becoming a thing! Luis

missing a throw, Linds

doing shout outs, and

Jade’s new captaincy

style of naming players

who aren’t playing!

GOING unbeaten into

semi-finals can only be

done with consistent hit-

ting throughout the or-

der. The best way I can

demonstrate this is being

nearly three times

(succeeding once) 2nd out

for the inning. What I call

pitcher’s pleasure. They

(Continued on page 4)

M SL teams won

all three finals

at last week-

end’s Manchester Tourna-

ment, as the Lions’ Gold

Cup win puts them on

course for the “double”,

having taken over top

spot in the league by beat-

ing the Greensox, who

also lost the previous

week. As reported below,

Bats won Silver, and

Rippers won Bronze.

Lions roar Chris Fulton writes:

HAVING partici-

pated in another

mostly dry and

sunny Manchester

tourno, the headlines

of the weekend could

be about the weather

but let’s focus on

what really counts… Li-

ons three times champs!

How can you win MVP

playing catcher? Why are

the Camels not already in

Div 1? Will Scotland take

revenge in Edinburgh?

And most importantly

was it the strongest top

level ever?!

Historians (or Harry,

Dave W and Pete) can

argue the last point but

Lions were definitely

made to work throughout

with all teams posing a

challenge, whatever the

score lines showed. In

what will hopefully be the

standard going forward,

12 strong teams fought

out a top tier. A growing

flow of London exiles in

need of competition,

merging Manchester

teams and a strong Scot-

tish showing pushed the

level high. Hopefully this

trend continues to keep

Manchester in its rightful

place as 2nd city of UK

Softball.

GROUP games highlights

for Lions were Camels

retiring (GB) Ed’s pitch-

ing game for some time to

come. Crossbody catching

Manchester sweeps own Tournament

BASES LOADED

Inside this issue

Match reports 2

Transfer, Correction 2

Birthdays 3

End-of-season Ball 3

Exec ruling 3

MVPs 4

Outlaws at NSL 6

Next week’s games 7

Results and standings 8

Home runs 5

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Volume 23 Issue 14 No. 410 8/9/10 August 2017

This week’s games Including streaks, pitches and

umpires

Division 1 GRX 2L v THU 1L (4, AG)

LIG 4L v DOD 2W (2, CE)

LIO 8W v MAV 2W (3)

Division 2 CAM 1L v SPE 3W (5, MD)

MUT 4W v MHM 2L (6)

SHA 3L v MV2 1W (9, HS)

Division 3 BAT 16W v STO 1L (6, MD)

DRZ 1L v PIR 2L (7, BA)

TIG 2W v OUT 1W (8, DD)

Division 4 BFL 2L @ REB 6W (ML, 2)

HUR 3L @ PHX 2L (AR, 3)

TTN 2W @ HAC 13W (SS, 1)

Division 5 BLJ 2W @ ENF 2W (TLF, 4)

COL 4W @ MET 12L (PN, 7)

FRZ 11L @ VIP 4L (6, MG)

A S some of you

will know, there

was no-one to collect

the paperwork last

Thursday, thought

captains showed

great initiative by

emailing or texting

the sheets to the

Exec. Well done! An ad-

ditional problem is that

all the score sheets

from last Wednesday

are lost in the post

somewhere between

Cheadle and Chorlton.

Normal service will

hopefully be resumed

some time soon.

Missing box scores

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Division 2 serves up 8-inning cracker Speeders 2 1 1 3 7 0 1 4 19 Camels II 7 0 2 0 1 0 5 2 17 19th July, Umpire Stephen Shearer, Pitch 9 SPEEDERS Stuart Collier (LC), Emma Bennett (LF), Adam Faloona (RC), Clare Heathcote (1B), Jeremy Fothergill (2B), Ellie Cronin (C), Nick Money (SS), Vicky Barlow (3B), Matt O’Casey (P), Cat Thornton (RF); Sub Steve Kellett (for Collier)

HRs: Faloona, Fothergill, Kellett, Bennett

CAMELS II David Dean (RC), Helen Rossiter (LC), Chris Drayton (P), Rachel Sewell (RF), Lee Kendrick-Walker (SS), Holly Jones (2B), Charlie Gardiner (3B), Lynne Howells (1B), Kieran Taylor-Thomas (EP), Bryony James (MET)(EP), AdamCraig (LF), Hayley Broadbent (SHA)(C)

HRs: Sewell, Gardiner

Ed’s note: this report from two weeks

ago was sent to the wrong email ad-

dress, and so was omitted from the last

issue.

