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Senior Presentation Afternoon - Sunday 21 March Young Pirates at Work Preston's Club Sponsor - Telechoice Preston Pirates Ladies Team National baseball league considers La Trobe for home base Preston Baseball Club 100th Year Anniversary - 'Team of the Century' Dinner

Home of the New Preston Pirates

**  LOCAL DERBY - Tomorrow  **

Saturday 13 March - Preston vs Fitzroy

1's - Preston v Fitzroy @ Fitzroy - 2.00pm start, 12.45pm warm up

 Senior Presentation Afternoon

When: Sunday 21 March

Where: Preston Baseball Club

Time: 4.00pm to 8.00pm

Cost: FREE

Each player needs to bring a plate of food.

RSVP by 15 March

Let's make sure we get all senior players there on the day so that we can celebrate the season, our 100th season, a season that saw the Pirates climb back into Division 2 and a season that had 32 wins.

**  PIRATES WIN! **

Preston v Springvale - 07 March

1's Report

Hits:

Bryan Salas 3 (double, Adam Lawson 3 (2 doubles), Dave Moloney 2,  Ash Mueller 2, Jarryd Bannan 1, Brett Smith 1, Nick Djorgonoski 1 (double), Brock Mangels 1

Pitching:

Brett Smith - 9 inns, 6 hits, 6K's, 6 walks, 71 strikes, 55 balls

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Preston v Port Melbourne - 27 February

1's Report

Hits:

Dave Moloney 4 (2 doubles), Bryan Salas 3, Adam Lawson 2 (double), Brett Smith 1, Telen Stanfield 1, Nick Djorgonoski 1 (double), Ash Mueller 1 (double)

Pitching:

Brett Smith - 7.6 inns, 9 hits, 6K's, 5 walks, 92 strikes, 74 balls

Ian Cross - 1.3 inns, 0 hits, 1K, 0 walks, 9 strikes & 2 balls

 Pirates 'End of Season Trip' - 2 spots left

Friday 19 to Sunday 21 March - Ocean Grove

Senior players that are available for the 'End of Season Trip', please email stuartmedland@hotmail.com for further details.

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Now that the dust has settled and things are slowly getting back to some sort of organised chaos, I wish to sincerely thank you and the great people of the Preston Baseball Club for their efforts and support of the recent Claxton Shield series.

You and your club were amazing given the short lead up notification time for the games at La Trobe University. The way you and your members rallied time and time again was very much appreciated.

I think we achieved a lot this year, even though MLB might have been disappointed in the crowd numbers, I look at the glass being half full not half empty as we attracted more people than ever before to the sport using the tired and old brand of the Claxton Shield as the selling point. That in itself is a positive.

Please pass on my appreciation to all and sundry at the club for being such an important and significant part of this year's Claxton Shield.

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