Category: 2016/17 Summer

2016/17 Summer Round 8 Match Report

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_mgl4324Manager: Paul Clarke
Scorer: Paula Sutherland

Score: Fitzroy A 10 – NC Rebels 8  

Match Report: Paul Clarke

Summer Rebels went down to the second place side in a heart breaker in the last.

Ripping game just couldn’t hold on for the win but a lot to be happy about.  Andy is back next week after his scouting trips so no more of my half arsed match reports.

Post script: Now that the dust has settled and I can think about this with a clearer head we played well today and result aside there was a lot to take away from this game. Moz and Tim throwing in trying conditions, some good work in the field and most importantly looking like a unit. Hope everyone is cooling down and replacing fluids and not that I think anyone is but if you’re thinking that this was one that got away it is, but make sure you take the positives away with you and leave the negatives as lessons learned and not to be repeated.

2016/17 Summer Round 7 Match Report

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30745013261_596df76457_oManager: Paul Clarke
Scorer: Paula Sutherland, ably, or perhaps not so, assisted by Cam McMillan

Score: Research 15 – NC Rebels 1 

Match report courtesy of Manager Paul Clarke – Andy and his far better half Kim are enjoying some well earned time off in Paris so Paul stepped up and took the reigns this week

Research at Research again. They will probably win it all because they are just that well rounded. They beat us 15-1.

Positives. We scored a run and we did it by playing nice baseball. We had a 3 up 3 down inning. Cath took a catch. Matt took an awesome catch. Bruce was solid and Tim was fantastic on the mound. Other stuff happened and we all had a good time.

Thanks to the army of support we had today and thanks to Shang and Peter Karas for fleshing out a rather injury riddled squad and thanks to Cam and Paula for scoring.

For the love of the game.

2016/17 Summer Round 6 Match Report

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Manager: Andy Malthouse
Scorer: Kim Malthouse

Score: Fitzroy A 11 – NC Rebels 4 

Match report courtesy of Manager Andy Malthouse

 

We had another home game this week and with many people unavailable, we had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for some fill in’s. And who did we get? The two C’s. Clinton and Chris. Firstly thanks guys for filling in and it was fun to play with you both again and for the first time.

It was a tough game with Fitzroy once again displaying how much depth they have as a club (they have 3 teams in Div 4). They batted all the way down to 9 and managed to get 13 hits to our 9.

Bruce once again started for us and did a great job striking out 3 and giving up no walks. Maurice relieved and struggled a bit giving up 5 walks before I had a go. Clinton had he’s pitching debut and did pretty good for a first timer. He only hit one batter.

Defensively, we are doing a really good job only having 2 errors for the. I’m not going to mention the bad hop at 3rd that hit me in the shoulder that got marked as an error. I love you to honey. Glenn did some great work at 2nd and Gavin behind the dish is getting better. Threw out one runner.

Hitting wise, we could have done a lot better. We got 9 hits but against that kind of pitching, we should have dominated. Glenn got his first hit for the club, awesome. Gavin hit a double and his first triple as well.

Where we lost it though was giving up too many walks. We gave away 7 to their 0. We need to attack hitters and give our fielders a chance. The opposition may hit us but that most of the time is better than giving a free pass. We also need to do the basics. To many times people are not reacting the way they should to a hit ball. We are out of position which makes doing the basics hard.

This week at training, we will focus on outfield and cutting the ball.

2016/17 Summer Round 5 Match Report

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Manager: Andy Malthouse
Scorer: Kim Malthouse

Score: NW Titans 11 – NC Rebels 2 

Match report courtesy of Manager Andy Malthouse

 

After a washout last week, and with a few of our core players missing, this week we played North West Titans. A team which on any given week could produce anything. This week, they produced the goods and ran away with a good win. We went down 11 – 2.

Even though they only had 8 players, they had a couple of ex Rebels in Brent Lyons and Matty Martin who are both exceptional players, especially in that division.

My worst fears were realised with Brent Lyons started on the mound for them and even though he was a bit erratic, at time he probably threw at about 80 mile an hour or pretty close too it and as you could expect, was way too good for us on the day.

We had our opportunity when Matty Martin came on but the bats didn’t light up and we went down with out a squeak.

