Host side on top at Doreen Dalton tournament

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Host side on top at Doreen Dalton tournament
Saturday October 22nd 2005

Hutt City United has made a strong start to the Doreen Dalton tournament 
today as they sit at the top of their section with an unbeaten 3-0 record.

The Hutt Valley club side are the hosts of the premier one men's tournament 
played at Fraser Park in Lower Hutt over Labour Weekend. The home team 
opened the tournament on Friday night with a 5-0 win over Hutt Valley 
Dodgers and backed up it up today with a 1-0 victory over Northcote and 5-3 
result over Giants.

Victory over Northcote was a close run thing with the only run of the game 
coming in the first inning when Brad Baker scampered home on the hit by Pat 
Humphries.

Northcote had their chances in the game going closest in the bottom of the 
sixth inning when they loaded up the bases with only one down. However HCU 
pitcher Jeremy Manly poured cold water on Northcote hitters picking up 
consecutive strikeouts to end the inning.

Manly was a dominant feature on the mound as he faced 25 batters taking 12 
strikeouts while giving up three hits and two walks.

Also unbeaten after the first day of the tournament are Ramblers and 
Miramar who have both had two wins.

The national club champions Ramblers have shown strong form as they opened 
the day with blazing hitting picking up a 5-3 win over Hutt Valley 
Cardinals followed by a 2-0 victory over Johnsonville.

Miramar are the defending champions and they have shown they mean business 
as they look to win it again. They opened up with a 2-1 win over Northcote 
and have followed it up with a 5-0 victory against Stoke.

It will be a turn up for the record books though if Miramar take out the 
title again as no team has ever won the title twice in the tournaments nine 
year history.

Round robin play in the tournament wraps up tomorrow with five rounds of 
games ahead of the playoffs on Monday.

Doreen Dalton Premier One Men's Tournament, Day 1 Results:
Hutt City United 5 Hutt Valley Dodgers 0, Ramblers 5 Hutt Valley Cardinals 
3, Poneke Kilbirnie 5 Johnsonville 1, Ramblers 2 Johnsonville 0, Hutt City 
United 1 Northcote 0, Stoke 5 Hutt Valley Dodgers 1, Hutt Valley Cardinals 
4 Porirua 2, Hutt City United 5 Giants 3, Miramar 2 Northcote 1, Porirua 3 
Poneke Kilbirnie 1, Miramar 5 Stoke 0.


By SNZ Media Liaison: Kelly Mitchell
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