Games for 1st December 2007

1st Grade vs Indians at Adcock
2nd Grade vs Indians at Adcock
3rd Grade vs Indians at Adcock
4th Grade vs Indians at Adcock
5th Grade Rebels vs Wooducks at Adcock
5th Grade Royals vs Mohawks at Baseball Park

If the rain holds off we might get a game.

Games for 24th November 2007

1st Grade vs Bears at Baseball Park (BBP) 3.40 pm
2nd Grade vs Bears at BBP 1.30 pm
3rd Grade vs Bears at BBP 11.50 am
4th Grade vs Bears AT BBP 10.10 am
5th Grade Rebels vs Mohawks at BBP 8.30 am
5th Grade Royals vs Wildcats at Adcock 8.30 am

It's good to see some of the new faces at the games, come and enjoy a game or two. If your lucky the American import might make an appearance.

The Import Returns

1st grade Rebels prevailed in a tight evenly contested game, Rebels got home against Indians with a 3-2 victory. The defence from both sides was high quality and this made it difficult for either team to cash in on their hits.

There was none better in the field than Rebels Scott Sharman who made 5 plays from 3rd base. Both teams got solid starts from their starting pitchers with Michael D'Abo pitching 7 strong innings for Indians, including 10 strike outs.

Rebels got 5 innings from Alex (Knight Rider) Hoff and he was followed by Damien Kingman for 3 innings with Pat (My Crutch) Maat getting 2 strike outs in the final innings to close the game with Rebels in front.

For Indians Josh Main and Craig Wilson both had two hits with a hit each to James McGiver, Sam Brown, Michael D'Abo and Mick Webber. For Rebels Alex Hoff and Pat Maat both had two hits with 1 each to Matt Smith, Scott Sharman, Todd Bowden and Damian Kingman.

A Game Best Forgotten

3rd grade Rebels lost to a strong Wildcats side 9-0. Not much to say except, we will turn it around next week.

One Of Those Days

4th grade lost to the Wildcats 3-2. Everything the Wildcats did turned to gold. Every hit found a gap, every time the Rebels batted it went straight to a fielder, if it wasn't for Doug Smith's great pitching the score could have been a lot worse.

Couldn't Pull Them Back

5th grade Royals played from behind after the Wooducks started strongly to lead 5 to 0 after two innings. After holding Wooducks scoreless in the 3rd, Royals responded with 3 of their own thanks to good hitting from Wayne Turner and Keith Wilson. Wooducks put on one more in the 4th and Deb Brown, Jack Denny and Wayne Turner loaded the bases to give Royals a chance to snatch a come from behind victory.
Unfortunately it was not to be with the final out of the game a close call at 1st. Wayne Turner had two hits with Jack Denny, Keith Wilson and Des Ho all had a hit each. Keith Wilson and Des Ho both pulled in great catches in the outfield and Jack Denny was solid in his first game at 1st base.
Coach Darrell Duncan was pleased that the team put themselves in with a chance after a shaky start and is looking forward to a better result next week against the Wildcats side.

Battle Of The 5th Grades

5th grade Rebels & Royals played each other in a battle to see who has bragging rights for the next 4 weeks. Rebels came away with their first win of the year winning 15-4.
The game had everything, sledging, classic catches, power hitting and more sledging.
The Royals first innings started off well with 4 runners scoring, but the Rebels batted even better and with some good pitching from Colin Tippett keeping the Royals scoreless for the rest of the game.

All other grades were washed out.

Games for 10th November

All grades are at home for the first time this year. Come and support the club, even if it's only to watch 1 game.

1st grade vs Bears
2nd grade vs Pirates
3rd grade vs Pirates
4th grade vs Pirates
5th grade Rebels vs Royals

Fighting Spirit Shines Through

1st Grade played a great game to watch, and it was also great to see the first grade team fighting hard to the end.

The boys were down early and although it was going to be hard to overcome great Wildcat pitching we found our great team spirit and we started to string a few hits together. Yet another home run to Nathan Young saw us close the gap on the Wildcats lead. Todd Bowden led the way with the bat with 3 hits.

Everyone fielded exceptionally well, and with the scores locked at 5 all in the bottom of the 9th, Pat Maat capitalised on a Matt Smith double, to knock in the winning run with a single. Well done boys, great way to show everyone why we are the reigning premiers winning 6-5.

Youngy's Bomb, Not Enough

Even though 2nd Grade's rookie coach Matt Cashman spent most of this game pacing about and pulling his hair out, the game ended up coming down to the wire.

After being down 8-2 until the last innings, Cashman told his boys to get out there and hit, and hit they did. With singles to Kurt Eden (2), Scott Sharman, Zac Dawes, Andrew Mc Alpine and doubles to Dillon McMaster, Paul Woolven, Craig Booth, Zac Dawes and Andrew Mc Alpine, the boys pulled it together and after a 3 run bomb to Nathan ( all the girls love him) Young a miracle comeback looked inevitable. Unfortunately, the boys fell one run short going down 7-8 but definitely made a game of it and should be congratulated for digging deep when things looked grim.

Hard Work Didn't Pay Off

3rd Grade's game against Wildcats was very nearly called off due to the terrible weather, but the rain stopped and after tremendous ground maintenance by Craig Booth, the rest of the day was able to be played. 3rd Grade had a good start to the game leading 4 nil early on. The second dig wasn’t as great as the Wildcats batters capitalised on errors scoring 7, and even though Craig Booth worked hard on the mound the damage had been done.

There were too many runners left on base and the last 3 digs saw both sides only score 2 runs each. With singles to Zac Dawes and Brad Marmara, and doubles to Doug Smith, Peter Eden and Andrew Mc Alpine, we just couldn't get the runners over the plate and we went down 9-6.

4th & 5th Grade Washed Out

Unfortunately 4th & 5th Grade were unable to play on the weekend due to the weather.