ANOTHER Wednesday evening,

another two-hour classic for the

Speeders. Another case of the

opposition racking up a sizeable

early (five-run) lead, the fast

ones finding their feet in the 5th

inning (as usual) and clawing

ahead and the humpbacks

then gamely fighting back in

the last inning to tie the game

from five runs back to take us

into a misty, gloomy 8th inning

as the edge of a mega storm

skirted the USG. Speeders

racked up four runs in lessening

light and then hung on to stop

the ships of the desert with a

final triumphant Nick Money

(SS) and Clare Heathcote (1B)

combo wrapping up another

corker of a hard groundball

play to seal the game.

BUT this was just another ex-

ample this season of a hugely

entertaining Division 2 contest

in which, as an habitué of this

tier (Speeders have won the di-

Match reports (from the last few weeks)

vision four times and been in it

for the last eight years) I would

argue this is the best array of

talent I’ve seen at this level for

a long time and the smallest

margin of difference between

the teams. Our record testifies

to this. Sitting in 4th place, in

exactly the middle, we have lost

by one run to 2nd-placed Cam-

els, beaten 3rd-placed Mayhem,

thumped and been thumped by

5th placed Mavs II, lost twice to

the Sharks and here were taken

right to the wire by a cracking

performance from bottom-

placed Camels II.

SPECIAL mention to fe-

male HR hitters, Rachel Sewell

for Camels II and Emma Ben-

nett for Speeders, an exemplary

centre-field catch and homer

from Adam Faloona and what

may be our infield play of the

year from veteran SS Nick

Money who, sprinting three

paces to his left nabbed a fast

groundball, pirouetted and

nailed his throw to 1st to beat

the male runner, defying

his age and any space-time con-

tinuum with a move worthy of

Sadlers Wells. Take a bow,

maestro ! Matt O’Casey

MVPs Heathcote, Money (SPE),

Rossiter, Kendrick-Walker (CM2)

Rebels overrun Phoenix Rebels 11 0 4 3 13 31 Phoenix 0 5 1 0 1 7 25th July, RAR, Umpire Mike Goff, Pitch 6

REBELS AB H BB R RBI Conor Battersby (LC) 5 3 0 3 4 Hayley McTear (RF) 4 4 1 2 2 Dave Eaton (SS) 5 3 0 3 0 Sarah Cassin (LF) 4 3 1 3 6 Craig Lawson (3B) 5 2 0 1 2 Emma Miller (1B) 4 3 1 2 1 Ian Caird (RC) 4 2 1 3 1 Jen Douglas (2B) 3 3 1 4 2 Julian Jones (P) 3 3 1 4 6

Caroline Jones (MHM)(C) 3 1 1 2 2 Matt Thomas (EP) 3 2 1 1 1 Becky Ellis (MV2)(EP) 3 2 1 3 4 HRs: Battersby 2, Cassin, J Jones

PHOENIX: Saifullah Alias (P), Chloe Patient (3B), Lee Scambler (1B), Jo Chadwick (C), Ben Heinitz (LF), Ra-chel Williams (2B), Alex Charlesworth (RC), Hannah Scott (LC), Ben Hughes (SS), Lizzie Law-rendson (RF), Tom Scott (EP), Mi-chelle Fisher (EP) HR: Scott

FOR the rematch against Phoe-

nix, both teams had a different

lineup and this worked in the

favour of the Rebels who won

31-7. What remained the same

was the fact that both teams

seemed to have a good time

playing each other.

Helping lead the way to victory

were the home-run hitters,

Conor Battersby with two,

Sarah Cassin and Julian Jones

with one each. Julian also bat-

ted 1.000 as did Hayley McTear

and Jen Douglas.

Emma Miller (from New York)

MVPs Cassin, Caird (REB), Willi-

mas, Hughes (PHX)

Correction

In the previews (in BL 12) of

the three Division 3 games

on July 26th, the scores from

the first meetings this sea-

son had not been taken into

account. So Storm were 3-2

up on Drizzle (now 4-2), Ti-

gers 3-1 up on Pirates (now

4-1) and Bats 9-4 up on Out-

laws (now 10-4).

