Hawks Baseball Club Mildura

From The Bird Nest.
Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, Div 1 had a nice win to close the regular season out.
It looked bad early on with a couple of errors letting unearned run to score, and a bunch of walks by both sides…..
4Dylan, Dan and Bailey were the only Hawks to hit in the first 4 innings, but we were able to keep in touch.
After 5, Bandits were 8- 5 up, thanks to Cam and Steve Edwards hitting, and a 2-run bomb from Ryley Mitchell.
With hits from Dan and Bailey (his second), Jake forcing an E6, we snuck to a couple behind.
Mickey relieved Coby of the pitching responsibilities to start the 6th, getting Pittaway to ground out.
He walked Cody Clifford who then scored on Cams 4th hit of the game, then walked Riley.
He than managed to get Langanke to ground into a perfectly executed double play, headed by W***y.
9-6 Bandits.
W***y led off in the 6th with a triple of Blake Pittaway, Zhoe walked, Zach forced an err scoring W***y and putting Zhoe on third. Nate walked and Ash flied out to the third baseman.
After fouling one straight back, Mickey put the next pitch over the left field fence, scoring 3 runs and walking it off for the game. A good team effort.
Bandits 0 3 2 0 3 1 – 9
Hawks 0 2 1 2 1 5 – 11
Hits – Hawks (6) D. Smith (hr, dbl), B. Ferguson (inc dbl) 2, C. Williams (trip), D. Fraser 1 ea
Bandits (9) C. Edwards 4, R. Clifford, K. Langanke, S. Edwards, R. Mitchell (hr), J. Peters.
Pitching – Hawks C. Mitchell 5inn, 8h, 3k, 4bb, 8r, 26bf, 46b, 57s
D, Smith 1inn, 1h, 2bb, 1r, 5bf, 11b, 11s
Bandits C. Edwards 5inn, 4h, 7k, 4bb, 6r, 31bf, 56b, 56s
B. Pittaway 1inn, 2h, 2bb, 5r, 6bf, 12b, 11s.
There are still a lot of uniforms out so if you have one, bring it to the game next Saturday.
I’m not sure if we have any umpiring duties, so keep it tuned right here.
At the moment, it looks like our presentation night will be held on Friday, September 11.
Again, stay tuned.
Join us this Saturday on the right field fence for the Preliminary Finals, eagles Blue v Bandits Black in Div 2, and Eagles v Bandits in Div 1.

From the Bird Nest
Div 2 finished their season off with a solid 15-9 win over Eagles Red.
Yet another game highlighting the lack of pitching at this level with a combined 22 walks issued.
Mickey and Bruce finished with 3 rbi’s each.
Hawks 5 5 5 0 – 15
Eagles 1 3 5 0 – 9
Hits – Hawks (5) D. Fraser, R. Charman, Z. Scrivener, D. Smith, M. McBain
Eagles (1)
Pitching – B. Ferguson 2inn, 4k, 5bb, 4r, 14bf, 36b, 29s.
N. Williams 1inn, 1h, 2k, 6bb, 5r, 10bf, 32b, 12s
Eagles 4inn, 5h, 3k, 11bb, 15r, 32bf, 80b, 41s.
Div 1 was another embarrassing shut-out with Eagles cruising to a very comfortable 21-0
win.
On the bump, Dan and Mickey gave up 15 hits, including a home run each. That brings Mickeys total for the year to a few, the teams total given up to 10.
On the bright side, Zhoe played her first Div 1 game, and there’s only one game to go.
Hawks 0 0 0 0 0 – 0
Eagles 5 10 6 0 – 21
Hits – Hawks (3) D. Smith, B. Markwick, D. Fraser
Eagles (15 Inc 2hr)
Pitching – D. Fraser 1inn, 5h, 1k, 4bb, 9r, 18bf, 34b, 31s.
D. Smith 4inn, 10h, 3k, 1bb, 12r, 29bf, 38b, 67s.
Eagles 5inn, 3h, 8k, 2bb, 21bf, 24b, 51s.
The Division 2 finals start next Saturday with Wanderers playing Eagles on Sthn Cross, and the other Wanderers playing Bandits at Newey Field.
Our Div 1 side take on Bandits at our place. Blue tops.
Neville is down to plate the game.
I would like ALL tops back after the game.
Don’t forget, the League Presentation night is on August 23. Please indicate in comments if you are going.

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From the Bird Nest
Div 2 have just about done their dash for finals after going down to Bandits Black on the weekend.
We had no answer to the Clifford battery, taking just 1 hit off them.
Rod led off the second inning with a single.
Keegan led off in the third with a single.
The Bandits changed pitcher, and Brendan, Chris and, in his return game, Billy all hit in the last inning scoring two runs, but by then the horse had bolted.
On the flip side, we only had 3 strikeouts for the game and only committed 3 errs.
Hawks 0 0 0 2 – 2
Bandits 5 4 5 5 – 19
Hits – Hawks (5) B. Robinson, K. McDonald, R. Charman, B. Markwick (Dbl), C. Lang
Bandits (15)
Pitching- Hawks R, Charman 2inn, 8h, 1k, 3bb, 9r, 18bf, 34b, 43s.
B. Markwick 2inn, 7h, 2k, 6bb, 10r, 17bf, 45b, 27s
Bandits 4inn, 5h, 2k, 2bb, 2r, 20bf, 31b, 42s
In the Mental Health Awareness shield game v Bandits, we finally scored a win.
Rocket was exemplary on the mound, pitching the complete game, giving up just 3 hits and striking out 7.
Mickey, Bailey, and Druz each had a two-hit game, Druz receiving a nasty gash after sliding into second.
Louis and Druz drove/walked three runs in each.
At this point, I’d like to congratulate Kat Stephens(?) on her debut as a Plate umpire.
Hawks 5 1 6 1 0 5 – 18
Bandits 1 1 1 0 0 4 – 7
Hits – Hawks (10) D. Smith, B. Ferguson, D. Fraser 2, B. Markwick, Z. Van Dijk(dbl),
A. Hendry (dbl), R. Charman.
Bandits (3) Inc.triple
Pitching – Hawks C. Mitchell 6inn, 3h, 7k, 6bb, 7r, 30bf, 52b, 65s
Bandits 6inn, 10h, 6k, 11bb, 18r, 48bf, 91b, 98s
This week both sides are at home against Eagles.
Div 2 is the away team, so grey tops there.
The game starts at 10 am. Get there early and help Nev set the field up.
I need a base umpire for this game.
Div 1 is the home team, blue tops.
Kale is going to plate this game for us.
It is our Sponsors round, so there may be food after the game, if they leave any…