Baseball 09-10 Claxton Shield

Draws have been released. U16 & U18 teams announced but doesn't look like seniors have yet.

Check out your local associations website for details:
LINKS TO STATE ASSOCIATIONS

Qld have, at home, WA, SA, VIC, NSW for 3 games each series. 1 game Fri night, 2 games Sat. Played at Holloway Field, Newmarket...

States are also looking for volunteers!

Ticket prices for QLD are:
The Backstop Seat – Limited private box seat right behind home plate – includes food and beverage package - $60/person

The Down and In Seat – First two rows behind home plate – includes one food item and one non-alcoholic beverage - $20/person

General Admission – Adults - $10/person; Children 12 and under - $5/person;
Children 5 and under – Free; Queensland Club players in club uniform get a free snow cone!

General Admission Tournament Pass - good for all of the home games throughout the season:
Individual Pass - $60
Couples Pass - $75
Family Pass - $100 (2 adults, up to three children)

Group Option – Any combination of ten adult and child general admission tickets gets two adult general admission tickets free!

Can't wait!!!!

Mark.

really looking forward to the Claxton this year.
Good to see all the teams playing each other rather than splitting the country in two.

Here's the Qld Rams squad:

Albury James P
Baker Trent OF
Bevis PJ P
Crawford Nathan P
Crawford Tristan P
Dutton Brad IF
Dutton Wade IF/OF
Erasmus Justin P
Fletcher Aven OF
Greer Stephen OF
Lamb Chris P
Lamb-Hunt Daniel IF
Linger James IF
Morriss Simon P
Mowday Chris P
Naughton Joel C
Naylor Drew P
Nilsson Jay IF
Nilsson Mitchell C
Ough Wayne P
Rhodes Rory IF/OF
Roberts Josh OF
Schoenberger Alan IF
Searle Ryan P
Stockman Phil P
Thompson Aaron P
Timms Matt P
Utting Andy IF
White Luke OF
Wodson Rodney P

Rams Coaching Staff

Nilsson Dave Manager
Jordan Kevin Assistant Coach
Gahan Peter Assistant Coach
Nilsson Gary Pitching Coach
Moden Robbie Executive Officer

---------- Post added 22-10-2009 at 05:32 PM ----------

This looks likes Perth Squad but could be from last year:
Pitchers

36 Brendan Wise
14 Dean White
32 Mark Kelly
18 Liam Hendriks
22 Dylan Peacock
35 Scott Mitchinson
26 Daniel Schmidt
7 Todd Murphy
17 Benn Grice
00 Nathan Driessen
12 Warwick Saupold
00 Cameron Lamb
00 Travis Murphy

Catchers
11 Allan de San Miguel
9 Chris House

Infielders
16 Luke Hughes
21 Lachan Dale
2 Mitch Graham
4 Andrew Kyle
19 Matt Kennelly
27 Aaron Ottoway
00 Jordan MacDonald
00 Liam Hopkins
00 Ben Risinger

Outfielders
10 Nick Kimpton
00 Corey Adamson
23 Tim Kennelly
6 Jason Smit
00 Robin Adamson
00 Graeme Scorer

HEAT Staff
Don Kyle- Head Coach
Graeme Lloyd - Assistant Coach
Greg Jelks - Assistant Coach
Steve Kirkham - Pitching Coach

Awesome news Mark, thanks, are you going to try getting IP Autos?

Yep. Actually sent some Lloyd and Nilsson cards TTM to see if they would recieve them before they started travelling...

Not sure what games I will get to yet, probably only make it to two QLD home games. I'll use one game for trading card autos and the other to finish off some autos on my Australian bat that I am missing. Maybe also some balls...

Also Pat Kelly, ex Yankees player is managing the Adelaide franchise, if anyone has some old commons might pay to try and post c/o them...

Mark.

Can you pm me an address you sent the cards to Graeme Lloyd and Dave Nilsson

I actually have some spare rookie cards of Pat Kelly if interested Mark

Thanks Beck, I have some incoming though.

