If you're coming in August, the fields at Buffalo Glen are closed once a year from mid-August to early September for maintenance. Same thing happened to me back in 2011, so I had to wait until September to get started.
You have one year to get evaluated once you start going, however I would just knock out all three in a row. You'll see yourself getting better quicker that way. I hadn't played softball since 1980 but now I'm playing in my ninth consecutive season.
There are neighborhood teams for most villages that play once a week on Saturday mornings and use aluminum bats and are coed with all village residents. There are recreation (Rec) leagues that play two days during the week and players use Mikak bats they purchase themselves and men and woman play in separate leagues.
There are 5 levels, most villagers fall into category 3 or 4 and you'll find plenty of neighborhood teams at that those levels. When I first arrived our village (Tamarind Grove) was new, so we didn't have a team and I played for Calumet Grove, a village at the far northern end. Then the following season we got a team and now we have two teams. Although during the summer with snowbirds leaving, we have joined with another village to fill out a team. We play with 11 players on a team, 4 outfielders and an extra (rover) infielder.
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