Southern Pride men secure top four spot in National league

[Al Doran]

Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 19:23:59 +1300
From: Vance <vance at vanf-graphics.co.nz>
Subject: Southern Pride men secure top four spot in National league



Southern Pride men secure top four spot
Sunday December 11th 2005

Southern Pride has made history for their franchise in the New Zealand 
Community Trust Men’s National League today by qualifying for the top four 
finals series.

The Southern side secured their top four spot with an upset 5-3 win over 
North Harbour at Hataitai Park this morning.

The hero today for Southern Pride was Matthew Telfer who won the game for 
the southern men when in the bottom of the sixth inning when he smashed the 
ball over the left field fence with a runner on base to give his side a two 
run advantage and break a 3-3 deadlock.

In a tight game the scoring started in the first at bat when North Harbour 
led off with two runs before Southern Pride replied with three runs of 
their own in the bottom of the inning. North Harbour added one more run in 
the second inning to level up the scores and that is how it remained until 
the sixth inning when Matthew Telfer stepped to the plate and won the game 
for his team.

On the mound Lewis Acker started the game for Southern Pride he faced 23 
batters giving up six hits, one walk and three hits while taking two 
strikeouts. Michael Gaiger came into the game as relief pitcher in the 
seventh inning and closed out the game facing four batters giving up two 
hits while picking up one strikeout.

For North Harbour Jarrad Martin had the duties on the mound he faced 29 
batters giving up nine hits, three walks and five runs while taking five 
strikeouts.

Southern Pride couldn’t back up their upset win later in the day in the 
second game of the double header against North Harbour. For game two the 
Harbour team were on fire with the bat winning the game 7-1 with all the 
runs coming via home runs.

For North Harbour Brad Rona, Duane Jerard and Dave Bishop all smashed the 
ball over the fence in the first inning before Jarrad Martin added another 
in the third inning, then Scott Higgins picked up one more in the fourth 
and Dave Bishop picked up his second home run of the game in the fifth inning.

Southern Pride could manage just one run in the fourth inning when Chris 
Eden Huria scored on a hit by Scott Cartwright after originally getting on 
base with a double to left field.
With his team in form with the bat pitcher Jarrad Martin was strong on the 
mound for North Harbour. He faced 17 batters giving up three hits and two 
walks while taking five strikeouts. Jim Grego was brought into the game in 
the fifth inning as relief pitcher and he faced 12 batters taking five 
strikeouts while giving up three hits and one walk.

For Southern Pride it was a tough day on the mound for Michael Gaiger who 
pitched the full game. He faced 27 batters giving up eight hits and two 
walks while taking five strikeouts.

Going into the final day of round robin play there was one other team in 
contention for the top four spot in the men’s national league and that was 
Hutt Valley but they had the tough task ahead of them of defeating the 
defending champions Wellington twice.

Hutt Valley started there assault on the top four spot well with an upset 
5-4 win over Wellington in the first game but they couldn’t back that up in 
game two going down 5-0.

On the back of today’s results joining Southern Pride in the finals series 
will be Wellington, Auckland and North Harbour. All four teams will meet at 
Hataitai Park, Wellington next weekend to battle it out for the title.

NEW ZEALAND COMMUNITY TRUST MEN’S NATIONAL LEAGUE RESULTS:
Sunday – Southern Pride 5 North Harbour 3, Hutt Valley 5 Wellington 4, 
North Harbour 7 Southern Pride 1, Wellington 5 Hutt Valley 0.

Saturday – 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

Southern Pride 5
North Harbour 3
W/P – Lewis Acker
L/P – Jarrad Martin
Duane Jerard (North Harbour) 1 automatic.
Louis Joglor, Matthew Telfer (Southern Pride) 1 automatic each.

Hutt Valley 5
Wellington 4
W/P – Shaun Jamieson
L/P – Marty Grant

North Harbour 7
Southern Pride 1
W/P – Jarrad Martin
L/P – Michael Gaiger
Dave Bishop (North Harbour) 2 automatics, Jarrad Martin, Brad Rona, Scott 
Higgins (North Harbour) 1 automatic each.

Wellington 5
Hutt Valley 0
W/P – Tane Richardson
L/P – Kaengo Terui
Steven Ratu (Wellington) 1 automatic.

By SNZ Media Liaison: Kelly Mitchell
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Cheers Vance
Softball New Zealand web master.
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