St Marys Saints Baseball Club

⚾ JUNIORS SEASON IS HERE! ⚾
The wait is finally over! Our first Juniors games are this Saturday, 5th September!

Still missing your playing shirt or pants? We’ve got one last chance for those last-minute purchases!
📍 Monfarville
📅 Tomorrow, Thursday 3rd September
⏰ 4:00pm – 6:00pm

Make sure you’re sorted and game-day ready! 💪⚾

Let’s go Saints!

St Marys Village Centre are proud sponsors of St Marys Baseball Club

💙🎉 LAST CHANCE TO WIN BIG FOR DAD! 🎉💙

Time is running out to enter our St Marys Village Father’s Day Competition! ⏰👨‍👧‍👦

Will you be 1 of 5 lucky winners to score an incredible $500 prize pack for Dad this Father’s Day? 🎁💰

🏆 5 lucky winners
🎁 $500 prize pack each
💙 $2,500 worth of prizes up for grabs!

Don’t miss your chance to WIN BIG FOR DAD! 🙌

📅 Entries close Wednesday 2nd September at 12pm — so get your entry in NOW before it’s too late! 🚨

📍 St Marys Village

Great day, Great Vibe.

Don’t forget to register for the Warriors trials tomorrow.

⚾🔥 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗪𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗥 𝗜𝗡 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲?

Registrations are now open to trial for the 𝗚𝗪𝗕𝗔 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿𝘀 in the 2026 Baseball NSW Premier Series and Gaynor Cup.

𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀: U12 | U14 | U16
𝗚𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝗽: U13 Girls | U16 Girls

The Premier Series features eight competition rounds before a two-day Finals Weekend on 𝟮𝟴–𝟮𝟵 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, bringing NSW representative teams together in a best-on-best environment.

📅 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗦 – 𝗦𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝟯𝟬𝗧𝗛 𝗔𝗨𝗚𝗨𝗦𝗧
📍 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗙𝗔𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘
⏰ 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝟭𝗣𝗠

Scan the QR code on the flyer or register here:

registration.gwba.com.au/premierseries/

Time to represent your club and earn the chance to 𝗪𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗼𝗿.

Spots still available for this Sunday 30th August. Interested. Details below to register

⚾ COMMUNITY UMPIRING COURSE – GWBA MEMBERS FREE ⚾

Greater Western Baseball Association is proud to host a 2026 Community Umpiring Course in partnership with NSW Baseball Umpires Association.

This is the perfect entry-level course for local junior coaches, Junior League players and Senior League players who want to better understand the game, learn the basics of umpiring and help give back to their local clubs by supporting junior competition games.

You do not need to be an experienced umpire. This course is designed to help participants build confidence, understand the rules more clearly and develop the basic skills needed to assist with local junior baseball.

EVENT DETAILS

📅 Date: Sunday 30 August 2026
🕣 Time: 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM
📍 Location: Monfarville Reserve, Monfarville Street, St Marys NSW 2760
💲 Course Fee: $35
🆓️ GWBA Members: FREE – ask Michael Bryan for the discount code before registering

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

✅️ Junior coaches who want a better understanding of umpiring basics
✅️ Junior League and Senior League players wanting to give back to their clubs
✅️ Parents, volunteers and club members interested in supporting junior games
✅️ Anyone aged 12+ who wants to learn more about umpiring baseball

REQUIREMENTS
🙋‍♂️️ Minimum age: 12 years
📝 Participants aged 18+ require a valid Volunteer Working With Children Check
👨‍💻 Complete the Community Officiating Essential Skills Course before attending
👩‍💻 An online test is required after the on-field course to receive certification

Register here: https://members.nswbua.org/event-6756770

Let’s build more confident officials, stronger clubs and better-supported junior competitions across Greater Western Baseball.

It going to be a big day at Monfarville Baseball Complex this Sunday 30th August. With so many things happening we are having a meat tray raffle. GWBA community umpires course, last day of GWBA winter development, followed by the Warriors trails for Premier Cup and Gaynor Cup. The canteen will be open and Bbq will be sizzling. So head on down and buy your tickets to win these yummy meat trays.

Congratulations to Div 6 on their grand final win. Div 8 Smith put up great fight to be runners up.
Thankyou to all our winter teams and players for a great season.