Transfer

Laura Somers, Drizzle to

Hurricanes, 25 July

IN the game between Thun-

der and Meerkats on 19th

July, Thunder brought in a

guest towards the end of

their game, playing 1½ in-

nings. Thunder won the

game by the run-ahead

rule. The guest, playing

“up”, fielded twice and bat-

ted once, in an illegal posi-

tion in the batting or-

der. The substitution had no

extenuating circumstances

and was done to give the

guest some extra playing

time.

The Thunder captain has

stated “I knew she was ros-

tered to a lower division team

and that because of that [I

believed] she could play any-

where and bat anywhere

(when playing up). I agree

it’s a mistake for not knowing

the rules.” The Meerkats

were unaware there was an

issue but are not seeking a

change in the result.

The Exec decided to levy a 2-

point deduction suspended

until the end of the season,

in line with recent rulings

against the Greensox and

Mavericks. The reasons for

this are:

1. It was deemed that no ad-

vantage was gained by

Thunder.

2. The game was almost over

with a run-ahead rule deci-

sion.

3. The decision to bring the

sub on was for a bat and not

an injury substitution.

4. Consistency with recent

rulings was taken into ac-

count.

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Birthdays Monday Adam Brown (Freeze),

Alun Jones (Drizzle)

Tuesday Carolyn Barratt

(Lightning), Jez Dennett

(Dodgers)

Wednesday Nicola Jones (Colt

45s)

Thursday Judy Hallam

(Freeze), Thomas Oldham

(Meteors), Amy Torkington

(Rebels), Lorraine Wetton

(Blue Jays)

Friday Siobhan O’Shaughnessy

(Blue Jays)

Sunday Becky Baird*

(Rippers), Andrea Dee

(Greensox), Philip Norton*

(Camels) * same year

Guest-rule breach—Exec ruling

End of season Ball

Every year we have a Ball after the

league finishes to celebrate the suc-

cesses and memories of the season,

and to hand out all the awards for

MVP, home-run trophy, and of

course the shields and medals for

the divisional winners. This year is

no exception, and the Annual End-

of-Season Ball will be on Saturday

4th November at the Radison

Hotel. The event will be a black-tie

event and to book your tickets you

can either e-mail Kellie Whitaker

(jugsy44@googlemail.com) or speak

to Ian Caird. Tickets are £40, but if

you pay before the season ends

there is an early-bird discount of

£5. If anyone does have any special

dietary needs please also let us

know about them when booking.

It is always a great fun event and it

would be great to see lots of people

there to celebrate all the achieve-

ments of 2017.

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Barflies Hayley-Jane Sims Paul Warburton

Bats Sue Gibson Alex Bates

Blue Jays (1) Kirsti Ahmed Jono Wrigley

Blue Jays (2) Siobhan O Shaughnessy

Simon Ronksley

Camels Lyndsey Bygraves

“Dainty” Adam Brookbanks

Camels II Rachel Sewell

Charles Dougal Gardiner

Colt 45s Nikki Pugh Phil Cosgrove

Dodgers Ali Marrs Chris Gresty (MV2)

Drizzle Ellie McGinnis Andrew Bogie

Enforcers Gemma Cartwright Jordan Wilcock

Freeze Martine Knight (MHM) Chris Frost

Greensox Charlotte Green Danny Gunn

Hackers Ellie Mills Ian Mills

Hurricanes Sarah Bennett Adam Morrison

Lions Luis Congote Kate Barlow

Mavericks Leanne Cracknell Ian Yates

Mayhem Sarah Marks Rich Thompson

Meerkats Louisa Scott Chris Chu

Meteors (1) Rif Khan Shane Hunt

Meteors (2) Bryony James Phil Kirby

Mutineers Maz Yung Duncan Jones

Outlaws Hannah Ebbitt Chris Thompson

Phoenix Rachel Williams Ben Hughes

Pirates Faye Dunlop James Ridgway

Rebels Sarah Cassin Ian Caird

Sharks Kate Shearer Jeff OC

Speeders Emma Bennett Adam Faloona

Storm Keely Buzza Sandep Jayaprakesh

Thunder Alexa Martinez Gareth Evans

Tigers Alyssa Jones Michael Miah

Titans Katie Richard

Vipers Amy Miller Antony Henderson

All names appear exactly as they were writ-

ten on the score sheet.

