Great way to end the season

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….With two wins on a double header weekend!!! That’s right. The Major League team took a clean sweep of the spoils this weekend and finished the season on a high.

Saturday’s game against Westridge ended after seven frames due to Bothasig puvlerising the opposition into a 11-0 lead which Westridge could not come back from. Jared Elario started and finished the game and tallied 13 strikeouts for the day.

Sunday’s game followed pretty much the same approach, with Bothasig hitting the ball hard and Westridge not. Birtus, Lucas and KB did the honours with the ball and managed to keep the opposition score down to 1. Final score: 7-1, to the sig.

The MLR team also finished the league on Saturday in fine form with a 11-4 win over Westridge. It is always great to see young players loving the game and looking to play aggressively. Many of theses players will be stars in the future and will keep the first team players on their toes. It was great playing with them again, and after winter we’ll be doing it again… Keep fit, it will be here before we know it.

This Wednesday brings the playoffs of the top 4 ML teams for this Saturday’s playoff final. Watch the BAWP site for details.

Our junior teams will be playing the ‘curtain raisers’ for this final as they have all finished in the top two places of their leagues. Great job. The schedule follows:
U14: Durbanville v Bothasig at 10:45
U12: Bothasig v Durbanville at 12:30
U10: Bothasig v Durbanville at 14:00
The U16 game has been cancelled.

After that, it’s the National Inter-Regional Tournament to focus on, where we have quite a few junior and senior players represented.

Good luck for these games and remain good ambassadors for your club.

Final league games of the season

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Yes, your reading is fine…the season is about to come to an end.

Pleasantly so though, especially with the Major League team taking the honours in a well fought battle against Durbanville last weekend with a 7-5 win. Bothasig took the lead early in the game and in the third frame, we had a rally of hits and managed to batt all round the order and score 4 runs. In the 5th, with two runners on, KB popped one over the left field fence and took the scoreline to 7-0. We held the scoreline until the 7th frame, where Durbanville took 4 back. In the eighth, they managed to get another single, creating a bit of tension in the game, but Jarred, who relieved Birtus after the 6th, managed to regain his composure and blow the opposition away.
Great game to watch.

Other good news is that the junior playoffs will take place on the 24th March, where all the Bothasig age groups will be represented on the field.

The games for this Saturday and Sunday have been re-arranged a bit,  with the senior sides playing Westridge at Home on Saturday and the MLteam playing Westridge in Mitchells Plain on Sunday.

Junior games  for Saturday are as follows:
U10A playing Fish Hoek at Home at 08:30
U12A playing Milnerton at Crusaders at 10:30
U14 playing Phillipi Angels at Lansdowne at 10:30
U16 playing Athlone at Athlone at 08:30

On Wednesday 21 March, the U16 team will take on Blaauwberg at Blaauwberg at 09:00.

The junior Prizegiving will be held at the club on Friday 23 March at 19:00. Please attend and note that there will be a bring and braai afterwards. The junior players will receive a sponsored boerewors roll and the club will start the fires for the adults braai.

The ML team will be hosting a bring and braai at the club after to say goodbye to Jean and Lucas.

Think that’s all for now.

WP Senior Squads Announced !!!

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Hi Guys

We would like to congratulate the following Bothasig Senior Players who have been selected for the Western Province Squads touring to Johannesburg end of April 2012.

WP – A:
Pitchers:         Jarred Elario, Birtus Mostert
Catchers:        Kyle Botha, Dayle Feldman

WP – B:
Pitchers:         Jean Saywer
Infielders:        JP Norman

WP U23:
Pitchers:         Devon Clarke
Infielders:        Keenan Clarke
Outfielders:     Miguel Ferreira, Keifer Smith

 

 

Bothasig Fixtures for Sat 10 March 2012

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The end of season is rapidly approaching and the excitement of the National tournament is definitely growing in some. We’ve got less than a month of preparation left, so all those boys selected need to keep working hard so that you can be in the best shape you possible in order to get the result you deserve: GOLD.

This weekend marks the second last ‘league’ game and the fixtures follow:
U10A and U10C at 08H30 at Kenfac
U12A 08h30, U12B at 10h30, both games at Athlone
U14 at 08h30 at Durbanville
U16 at  08h30 at Bothasig playing Bellville.

MLR at 13:15, and ML at 15:45 against Durbanville at Bothasig.

Please come and support your favorite teams.

Now, about last weekend. The Major League team took on Athlone away, which was always going to be a tough game. The first 2 frames, went off clinically with neither team scoring, however, thereafetr, Athlone started with 2, then 1, then a series of 1 runs dotted throughout the game’s progression, while the Bothasig score remained on 0. Final score 7-0.

The Sig players definitely showed showed some character in the field making some nice plays and limiting the errors, however we cannot win a game with the grand total of 1 hit for the game. Especially when the 1 hit comes very late in the game. We have hitters and a hitting attitude, we just need to take it to the game…keep working boys.

Saturday 3 March…yes it’s March already!!!

