Category: Senior Rebels

Coaching Position at the Rebels: Expressions of Interest sought.

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In late 2017, Lisa Norrie wrote herself into the history books by becoming the first female coach in the Australian Baseball League and she was there in the dugout as the assistant coach to the Brisbane Bandits as they took out the championship and Claxton Shield for the 2017/18 season.

While we cannot emulate winning the Claxton the North Coburg Rebels Baseball Club is looking for a female coach to spearhead and implement a program to increase female engagement and participation at our club. We have a strong female presence in our committee and full support will be offered at every turn, including subsidising of coaching accreditation or development.

In addition to the Women’s program, there is scope for the incumbent, if suitably qualified, to take an active leadership role as the coach or assistant coach of one of our higher graded winter teams. There is also the option to coach one of the lower grades if they prefer.

We are looking at this process as a conversation, the opportunity to engage with a coach who may have fresh ideas and a new way of doing things.
While keen to have someone in time for the start of the winter season, we understand that these things take time to implement and so will be keeping expressions of interest open until such time the position is filled.

Don’t think you are ready to take the leap this season? Contact us anyway and let’s get the dialogue started.

Expressions of interest to be emailed to secretary@rebelsbc.com

Presentation Night Wrap Up

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Summer baseball starts this Sunday but we have one final thing to wrap up from the Winter Season and that is the Senior presentation evening.

It was a mixed bag for our senior teams this year, with only the 5ths making it through to finals in the EE grade, however, the sheer number of talented juniors coming up through the ranks and playing senior ball means that our future is looking bright indeed.

Being nowhere near as fancy as last years 30th celebrations didn’t stop the Rebels faithful turning up and seeing off the season in style however and a great evening was had by all. Some may have regretted Sunday how good an evening it was, but that’s not for me to judge..

Congratulations to all our award winners

B- Grade

  • MVP – Taisuke Sakaguchi
  • Batting Award – Taisuke Sakaguchi .514
  • Fielding Award – Tim Lee Tet
  • Coaches Award – Craig Learmonth

B – Reserve

  • MVP – Maurice Sacco
  • Batting Award – Chris Taylor .522
  • Fielding Award – Ryan Golledge
  • Coaches Award – Sean Goodman

D – Grade

  • MVP – Gary Cotchin
  • Batting Award – Gary Cotchin .595
  • Fielding Award – Darren Verrall
  • Coaches Award – Greg Pell

EE – Grade

  • MVP – Paul Baker
  • Batting Award – Neil Ray .488
  • Fielding Award – Hamish Kemp
  • Coaches Award – Glenn Wimetal

EL – Grade

  • MVP – Will Needham
  • Batting Award – Cody Mann .500
  • Fielding Award – Jack Pinches
  • Coaches Award –Tim Karas

Andrew Malthouse Shield (Junior Club person)

  • Ravneel Prasad

Senior Club person

  • Stuart White

David Moloney Shield

  • Taisuke Sakaguchi

Life Membership 

  • Neil Ray

 

 

2016/17 Summer Rebels Wrap Up

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We’ve had a great summer at the Rebels, so to end off the season we have a few, OK a lot of, words from team manager/coach/all round good guy: Andy Malthouse.

As a coach of a team, before that first game comes around, there are a lot of uncertainties that occupy a considerable amount of your time thinking about them.

You worry about firstly having enough players and worrying about how they will all fit together as a team.

Do you have enough catchers, do you have enough pitchers? Why do I have four 1st basemen? That’s not going to work, what if I try this and what if he or she plays there.

Why is there a lefty on my team? God I hate lefty’s.  🙂

You worry about training sessions and keeping everyone interested and enjoying it. You have to set a goal for the season and you need to understand what each individual’s goal is. Why are they playing? What do they want out of this season?

 But you know something? It all works out in the end.

 My goal for any team that I coach is about participation and about trying to allow the individual to reach the goals that they have set.  Yes winning is important, it’s one goal that everyone has but at the end of the day, winning is not always possible. Some teams are just that much better or we didn’t play that well or luck was not on our side. On those days, our goals may need to change. We need to focus on what I could have done better. How can I learn from what happened today?

 Now looking back, I think that we all reached our goal.  I know I did. We all seemed to enjoy training and playing and most of all, as a team we improved immensely during the course of the season.  Yes there were some hard times as a team and as players but we bounced back from those. So much so that after losing 26 to 5 against North West Titans (our biggest loss), we bounced back and won 6 out of the next 7 games. We beat the teams placed 1st, 2nd and 4th on the ladder and the game we lost, we may have won if some of our stars were not missing that day.