MVPs for 2/3 August will be published next

week.

MVPs 25/26/27 July call it, (loudly) aaaaaah you’re

shit! HRs provided by too

many of the team to name

individually only go to show

why we went unbeaten up to

the semi-finals.

Thunder also showed why

sport is always played on the

field and not on paper by go-

ing from an 18-2 loss in the

morning to a semi which they

had every right to feel they

should have won. In a great

game that Thunder kept close

all the way, they had the win-

ning batter caught in the very

deep. Lions’ batting had fi-

nally dried up under pressure

and more would be needed for

a final against a strong un-

beaten Hairy Coos. Strength-

ened by some A grade

Chromies, they beat fellow

Scots the Souls to make the

final. The Scottish foe had

every bit the batting of the

Lions and so this proved in a

well cheered, drizzly final.

Thanks everyone for sticking

around!

In a great representation of

the team weekend, tourna-

ment-standard strong batting

throughout the line-up on

both teams kept the game

close until the 5th (10-8).

Then a 2-run Lions lead be-

came 6 chiefly through a bril-

liant batting display from

catcher Michelle Watkinson

(MVP),

alongside

those in

front on

base. Coos,

unable to

fully re-

spond let

newbie

Nat Ley-

land finish

off a fan-

tastic Li-

ons win

17-11, a

display I

can safely

Manchester sweeps own Tourna-

ment (Continued from page 1)

say was won by all, not by the

few.

Big mentions to Captain Gill managing the rabble, Mike Gaskell stepping in smoothly to winning ways. Nic’s new bat, the smooth salsa man(ny), and of course Great Kath-mandu for smooth tasting win-ning curry. Happy Days!

Bats win Silver Dawn Yates writes:

BUOYED by our success in

the League this season, the

Bats approached this year’s

Tournament with renewed

enthusiasm. But we surprised

even ourselves with our per-

formance over the weekend.

With only one loss on Satur-

day and a couple of Division 2

scalps in the bag, we found

ourselves at the top of the Sil-

ver table at the end of day 1.

Day 2 brought three more

wins and a loss to leave us 5

and 2 and still top of the table,

earning us a re-match with

the Speeders in the Silver Cup

Final.

In a tight and hard-fought

game, the Bats just managed

to edge it for our first silver-

ware in a long time! Victory

came at a price though, with

four injuries over the week-

end, most notably Rory

Lynch’s broken nose Sunday

lunchtime – huge thanks to

the sporting Outlaws for their

First Aid assistance and pa-

against Blue Jays. We were guar-anteed 2nd place in Bronze win, lose or tie, but we wanted to keep our winning streak going. This was by far our closest game of day 2. We went ahead then Blue Jays did. It went right down to the last hit, in the very last minute of the game. Amy Miller hit her third home run of the day to put us ahead by one. It was so close the blu told us if she had stayed at 3rd he would have had to roll the scores back and Blue Jays would have won. SO we were in the Bronze Cup Fi-nal against Pirates who had beaten us on Saturday and in the game we watched were unrelenting. Pretty much every one of them was hitting homers every at bat.

We took the lead in the first inning and never lost it. Inning after in-ning the Ripper spirit shone through, with every Ripper on the field, and our two cheerleaders on the sidelines giving their all. It was brilliant to be part of. On paper we didn’t have a chance, but we dug deep and showed what we were made of! THE final score was 11-5 (I think). We did it and won the Bronze Cup! This was possibly my favourite tournament to date, every team we played were a joy to play against. The umpires were a great bunch and officiated impeccably whilst keeping the element of fun in the game.

EVERYONE at Club Ripper wishes to thank Mike Goff and all his help-ers in organising such a brilliant tournament which was such a pleasure to be part of.

