Ten weeks ago, it was so cold on opening night that nobody could feel their throwing hand, and 21 teams showed up anyway. Ten weeks later, it was cold again, the wind was coming across the lot, and the last bag of the season did not land until 11:18 at night. In between, we had a heat wave, two rainouts, a perfect team, a Vegas wedding, a family coming together to form a new team, three pugs working a sideline, and the best collection of team names this league has ever had. Ninth season, 23 teams. Here is the whole thing in one place, with a highlight for every team that signed up, because each one is part of how this spring went.
The perfect run
The spine of the whole season was one question asked at the bar every Thursday: Can anyone beat Splash Bros.? Nobody could. Charles and Dutty showed up new to the league and immediately became the best team in it, going 4-0 on opening night and never losing after. They went 36-0 through the regular season and then ran the championship bracket on top of it, finishing the only perfect spring in nine seasons. The detail that makes it: Charles and Dutty came up under Crackle and Pop, the team that went 28-0 and 28-0 in 2024, the only other perfect run this league has seen. The students chased the teachers all spring and caught them. The one night anyone got close was a 22-20 on misting boards in Week 6, and even that went their way.
Why do we play out here?
The heart of the season belonged to the Baggin Dragons. Kristen and Jessica are sisters, playing together for the first time. Kristen used to throw with her mom, Rhonda, as the Baggin Blondes, and Rhonda passed away last October. We feel that out here every Thursday. Jessica spent past seasons playing alongside her husband Ryan, who sat this one out to be super dad, and in Week 4, he brought their baby boy Jose to his first cornhole night, easily the smallest and best-dressed person in the lot. The sisters scraped their way into the A bracket on the final Thursday, got the full A bracket welcome once they were there, and carried something bigger than a record the whole way. That is what this league is actually about.
Your champions
Splash Bros. took the A bracket without dropping a game, perfect to the very end, and Charles and Dutty took home the Bluey. Barnyard Baggers took the B bracket from the worst seed in it, with Krista telling Haylee to manifest it until they did, and earned the Greenie. Both sweatshirts and the full bracket story are in the championship recap. This one is about the road all 23 teams took to get there.
A bracket: a highlight for every team
DEEZ NUTS showed up Week 1 in matching outfits and backed it up, finishing the regular season as the clear number two. Brandon and Ray have now finished top four three seasons running, fourth in both Summer and Fall 2025, and third here, and still do not have a title to show for it. They spent the spring as the team most likely to make Splash Bros. sweat, with their signature moment a 21-19 win over BagStreet Boys in Week 6 that was straight payback. BagStreet Boys, the Summer 2025 champions, had the loudest single game of the year going the other way: Brian put 23 on the board against 2 in Week 4, which the recap called less a win than a message.
Fairways were the slow burn of the spring. Ray and Gary got named the team to watch, then went out the next week and proved it with a 4-0 plus 79 night, back-to-back shutouts, and the only loss they hung on BagStreet Boys all year. Air Mail, who were Buzzin and Baggin a season ago and a Fall 2025 podium team, made a habit of opening a night with a loss and rallying, and capped it by limping out of a rough Week 6 and then running the table 5-0 in Week 7. Special delivery, eventually, every time.
These Effin’ Guys made the comeback of the season. Down 17-0 to Born Fish in Week 7, with the whole lot watching, Bill and Mike put up ten in a single round and won 21-20. That comeback literally saved their seed. Your Hole is My Goal, the reigning Spring 2025 co-champions, opened the year with three straight shutouts and dropped a 29-1 on Back to Black in Week 4 just to remind everyone Greg and Mark were still around.
Born Fish was the great what-if. Chas and Mary have not skipped a season in a year and a half, and when they show up, they are elite, the number one team after an opening night where they held four opponents to 10 points combined. They just did not always show up this spring, and the missed weeks were the only thing that capped their seed. Lucky Sacks spent three weeks as a mystery, Justin playing solo while the whole league asked where the other half of the team was, until Jack finally materialized in Week 3, and they ripped off a 4-0 in Week 5. And the Baggin Dragons, sisters carrying their game forward, put 30 points on the board in a single game in Week 3, the highest single-game total of that night.
B bracket: a highlight for every team
Department of Bagriculture was the best B team by a mile and the unluckiest, finishing with more points than 12 teams in the league and getting kept out of the A bracket purely by the win column. Justin and Trevor got their redemption in the playoffs, topping the entire B bracket with 87 points in Week 8. Ginger Ash Tornado brought Paul Ruppert back under a new banner, and his best night was a Week 8 double, a 23-1 demolition of Barnyard Baggers, and the only loss anybody hung on Department of Bagriculture that night.
Barnyard Baggers finished 11th a season ago, then turned the 0-2 to 2-2 rally into a signature move this spring before skipping the back half of the year so Krista and Chuck could get married in Vegas. That trip cost them the A seed by a hair. Then they won the B bracket anyway. It worked out. Natural Corn Killers, Tim and Nikki, ground out a season the hard way and saved their best for a 28-6 demolition of Corndoggs in Week 6 and a runner-up run in the playoffs that started with a scoring mix-up and never stopped.
Back to Black, Tim and Melissa drew a murderer’s row of top teams more weeks than was fair and still closed Week 8 with a 22-20 thriller over Barnyard Baggers. Corndoggs, sisters Caitlyn and Victoria, are the league’s great playoff over-performers, the team that jumped from ninth to second in the Fall 2025 playoffs and pulled the same trick here. Caitlyn’s solo 4-0 in the final seeding night, one week after a 0-4, was as good as anybody felt all spring. They also caught a broken signup link nobody else noticed, which is its own kind of assist.