 So what a season, I only have satisfaction from coaching this year. It was a pleasure and a honour to be the first ever Coach for the Rebels in Summer. I also have so much respect and pride for every single person who put a glove on to play this season. I am also so very proud and thankful for the other people that helped us during this season. From Stu who umpired each home game, to Kim who scored with some cameo’s from Paula, to Jane and Paul’s parents who ran the canteen. They are all wonderful people and what a family we have here at the Rebels.

Well there you have it, our first summer season has come and gone, and what an amazing experience it has been for all involved.

We’d like to offer our hearty congratulations to the following players for their brilliant performances in the Rebel colours, and look forward to many more summers to come.

MVP’s – Bruce Barnes and Nathan Dalton
Batting – Nathan Dalton
Fielding – Gavin Alki
Coaches Award for Most Improved – Matt Prowse

2016/17 Summer Round 17 Match Report

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Manager: Andy Malthouse
Scorer: Kim Malthouse

Score: NC Rebels 22 – Geelong 5 

There are a lot of emotions at the end of any baseball game, more so when it is the last one for the season. So including feeling hungry, thirsty, wanting to sit down, getting out of those damn cleats, you also have emotions such as relief, fulfilment, satisfaction but most of all pride. Pride in the people that you have had the honour of playing with over the past 17 rounds.

This season had its ups and downs, as you would expect, but it was by far a rewarding experience. Playing with such diverse people who love the game so much, who just love getting out there and having a go was an absolute privilege and thank you from me to everyone for the experience and the memories. The first ever Summer Rebels team. How did Charlie Sheen say it, “Winning!!”

This week we travelled to the sunny little sea side hamlet of Geelong. Geelong had not won a game all year but that was no reason to still not come out hard and finish off the season in grand style. And that is how we played.

With a ring in on the mound throwing for them, we still managed to continue the great hitting that we have done over the past 5 weeks. Everyone got a hit except for Will who hit well but the luck was just not with him.

3+6+5+2+6 = 22

Donk lived up to his name, Bruce, gibbo’ed them, Nathan did a Dalty on them while Mozz legged out another in the park. Glenn got a well deserved hit, Matt was on fire and Cath the Maverick Shelley bamboozled them with two awesome hits. The Gangster Danny smashed it with his 32″ piece of wood. The best hit of the day was Gavin, suffering from the flu, catching the whole day, shrugged off all frustration, got mad for once and smashed a big hit over Left. Awesome to watch. Been expecting it all season, but now that it’s happened, I expect more in winter big man.

So at the end of it all, we won 22 to 5.
Bruce 2 from 5
Nathan 2 from 3
Maurice 2 from 2, 1 triple
Neil 2 from 3, 2 doubles
Glenn 1 from 4
Will 0 from 4
Gavin 2 from 3, 1 home run
Andy 1 from 2
Matt 3 from 3, 1 double
Cath 2 from 4
Danny 2 from 4

At the end of the season, we had 8 wins and 8 losses. We scored 170 runs and also gave up 170 runs. How freaky is that. We ended up 6th out of 12.

Thanks to everyone involved this season, from the players to Stu, Kim, Paula, Jane, Alan, Danielle, Clarky’s parents and anyone else who came down to watch and have a laugh. Presentation night this Saturday, 7 pm at the club rooms. Everyone is welcome to come down for a drink.

2016/17 Summer Round 16 Match Report

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Manager: Andy Malthouse
Scorer: Kim Malthouse

Score: NC Rebels 33 – Footscray 8

Up against Footscray this week, a team who are one week losing to Essendon, then coming out the next with a win against the NW Titans, so we did not know what to expect.

As luck turned out we caught them on a bad day,  and after the coach told me that they had a newbie on the mound, I knew the game was probably going to go our way.

The game was tight all the way up to the first pitch, from then on, we took control and did not let up.

In the top of the 1st, we had them out quickly for no score and then with a guy that had never thrown much before, we capitalized and showed good restraint in the batting box to not chase too much crap. After being 2 out for no score (soft come backer to the pitcher who caught it and doubled out Maurice), the shackles were broken and we then preceded to score 20 runs before the next out was registered. In the 1st, they threw 8 walks, 5 HPB’s and we had 9 safe hits.

In the 3rd, Maurice came on to pitch but struggled to find any groove and they scored 3 and then 4 in the next 2 innings.

We also hit well scoring 7 and 6 to give us a win 33 to 8.

