Club Congratulations

• Penrith Dominate Rep Selections - 07.04.06

  The Greater Western Baseball Assocaition has today announced its Junior Representative Train On Squads for 2006 which included 21 players from Penrith Baseball Club.

  These 21 kids have endured the 3 stage selection process, and is the largest contingent of Penrith Juniors in the Representative Squads, further building upon the 15 that qualified last year.

  Congratulations to:

  UNDER 12's Rhys Dehn Gemma Dunn Luke Edwards Alex Flitcroft Alex Ryder Kristian Vlangos Ben Ward

  UNDER 14's Bryce Baiada Jacob Bowen Corey Dimech Bradley Millevoi Sam Ross Nathan Skinner Lachlan Turner

  UNDER 16's Tate Dimech Kurt Dunn Hayden Goldbold Jordan Matthews Jake Pianta Ben Smith Aidan Ventura

  Penrith Baseball Club would like to not only congratulate all of these exciting players of the future, but also their parents and coaches who have been able to develop them to the standard worthy of representative selection.

  With results like these, it is not difficult to see why Penrith Baseball Club was again declared the Champion Club of the Greater Baseball Western Association.

  For full team listings, visit the GWBA WEBSITE
  

• Wildcats lead the charge into the Winter Season

With 4 teams in the Summer 05/06 Season, the Division 3 Wildcats took their season to the very end only to lose 1-2 to West Sydney Boomers.

Despite practically dominating the competition all year, the Wildcats finally me their match on Grand Final Day.

For most of the game, the scores were tied at 1-1, but a hit through short stop allowed the go-ahead run to score late in the game and the Wildcats were unable to capitalise on 2 runners in scoring positions with 0 out, and ended up taking out the Division 3 Runner-up, in addition to their Minor Premiership for the season.

Noteworthy mention also to the other 3 Summer teams, all of whom finished in the top 4, with first and fourth grade missing out on the finals due to GWBA's 2-team final set-up (based on number of competition teams) and the Second Grade Tigers losing the first final in the bottom of the 6th inning in a very tight match-up.

Best of luck to the Junior teams who still have their finals to be played from 11 March 2006.

• Penrith Baseball adds another to the list of State Representatives

Tahlia McDonald has been selected in the NSW Womens baseball Side.

This a fantastic achievement when you realise that Tahlia is 16 years old and is competing against women much older.

Aside from being a current Coach in the Junior Competition and having played all her career at this club, she has also been a past GWBA Youth League Representative (mixing it with the boys, and doing it well might I add).

Tahlia is not only a great role model for aspiring Players, but she also stands as a testament to what can be achieved with passion and hard work.

When you see Tahlia, take the time to congratulate her on her achievement.

Representing your State is one of the highest personal honours a Sportsperson can achieve, and the Club wishes her all the best in 2006.

• 7 Penrith Juniors win the chance to rise above the rest

  In a recent Club raffle, seven Penrith Baseball Juniors (one from each age group) have won a flight in a helicopter around the Nepean Region.

Congratulations to the winners:

Coen Clark - U7Panthers
Jarod Simonetta - U8Panthers
Kurt Berry - U9 Panthers
Vaughan Thistlethwaite - U10 Panthers
Jake Bowen - U12 Pumas
Ryan Cusack - U14 Jaguars
Mitchell Ryan - U16 Panthers

Winners are reminded to arrive at Patons Fertilizer on Andrews Road no later than 10.15am on Sunday 30th October 2005

• 3 Panthers stepping up to the plate against the Nation's best

Three 14's players from Penrith have been selected into the Baseball NSW Metro team to compete in the National Tournament later this year.

Not only is it a phenomenal effort for the Club to have three of its players selected in this squad from the same team, but these boys are also the only players who have been selected out of the Greater Western Baseball Association.

Congratulations and best of luck then to Hayden Godbold, Jake Pianta and Tate Dimech.

• 6 Finalists, 4 Grand Finalists, 2 Minor Premierships and 3 Champion Teams

Penrith Baseball Club has continued its dominance in the Greater Western Baseball Association with outstanding results in the recently completed Winter 2005 Season.

Not only did six of the Club's seven teams make the finals, four made it into the Grand Finals with First, Second and Third Grades all taking out the honours on the day.

Whilst the Second Grade Jaguars had a relatively convincing win against St Marys, both the First and Third Grade Teams fought to the very end of their games to secure the premiership.

In First Grade, the Cougars went into the final inning with a two run lead over the Blacktown Workers, but gave up four runs to go into the bottom of the innings 9-7 down, only to squeeze home the winning run of James Yates on fantastic base running.

The Third Grade Tigers also fought right to the end when an umpiring decision that appeared to be inconsistent saw both the coach and pitcher ejected in the final few minutes, but they managed to fight off the Blacktown team for a 5-4 win.

Despite being beaten on the day, special mention should go to the Seventh Grade Pumas who had originally made the Grand Final having beaten the one team they lost to all season by 10 runs, but were unfortunate not to be able to continue their form.

The First Grade Cougars and Second Grade Jaguars had the added privilage of being declared Minor Premiers with both teams only losing one game each out of all of their games played during the Season.

Congratulations to all of our members for a fantastic season. Let's keep it going with the Juniors.

• 4 Panthers to Tour China!

  Congratulations to Hayden Godbold, Tate Dimech, Jake Pianta and Dean Hazell for their selection in the NSW baseball teams to tour China!

Hayden, Tate & Jake have been selected in the U/14 team and Dean in the U/16 team that will visit China in August 2005 to play in the Beijing International Tourament. 

To have 4 Penrith players selected in NSW representative teams is awesome! Congratulations boys, on behalf of all the club - well done and good luck in China!

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