Presentation Night Wrap Up

 

 

 

 

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

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

Winter 2016 Award Winners

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B Grade:
MVP: Andrew Banks & Wei Ling Tsai
Batting: Wei Ling Tsai
Fielding: YU Teng Chen
Coaches: Ravneel Prasad

B Res
MVP: Matthew Raphael
Batting: Cliff Lloyd
Fielding: Brayden McTigue
Coaches: William Needham

D Grade
MVP: Daniel Benson
Batting: Anthony Tardio
Fielding: Bruce Barnes
Coaches: Charlie Sutherland

EL
MVP: Maurice Sacco
Batting: Maurice Sacco
Leadership Award: Nick Doria, Gavin Alki &  Tim Karas
Young Achiever: Khelan Morrey

EE
MVP: Joel Zika
Batting: Ben Jupp
Fielding: Josh Ray
Coaches: Cath Shelley & Fiona Lockie