Hitting wise:
Bruce 2 from 3
Nathan 1 from 3
Maurice 0 from 2
Danny 2 from 4
Andy 3 from 3
Will 0 from 0 (3 walks and 1 HPB)
Neil 3 from 3
Gavin 1 from 2
Tim 2 from 2
Matt 1 from 2
Beno (fill in) 3 from 4

 

2016/17 Summer Round 15 Match Report

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Manager: Andy Malthouse
Scorer: Kim Malthouse

Score: NC Rebels 13 – Essendon 8 

What can I say, some people amaze me.

This week we played Essendon Bombers who were 4th on the ladder and the week before beat a team just below us on the ladder 30 – 3. When you put that together, it did not look good for our chances this week.

Having said that, I put to the team that I had a fantasy the night before of winning the last 3 games. I don’t want to go into details as there could be minors that see this report but it was incentive enough for us to put in a real good effort and beat Essendon 13 to 8.

These people amaze me. Each and every one of them. From Bruce on the mound using a 14 inch glove which is as big as his feet to Nathan at 3rd who has tremendous range to Cath who is like a mongoose at second. Tim had a great game at 1st, Mozz took some crucial fly’s at right and Matt and Danny combined in the outfield to morph into one and take a blinder. Gavin is a wall behind the plate and all of these efforts helped limit Essendon’s ability to score runs.

After 4 innings, we were down 4 – 2. We had a great defensive innings and then that’s when we took control piling on 11 runs to take the game by the throat. In an innings where we saw 3 pitchers try to stop our momentum, we had 6 hits, 4 walks and 1 hpb.

Baseball is great.

Key Performances:
Everyone scored at least once.
Bruce and Gavin are a great combination.
Everyone is playing as a team.

2016/17 Summer Round 14 Match Report

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Manager: Paul Clarke
Scorer:  Paula Sutherland

Score: NW Titans 16  – NC Rebels 5

Andy was off on a road trip following the Melbourne Aces this week so the match report is courtesy of Paul. Clearly a man of few, but succinct words.

We played a NW Titans side that effectively picked us apart last time we played. This time however we were run for run until the last 4 outs of the game when they put us away.

We’ve come a long way this season and it’s now time to finish off strong and be competitive. And win. Winning is fun so we should do that too.

We return home for two games before heading off to Geelong for the final game, so come on down and have a look at your Rebels!

2016/17 Summer Round 13 Match Report

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Manager: Andy Malthouse
Scorer: Kim Malthouse

Score: NC Rebels 11 – Research 7 

Today we played Research who were undefeated after 12 rounds. We had 3 of our best out in Donk, Will and Nate and if this was a game you could bet on, you would have given us pretty bad odds.

Just as well you can’t bet as we would have taken your money. We won 11 – 7.

Even though Research were missing some players as well we still had the guts and the determination to take it up to them and in the end beat them convincingly. Bruce was masterful on the mound again throwing all 7 innings, striking out 5, but more importantly, only walking 2. That made them hit and as a team, we are doing our best to back him up with only 1 error recorded. That is probably the most satisfying thing about the win, where ever I place people, they are performing the role perfectly. From Mozz playing 1st then 3rd to Gavin behind the dish. Everyone has really stepped it up in the field and I am proud of everyone.

Gavin, was fantastic behind the dish and really is calling a great game. Bruce, as I said pitched a blinder and continues to be that consistent chucker we have needed.

Danny is flawless in the outfield and Cath made some good plays as well.

Batting is where it’s all happening. Everyone hit the ball apart from me. Bruce hit two doubles as lead off.  Mozz went 2 from 3, Danny went 2 from 4, Gavin 1 from 2 (no HPB’s), Matt went 1 from 3, Grant went 1 from 2 with a Muffed Fly, Cath 1 from 2, Paul 1 from 2, Tim 1 from 3, Glenn put the ball into play which puts pressure on the opposition.

Once again, the spark was created by our lower order who scored us 4 in the 2nd to tie it up. That’s when we thought we could win. That’s when it all started, so well done to Matt, Cath, Paul and Tim who all got hits to get us back in the game.

To be honest, today should not have happened, but it did. That’s sport, that’s baseball and that is why we all love this game so much. You never know what’s going to happen. It’s like a Kinda Surprise.

Now earlier I mentioned a special name. Grant. Thanks G Man for coming down and lending a hand. You still have it, the game has missed you and we would be welcome you anytime you can make it.

Thanks to Stu once again and also to Alan for line umpiring. Thanks Jane for her help in the canteen and also to Kim for scoring.

That was our 5th win and the best so far. Awesome job everyone.