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Ok, so the ML team has had a pretty bad run of luck over the past few weekends and is currently on a 5 game losing streak…some of it partially self inflicted and some not…either way, it’s a good time to come back and turn the tables on second on the log Athlone Athletics when they play on Saturday at Athlone.

The MLR team is standing on 5th spot within 2 points of 3rd position, so this will also be a hotly contested match. This starts at 13:15 at Athlone.

The Under16′s will be playing at VOB at 10:30, the U14′s on bye, U12′s at Sivertree, B team at 08:30 and the A team at 10:30; the U10A side will be at Thistle at 08:30.

A little aside:
Over the past few weekends, I’ve watched quite a bit of baseball and started to consider when should a team regard the game as lost. In other words, when during the game, your side is down by 1 run, 4 runs or 8 runs, is the score too high to come back?

See, the dillemma is that we often see the ‘fight’ leave our favorite team and they start to play for the game to end rather than to win the game. Come on, you’ve seen it too and must have felt a bit disappointed, No?

Well, I dont have the answer to that question, but I can tell you that in this game, which is probably the most defining factor of the sport of baseball, I’ve seen a team come back from trailing 14-0 in the final frame, with light fading and win 15-14 with 2 down.

SO my friends, should we ever be in a position where we think that the game is over because we trail by too much?

You decide whether you want to be a winner or a loser.

This is a great game….have fun.

Double Header Weekend 18/19 Feb 2012

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Howdy Baseball fans,

This weekend is a bit of a ride around for those involved in junior and senior games. Not much we can do about that since the juniors are playing the first round of the knockout after finishing the league fairly successfully last weekend. If I’m not mistaken, I think that at least three junior teams have won the league…this of course will have to be confirmed through BAWP.

The ML team will continue to complete their league, which consists of 28 games, and the MLR of 21 games.

The updated stats are here: Results and Stats

But, to get back to business.

On Saturday, 18 Feb, the Major League and MLR side play Blaauwberg in Sunningdale at 15:45 and 13:15 respectively.

On Sunday 19 Feb, the Major League will be taking on Durbanville at Durbanville at 12:30. This promises to be a good match up, so pop around to watch our boys win two in a row.

Junior Games:

U16 at Durbanville against Westridge at 10:30

U14 at Bothasig against Bellville at 8:30

U12 at Bothasig; A team against Athlone at 10:15; B Team against Silvertree at 8:30

U10A at VOB at 8:30

U10C at Bothasig against Plumstead at 10:15.

Sunday 5 Feb: Sig v Athlone

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Now this morning when I saw the weather, I knew it would be well spent at the beach in icy cold water, but we braved the heat and came to support our boys from the sig.

Athlone brought their bats with them today and put them to frequent good use. They went up quickly by 1 in the first frame with Birtus on the mound. Carl Michaels carved up the Bothasig opposition with no meaningfull contact being made for most of the early part of the game. Athlone worked with a  diligent approach and kept the scoreboard ticking up to 5 runs. Jared Elario relieved Birtus and slowed the run rate a bit.

In the 5th frame, Bothasig broke the shut out with Dayle batting JP in from first base with a single to right field. Bothasig had their best opportunity when youngster Devon Koff relieved Carl in the 7th. It was probably the best time to bleed a young pitcher when you have a full strength field to back him up. Anyway, Bothasig saw this as an oportunity and Keenie got a hit to left field, Lukas drives one up the middle, and Kerschoff errors a potential double play at short stop. Kyle draws a walk. Bases loaded. JP up to bat. Too eager and dribbles one straight to the pitcher for a simple 123 double to end the innings.

Other plays of note was a great diving catch of a foul flyball by cather Dayle close to the dugout followed by a interesting debate between the two camps of spectators questioning the visual ability of the umpire after an Athlone batter ran into his bunted ball down the first base line :-) I must say it’s been a while since I’ve seen Neil run so fast to check that the umpire could in fact see.

So after an action packed packed day, I’m not too sad that there was no swell at the beach today and I made it to the game… 5-1 to Athlone

Keep up trucking boys…

Saturday 4 Feb: Sig v Pirates

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It was quite a hot day out at the Sig on Saturday and everyone was in good spirits with Dayle celebrating his 21st birhday at the field.

Pirates didnt look like they were going to scare Bothasig with their bats as their first three batters spent a short time visiting the plate. Bothasig were operating form the opposite pole however, as they quickly put 4 runs on the scoreboard, followed by 3 in the second frame. Pirates put their only run on the board in the 4th with a two hit rally. The Bothasig fielding was clinical to say the least with the best play of the day being awarded to Kyle Botha with a brilliant example of how to stay down on a sharply hit ball at third and being able to cover a bad bounce to make the play.

The game was called mercifully to a halt afte the seventh frame with the score at 11-1 in favour of Bothasig.

Another great game boys.

HOME Games for Sat 4 Feb and Sunday 5 Feb

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All games will be played at home on Saturday, mostly versus Helderberg Pirates.The big dawgs play at 15:45 as always.

On Sunday, the Major League team will be playing Athlone A’s at home at 12:30. This promises to be a humdinger with both sides showing some good form of late.

Pop in and enjoy the sunshine and good ball…