HASTINGS Redbacks under 12 representative team had its first taste of competition recently.
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As an adjunct to the Youth Championships, the U12s conducted its own round robin series at Tuffins Lane over the June long weekend against teams from Pittwater and Cronulla.
All teams performed well, however Hastings clearly held the advantage and emerged the victors at the completion of the weekend, having only lost one game.
Pitching throughout the weekend for Hastings were Michael Hales, Brad and Laurie Jackson, Adam Cecil, Addam Greenaway, Blake Owen, Scott Harrison, Jazz Brady, Rhys Longbottom, Sam Flanagan and Tom Christie, while catching duties were performed by Bradley Spicer and Anthony Price.
Completing the line-up were Jackson Tatnell and David Marsh, who both gave their best in their first outings as representative “live” ball players.
Strong batting from all team members kept the Sydney teams on the defensive. The Jackson boys hit consistently well throughout the weekend, chalking up several three-baggers.
The U14s also took this opportunity to play, its opposition being a combined Cronulla-St Patrick’s team, and played one game per day and gained valuable game experience before the beginning of the representative season.
The following players have been selected to represent Hastings Baseball in the 2001 representative season:
U10s T-ball: Heath Jeskie, Tammy McMillan, Joseph King, Patrick Faeh, Meg Atherton, Edi Burrett from Kempsey Cougars, Haydn O’Brien from Red Sox, Sam Mathews from Giants and Ben Green, Anthony Steep and Kyle South from Hawks.
The U10s will be coaches by Lynne McMillan, with Paul Matyheson assisting. Jenny Mickelson is the scorer and Jane Jeskie is the executive officer.
U12s: Kevin Spicer is head coach, with Kerry Spicer and Terry Price assistant coaches. Anne-Marie Cecil and Denise Greenaway will share scoring duties and Leonie Price is the executive officer.
The players are: from Kempsey Cougars - Flanagan, Marsh and Harrison; from Red Sox - Brad Jackson, Laurie Jackson, Brady, Greenaway, Cecil, Longbottom, Tom Christie, Hales, Price and Spicer; from Hawks - Owen.
U14s: Paul Martin will head the coaching staff, assisted by Tony Mickelson. Michell Elford is the scorer and John Kwast is the executive officer.
The under 14 representative players are: from Hawks - Courtney Owen and Joel Green; from Kempsey Cougars - Kim McMillan, Joel Jeskie, Atherton, Robert Burns, Jonathon Burns and Jim Currie; from Giants - Matt Lyons, Daniel Martin and Paul Elford; from Red Sox - Christie, Andrew Hales and Aidan Kwast.
The first representative outing for the teams is the Coasties Cup, which will be held on the Central Coast during the second week of the school holidays.
This carnival will offer a diverse field of competition with both country and metropolitan teams attending.
Round eight of regular competition was held at Tuffins Lane and produced a mixed bag of results.
In the junior competition both the Red Sox U12s had convincing wins over Giants and Kempsey.
In the U14s the roles were reversed with the Giants defeating the Red Sox and Cougars taking the points from Hawks.
Red Sox was victorious over the Cougars in the U16s.
In the senior competition, Red Sox and Giants called it a draw in C grade.
The other C grade game was also a close affair with Hawks winning five runs to three.
In B grade, Giants put 15 runs on the board to Cougars eight, while Rebels and Hawks had a much closer game with the latter taking the win 12 runs to 10.
Red Sox fell victim to the Giants 19 runs to six, and Hawks was the other A grade winner, beating Cougars 10 runs to five.
Round nine draw - all games at Blackbutt Park, Wauchope:
Tomorrow:
C grade: 5pm to 7pm Giants v Hawks.
B grade: 7.30pm to 9.30pm Giants v Hawks.
Sunday:
8.30am to 9.45am: U/12 Giants v Kempsey, Red Sox 2 v Red Sox 1; 8.30am to 10am: U/16 Giants v Red Sox, Cougars bye; 9.55am to 10.55am: U/8 Giants v Red Sox 2, Kempsey v Red Sox 1; 10.15am to 11-45am: U/14 Giants v Hawks, Kempsey v Red Sox; 11.05am to 12.05pm: U/10 Giants v Hawks, Kempsey v Red Sox; 12.15pm to 2.15pm: C grade Kempsey v Red Sox; 12.15pm to 2.15pm: B grade Rebels v Kempsey; 2.30pm to 4.30pm: A grade Giants v Hawks, Red Sox v Cougars.