Metro Grand final
Division 6
St Mary’s 11 blue mountains 10

Blue mountains came out swinging in the first putting 3 runs on after us we started off putting 0 up
2nd innings we came up with 3 runs of our own blue mountains kept the score rolling over putting on another 3 runs
Top of the 3rd
Down by 6 to 3 we came out of the blocks with a 7 run innings hits, walks & hbp only had 1 out when scoring the 7
4th innings
St Mary’s 10 blue mountains 8 it was tight some big plays Jacob pernell thought he could fly tagging a runner while In mid air
5inning
Blue mountains put on 2 runs to tie it up both teams still with there starting pitchers on the hill
6th inning
We were able to manufacture a run through a pinch runner due to injury
Going into the bottom 6 leading by 1
Brad Warner found an extra shoulder to finish the game
We win It 11 to 10

Some words from the players

Coming into the last dig with one run lead Brad Warner held his nerve and shut them down striking out the last batter to win the game.

Baseball was the winner

That was so good

Thank you to Dan Adam and all the families that supported us on the big day

Thanks team let’s go back to back , why would you want to go to Winston hills

Coaches wrap
Very tough season to coach with injuries & people away I hope I done right by all , coaching is never easy when your looking after a bunch of mates
Thanks Coach
Walshy

Wayne’s Wind Up

Div 8 Smith went to MacKillop this week to play in a legitimate 1v2 Grand Final.

MacKillop packed a pitcher who is very good

Saints packed a team that just doesn’t stop believing in themselves

Nick Simpson pitched the first two innings holding MacKillop scoreless.
Unfortunately they held us scoreless too.
Third innings and Aaron Merritt stopped up to pitch. Threw great but wasn’t getting calls that seemed like they should have been given. This allowed the MacKillop bats to wake up. They had a rush and scored 6 runs

In the fourth, down 6 - 0 our bats started waking up as we scored 2 and then Rob Slarke held them to 1 from the mound.

Top of the fifth and we are behind the eight ball but we dig hard!

A combination of Hitting and Patience happened.

Chris Campbell gets on base via a walk, Steve Keast moves him around.

Young Flog Noah cracks a nice double to centerfield bringing Chris home.

Dylan works a walk.

The two speedsters then pull a double steal.

They liked the double steal so much they did it again bringing Noah home and Dylan to third.
Nick Simpson got on base bringing Dylan home and then stealing second.
Rob Slarke steps up, works a walk and says anything Noah and Dylan can do, Nick and I can do too as they pulled a double steal.

Nicks in third, Rob on second and Matt Simpson is at the plate. He gets a ball, a called strike and a foul. And then Nick Simpson either got impatient or read the future as he steals for home as the next pitch is in the air.
He is so close he almost gets hit by his Dads bat as Matt smacks the pitch to left field also bringing home Rob Slarke.
Glen Robertson JUST gets beaten out at first and our bay is done.

We are now all tied up!!!

We just need to hold them out because if we bat again then we got this!

Rob and Glen started the inning off with a nice foul tip for the first out.

Next batter gets on and gets REALLY Lucky as he steals second because Glen had thrown a beauty to second but it literally went thru Nicks mitt. Yep it broke the mitt. Nick recovered the ball and did tag the runner out as he got up and lifted off the bag but sadly the umpire wasn’t looking and didn’t see it.

The next batter got on base due to an error by second as he sprinted and slid at the ball trying to cut it off a bit behind second

That allowed the winning run to cross.

Saints Smith loses in a close one. If we had gotten to bat again I truly believe we win.

Highlights of the game

That super driven, hardcore come back

The throw going thru Nicks mitt and

Noah taking two catches that have him running forever to take them at full stretch. The first one he had run a long way into fair territory to just miss it then the next hit had him running the opposite way to make the catch. Add that double to it and he was pretty much our MVP.

Great pitching and fielding that held a good team scoreless for two innings.

Highlight of the season??

This team. We started in one grade, got raised because we were undefeated then we continued that way for most of the season.
We only lost two games all year and they were both to the eventual champions and both were by one run in the last

The fun we have as a team. Everybody turns up. People are willing to do whatever is best for the team and playing some great baseball.

I really look forward to playing with these guys again. And next time? That titles OURS!

Thanks to Emma Smith for managing all our crazy all season

Also thanks to Fiona Simpson for filling in as scorer for us.

Thank you to all the supporters who turned up to support us

But most of all. Thanks to the team for a great, fun and very successful season.

We have a few spots left in our Minors League teams and one spot left in our Rookies - Coach pitch team. Season starts 5th September. No experience need. Active Kids Vouchers accepted.
Contact the club on messenger or email.

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