Better late than never...🥎🥎RESULTS🥎🥎 - SENIORS ROUND 19, JUNIORS ROUND 16
10 Sep by Chris (Chridder) Upson
Div 5
Division 5 Recap – Carine Cats vs Ellenbrook Easterns
What a wild game this one turned out to be – we walked away with a 19–19 draw against Ellenbrook in a real slugfest. Beej was on fire with the bat, blasting three home runs – including a grand slam in the first – and driving in seven runs for the day. Ewie also homered in the second as part of a strong 3-for-4 performance, while Adam went deep in the fifth to keep our comeback alive. By the end, we had piled up 20 team hits, with Ewie, Brendan, Adam, Dek, and Ben all collecting three each, and Danny adding two more.
After falling behind following a huge fifth inning from Ellenbrook, the boys showed real fight to rally late. The bottom of the fifth saw Adam and Beej go back-to-back with homers, and clutch hits from Flanno, Danny, and Dek pulled us level. Dek also worked five innings on the mound, picking up four strikeouts and giving us the chance to stay in it. It wasn’t the cleanest game defensively, but the resilience and hitting right through the lineup were fantastic. Proud of the way everyone dug in to make sure we came away with something from such a rollercoaster contest. 🐾⚾
Div 7 Black
On a sunny Sunday arvo the Div7 Black Cats took to the road to face the Jags in the season finale.
After getting off to a fast start the Cats opening digs rally was stifled by two outs on the bath path and the Jags took the momentum into their batting half putting 6 across the plate.
Much like the rest of the season the Cats managed hard hits that went directly to fielders while the opposition consistently found gaps. And the Cats errors proved costly with the Jags converting them into runs.
The highlights for the day included some stellar play from Aidan, a slick line drive snare by Jono at first base and two good pitching digs from Garry.
In the end there wasn’t enough offence from the Cats who went down 16-5.
Div 7 Blue
On a beautiful day at Birralee Oval, the Carine Cats Blue hosted Joondalup Outlaws for the last round of the season.
The Cats opened strongly, putting up one in the first, three in the second, and a big five-run third inning to hold a commanding 9–2 lead. Mitchell pitched another solid game for Carine, keeping the Outlaws under pressure early, while Doggs impressed at the plate with a three-for-four performance. Daniel Macneall also swung the bat well, going two-for-three. In the field, Yank provided early highlights with sharp reactions at third base, recording the first outs of the opening two innings on tag plays.
But the Outlaws rallied in the fourth, exploding for seven runs to snatch the lead. They backed it up with five more in the fifth, taking control of the contest as Carine’s bats fell quiet in the later innings. Both sides finished with two errors apiece, but the Outlaws’ ability to capitalize on opportunities proved decisive.
Final score: Joondalup Outlaws 14 runs on 9 hits, Carine Cats Blue 9 runs on 8 hits.
Div 8
On what seemed like the first sunny Sunday for months div 8 had the job of getting up early for the 11 am game against Morley.
Despite getting plenty of weak contact the cats just couldn’t get the outs. Everything Morley hit seemed to land just behind the infielders.
A power burst see the team put on 3 home runs (despite a season total of 1 going into the game). Including Daniels for career shot.
Morley changed pitchers to stifle the rally and the cats couldn’t go much for the rest of the game.
Cats on the wrong end of a 25-9 score line.
Not the best end to what was a otherwise enjoyable season.
Div 9
After some backwards and forwards opinions on whether to forfeit our last fixtured game for the season, we eventually decided to go for it even with 1 player short.
So, with a cut lunch and water bag topped up, we drove to the extreme outer suburbs of Rockingham to face Rocky Ora with our 8-man squad.
Attitude played an important part today and, given we’re well and truly out of finals contention, ours was one of…“just have some fun”. That relaxed demeanour helped produce some good and at times, hilarious play.
Comedy mentions to Geoff who got ‘up close and personal’ with a runner coming to 3rd. The tangle of limbs confusing everyone as to who owned what! 🤣
Another mention to Lester who spent the day throwing from left field to a patch of white sand he thought was 2nd base!
A moment of brilliance was an extremely insightful field change mid-way through our second fielding innings. Elmo taking 1 pitch to end the innings with a resultant double play by yours truly.
Russell always told us, if we could get over 10 runs we could win… well that’s bullcrap! We got 13 runs and still lost. 😢
But hey, it was a beautiful day out in the suburbs and a 19-13 loss want to bad for us. 👍🥎
U14s
On a day the weather gods decided that the last regular home and away fixture day was worthy of nothing but sunshine, a slightly undermanned Juniors team of 8 (thanks Ashton for filling in to get us to 8!) made the trek down to Shirley Strickland to play Freo Rebels gold.
The junior cats were determined to make the most of their last game of the season, and after a slow but steady start in their first at bat getting the maximum 6 runs, they turned it up a notch in the field, holding the host team to a single run.
The bats game alive from the second innings onwards with all players getting bat to ball and around the bases and some standout batting seeing multiple batters find the outfield with Ethan and Jordy being the standouts both smashing home runs; Jordy’s being a grand slam to finish the 4th innings with 9 runs!
On the fielding side, the plays and glovework was great to watch : 2 infield fly ball catches to Kayleigh and Jordy, a great left field catch to Kayleigh and a fumbled infield ball recovery for a tag out at home being the highlights and keeping the runs to the Rebels limited.
The juniors finishing the season on a high – Cats 24 to Freo Gold 13.
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