McKinleyville New Wave Realty wins district senior tournament title

McKinleyville’s New Wave Realty Senior League finished its postseason run with a 9-3 win over the Eel River Batsmen on Monday night at Arcata Ball Park, claiming the District Senior Tournament of Champions and checking off two goals at once: a game at one of Humboldt County’s marquee fields and another championship for the town.

The victory capped what HumboldtSports described as a big three days of postseason play, and the final score showed a team that did more than survive by a single run. New Wave Realty had to navigate the District 26 Senior League and Junior League tournament slate before getting to the title game, and the McKinleyville squad closed the week with the tournament trophy in hand.

Arcata Ball Park added weight to the win. The field has long been one of the North Coast’s top summer baseball stages, and getting there gives youth players a chance to play in a setting that feels bigger than a regular league game. For McKinleyville, that mattered as much as the result itself. The title gave the players a championship, but it also gave families, coaches and volunteers another reason to take pride in a program that keeps producing teams capable of winning late in the season.

The district tournament began Saturday, May 30, with six games at locations around the county, setting up a busy stretch of local postseason baseball. HumboldtSports said the Senior and Junior Tournament of Champions wrapped up earlier this week, and attention has already shifted to the next wave of youth baseball with the Majors TOC scheduled to begin this weekend.

McKinleyville’s latest title also continued a run of local success in the Senior League. Evans Mechanical won the District Senior TOC in 2025, giving McKinville back-to-back district champions under different sponsor names. That continuity points to a program with enough depth and support to stay competitive year after year, not just in one lucky postseason.

The sponsor name attached to the roster is part of the story too. New Wave Realty is now linked to a team that delivered on a summer goal for McKinleyville, where Little League remains a steady community anchor. McKinleyville Little League lists its address as McKinleyville, California 95519, and its board includes Senior League Vice-President Dusty McCullough, underscoring the local infrastructure that keeps older youth teams on the field.

Little League International, founded in 1939, says it is the world’s largest organized youth sports program. In Humboldt County, that scale is distilled into nights like this one, when a district title at Arcata Ball Park becomes a shared win for a town that keeps showing up for its players.