Hughes’ walk-off double lifts Twins

Twins at the plate: Jim Thome blasted his first home run as a Twin, a one-out solo shot to right-center, in the fourth inning to break up a 1-1 tie. It was Thome’s second hit of the day. Brendan Harris added a solo home run to right field in the seventh. Prospect Luke Hughes hit [...]

2009/10 AAA Grand Final

This season’s AAA competition has been one of the tightest in recent years, with a one game playoff needed to determine the fourth placed team, as well as a tie for the minor premiership, with Morley winning the tie breaker.  After a hotly contested finals series minor premiers Morley Eagles, featuring in their first AAA [...]

Hughes homers, scores twice in loss

Twins at the plate: Luke Hughes hit his first home run (3 for 4 with a double and home run) of the spring, a monster shot in the fifth off Rays starter James Shields that flew over the Tiki bar in left-center field. He also scored after reaching base for the third time in the [...]

State League Semi Final Preview – Series 2

The second of the semi final series sees the Swan Districts Black Ducks do battle with the South Perth Cubs, in what should be an interesting series of baseball.
Swan Districts (2nd, 26-10) vs South Perth Cubs (3rd, 23-11-2) – Wednesday, Friday and Sunday (if required) 7:00 at Baseball Park
HEAD TO HEAD – South Perth 3 [...]

Provincial League Rundown by TWIB – Finals Week 2

Seems to be a real lack of love in the PL these days, can’t we all just get along? Here’s this week’s rundown – argue over them…
PL
Carine vs UWA
Head to Head: Carine 2 – UWA 1
Last time they met: Carine 8 def UWA 3
Likely Match-up: Hayes vs Goldman
Likely Lineup:
Carine – Hayes, Baker, Vanderwilk, Gannon, Schurman, [...]

State League Semi Final Preview – Series 1

The first of the State League semi’s gets underway on Tuesday night when Morley Eagles take on the Wanneroo Giants, in a repeat of last season’s Grand Final.  Let’s have a quick look at the “Tale of the Tape” before we break it down…
Morley Eagles (1st, 29-7) vs Wanneroo Giants (4th, 21-13-2) – Tuesday, Thursday [...]

Provincial League Rundown by TWIB – Finals Week 1

Woohoo it’s finals time – and I’m back from my hiatus. It was a pretty interesting finish to the regular season with seemingly no-one wanting to finish in top spot!!
Here is a look at the weekend’s games and as an extra special treat I will be taking a look at PL1 & PL2.
PL
Rockingham vs Carine
Likely [...]

2009/10 State League Season – Week 22

As the 2009/10 season draws to a close, the race for the 4th and final playoff spot looks like it will go right down to the wire.  Wanneroo’s loss to Swan Districts on Wednesday night puts the Braves just half a game behind the Giants with a game in hand.  The race for second spot [...]

The Playoff Picture – State League, AAA’s and Under 19

As the first week of the finals approaches, it’s time to look at the playoff picture for the State League, AAA and Under 19 grades.
STATE LEAGUE
With Morley stitching up the Minor Premiership on the weekend and South Perth and the Black Ducks jockeying for home team advantage in their semi final series, the only thing [...]

Provincial League Rundown by Purple Rainbows

Another PL breakdown from another blogger, this time it’s Purple Rainbows….
Rockingham suffered a rather shocking loss against the Bears a few weeks back, is Rocko getting a little too comfortable at the top? Or are the Bears finally hitting their stride? The Rams have been strong all year and could just be getting bored of [...]