Division 1 Female 5 – Michelle Collier (LIO)

3 – Sherry Kenyon (MAV), Kathryn

Mullin (GRX)

Division 1 Male 13 – Anthony Reyes (DOD)

8 – Danny Gunn (GRX), Pete Night-

ingale (MAV)**

7 – Luis Arrevillagas (THU)

Division 2 Female 2 – Jan Bradley (MAV), Kate Wil-

liamson (MUT)

1 – Emma Bennett (SPE), Lynd-

sey Bygrave (CAM), Jo Gardiner

(MV2), Claire Higgs (CAM), Tanya

Lochery (MV2), Natasha Miotk

(MUT), Linni Mitchell (MHM),

Helen Rossiter (CM2), Rachel

Sewell (CM2)

Division 2 Male 14 – Tom Atkinson (CAM)*, Paul

Colton (SHA), Joe Grantham (MUT)

9 – Dave Martin-Baez (SHA), Phil

Norton (CAM)

Division 3 Female Not including 27.7

3 – Su O’Brien (PIR)

1 – Pamela Bauer (BAT), An-

nie Downes (TIG), Faye Dunlop

(PIR), Alyssa Jones (TIG), Ellie

Phillips (DRZ), Natalie Robinson

(PIR)

Division 3 Male Not including 27.7

14 – Mario Ruedo (STO)

10 – Ross Birch (BAT)

Division 4 Female 8 – Hayley McTear (REB)

7 – Sarah Cassin (REB)

Division 4 Male 17 – Alec Aspinall (BFL), Richard

Taylor (TTN)

10 – Darren Corner (HAC)*

Division 5 Female 2 – Nikki Pugh (COL)

1 – Annie Fallon (COL), Amy Miller

(VIP), Eleanor Swallow (COL)

Division 5 Male 13 – Phil Cosgrove (COL)

9 – John Kaye (COL)

* grand slam

Home runs (leading hitters)

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tience with the extended time out.

Get well soon everyone. Thanks to

Martin Williams and Ross Birch

(aka The Cavalry) who arrived to

save the day. Thanks also to Suz-

anne Donovan for coming out of

retirement to play with us and to

Di Charlton, and Charlotte, Grace

and Jacob for scoring and cheer-

leading duties. And finally, con-

gratulations to Max Fagan for his

well-deserved Cup Final MVP.

Rippers’ maiden trophy Dave Warren writes:

SATURDAY morning started with our three group games. We knew they would be tough but we were ready to give it our best. With a tie against Tigers and two losses in close games against Pirates and Detonators we were placed into Bronze. Our loss against Pirates carried over so we started the group 0-1. IN Bronze we truly did find our level. We quickly des-patched both Titans and Hackers, meaning we fin-ished the day on a high and in 3rd place behind Rebels and Pirates. SUNDAY started with a 9am game against Rebels. It was a very close game but we ended up winning 9-8. Over the river to meet Bolts, completely new to us, we had no idea about them. We were amazing in the field and pretty good with the bat too, fin-ishing the game 12-0 winners. We were now believing we would finish in the top two with four wins from four. NEXT up were Basehunters. Rip-pers have a few teams we feel we have an unofficial affiliation with, and Basehunters (Barflies) top that list, so we saw this game as a derby, although it felt more like a friendly. Anyway we defeated them 10-0, though in fairness Basehunters scored four in the final inning but scores were rolled back as we ran out of time. OUR final group game was

L OOKING after the Outlaws NSL team

landed in my lap after the departure of

most of the previous team to pastures red-

der and the Mavericks. As the Outlaws

club had lost many of its Division 1 players we knew

we had to reach out to Manchester and the North

West to field a competitive team and keep a coveted

spot for the North in the NSL.

Stephen Shearer from the Sharks stepped up to co-

captain the team and also brought some Scouse

Sharks along for the ride. We got a good response

from the Outlaws club and also from a few other

stalwarts in the Manchester League. So we reck-

oned we had a team, stumped up the cash, created

the Facebook group and started discussing positions

and tactics which Shearer loves!

IT was always going to be a tall order making any

impact on the NSL 2 league with a mixture of play-

ers who have had very little game time together. We

had some skilled individuals though and ground out

a few wins and ties in our first weekend. Our inex-

perience as a team showed most in not slotting away

close games and losing by the odd run. Shearer cal-

culated that if we had won the ties and the games

we lost by one we’d be sitting pretty at 5th or 6th in

the table. As it was after D2 we were in the relega-

tion zone. With no easy way back into the NSL

league, and a waiting list to contend with if we did

get relegated, we had to bank four wins at D3 to

have the best chance of keeping our place. That was

twice as many wins as we had so far had at either of

the previous weekends.

