Southern Pride blast into men's top four + W/P L/P

[Al Doran]

Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:10:21 +1300
From: Vance <vance at vanf-graphics.co.nz>
Subject: Southern Pride blast into men's top four + W/P L/P




Southern Pride blast into men's top four + W/P L/P
Saturday December 10th

A double dose of victory today for Southern Pride has propelled them into 
the top four in the New Zealand Community Trust Men’s National league with 
one day of round robin play still to go.

Going into the final weekend of round robin play Southern Pride were in 
fifth spot on the points table but two wins today over Central Vikings at 
Hataitai Park, Wellington has lifted them into finals contention.

The top four sides after round robin play will contest the finals series 
next weekend and after today’s results Southern Pride are on the verge of 
making the finals for the first time in the franchises history.

It was a scratchy win in the first game of the day for Southern Pride as 
they defeated Central Vikings 3-0. Stand out performer for the Southern men 
was pitcher Michael Gaiger who was elusive on the mound. Gaiger faced 25 
batters giving up just three walks and no hits while taking a massive 15 
strikeouts.

While Gaiger was dominant on the mound the Southern sides hitters were 
doing just enough with the bat as first Derryn French scored in the third 
inning and then Bevan Passmore and Louis Joglor both scored in the fourth 
inning on a home run over the centre field fence by Joglor.

While his side tasted defeat Central Vikings pitcher John Hireme put in a 
strong performance on the mound he faced 28 batters picking up seven strike 
outs while giving up eight hits and two walks.

The second game of the double header was a lot tighter before Southern 
Pride came out on top 5-4.

Central Vikings took the early lead in the game scoring in the first inning 
and then went further ahead in the second inning with another two runs.

While the Southern side were down in the game they weren’t out for the 
count as in the bottom of the second inning they pulled the bats out of the 
bag and smashed five runs courtesy of three home runs off the bats of Nigel 
Kelly, Bevan Passmore and Louis Joglor.

Central Vikings kept fighting in the game and they went close pulling back 
one run in the fifth inning but it wasn’t enough allowing Southern Pride 
take out the win 5-4.

On the mound Leiws Acker threw a winning game for Southern Pride he faced 
31 batters giving up six hits and three walks while taking two strikeouts. 
For Central Vikings Penese Iosefo was the man on the mound he faced 37 
batters giving up nine hits and one walk and taking five strikeouts.

The other side in contention for the top four is Hutt Valley  and they 
started the day well with an upset victory over Auckland 3-1. But they 
couldn’t maintain that form in the second game of the double header as they 
then went down to Auckland 3-0.

The top four in the men’s national league will be finalised tomorrow at the 
completion of round robin play. And the crucial games tomorrow will see 
Southern Pride playing North Harbour twice and Hutt Valley taking on the 
defending champions Wellington in a double header.

NEW ZEALAND COMMUNITY TRUST MEN’S NATIONAL LEAGUE RESULTS:
Saturday December 10th –
Hutt Valley 3 Auckland 1, Southern Pride 3 Central Vikings 0, Auckland 3 
Hutt Valley 0, Southern Pride 5 Central Vikings 4.

NZCT NATIONAL LEAGUE WEEK THREE WP/LP:

Men’s National League.

Hutt Valley 3
Auckland 1
W/P – Steven Tau
L/P – Heinie Shannon
Takaki Sato (Auckland) 1 automatic.
Jerol Lajpold (Hutt Valley) 1 automatic.

Southern Pride 3
Central Vikings 0
W/P – Michael Gaiger
L/P – John Hireme
Louis Joglor (Southern Pride) 1 automatic.

Auckland 3
Hutt Valley 0
W/P – Thomas Cameron
L/P – Shaun Jamieson
Michael Fenton (Auckland) 1 automatic.

Southern Pride 5
Central Vikings 4
W/P – Lewis Acker
L/P –  Penese Iosefo
Nigel Kelly, Bevan Passmore, Louis Joglor (Southern Pride) 1 automatic each.
Penese Iosefo (Central Vikings) 1 automatic


By SNZ Media Liaison: Kelly Mitchell
*  mailto:kelly.mitchell(at)xtra.co.nz

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Cheers Vance
Softball New Zealand web master.
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