River's EDGE Sport & Fitness

River's EDGE Sport & Fitness Multi-use facility with 9 indoor cages, HitTRAX, variety of pitching machines, 24hr access, golf hitting area, and rental room with kitchenette.

River'sEDGE Sport & Fitness is a 19,000 square foot multi-purpose facility owned by the City of Independence and operated by the Independence Parks & Recreation Department. This building includes: 3,000 square foot fitness/ multi-purpose room, a 756 square foot rental room that serves as space for the dance classes held twice a week as well as a birthday party room, 5 batting cages on turf with various types of pitching machines (including an ATEC arm machine, Baseball Batting Tutor top loading automated single wheeled machine, Softball Batting Tutor top loading automated single wheeled softball machine, Par-Tee Golf Simulator, 2 golf cages,1 Par-Tee Hunting Simulator, 310 ft indoor walking track, shuffleboard court, 2 bags courts. We also have pitching mounds that may be used inside our batting cages, batting tees, soft toss machines for baseballs and softballs and single wheel Jugs pitching machines for your use. Future purchases for River'sEDGE will include a 2nd Gold Simulator, the Triple Play Basic 3 wheel baseball pitching machine and the Triple Play Basic 3 wheel softball pitching machine.

09/02/2026

Team Postings

After going back and forth we have decided to have 9U play 9u, we considered making them a 10A and adding some 10u kids but competitively it would be way more difficult.

13B softball unsure of their schedule with HS and JH is posted
9AA Baseball
8CP/KP
8CP we will roster some of these boys with 9u to give them some Kid pitch experience

Thank you to all that tried out. Remember thing change from now until January.

09/01/2026

8u and 9u will NOT be posted today. We are still sorting coaches and trying to get as many kids on teams as possible.

08/31/2026

Teams Posted
Today it was 11u and 10u

11AAA
11AA
11AA

Unfortunately we will not have enough kids for an 11A, some were moved to the 12A team.

We will have three very solid groups and are excited for 2027

10AAA
10A/AA

We have two very solid teams and some new additions to blend in.
Unfortunately we will only have 2 teams at this age group, there were not enough to make a 10A team.

Again please be patient if you do not see your name as things change!

08/30/2026

TEAM POSTING
12 Majors
12AAA
12AA/AAA
12AA
12A

This is our deepest group, we grew by another team. 5 12u teams, we placed nearly every kid that tried out. Again, if you’re not on there things change.

Thank you

08/30/2026

Due to lightning and more coming we have cancelled the rest of today’s games. We will move those games to our make up weekend in October

08/30/2026

Fall league is in a 30 minute delay! 1145 restart (weather permitting)

08/29/2026

Fall League currently 30 minute delay due to lightning!

08/29/2026

Saturday Fall games are on as Scheduled!

08/28/2026

13u will be posted around 4pm. Still waiting on a couple things for 12u. It will be up this weekend sometime and I will post when it is up at RE.

13u teams
1 -AAA
1 -AA/AAA
1 -AA/A

We are looking for coaches in the age group reach out if interested.

Thank you to everyone that tried out we were able to place EVERY kid that tried out.

Address

206 2nd Avenue SW
Independence, IA
50644

Opening Hours

Wednesday 3:45pm - 8pm
Sunday 12pm - 4pm

Telephone

+13193321525

Website

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