West Torrens Baseball Club

Check out the flyer for the Junior presentation night.

Mark McGarry’s comprehensive weekend roundup can be found here

Apologies to all that eagerly await Mark’s weekly update – Ed has been on leave.
With most Junior sides now approaching finals it is imperative that you attend training to hone skills. Can we also suggest you get yourselves along to watch the A grade at home over the next couple of weeks – watching the game at the highest level is also a valuable tool for development.
7.02.2011
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The hardworking Social Committee has organised a ‘Summer Sesh’ this Saturday 19th Feb at the Clubrooms. This will coincide with a trial game between the Div 1 and Div 2 squads which begins at 5.00pm.
There will be 2 Happy Hours, $5 frozen cocktails all night and meat tray raffles throughout the evening.
Tell your friends and get a group together!!

To view flyer click here

We were unable to publish Mark’s update last week so this week we welcome a bumper double edition.
Part one of this instalment can be viewed here whilst the second tome is available here

Round 9 means everyone has played each other once and to be 6 and 3 isn’t too bad especially only having 2 home games out of the nine.
Northern Districts had just come off a big win against East Torrens.
However the fellas kept putting the ball into play which proved to be the difference.
Robbie Dineen came up with great two out catch.
Ben Gleeson made a great diving effort and later took a good catch to seal the game.
Mark Duval also took a great catch and made hitting look easy picking up two nice hits to left and collecting 3 RBI’s.
This week was something special from the big man, Four great catches at centre and batting 3 from 4 with home run Mark Van Pelt made everything like painfully easy.

This weeks clash with Henley and Grange was made even more fun with the 35 degree heat we must be mad but thanks to those who came out and gave it their best.
The game started with the Peter Forbes show. Starting with a shiner of a hit pitch ball to some amazing events out in the field a little painful to watch though all you can do is laugh.
Well done Peter to help the team forget about how bloody hot it was.
The game was 5 – 2 our way for a good part of it though the boys started to relax in the batting box and the final score was 15 – 2
Pretty much everyone picked up a hit. Mark Van Pelt was very unlucky with the best hit I have seen this season. the ball should have been flattened and never went higher than 8 foot, the centre fielder took a step back to take it on the hop then realized he could catch it and took that step forward and caught it on the ankles, Unfortunately no green pencil.
Geoff Jamieson Ran a triple to give Robbie a RBI no doubt that guy gives his all every time.
Topping the batting 2 hits to Robbie Dineen and 3 from 4 by Dave Nicol who also caught a great game.
I would like to thank Jamie Thomas in filling in again when we were tight for players and well done to Leigh Symonds for an extraordinary effort to get out there and fulfil his dream of playing again.
This week we go to Norths who just the beat top side East Torrens so we will need a top effort to get close to these guys, we do have a more than capable team so lets hope we can bring it to the table.

Div 6 has had 2 out of the last 7 games at home and with another 2 away this isn’t going to be an easy task.
Our bogey side East Torrens continues as such.
Going down 10 – 5 tasted fairly bitter as all would agree we let ourselves down offensively and defensively.
Good thing there is still plenty of time to get things right and have some fun.
With no too many hits Robbie Dineen, Mark Van Pelt each got 2 and Geoff Jamieson and Matthew Brown batted 1000 with browny getting 3 from 3 with a walk.
I’m sure all are ready to make amends and with Henley and Grange getting their first win for the season we will do our best not to let them get 2 in a row.
From all in Div 6, we would like to wish Leigh Symons success in his courageous come back to baseball.

For those of you that missed last Saturday’s inspirational ‘Advertiser’ article, Leigh Symons has been granted permission to play a game for the Div 4 side this Saturday 4th December. Game commmences 12.30pm at Lockleys Oval.
Leigh’s fightback from near fatal injuries is a testament to his fighting spirit. To read Leigh’s story in his own words click here

To view Mark McGarry’s weekly roundup please click here