You should get onto SA Baseball about when they are posting their roster online!

Cheers,
Mark.

could i send you one of those i have spare?

Qld have a half decent website up and running. Only 8 days until the start of the competition. I can't believe how poor this is running. We are supposed to be having a fully fledged national competition next year!

Check out QLD web page

Much better than the "official" one.

Mark.

Are there any news as to what the other teams will look regarding the rosters?? NSW VIC WA SA etc.

Nope, Vic have a page up but the rosters aren't up. WA has their rosters up (posted already!) no news on SA or NSW.

Mark.

Thats very poor considering its only 8 days away, they better not leave it to the last minute to post them, bet they do!

I'm not sure which games, or even if I will be able to go to any this time

Official Claxton Shield page is up but utterley useless at the moment.

Links to the Heat and Rams are the only one's that work.

I can't believe how poor this has been this year. Has anyone seen ANY advertising in the media? Christ, how could you not capitalise on the world series at the moment...

Mark.

Finally posted the Vic Aces Squad for Perth Heat Vs Vic Aces for Friday 6th of November

Victoria Aces name Claxton Shield squad

Not the best squad I have seen for the Vics, missing a lot of key players, be interesting to see how they go

NSW SQUAD:
NSW PATRIOTS ACTIVE ROSTER

# FIRST NAME LAST NAME UNI # POSITION HEIGHT WEIGHT BATS THROWS
1 Tim Atherton 30 UTIL 183 95 R R
2 Tim Auty 33 OG 182 85 R R
3 Tim Cox 10 LHP 177 77 L L
4 Trent D'Antonio 11 UTIL 174 82 L R 5 Micthell Dening 17 OF 188 95 L R
6 Josh Freeman 43 RHP 185 95 R R
7 Andrew Graham 23 C 193 105 R R
8 Todd Grattan 32 RHP 184 92 R R
9 Vaughan Harris 37 RHP 181 78 R R
10 Mark Holland 24 INF 185 84 R R
11 David Kandilas 25 OF 187 86 R R
12 Wayne Lundgren 44 RHP 199 98 R R
13 Michael Lysaught 16 INF 181 84 R R
14 Patrick Maat 20 C 186 110 R R
15 Shannon Pender 12 INF 178 76 R R
16 Jason Pospishil 6 UTIL 178 85 L R
17 Mathew Rae 19 LHP 177 80 L L
18 Aaron Sookee 28 RHP 185 85 R R
19 Todd Van Steensel 35 RHP 183 95 R R




COACHES AND SUPPORT STAFF

# FIRST NAME LAST NAME UNI # POSITION
1 Glenn Williams 18 MANAGER
2 Gary White 15 ASSISTANT COACH
3 Graham Cassel 7 ASSISTANT COACH
4 Chris Oxspring 31 PITCHING COACH
5 Greg Castle N/A PHYSIOTHERAPIST

---------- Post added 07-11-2009 at 07:13 AM ----------

Beck, I see the Vics have Brad Harman...

Qld had a win last night, beat NSW in first game.

Thanks for that Mark. I see the Vics had a win against WA last night, would have loved to have gone but by the time i would have got in the car and got to Geelong it would be half over

Keep your eye on NSW player. Tim Atherton 30 UTIL 183 95 R R

He is a great kid and a brillant player.........I was his physiotherapist until he left and signed with the Twins

South Australian team is on their website. Links through claxtonshield.baseball.com.au. Web sites not to bad now.

SA have Paul Mildren, but don't know any others! I though Snelling(NSW?) /Blackley (Vic?) might have been playing somewhere, maybe he's in the dominican league.

Anyone been to a game yet? Would like to know if its possible to get autos...

Mark.

Vics had a tough game last night against WA lost 11 - 1 i think it was, would have loved to have gone, Graeme Lloyd was there signing autos

At this stage still uncertain which games i am going to but, looks like it might be the Vics Vs QLD ones, was hoping to get to see SA wanted to get Pat Kelly to sign a few cards and a ball for me