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The Rebels are getting a new batting cage

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There has been a lot of talk over the past year about our new batting cage, and we’ve just heard the exciting news from our builder that a building permit is expected to be issued before the end of the month. We’re hopeful to have it up and ready in time for the 2019 Winter season!

First however we need to demolish the old cage and get the site ready for construction so get yourselves ready for a good old fashioned working bee. Date to be confirmed but we are looking to have it done by the middle of Feb so keep an eye on our social channels for details.

You can see some before and potential after shots below, but it will double in width as well as be increased length wise. A solid roof will protect us from the elements and decent lighting will ensure you see every pitch.

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

 

 

Rebels shine at Junior Winter Championships

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The Rebels had 6 players representing Diamond Valley at the recent U12 and U14 State Winter Championships.

 

 

The U12’s team took out a Gold medal,  winning Division 1, with Rebel Will Dunn claiming the team MVP.

http://www.baseballvictoria.com.au/News-Events/diamond-valley-bendigo-win-u12-titles

 

 

 

 

The U14 carnival was hampered by heavy rain on the final day, and the DV team were in a good position to take out a gold medal against reigning champs Dandenong.

Unfortunately, with unplayable diamonds, the  final positions were based on the standings after the five pool games

http://www.baseballvictoria.com.au/News-Events/four-in-a-row-for-dandenongs-u14s

Junior Rebels make DVJBA Rep Teams

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We’re proud to announce that eight of our junior Rebels have been selected to Diamond Valley Junior Baseball Association representative teams.

Hayden Davis, Campbell Every, Denzel Lopetti and Ryan Wu will compete at the Baseball Victoria U14 Winter Championships to be held in Frankston, Victoria from 22 to 23 July 2017, while Will Dunn will compete in the U12 Winter Championships to be held in Bendigo, Victoria from 29 to 30 July 2017.

U16 representatives are Ryan Golledge, Trenell Hutchins and Lachlan Davis who will head to Wangaratta from July 8th – 9th

Congratulations to all those picked for the squads and all the very best in July.

 

Junior Rebels head off to Little League Championships

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It is with great pleasure that we share with you all a great achievement for a couple of our junior club members. Two of our younger players are flying out this week to participate in the Little League Championships up in Lismore, Queensland.  Both Campbell Every and Denzel Pelle-Lopeti, two of our U13’s, will be representing the Diamondbacks and if they win the competition, they will then get an all-expenses paid trip to America later in the year to represent Australia at the Little League World Series.

 So from everyone at the club, good luck kids and make sure to do yourself, your parents and the club proud.

Game 1 for the Diamondbacks will be on Wednesday, June 7at 11:15 am and you can keep up with all the news, scores and the live streams on the LLA website – http://www.littleleague.org.au/Little-League/Bendigo-Bank-Australian-Little-League-Championship

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 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!

Female participation survey

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downloadMoreland Council City seeks information about your experiences of being a member of our sports club. Council values your input on the programs and strategies that have attracted and kept you at involved in this sport club. To help Council further develop policies, strategies and resources, they would like to know what you think have been successful and what could be developed to increase the number of female players and leaders at our club.

Council have commissioned researchers from Victoria University to conduct an independent evaluation. The below link is to a survey for you to complete and will take approximately 20 minutes. Prior to deciding whether or not to participate in the survey, please read the Participant Information outlined at the start of the survey, which provides important information about the project. Upon agreement, you can click into the survey. The information you provide will be confidential will be sent directly to the researchers.

 Completion of this survey will contribute to our club’s participation in Council’s Club Development Initiatives and as a result, our club will receive a 10% discount on its tenancy allocation.

 Should you wish to participate in the study, we ask that you complete the online survey by Monday 20 December.

Council looks forward to your valued input to grow and retain the number of females as leaders and players in sport clubs.

To be taken to the FEMALE PLAYER survey please click here