By RICHARD MURRIHY
WITH the rep season over and the school holidays finishing it’s time to pull the gloves out and give them some dubbin and start the second half of the softball season.
Noosa had five players playing for Queensland over the holidays – Luke Thomas just finished his Queensland under-19 titles, with Queensland finishing third losing the preliminary final to ACT; while Leigh Ryan was in Canberra playing at the under-17 titles, again Queensland fared well losing the preliminary final after topping the ladder at the end of the round-robin.
Lewis Schefe spent early January at Blacktown playing for the Queensland Thunder in the under-15s, they finished fourth in the round-robin and won all three finals to be Australian champions.
They beat the Queensland Storm team so it was a great result for Queensland.
Shinai Gibbons went to Adelaide for the under-15 girls and then hopped it to Canberra for the under-17 girls, joined there by Stevie Livingston.
In the under-15 girls, Queensland finished third, while in the under-17s Queensland finished runner-up in a strong performance.
So it was quite a strong showing from the Noosa players and all have done the association proud.
Lewis completed the final play in the grand final with a caught third strike and a pick off at first base double play.
So it was out in the heat Saturday morning and the Dodgers under-15s game was one of the best all season.
Three innings down and it was nill-all – then the Whites got a run on, topped by a Kyle Muller home run. He also took a fly catch, pitched well and got a double play.
Chase Saunders took a good running fly catch in the first innings.
In T-ball, Lily and Georgia Mcvey from Dodgers are improving every week with their batting. Great hitting by The Jones brothers. Everyone’s base running is improving.
In the other under-15s game, Slamcats played Redsox winning the game 10-5. Chantelle and Jed showed a lot of skills with one fly catch each.
The under-17s finished the morning off with another fast-paced game. Dodgers took out the game with a 18-7 win. A massive home run by Lewis Schefe and fly catches by Dylan, Todd and Lewis.
Redsox played slammers in the under-13s and it was played in great spirits. Darren would have been proud.
