The Hometown Cup Roll, Year by Year, 2005–2026

The championship roll from the league's own records

Two titles are decided in New Carlisle's wiffleball, and the record keeps them distinct: the Hometown Cup, the championship of The Wiffle®Ball Championship tournament at Hometown Days each July, and the ORWBL World Series, the league's own title each August. The roll below is the Hometown Cup, year by year; the league title is noted where the record carries it, and the two are never merged.

2005 — Late Arrivers. The inaugural champions: Matt Flagg, Jared Colanese, Chris Deutscher and Ryan Rush, formed on the eve of the tournament as its sixteenth team; double-elimination, in the pre-Migley Memorial Park era. 2006 — Sultans of Swing, def. The 4 Amigos 14–3 in the first final played at Migley Field. The season carries the record's own protest entry, the "Elephant Ear Scandal": Tyler Cox threw a pool-play game for Great Balls of Fire against The 4 Amigos in exchange for a Colglazier's elephant ear from 13-year-old Drew Luther; the 4 Amigos reached the title game. The league's history calls it "the WIFFLE version of the infamous Black Sox Scandal"; the final score of the thrown game is not on record. 2007 — New Carlisle Newts, def. the Scrappers in the final after beating the Pink Ponies in the semifinal, undefeated on the weekend on their home field. (The ORWBL's own 2007 postseason, separately, was never recognized by the league — see the eras article.) 2008 — Newts, def. Speedy's Chickenheads 29–28 in seven innings on 27 July 2008, the "original Greatest Game Ever Played" — the first back-to-back champions. The first recognized ORWBL World Series followed that August: the LaPorte Sox. 2009 — Speedy's Chickenheads, beating Ballz Deep and the Pterodactyls on Sunday for their first Cup in their third consecutive Final Four; the Newts were upset in the first round by Team Mo. 2010 — Where My Pitches At? (Randy Schuster), def. G.O.A.T. (Joey Schuster) 7–4 — a brother-against-brother final in a 36-team tournament in the town's 175th-anniversary year; the Hometown Cup trophy's production ran late and it was presented to Sam Zucker on his porch weeks later.

2011 — Ambassadors of Plastic, def. Krook County Killaz 10–7, the first year the physical Hometown Cup was at the ballpark. 2012 — Lou Brock, def. Taco Punchers 19–5; the Taco Punchers were Jared Emmons and Denis Jedrysek plus pickups Cody Jackson and Kyle Johnson after their original roster failed to appear, and Jedrysek's three-run walk-off beat Cult West in the semifinal. The ORWBL title that August went to the Cult West Warriors, in five games over the Gangster Slugs. 2013 — Cult West Warriors, def. YTS 23–9 (semifinal: Cult West def. Maple City 19–7), the first of three consecutive Cups. The season also carries a protest entry: Emery's Army played the Hometown Cup Finals under the name "HabEAs Corpus" to protest their ORWBL playoff ban, in their first and only Migley appearance. The Newts won the ORWBL World Series that August, their first league title. 2014 — Cult West Warriors, repeat champions; the Newts lost their semifinal to the Clutch Players on a game-ending double play. The Newts repeated as ORWBL champions. 2015 — Cult West Warriors, def. Newts 11–8, completing the three-peat in a tournament expanded to 50 teams; Cult West also won the ORWBL World Series, beating the Newts in the first seven-game Series, and then announced the franchise's retirement. 2016 — Son of a Pitch, def. Newts 7–2; Cult West's 29-game winning streak was snapped by the Jelly Sticks in the second round, the "J is for Jelly" upset. The Newts swept Maple City 4–0 for their third ORWBL championship, then a league record.

2017 — Cult West Warriors, def. Maple City Magic 7–6, a record fourth Hometown Cup for the returning franchise; Maple City won its first ORWBL World Series that August, beating the Newts in five. 2018 — Newts, def. Granger Panthers 13–10 — the Newts' third Cup and their first in a decade; Garrett Curless won the Kaylor Keck MVP Award, the Newts paraded through town on golf carts, and all four Final Four teams were ORWBL clubs. Maple City repeated as league champion, sweeping Granger. 2019 — Granger Panthers, def. Newts 32–26, the Panthers' first championship and the highest-scoring Hometown Cup final on record, passing 2008; Maple City won its third consecutive ORWBL World Series. 2020 — Maple City Magic, def. Grandmother's Quilt 20–2, the Magic's first Cup, in the COVID year with the festival cancelled; Maple City won its fourth consecutive World Series that August, becoming the league's all-time titles leader. 2021 — Maple City Magic, def. Granger Panthers, repeat Cup champions; Granger won the ORWBL World Series, Griffin Smith the Series MVP. 2022 — Granger Panthers, def. Cult West Warriors, the Panthers' second Cup; the ORWBL title went to South Bend Truffle Butter, the first of back-to-back league titles. 2023 — Granger Panthers, def. Woo Crew, their second consecutive Cup and third overall. 2024 — Woo Crew, def. Granger Panthers 10–9 in seven innings, Walter Griffin III's walk-off hit the first championship-clinching walk-off in tournament history; Griffin won the Kaylor Trophy as the final's marquee player; the tournament drew a record 96 teams, and the Newts won their fourth ORWBL championship that August. 2025 — Wiffle Dees, def. the defending-champion Woo Crew 5–4, the Dees' first Hometown Cup; JP Kehoe hit two of the three walk-off home runs struck across the three Migley games that day. 2026 — Woo Crew, def. New Carlisle Newts 15–9, in the last Hometown Cup Final in Migley Field history; the Newts, in their tenth Finals appearance (tied for the most at Migley), had won eight straight games before the final. The Newts then won the ORWBL World Series, their fifth league championship, beating Maple City four games to two, Noah Shail the Series MVP.

The pennant distinction: where the league's record separates a regular-season or league pennant from the title itself, it is in the pennant, not the roll — e.g., the Mill Pond Pink Pandas' 2024 American League pennant, won over BFAM, is a pennant; the 2024 league title is the Newts'. The school title seasons — New Prairie softball 2023 and baseball 2024, with the softball finalists of 2006 and the football finalists of 2014 and 2022 — are banked whole in the Sports section and are not re-dug here.

Sources:

1. New Carlisle Newts, "Migley Field History," ncnewts.com (read in full, 2026-11-11) — primary carrier of the year-by-year roll, 2006–2025.
2. The Wiffle®Ball Championship, hometowncup.com — "Woo Crew wins 2024 Hometown Cup" (2024 final, standings and Kaylor Trophy); "Top 20 Memorable Moments"; news items of 25 July 2026 (2026 final).
3. Old Republic Wiffle®Ball League, orwbl.net — "Memorable Moments" (2006 Elephant Ear Scandal; 2007 unrecognized postseason; World Series results 2008–2020) and the 2025 American League recap (2024 pennant).
4. New Carlisle Newts news, ncnewts.com (read 2026-11-11) — the 2026 final (Woo Crew 15, Newts 9) and the Newts' fifth ORWBL championship over Maple City, 4–2.