A baseball journey

As a consolation after my previous post, after the Schoolboys tournament I was selected as part of the Queensland Country team (the Cobras) to participate in the Barrier Reef tournament in Cairns later this year.
Mum and Dad are elated! more money.

Narangba hosted the Queensland Open Schoolboys tournament last weekend.
A great tournament overall even though the Sunshine Coast team finished outside the placings.
Personally, I was disappointed with the management of the Sunshine Coast team. Even though I trialled as a catcher AND pitcher, I was only given the opportunity to throw eight pitches for the entire […]

Last weekend I was at the Queensland District Little League Championships, played at the Redlands baseball Complex.
No, I was not playing. I was appointed by the Brisbane North Region as an umpire.
What a great week-end of baseball!. The best 12 year old players in the state resulted in a great weekend of baseball, with a […]

This year looks like I will be just as busy with baseball as ever.
I have been invited back to tour with the Australian Expos team to the US in July as well as receiving an invitation to again attend the Baseball Confederation of Oceania (BCO) Academy, also in July. I attended the Academy last year […]

What a tournament! The National Regional Youth Championships were held in Kempsey down in NSW from Jan 9-16. I was invited to play for the Northern Territory and, apart from 3 innings, had 100% participation in all 8 games.
We were undefeated up until the grand final against the Gold Coast. What a game! 13 innings […]

The State training squad is selected from the players at the U16 state titles. It is basically the best players in the state.
I was selected into the training squad, but found out later that I was selcected as a pitcher, not catching, which is my favourite position. I have not pitched seriously since I was […]

The Queensland U16 State Championships have now finished in Ipswich.
What a change this year. I played for the Brisbane North region instead of Sunshine Coast, where I have previously played.
We came 1st overall with only 1 loss to Brisbane South which didn’t bother us at all. It feels good to finish as winners. The tournament […]

15years and under schoolboys was a great tournament played at Narangba Demons home field.
I played for the Sunshine Coast team and did almost all the catching for the team apart from our 6th game against South Coast (that was the only game we lost up until then).
Overall in the tournament we came 3rd and we […]

I’m back from the USA, I had a great time in the states, the team stayed over there for 3 weeks, and in those 3 weeks, we played 13 games, and won a majority of them.
I visited some great tourist attractions such as Disneyland, universal studios and 3 Major League baseball stadiums like Petco Park […]

I got to the airport and I am on my way.

Thanks to all who have supported me and a big thanks to Mum and Dad for their support for my sporting ambitions.

I wrote this somewhere over the Pacific and Dad is putting it up on my blog. Thanks dad.

I will try to […]

My thanks this week go the communities of Landsborough and Beerwah for your support.
The support from the Hinterland communities will not be forgotten and I urge everyone to support these local businesses.

I was interviewed by Channel 7 - Sunshine Coast today.
Everyone thought I looked professional (?).
I drew the raffle and all the winners have been informed. Thanks for your support

I am off today to Narangba to trial for the 15 years and under Sunshine Coast Schoolboys team.
The Schoolboys Queensland Championships are held late in July.
If I am selected, it will mean that I will possibly be training for four different teams over the course of the next month or so.
I love it!
UPDATE!: I made […]

Since I got the invitation to travel to the USA, I have been hard at work raising extra cash to help Mum and Dad get me there.
I have done the usual lawn mowing and helping sell raffle tickets.
Today, I spent about 4 hours wheelbarrowing cement from a cement truck down a hill to lay concrete. […]

I got an email today from Baseball Queensland.
I have been invited to trial for an Under 16 Queensland development team to play a tournament against a NSW development team in July.
22 players from Queensland have been invited and 16 players will be selected for the team.
This is a great honour to be invited and means […]

Over the last few weeks, you may have seen Mum in Maleny selling raffle tickets.

I am offering them for sale on-line as the drawing date is getting closer as I have only three weeks before I leave for the USA.

Some of the prizes include: 

Nemo fish (Tina Cooper) - about $400
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Dad saw this on another blog, Geekdad (oh the shame), and thought I might be interested in listening to some of the old radio shows.

The Adventures of Babe Ruth is a radio show from the 1930’s and Archive.org has a collection of this and many other G rated radio shows as downloadable […]

I was interviewed for the Range News last week. You can see the story in the paper here.

I have an interview with Sunshine Coast channel 7 just before I leave for the US.

Baseball and TV star. Looks like a career in the movies for me :-) 

Last Sunday, I tried out for the Brisbane North Regional team to play in the state championships that are held in September.

A lot of my team mates from Redcliffe Padres tried out for this team and fortunately enough just about all of my team mates and I made it along with a lot of my […]

It is amazing the support I have received from the hinterland community.
My thanks go to Tiptoe Gifts, Montville Woods and The Italian Shop in Montville
Thanks to the Maleny RSL sub-branch and to Tanunda Cellars in Maleny.
A special thank you to Tina Cooper who donated a glass “Nemo” as a raffle prize.