THE squad for D3 was looking strong, with our core

team bolstered by some great players who had also

played together frequently. I felt confident going

into day 1 against some good opposition. A great

first game against Ninos Privados, who were sitting

above us in the league, set our confidence high. We

got smashed by KK, the eventual winners but then

came back strong to beat the Royals

who were our target team sitting just

one place above us. We rolled into our

fourth game feeling good and pulled off

a fantastic 17-6 win against the Misfits

who ended Diamond in 3rd place. We

could have rounded out the day with a

tie in the derby against Mavericks but

for an error in the last play by myself;

not realising the winning run was on

3rd I made a good diving stop on a

hard ground ball but then decided to

hold the force on 1st and 2nd, idiot!

THREE out of five for the Saturday

and I was well chuffed with the team.

We needed one more win on the Sun-

day but we were playing three teams

all in higher league spots. A bad first

Outlaws at NSL game getting shafted by SPAM, then a slow game

against Blitz where we never got the sticks going left

us needing to beat Bees in what could have been our

last NSL game as a team.

HOME team advantage left us batting in the last in-

ning with no outs and one run required to win. I sent

Hector Martinez from 3rd to home in a close play, but

a good throw and tag just caught him on the back of

the shirt for the first out. Another out shortly after-

wards left us with a runner on 3rd with two outs and

Tash Miotk up to bat. A great under-pressure hit up

the middle on two strikes and two outs made it easy

for Shearer to run in the winner, but unfortunately

Tash decided to stop for a picnic on the way to 1st and

got thrown out at by a one-in-a-hundred throw from

the outfield! So we got the tie but not the win and

were now dependant on the Royals losing their game.

For health reasons I would advise any captain not to

rely on other teams losing as a strategy!

BUT they lost, and we stayed up #athletes,

#slideathome, #runitout, #knowthescore.

MANY thanks to all that supported us. I can’t wait to

play more NSL with you next year.

Angie Thompson - Greensox (D1,D2)

Anthony Garcia Reyes - Dodgers (D1)

Charlotte Green - Greensox (D1,D2,D3)

Elizabeth Lyon - Mutineers (D1,D2,D3)

Hayley McTear - Rebels (D2)

Hector Martinez - Drizzle (D1,D3)

Ian McCann - Outlaws (D1,D3)

Jocelyn Horton - Dodgers (D1)

Krystie Hewitt - Outlaws (D1,D2,D3)

Louisa Catherine - Thames Valley (D1)

Natasha Mitok - Mutineers (D3)

Paul Colton - Sharks (D1,D2,D3)

Rolf Herbert - Mutineers (D1,D2,D3)

Sonia Hine - Meerkats (D1,D2,D3)

Stephen Shearer - Sharks (D1,D2,D3)

Rolf Herbert

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Division 1

Coincidentally, all three fixtures

next week feature the same pairings

as two weeks ago, on July 26th.

Dodgers v Meerkats (5, TLF)

Dodgers won the last meeting

22-16, their fourth win in five

meetings.

Mavericks v Greensox (6, MD)

Mavs won 26-10 to regain a 1-

game lead in this 58-game series

which includes one tie. The pair

are also tied 1-1 this season.

Thunder v Lions (9, IC) Lions

won 14-3 to avenge their early-

season loss, and to extend their

all-time lead to 14½-6½.

Lightning rest

Division 2

Mavericks II v Camels II (2,

HS) Last meeting 12 July, Mavs

won 13-5 and lead 3-1 in all

meetings. This season they are

now 1-1 after Camels II won a

thrilling game 27-26 back in

May.

Mayhem v Camels (4, CE)

Last meeting 14 June, just one

week after Mayhem won their

first meeting. Camels won this

one 12-9 to make it two wins

apiece all-time, and 1-1 this sea-

son.

Speeders v Mutineers (3, AG)

Last meeting 12 July, Mutineers

won 25-10 to complete a double

for the season taking a 7-9 all-

time lead.

Sharks rest

Division 3

Outlaws v Bats (7) Last meet-

ing 27 July, Bats won 16-14 to

take a 10-4 all-time lead.

