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most valuable players

Beavers: *1B* and Alejandro Dodero
Rebels: Laura Smith and Steve Moody

Game highlights

The game started quite close with both teams racking up runs in the 1st inning, and getting quick outs in the next two. Oddsox continued with their typically tight fielding, and found the holes in Tigers’ defence to score some home runs and take a strong lead. Tigers managed to stop Oddsox short of a mercy in the 4th and 5th and shut them out in the 6th, just scraping through to the 7th – but were unable to make much of a dent in the lead.

The Oddsox defence also made it hard for Tigers to pick out MVPs, but Rachael clinched it with a few outs at 3B and a great throw to 1B, and Johnny with consistently good pitching, and a catch in the outfield. For Tigers, Julie caught just about everything she could on 1B, and the other MVP was probably awarded for entertainment value – taking one catch on about the third attempt and dropping another whilst faceplanting. In my defence, I barely slept the night before! A shout out to Clint for stepping in to pitch for Tigers in the 5th. And thanks to Stella for sterling work umpiring when she could have been playing!

Most Valuable Players

Tigers: Julie Sutton and Tom Martin
Oddsox: Rachael Monteiro and Johnny Sullivan

game highlights

The Angels and Mavericks know each other very well, potentially too well in some cases, so Tuesday’s game was always going to be interesting. Both teams came out of the box swinging, and after 1 inning the score was tied at 6. The Angels continued to tack on, scoring a few runs in each of the following innings. However the Mavericks could not keep up the scoring pace with the blinding low sun, and the game finished after 6 1/2. Highlights were Bertie shouting “I got it!” and the ball landed 5-10 metres away…. Monique being her usual self and annoyingly stopping everything at 3rd. She clearly has been training with James as he also made plenty of outs to first from the pitching rubber. Lucy also had a hit over the head of her Brookes Softball coach to start a 2 out rally. Both teams made their fair share of catches in the outfield, an exceptional catch was from Amy who charged in and made a basket catch. Selina also caught a tricky popup over the catcher’s head. 3 new female Angels also had doubles on merit showing their improvement. Everything added to a very enjoyable game (helped by Winston not barking continuously for once) and miraculously the Angels game was not the last one to be completed!

Most Valuable Players

Angels: Amy Beveridge & Tom Merritt
Mavericks: Monique Geyer-Johnson & James Mighell

Game highlights

A closely fought game tonight that could have gone either way. Some good batting and fielding by both teams kept the score at 9-7 in Oddsox favour at the end of the 3rd inning. Oddsox hit 5 home in the top of the fourth and Beavers would have done the same in the bottom, but Gen took a great play at home to tag Tom out, stop his home run and keep them at 4 runs. Oddsox pulled away in the 5th with some steady base running followed up by a home run and 3 RBIs from Jake. But Beavers were not finished and came back strongly in the 6th and 7th with solid hitting from Abi, Irving, Alejandro and Dan (definitely some home runs in there from the Beavers!) but ultimately not quite enough to take the win.

Most Valuable Players

Oddsox: Gen and Jake
Beavers: Abi and Irving

Game highlights

A really good game with only a couple of Rebels hits separating the two sides. Both teams got off to good starts with Rebels taking a 7-6 lead into the 3rd before both defences started to take over. Megan had a really good game on 2B and Dom at short took a couple of really good catches stopping some good strikes over the middle.

Fiona and Steve R linked up well to get some key outs which was required to stop some good Knights base running all evening. Some quick thinking from Fiona after a catch got a double play on 2B. Steve R took a very well struck line drive to the glove and still managed to get the out a 1B with a dislocated finger (thanks to Chris for putting it back in!). After a short break and an ice pack Steve R opened the batting, scored a run and continued in the field taking a couple of strikeouts and grabbed a rocket jumping to his left in the very next inning which his finger was not thankful for!

The two teams continued to keep the runs ticking over and Rebels took a 9 run lead into the bottom of 7. A couple of early runs and a 2 run homer from Dom gave the Knights 5 but Rebels managed to close the game out with another Steve R to Fiona link up.

There were plenty of doubles from both teams. Chris, Grace and Katie punished the Rebels infield all night and Joshua hit his first (RBI) triple for the Rebels with a slide into 3rd. James (2), David and Dom all hit HRs. All in all a game as good as the scoreline suggests with both sides keeping things tight on a difficult evening out in the field.

most valuable players

Knights: Megan Napier-Andrews and Dom Jones
Rebels: Fiona Mounsdon and Steve Roberts

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game highlights

A very close game. Angels started off well with 6 runs in the top of the 1st, but Tigers found holes in the defence and responded with 7 of their own in the 2nd to take a 10-7 lead. Defences then tightened up on both sides with the odd run scoring here and there, the score after 5 innings was tied at 10 apiece. Highlights were running catches by both LFs (Tom and Paul), and the Tigers RC fielder hoovered up mostly everything in the air (1 of which this writer is particularly bitter about…) Tim also had more put-outs than my scoresheet could tally, and both teams were throwing out runners trying to advance with relays from the outfield. In the end the Angels benefited from 2 timely HRs in the final innings to close it out with the potential tying run stranded in the on-deck circle.

Most Valuable Players

Angels: Jen Edis and Paul Taylor
Tigers: Ellie Gilroy and Dustin Fox

 

game highlights

Mavericks got off to a hot start with the bat and were up 7-3 after the 3rd. Rebels woke up in the field and followed that up with two shutouts and a couple of runs in the 5th to get back to 7-5. Rebels turned the game on its head with an 8-run mercy in the 6th to go into the top of 7th 4 runs ahead. Some clutch pitching in the 6th and 7th from Steve Roberts on a long awaited debut helped Rebels close the game out with a quick stop courtesy of two great outs from Tom H debuting at shortstop in the 7th due to injury.

Couple of great catches in the outfield from Rebels early on and Bertie caught everything in sight at left field for Mavericks, two of which were big hits from Rachael that stopped some much needed Rebels runs early on. Lucy was a safe hand on 2B for Mavericks and got a number of key outs. Mavericks loaded the bases and ran bases brilliantly throughout forcing a number of fielding errors from Rebels. Lesley and Steve rolled back the years to the Devils days and showed the Rebels rookies how bases should be run with some brilliant team running. James hit 1000 and 4R(1HR) topped off in the 6th with a fantastic slip on the corner of 1B that turned a comfortable triple into a risky single. Chris hit a 2 RBI triple in the 6th with an elegant slip into 3B and somehow stayed safe to secure the 8-run mercy.

Most valuable players

Mavericks: Lucy Raggett and Bertie Kindersley
Rebels: Laura Smith and Tom Horsfield