Corny Bastards were closer than the record showed all year, and proved it in the Week 6 and 7 stretch with a 20-1 shutdown of Ginger Ash Tornado and the only positive differential night any B team managed. Shuck Your Cornhole gave us the mascots of the season, the three pugs known around the lot as the piggies, who worked the sideline every week James was out there, and got their first win in Week 3. And Tossin’ Turtles earned the best single line of the spring: 0-7 on the year, Gina drew the final game of Week 2 and won it 22-19. Sometimes it takes eight games to get one, and that one is the whole reason you keep showing up.
Where did they come from?
This field did not show up out of nowhere. BagStreet Boys won the whole thing in Summer 2025, skipped their title defense that fall, and came all the way back to the A final this spring, which is exactly why losing it stung. Your Hole is My Goal won the B bracket back in Spring 2025 and has played every season since without climbing back on top. And the A bracket cracked open this year because the two teams that finished Fall 2025 one and two, Cornflakes at 40-2 and 4 Bags 1 Hole, both sat out the spring. Somebody was going to fill that space. Splash Bros. filled all of it.
Half the fun is the names that change while the players do not. Department of Bagriculture is a brand-new banner, but Justin has been out here every season since 2023 under one team name or another, and he took the new one straight to the B podium. Paul of Ginger Ash Rornado seems to roll out a different team name just about every season. These Effin’ Guys were Two Guys last spring. Even Hole Patrol has a backstory; Laura ran a team called Wrong Hole a year ago, so the no-show streak is at least a sequel.
Then there were the two teams nobody had a book on. Splash Bros. and Natural Corn Killers were both brand new this spring, and both walked straight to a bracket final, Splash winning the A without a loss and the Killers running all the way to the B final. Not a bad way to introduce yourself.
To the ones we did not see enough of
A few teams we wish we had seen more of, and we mean that. Nuthin Butt Holes, Evan and Meta, found the range in a 2-2 Week 3 after an 0-8 start, and we kept hoping to see Meta build on it. We thought the sign said “Corndogs.” Connor and Victoria spent the season racking up reps at the gym. Cornhole works a different muscle, and the standing invitation is still open to come find out you are better than you think. Mother Shuckers, Ben and Samantha, we met you on opening night, and the chair has been warm ever since.
And then there is Hole Patrol. Laura and Steph signed up and then went a perfect 0 for the season on attendance. The rumor all spring was that they were spotted at Freddy J’s on most other days of the week, just never the one with cornhole. We are not mad. The chair is still warm, the boards are still here, and the standing offer is the same as it has been since March: come throw a bag. We saved your seat all spring. Use it this summer.
The things that made the spring
The weather was the great equalizer twice. Mist in Week 2 and again in Week 6 turned blowouts into one-point games, and Week 6 became the first night in nine seasons we had to call early, just ahead of a downpour. The lot ran on a few constants: the bottle caps we kept asking you to throw out so they stayed out of Kneble’s tires, the post-game ritual of half the league arguing about standings inside Freddy J’s, and a name crop so good that “We thought the sign said Corndogs” and “Corndoggs” being two different teams caused real confusion more than once. Play outside, argue inside. That is the league.
Final Spring 2026 standings
Where every team finished the regular season. The trophies were settled in the brackets, but this is the record book.
A bracket
| Position | Teams | Wins | Losses | Total Points | Points Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Splash Bros. | 36 | 0 | 814 | +631 |
| 2 | DEEZ NUTS | 29 | 7 | 739 | +368 |
| 3 | BagStreet Boys | 29 | 7 | 709 | +433 |
| 4 | Fairways | 27 | 9 | 725 | +373 |
| 5 | Air Mail | 26 | 10 | 652 | +260 |
| 6 | These Effin’ Guys | 24 | 12 | 683 | +247 |
| 7 | Your Hole is My Goal | 24 | 12 | 630 | +234 |
| 8 | Born Fish | 19 | 17 | 518 | +201 |
| 9 | Lucky Sacks | 16 | 20 | 488 | -46 |
| 10 | Baggin Dragons | 12 | 24 | 381 | -256 |
B bracket
| Position | Teams | Wins | Losses | Total Points | Points Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | Department of Bagriculture | 16 | 20 | 550 | -23 |
| 12 | Ginger ash tornado | 12 | 24 | 483 | -235 |
| 13 | Barnyard Baggers | 12 | 24 | 433 | -89 |
| 14 | Natural Corn Killers | 12 | 24 | 410 | -155 |
| 15 | Back to Black | 11 | 25 | 388 | -330 |
| 16 | Corndoggs | 11 | 25 | 321 | -208 |
| 17 | Corny Bastards | 4 | 32 | 194 | -110 |
| 18 | Shuck Your Cornhole | 2 | 34 | 165 | -315 |
| 19 | Tossin’ Turtles | 1 | 35 | 133 | -367 |
| 20 | Nuthin Butt Holes | 1 | 35 | 95 | -349 |
| 21 | We thought the sign said Corndogs | 0 | 36 | 55 | -205 |
| 22 | Mother Shuckers | 0 | 36 | 25 | -59 |
| 23 | Hole Patrol | 0 | 36 | 0 | 0 |
Thank you, and see you in the summer
Thank you to all 23 teams, to everyone who pulled up a lawn chair, and to Freddy J’s Bar and Kitchen and Kneble’s Auto Service Center for the lot, the boards, the bar, and a full season of Thursdays. The champions’ names go on the permanent plaques at Freddy J’s, right where they belong.
Summer 2026 runs on Thursday nights from June 18 through August 23, at the same lot. Fall follows, September 10 to November 15. Registration for summer is now open, and there is no cap on how many teams can sign up. Bring a partner or sign up solo, and we will match you. Sign up. Whether you went 36-0, 0-36, or never made it out of the parking lot, the chair is warm, and the boards are set. Come throw a bag.