Not one of our best days as you could imagine. We only had three hits for the day. Neil Ray (Donk) hit a massive triple, Tim Karas squeezed out a single but all praise must go to Serena Geddes, who got her first hit for the club with a scorching double to right field. We struck out 9 times. Brent Lyons in the 12 outs that he pitched, struck out 8. We can all learn from this, shorten your swing, just try and get bat on to ball. The velocity will do the rest.

Pitching was as good as ever with Brucey starting and throwing 2 scoreless innings. Mozz came on and as was going to happen in a close game, one side was going to break the shackles and it was the Titans. Timbo came on in the end to close out the game in fine style.

Fielding was a real killer this week. We had 7 errors. Now although we had some fill-ins and we have a few new players, there were some that just should not have happened and that is the sore point. We practice so we get used to performing a role, so we get used to executing a play. We need to work hard on every play and make sure of it. The most important part of any play is the first 3 to 4 meters, get there hard to give yourself time to execute.

And finally, a big welcome to Matt Prowse who played his first game for the Rebels. He took a blinder of a catch in right field. Also a big thanks to our two fill-ins, Serena and Joel. Great game guys and we would have struggled to field a side without you. Too bad it was so windy, we couldn’t hear Joel from the outfield.

 

2016/17 Summer Round 3 Match Report

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14485052_10154148842163935_2301411152003105241_nManager: Andy Malthouse
Scorer: Kim Malthouse

Score: NC Rebels 14 – Fitzroy 10

Match report courtesy of Manager Andy Malthouse

 

 

There were a lot of emotions after yesterdays game and I have held off writing a report so I could get my head around them.

Firstly, my apology for being a little angry at times yesterday. All my doing mind you. We can sometimes put too much of one self into a game that emotions will boil over and the end result is never pretty.

In summary, the game was a great result for the team. We did most things right and the things we didn’t do right were small and a good opportunity for us to learn by.

We eventually won 14 to 10, and to be honest, that was a surprise for me. I thought it was a lot closer than it was going into the bottom of the last or I would have thrown Timbo.

After a slow start, we were down 4 to 5 after 3 innings and that’s when we fired up. They were a level below us and I guess that’s what got me fired up. We are better than that. The next two innings proved it with us scoring 7 and 3 to take a 9 run lead into the bottom of the last.

With me on the mound, they then smashed 8 hits in a row and most of them good hits. They managed to score 5 before some bad base running for them ended there run. Can’t remember seeing a game end by a hit by batted ball before but thank god it did. I was spent. The arm was still recovering from last week and to make matters worse, I had slightly pulled my hammy again.

In summary, we hit really well again, pitching was a bit off this week so we may have to rest some arms going forward.

Even with a slow start, we won most of the offensive stats. We both had 14 hits, 9 of there’s coming in the last inning with -5 bats. We stole 13 bases to their 1. We had one less error to them and we threw only 5 walks to their 9.

Standouts this week:
Paul – Great turn around 2 from 2 with 2 walks, 3 RBI’s
Timbo – 0 from 0 with 4 walks
Gavin – 2 doubles, 1 HPB
Donk – 2 from 4, 2 steals
Luke – 1 from 4
Mozz – 2 from 4

 

2016/17 Summer Round 2 Match Report

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14485052_10154148842163935_2301411152003105241_nManager: Andy Malthouse
Scorer: Kim Malthouse

Score: NCRebels 12  –  Essendon 9 

Match report courtesy of Manager Andy Malthouse

Well we have all played baseball in some pretty windy conditions but this was the first game I have ever played where the players had to not wear their caps, it was that windy.

Our first home game of the season and it was against the old foe. Essendon. Seeing this is our first season, we have to pick some one to be our arch rival so it might as well be them.

It was good to see Ravneel come down and watch for a while and Alan as well. Thanks for the support. In the canteen, we had Mr and Mrs Clarke, awesome job and helps for helping out today.

For his first official game as an umpire, Stu White was behind the dish and he did a great job. Brucey did the line and everyone on the team really appreciate the effort you guys put in.

It was a great game. Final score was 12 to 9 but it sounds closer than it was.

I took the mound to start the game as I thought I would be able to handle the wind a bit better than most and did a pretty good job. After 4 innings, 7 hits, 5 k’s, no walks, 5 runs with 1 earnt. Threw 46 strikes and 9 balls. Pretty happy with that especially after last week where I could only manage to throw 9 pitches before the arm was too sore. Maurice came on in relief and continues to show that he is developing well as a pitcher. 2 innings, 3 hits, 1 k, 2 walks, 4 runs, 2 earnt, 32 strikes and 24 balls.

