Archive for January, 2009

Believe it or not, this guy made the Australian Provincial Team!!!

Brings new hope to us all doesn’t it!!!!

On a serious note however, the Vikings Baseball club could not be prouder of Chris and his achievements as a Baseballer. He is a very important member of our club and our A grade team and his efforts week after week are simply outstanding. We wish Chris well for his future endevours and hope he achieves his goals during his baseball career. Well done Chris!!!!

The Australian Provincial Team will tour Guam and Japan in May 2009. This is the first time the APT has toured Japan and the second time the team has visited Guam. The team will play two games inGuam and also train utilising the facilities on the island. Both games will be played at the National Baseball Centre. 

On completion of this part of the tour the team will travel to Japan, the APT will play a series of ten games, competing against University, Industrial League and Independent League Teams in the cities of Morioko, Niigatta and Yokohama.

A Grade

Phil Brassington
Ben Moore
Chris Morgan
Mark Dawes
Nick Tailby
Chris Slack
Caleb Albrecht
Chris Pallamountagne
Shane Quigg

B Grade provisional

Travis Duroux
Brad Riley
Matthew O’Loughlin
Josh Campbell
Daniel Beehan
Jordan Arly

As most of you may be aware, Vikings were scheduled to play Rebels at Viking park this sunday the 25th of January. Unfortunately we have a very high number of players away or not available for this fixture and we have had no choice but to inform the Rebels Club of our situation and subsequently forfeit all grades. For the handful of of players that did make themselves available we certainly appreciate your intentions however your services will not be required this weekend. We certainly hope that the governing body looks hard at this dilema and makes the appropriate changes for next season. Please all enjoy your long weekend and keep safe.

Paul Jenkins

We have a new start date for our first training session due to a lack of players around for the 26 Jan. Same venue and start time, hope to see you all there.

Gary

There has been mixed fortunes for the Vikings players representing the ACT in the National Championships in Perth. Regardless of the 40+ degree heat Caleb and Chris are having an  outsanding tournament but unfortuanately for James he’s relegated to batboy after breaking his hand in game 3.

The colts team will resume training on the 26 Jan at Viking Park. Training will start at 4:45 and finish at 6:45. If you can not make it due to the holiday please let the coaches know.

Training for the U/13 Grey team will commence again on Wednesday the 4th of Febuary at 5.30 pm @ Viking Park. The first game of the second half is on Saturday the 7th of Febuary @ Hawker @  9 am on field number 1 against Ainslie. We only have 2 more round robin stage games to play against Ainslie and Indians before moving on to the divisional stage and then the finals. I am confident that we will be around at the pointy end of the season!!! Our kids are tremedous ambassadors for our club and what ever the outcome, they have done themselves, their Parents and their club proud.