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Match Reports Round 12 2011/2012

Fourths: St. Kilda 18, Berwick 4 - Saints ease past Berwick

Full match report here...

Round 11

Firsts: St. Kilda 8, Williamstown 1

Dominating win for us, 8-1.  Got out to an early lead with RBIs by our
4, 5, 6 hitters.  Then built on it with a 3 run homer by Larini next
time up.  Larini pitched a 2 hitter through 8 innings and Bishop came
in to shut it down.  Thanks to a bit of late rain and a slippery ball
Williamstown was able to add one run late.  Really good team win all
around, quality defense, timely hitting, and shut down pitching.  The
benches cleared after their pitcher got upset with a clean play at the
plate, but order was restored and he was ejected.  We look to end the
first half strong at Chelsea this weekend.

Fourths: St. Kilda 24, Springvale 4  - saints overpower springvale

St. Kilda knocked off their biggest rivals in stunning fashion, with a 24-4 demolition at Springvale

Full match report here...

Round 9

Firsts: L 3-6 @ Newport

The ones went down in a tough loss, despite a couple of rallys and another solid performance from our pitchers.  7 or 8 errors were our downfall.  We are still losing the battle on big situations, both defensively and offensively we cant seem to come up with the big plays.  We still hit the ball well, just not as consistently as we should be.  A dedication to refocusing on practice and getting guys out should help us turn it around.

Div 3: W 15-2 vs. Newport

Full match report and box score here...

Div 4 Gold: L 0-13 @ Monash Uni A

We were alweays going to have our work cut out for us against Monash 1's, but our defence was on song apart from one inning.  There were hardly any errors and Scoop pitched like a machine so we were able to keep Monash to 0-2 runs in almost each inning but were unable to hit when runners were in scoring position, meaning we went down 13-0 in a game that was closer than the final score.   We have 3 winable games before Christmas to target third on the ladder at the break.

Round 7

Division 2 Firsts - St. Kilda 3, Ormond GH 2

We had a great win through 15 innings.
Ended up tying it in the 9th on a chopper hit from Addam Franks over the 3rd
baseman pulled in.  Larini threw another amazing game, allowing 2
through 11 innings or something like that, before Tim came in to snake
the win.  JJ won it with a GB up the middle to score Franks.

Division 3 (4s) - Sandringham 15, St. Kilda 6

St. Kilda collected five hits, but St. Kilda fell 15-6 to Sandringham at Sandringham on Saturday.

Kris Nankivell racked up two RBIs on one hit for St. Kilda. Nankivell singled in the sixth inning.

Dan McGrath carried Sandringham's offense and pitching in the victory.

McGrath racked up three RBIs on one hit for Sandringham. McGrath homered in the third inning.

McGrath handled St. Kilda's lineup with ease, racking up 11 strikeouts. Sandringham's pitcher allowed one earned run, one hit and no walks over five innings.

St. Kilda jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first. Sea Ansley got things going for St. Kilda with a single. A groundout by Jonny Sagorin then moved Ansley from second to third. Then a passed ball scored Ansley.

Sandringham never trailed after scoring two runs in the first on a two-run double by Marty Smith

Five St. Kilda runs crossed the plate in the top half of the sixth, making the score 15-6. An RBI single by Marton Marek, , an RBI single by Nankivell, , and an RBI single by Greg Waddell fueled St. Kilda's comeback. Sandringham's Beaumont induced a Dan Aldridge ground out to close things out.

Division 4 Gold - Footscray A 39, St. Kilda 0

It was a nice day and the game was played in good spirits.

Division 4 Black - Monash Uni 7, St. Kilda 6

A big day facing the undefeated Monash Uni side. Brett ‘the power house’ Renton hit 2 triples, was faultless in the infield with a double play. Alistair and Justin caught a fantastic game what can only be described as illusive pitches from Geoff ‘Def’ Leopard. The Leopard hit the odd double when required complementing the overall teams positive effort with the bat.  We went down by 6-7 in the last dig with 2 outs and leading by 1 run, that last dig was a reflection of the game, close and of high quality. Like a fine wine our team gets better with age! Well done to all, great game, with more aggression at the plate the result could have easily gone the other way.

Division 6 - Cheltenham MJ 15, St. Kilda 5

It was a glorious spring day in Footscray, with not a cloud in the sky. As our first baseman
Ron Mroz likes to call it – a great day for baseball!

Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out to be a great day for the Sixers. However, there were some
improvements from the previous week. Matt Kennedy was given his first start as a pitcher
and went 4 innings strong. The problem is though - regardless of whether your pitcher is
throwing a great game or not - their efforts are in vain if they don’t have the field to back
them.

Our 1st inning turned out to be disastrous and would ultimately cost us the game. Once
again we faced exceptional pitching. Apparently Footscray’s starting pitcher plays Division 2
baseball. Still we won’t hold that as an excuse, for a total of 7 errors were made in the field
which allowed Footscray a 10-0 lead after the 1st frame.

Fortunately, we redeemed ourselves a little offensively and defensively. We chipped away
with the bats tying for a total run tally of 5 with our opponents after the fatal 1st inning. The
outfield performed well with Carl Oreback leading the way at centre field and at one point
flagging down an absolute bullet. Tremendous reflexes displayed by Carl. New player Chris
Grant was also very solid at right field, catching everything hit his way.

Pete Chiou came on to relieve in the last inning and was throwing his best stuff. As a team
we are blessed with good pitching, but we need to start finding our feet with both the bats
and the gloves. Perhaps extra tuition on the fundamentals and training is in order if we are
to improve as a team?