Back we came despite the threat of rain and we had a full complement of girls, in fact we had an excess of players.


But we had a down side, No Calvin, The Big C was not present to pitch .. this left us with a quandry. who would do it...

Well we got a a Rafa, Gary B stepped in to the big shoes, and by gum he was good..

The other team however had turned up with out enough players , and our captain said we'd give them 2 girls..

after a hullabaloo, we gave them Marie and Fiona.

Moral victory BD 1- Momentum 0


Note to captain: Marie is not being given away, she is playing far too well , I don't care how many camels the ther team offers us.



We'll have to find another sacrifice.. like edward woodward


We batted well we fielded well we just have to sharpen up on the base running.. (We had a situation where we got 2 people out.).

The team:
Alex B (Getting Better)
Fiona showing some improvement in the genral fielding
Gary B
Nick M
Georgie MH
Rob Sw
John Ab
Nick P
Ravi M

Rookie Alert we had a couple of rookies who played pretty well however they seemed to play better when playing aginst us, please stop that.

Georgie MH
Emma
Melissa
and Clarita (Antonios sister, who had a good hit and got on base).

Note to coach
Good fielders at first shortstop and in the outfield, and we need to play a little deeper in the outfield.

This was close and we should have lost this
however due to the good graces of the opposition it was called a draw

Moral Victory
BD 1 Momentum 1

Player of the match: Gary B, pitching well ,and the trash talk was ace, you got at least 2 outs by sweet talking the opposition girls in to swinging at the balls.
Honorable mention Georgie MH hasn't played since she was 10 , got a base hit
Play of the match :Marie , scoring a run for th eoposition , now if we ran like than we could batter the opposition
Special mention: Nick M, He has a cannon for an arm, he hits, and well he's very good.. hmm,
he's playing Clean up hitter for all the matches.

Rookie Alert:
Emma a little timid but played well
Melissa also a good game
Georgie MH

Now we need you guys to come along regularly.

Import of the week: Jacki magafa, can't stay away from the softball coming many thousand miles, and still showing she's got the competitive player despite having no shoes, she got on base.

Having lost the previous game 10 - 6 and also blanked the opposition for the last 2 inning spirits were sort of high, apart from the fact , we had a lot of drop outs...some were even for reallybad reasons like getting their car taxed, or late night shopping (Yes I mean you Alex Hoffler, this payback for the previous weeks)... not too mention Galstonbury and assorted other "lame" excuses.. bd arrived late, and undermanned (or should that be underwomened (mad up word alert)).

The team of

Ravi

Marie

Nick M

Calvin

Claire

Antonio

Natasha

Adam

Fiona and eventually Louisa (More on this heroic effort later) played

Despite the presence of an even more competitive dopelganger Ravi on the other side meant that we batted first . and by gum a star was born , Having got on base with a comfortable single .

Nick M came to the plate , 2 out sand 1 on,

and






Home Run nick .

BD were up 2 nothing but couldn't capitalise....

snap forward we fielded well and were right in it at the end of the inning

2 - 2

Then what is fast becoming a strength became a weakness, we conceded 4 run and couldn't respond putting us down (eventually for the count).

This was the point were our lack of girls hurt us, we didn't have enough outfield protection and every so often we had to tak ethe automatic out.

Our hitting was timely and over the next couple of inning we were starting to claw it back when we suddenly surrendered a couple of runs, usually on misfields... and occassionally at crucial moments.. come on guys.. I believe..

Then some thing happened, one of the opposition was running down the line , when he tripped over first base, and heard something go ...Crack and not Amy Winehouse's favourite substance.

He had actually broken his fibula

That's not his x-ray that would have been really ghoulish.

However The Ambulance proceeded to take an hour (they couldn't find Regents Park apparentl) , and that sort of killed the game we were just getting into, and Lousia had arrived literally minutes early.. just in time to see the game called off...

Player of the Game: Nick M

Play of the Game : Nick booming one out of the park

honorable mentions:

Antonio making a captins decision when required, the player was injured we played on a bit but it wasn't fun, and you know what , calling it was the right decision especially as we started bleeding runs since I was the only person in the outfield.

Rookie of the game: he should win all the awards, but I a giving Rookie of the game award to Tash Fromberg, with a special to the patron sait of lost causes,St Jude, when the opposition punted a blantant home run Natasha ran it down with all the conviction she brings to work...

Super Honorable mention : Louisa H, for turning up beyond the call of duty