;"&gt;Be sure and enjoy the pictures we have posted on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @cottonstates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://cottonstatesleague.com/news.aspx?id=224</link><pubDate>6/6/2021</pubDate></item></channel></rss>