Hitting wise, I am excited about the people we have. With Will Needham, Nathan Dalty and Maurice Sacco our first 3, that is a really strong top order and today proved it with these 3 guys scoring 7 times between them. Neil Ray does what a Donk does and continues to hit the ball hard, Gavin was dropped one spot this week and had a blinder hitting 2 doubles for he’s best hitting game I have seen. Everyone continues to battle each at bat and that is all I can ask for. Try not to be an easy out and do a minimum job, advance base-runners, put the pressure on the pitcher to throw good pitches, put the ball in play and make the fielders get you out. Running wise, we had 18 steals today. This created pressure on the fielding team and through that we created at least 6 runs that we may not have scored otherwise. Excellent job.

Training is the key if we want to continue to improve. See you all Thursday.

Will – HPB, walk, 3 steals, 2 runs
Nathan – 1 single, 1 double, 3 runs, 3 steals, 2 rbi’s
Maurice – 1 single, 1 walk, 2 runs, 3 steals
Neil – 1 single, 1 walk, 1 run, 1 steal, 1 rbi
Gavin – 1 walk, 2 doubles, 1 run, 1 steal, 1 rbi
Andy – 1 single, 1 double, 1 run, 3 steals
Tim – 2 walks, 1 Fielders choice, 1 run, 2 steals
Joshua – 1 walk, 2 steals, 1 run

Them 2 0 2 1 2 2 = 9
Us 2 0 8 2 0 – = 12

2016/17 Summer Round 1 Match Report

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Manager: Andy Malthouse
Ass Manager: Cath Shelley
Scorer: Kim Malthouse

Score: Research 19 – NC Rebels 9

Match report courtesy of Manager Andy Malthouse

Firstly, I could not be more proud of the 12 people who were there today wearing the Rebels uniform. It’s not very often that new club is formed and although we are all part of the North Coburg Rebels, this is Summer and a new and exciting chapter in our history. Thanks to our supporters and thanks to Kim for scoring.
Paul, all that hard work has paid off. From me and I’m sure everyone else, congratulations. If it was not for your hard work, this would still be a dream.

What a day. Beautiful sunshine greeted us at Research for our first game ever and although it was a bit windy, we were all so looking forward to getting out there and continuing the legacy which is the North Coburg Rebels.
With Cath Shelly as my Assistant Manager today, we went into the game with 10 players. All except one being old faces from winter. I would like to welcome Glenn Wimetal to the family for his first ever game of baseball.
We started pretty well, getting 2 in the 1st but they tied it up with 2 of their own. The 2nd saw us score another but they answered with 5 to take a 7 to 3 lead after 2 innings. We then answered with 5 of our own and with great pitching by Bruce Barnes, we kept them to 0 to take a 8 to 7 lead after 3. With one more in the top of the 4th, that is where the wheels fell off. They came back scoring 7 and then 5 to eventually win the game 19 – 9.
Mozz started on the mound and did a great job in the conditions. Pitch counts were a concern today as I wanted to not over use any arms too early in the season, so Mozz only threw 1 and 2/3 innings. Bruce relieved and threw really well until the Research bats started firing. Tim Karas then came on to finish the game. It was a good start to the season with our main chuckers getting a good work out in. Hopefully this will set us up well over the next few weeks.
Batting wise, we also did pretty well. We have a pretty handy team with the bat and I can’t wait to see what it does when we come up against some average pitching.
Standouts: Nathan went to 2 from 3 with a double. Gavin no HPB’s and a Sac Fly. Bruce, a nice blooper over 1st. Doesn’t matter how they come as long as they do. Donk, donked a deep one for a double. Tim got single and myself went 2 from 2 with 2 doubles.
We still have a lot of work to do but things looked pretty good for a first game. We need to work on waiting for our pitch. You don’t need to swing at a pitch just because its a strike, be patient. We battled hard and did not give them too many easy outs. Only 6 strikeouts which is ok. We can improve on that.
In summary, a great start to the season and its a relief to get the first one out of the way.
Just one last thing, I could not sign off without mentioning one special event that occurred today. Congrats to Paul M Clarke. What a weekend. The Doggies win the AFL Grand Final and he had he’s first spew at a baseball game.