Southern Pride maintain South Island connection in draft selections

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Received: 12/12/06 4:06:41 AM 
From:  Vance <vanf(at)ihug.co.nz> 



Subject:  Southern Pride maintain South Island connection in
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Southern Pride maintain South Island connection in draft selections
Tuesday December 12th 2006

Despite having to make six player selections from outside their
franchiseregion tonight in the New Zealand Community Trust Men’s
National Leagueplayer draft Southern Pride have maintained their
South Islandconnection. 

Of the six draft selections made tonight by Southern Pride five
hail fromCanterbury. From the draft tonight the southern side
selected twopitchers Jared Welsh of Canterbury and Isaac Fletcher
from Auckland. Alsopicked up by Southern Pride tonight were Scott
Dale, Aaron Risdon, MartinWarren and Phil Bayne all from Canterbury.

The selection of Fletcher brings some experience to the mound
forSouthern Pride as he has represented Auckland on occasions
in recentseason during the league. Many of the draft selections
made tonight bySouthern Pride bring experience with them with
players such as ScottDale, Phil Bayne and Aaron Risdon all been
part of the Canterbury Red Soxteams in the past. 

New Southern Pride coach Ted Forrester says it was a conscience
decisionto go with a number of Canterbury based players as draft
selectionsbecause they are all players he knows well and who
have played well forhim in the past. 

Going into the National League Forrester is well aware of the
challengeahead of him and the Southern Pride team but it is not
something they arebacking away from as they have set the goal
of qualifying for the topfour finals series. 

A key to Southern Pride’s chances of achieving that goal will
come downto the performance of pitchers Jared Welsh and Isaac
Fletcher. Looking atthe awesome hitting line up of some of the
other teams in the leagueForrester says both pitchers have a
tough job ahead of them. 

“Looking at teams like Wellington, Auckland and North Harbour
therebatting is of a very high standard it is world class so
we are going toneed a bit of luck and the bounce of the ball
to go out way,” saidForrester. 


Other franchises to round out their 14 man playing squads tonight
withselections from the draft were North Harbour and Hutt Valley.
Thedefending champions North Harbour selected Grant Dean, Yosuke
Fukui,Haizley Martin and Rueben Topia. Hutt Valley has added
Michael Telfer andMichael Foote to their squad. 

New Zealand Community Trust Men’s National League Teams: 

North Harbour- Brad Rona, Jarrad Martin (Pitchers), Leon Lambert,
MichaelBoaler, David Down, Aaron Collier, Todd Wilson, Callum
Ryan, JasonGerbes, Zack Doney, (Grant Dean, Yosuke Fukui, Haizley
Martin, RuebenTopia).
Coach – Graeme Gollan. 

Wellington – Craig Gibson, Tane Richardson (Pitchers), Stephen
Ratu,Wayne Laulu, Gene Lutton, Les Poutama, Craig Wallace, Stacy
McLean, DaveBishop, Thomas Makea, Fabian Makea, Corey Matakatea,
Rick Manson, JohnPotts.
Coach – Les Bishop.

Canterbury – Penese Iosefo, Nathan Taikato (Pitchers), Clayton
Ellis,Darren Davies, Jamie Frisby, Steve McFarlane, Paul DeLatour,
TravisWilson, Paul Stead, Anthony Stewart, Gareth Cook, Todd
Grego, DanielMilne, Brad Annandale.
Coach – Mike McDowell.

Southern Pride – (Jared Welsh, Isaac Fletcher) (Pitchers),ScottCartwright,
Bevan Passmore, Daniel Tarapi, Chris Telfer, JonathanCampbell,
Daniel Shayler, Christopher Anderson, Wanye Sangster, (ScottDale,
Aaron Risdon, Martin Warren, Phil Bayne).
Coach – Ted Forrester.

Auckland – Heinie Shannon, Thomas Cameron (Pitchers), Lyndon
Andrew,Patrick Shannon, Nathan Nukunuku, Bobby King, Michael
Cameron, Carlaus TeKawa, Jonathan Munden, Michael Gibbs, Aaron
Thompson, Gus Leger, BernardHale.
Player / Coach – Donny Hale.

Hutt Valley -  Jeremy Manley, Regan Manley (Pitchers), Steven
Deans,Curtis Ames, Justin Karaitana, Jerol Lajpold, Tyson Byrne,
David Butler,Rakai Hokianga, Scott Higgins, Bronson Marino, Geoff
Packer, (MichaelTelfer, Michael Foote).. 
Coach – Dominic Richards.

* Names in brackets denote draft selections.


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

http://www.softball.org.nz/
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