Baseball

Braves baseballers prepare title defence

By Loretta Wilmink • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Baseball

Colac Braves baseballers have started preparing for their Geelong baseball title defence. More than 10 Braves players have started training for the 2010 season. President Dave Dickson said he hoped another four or five players would join the Braves this season to bolster their [...]



Brave additions to baseball club

By Loretta Wilmink • Oct 30th, 2009 • Category: Baseball

Colac Braves baseball officials have lured new players to the club in its off-season. Colac Braves Baseball Club president Dave Dickson said he had inquiries from four people about playing for the club next season. Mr Dickson said the club hoped to start its junior program in February. [...]



Braves’ bid for junior league

By Loretta Wilmink • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Baseball, Sport

Colac Braves Baseball Club wants to start a junior Colac baseball competition next season. President Dave Dickson said the club wanted to start a Colac-based Wednesday night competition. “Initially it would be Wednesday afternoon in conjunction with pre-season training,” Mr Dickson said. “We [...]



Trio to play summer ball

By Loretta Wilmink • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Baseball, Sport

Three Colac baseballers will play state league baseball for Geelong this summer. Josh Hay, Justin Morrissy and Tim Dickson will play for the Geelong Baycats Baseball Club in the Victorian State League summer competition. The Geelong Baycats play in the Division One competition, which has four sub-divisions. [...]



Pitchers finish off stellar year with MVP win

By Loretta Wilmink • Sep 25th, 2009 • Category: Baseball, Sport

Colac Braves’ Michael Reid and Josh Hay have topped off a stellar season with club most valuable player awards. Reid, who claimed Geelong Baseball Association’s B Grade most valuable player award, won the Braves’ B Grade title by two votes from Stephen Mai. Colac Braves Baseball Club president [...]



Braves end 18-year drought

By Loretta Wilmink • Sep 14th, 2009 • Category: Baseball, Sport

Colac’s B Reserve baseballers have won their first Geelong baseball premiership in 18 years. The Braves topped off a sensational season, claiming victory against Corio Tigers by three runs at Geelong Baseball Centre on Saturday. The Braves battled through two and a half hours of baseball to win [...]



Braves have winning mix

By Loretta Wilmink • Sep 11th, 2009 • Category: Baseball, Sport

Colac Braves Baseball Club president Dave Dickson says a mix of experience and youth will help the Braves win the B Reserve grand final. The Braves, who lost last year’s grand final by one run in the last innings, will take on Corio Tigers in a rematch of last year’s grand final. [...]



Run chase earns grand final spot

By Loretta Wilmink • Sep 9th, 2009 • Category: Baseball, Sport

A five-run last innings helped Colac Braves baseballers secure a spot in this weekend’s B Reserve grand final. The Braves were six-all with Guild Lions at the bottom of the eighth innings. But Tim Kelly’s in-the-park home run ignited the Braves’ ninth innings, with Josh Hay and Nick Cuthbertson backing [...]



Premiership lost

By Loretta Wilmink • Sep 9th, 2009 • Category: Baseball, Sport

An out-of-the-park home run by Ballarat Mounties’ shattered Colac Braves’ dreams of back-to-back premierships. The Mounties’ Glen Masterson smashed the home run in the last innings to help his team seal an 11-10 victory in the preliminary final. The Braves looked out of sorts from the start of the day [...]



Braves’ D-Day arrives

By Loretta Wilmink • Aug 28th, 2009 • Category: Baseball, Sport

Sunday is D-Day for Colac Braves’ B Grade baseballers. The Braves, playing for back-to-back premierships, will face off against Corio in the cut-throat first semi-final at Geelong Baseball Centre. While Colac has beaten Corio on two occasions this season its batting game in the past three matches lost it the [...]