Next week’s games -

Week 16 (15/16/17 August) Division 3 (Thurs 27th)

Drizzle 0 5 0 2 1 0 1 9 Storm 4 0 0 2 2 7 x 15 Umpire Dave Dean, Pitch 9 HRs: DRZ Joe Grantham (MUT) 2; STO Tom Huntley 2, Mario Ruedo, Miguel Martinez, Steve Bartlett, Sandeep Jayaprakesh

Outlaws 1 0 3 0 7 1 2 14 Bats 8 3 0 4 1 0 x 16 Umpire Paul Fagan, Pitch 8

Tigers 0 0 3 0 0 4 2 9 Pirates 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 5 Umpire Mike Davies, Pitch 7 HRs: TIG Michael Miah; PIR Shane Coyles

Division 3 (Thurs 3rd)

Bats 4 1 5 3 7 2 22 Storm 2 1 1 2 0 0 6 RAR, Umpire Mike Goff, Pitch 8 HRs: BAT Jerry Seabridge, Alex Bates, Shawn Khwaja, Ross Birch 2; STO Mario Ruedo

Pirates 0 0 1 1 2 Outlaws 2 11 1 8 22 RAR, Umpire Paul Fagan, Pitch 6 HRs: OUT Chris Thompson, Richard Goar, Joe Grantham (MUT)

Rippers 7 0 0 5 2 0 14 Tigers 2 0 2 8 8 9 29 RAR, Umpire Pete Nightingale, Pitch 7

HRs: RIP Paul Duffy; TIG Dan Downes

Results (Continued from page 8) Division 4 (Tues 25th)

Blue Jays 10 3 1 4 0 0 0 18 Meteors 0 0 2 0 5 3 0 10 Completion of game from 11 July; Um-pires Mike Lott/Adam Roberts, Pitch 6/1

HR: BLJ Jono Wrigley

Hurricanes 0 1 4 5 3 0 1 14 Hackers 5 9 2 1 3 2 x 22 Umpire Pete Nightingale, Pitch 4 HRs: HUR Carl McCarthjy 2; HAC DanielJohansson

Rebels 11 0 4 3 13 31 Phoenix 0 5 1 0 1 7 RAR, Umpire Mike Goff, Pitch 6 HRs: REB Conor Battersby 2, Sarah

Cassin, Julian Jones; PHX Tom Scott

Titans 2 5 2 1 1 4 1 16 Barflies 3 2 1 0 3 3 2 14 Umpire Tony La Fave, Pitch 7 HRs: TTN Richard Taylor 2; BFL Aleck Aspinall

Division 5 (Tues 25th)

Colt 45s 7 5 6 2 1 3 7 31 Vipers 0 3 6 5 0 4 2 20 Umpire Luis Arrevillagas, Pitch 3 HRs: COL John Kaye, Robert Lawrence (TIG); VIP Dave Warren, Amy Miller, Anthony Henderson, Scott Barton

Enforcers 1 7 2 0 6 3 19 Freeze 2 0 0 1 1 0 20 RAR, Umpire Stephen Shearer, Pitch 2 HRs: ENF Jordan Wilcock, Mike Da-

vies; FRZ Steve Beddows

Meteors 0 4 3 0 9 0 16 Blue Jays 3 7 3 4 3 x 20 Bad light, Umpire Adam Roberts, Pitch 1 HRs: MET Shane Hunt 2, Phil Kirby;

BLJ Taj Uddin 2

Pirates v Rippers (6) Last

meeting 13 July, Pirates won

18-17, making it two out of two.

Storm v Tigers (8) Last meet-

ing 13 July, Storm won 12-6,

their fifth win in six games

against this franchise. The pair

are 1-1 this season.

Drizzle rest

Division 4

Hackers @ Phoenix (7, TLF)

Last meeting 4 July, Hackers

won 24-4 in 4 innings, top take

a 2-1 lead in all meetings.

Hurricanes @ Barflies (6, ML)

Last meeting 9 May, Hurricanes

won this opening-day fixture 20-

15, their fourth win in five

meetings.

Titans @ Rebels (4, SS) Only

previous meeting 30 May, Re-

bels won 31-21.

Division 5

Colt 45s @ Blue Jays (2, TS)

Only previous meeting 13 June

(Division 4), Jays won 12-6.

Enforcers @ Vipers (1, LA)

Only previous meeting 30 May

(Division 4), Enforcers won 21-

20.

Freeze @ Meteors (3, PN)

Only previous meeting 9 May

in Division 4, Freeze won 26-9.

Results and standings - Games played 25/26/27 July and 2/3 August

Missing details will be published next week

Division 1 (Weds 26th)

Dodgers 0 0 4 3 8 7 0 22 Meerkats 2 2 3 0 0 6 3 16 Umpire Harry Somers, Pitch PW2 HRs: DOD Tyler Lappage (GS), David

Dyson, Suchit Desai; MKT Chris Chu

Mavericks 6 6 0 4 4 1 5 26 Greensox 1 4 0 0 4 0 1 10 Umpire Charlie Everitt, Pitch PW3

HR: MAV Sherry Kenyon

Thunder 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 Lions 5 3 0 3 1 2 x 14 Umpire Ian Caird, Pitch PW4

HRs: LIO Michelle Collier, Luis Congote

Division 1 (Weds 2nd)

Dodgers 19 Lightning 4 RAR, Umpire Al Green, Pitch 6

Greensox 7 Lions 12 Umpire Ian Caird, Pitch 9

Meerkats 7 Mavericks 8 Umpire Charlie Everitt, Pitch 2

Division 2 (Weds 26th)

Camels II 0 0 0 0 0 0 Camels 3 0 5 8 x 16 RAR, Pitch PW6

HRs: CAM Tom Atkinson 2, Dan Jarman

Mayhem 0 1 1 2 0 0 5 9 Speeders 4 0 2 0 2 0 2 10 Umpire Mike Davies, Pitch PW7 HRs: MHM Rich Thompson; SPE Adam Faloona 2

Sharks 0 1 0 0 2 0 4 7 Mutineers 2 0 0 3 3 0 x 8 Umpire Al Green, Pitch PW1 HRs: MUT Joe Grantham 2 (e), Duncan Jones, Gary Moors

Division 2 (Weds 2nd)

Camels 7 Speeders 8 Pitch 4

Mutineers 21 Camels II 10 Umpire Tony La Fave, Pitch 5

Sharks 6 Mavericks II 11 Pitch 3

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P W T L F RS RC Pct GB

Division 1

▲ Lions 12 10 0 2 0 20 83 .833 –

▼ Greensox 12 9 0 3 0 20 148 .750 1

► Thunder 12 8 0 4 0 18 148 .667 2

► Mavericks 12 8 0 4 0 17 152 .667 2

► Dodgers 12 5 0 7 0 17 187 .417 –

▲ Lightning 12 1 0 11 0 13 243 .083 4

▼ Meerkats 12 1 0 11 0 11 224 .083 4

Lightning above Meerkats on head-to-head

Division 2

▲ Mutineers 12 10 0 2 0 21 114 .833 –

▼ Camels 12 10 0 3 0 21 122 .833 ⅓

▲ Speeders 12 6 0 6 0 18 187 .500 4

▼ Mayhem 12 6 0 6 0 18 170 .500 4

► Mavericks II 12 5 0 7 0 15 171 .417 –

► Sharks 12 3 0 9 0 15 206 .250 2

► Camels II 12 2 0 10 0 12 256 .167 3

Camels deducted 1 pt; Speeders above Mayhem on head-to-head

Division 3

► Bats (P) 12 12 0 0 0 24 118 1.000 –

► Tigers 12 8 0 4 0 17 148 .667 4

▲ Outlaws 12 6 0 6 0 15 122 .500 6

▼ Storm 12 6 0 5 1 16 196 .500 6⅓

▼ Pirates 12 5 0 7 0 17 204 .417 –

► Drizzle 12 4 0 8 0 21 221 .333 1

► Rippers 12 1 0 11 0 13 249 .083 4

Division 4

► Hackers (P) 13 13 0 0 0 26 90 1.000 –

► Rebels 13 11 0 2 0 30 151 .846 2

▲ Titans 13 8 0 5 0 23 176 .615 5

▼ Phoenix 13 8 0 5 0 21 201 .615 5

► Hurricanes 13 6 0 7 0 19 208 .462 7

► Barflies 13 6 0 7 0 21 188 .462 7

Hurricanes above Barflies on head-to-head

Division 5 Pts

► Enforcers 13 8 0 4 1 18 153 .615 28

▲ Blue Jays 13 7 0 6 0 21 140 .538 27

▼ Colt 45s 13 7 0 6 0 21 178 .538 27

► Vipers 13 3 0 10 0 18 243 .231 19

► Freeze 13 1 0 12 0 13 276 .077 15

► Meteors 13 0 0 13 0 85 358 .000 13