Nayland United Benchwarmers

Tis the season to be jolly..........Kei te pai to the Benchwarmers for an awesome effort this season.

Game Time - Saturday 30th October

Games kick off for club teams from 9am on Saturday with the
t - ballers and primary school teams. Rangers, Red Hawkes, Flames and Waimea all play at 10:15 am






United - Senior Draw
Pirates V Waimea - 1pm
R & B V Royal Vixens - 1pm
Tians V Eagles - 3pm
Warriors V Eagles Reserves - 3pm
Raiders V Royals - 3pm
Good luck and go hard United!!

PK take out GJ Gradner Labour Weekend Tournament

Great to see Duck (1st base coach) and Dom (player) in the top class PK line up last weekend.

Game Day Saturday 9th October

Well the season got off to a good start on Saturday with the first game of the day being between the Pirates and the Titans.
The Titans won the first battle of many to come this season 10 - 0. A great game played by a young Titans team this season.
In other games the R & B girls won against Royal Vixens 21 - 7 and the Raiders beat the Warriors.

Junior Softball Open day / Registrations

Junior Softball Open Day / Registrations
Saturday 18th September
Saxton Field
1:30 - 2:30pm
Bring a glove, sports shoes and a drink bottle

Please Note: Senior softball now starts on Saturday 9th October

Training Today

Training today for the senior men at 2:00pm, Saxton's.
R & B women's team are training at 12:00pm, Saxtons.







Softball starts Saturday 2nd October. Uniforms to be issued on sat 25th November. Players are requested to pay 50% deposit of their subs on this date $65.00 and the remainder of subs to be paid the 1st Saturday in November.

Junior Open day at Saxtons - 1:30 - 2:30pm.

Open Day

Nelson United Softball Club Open Day / Registrations
Sunday 29th August, 2010
Saxton Field
1 - 3pm

For all seniors interested in playing in the 2010 / 2011 softball season

Time to start thinking about softball again!!!

Hey guys two months to go until we play ball again!
August is a good time to get the gear out and have a look and see if you need a new glove this season, check out those cleats and maybe even think about ordering a new bat.
At the end of August our club will be having their AGM and setting a date for the Open day etc.
September will be spring training as usual and before you know it..... October we start.

NZ U17 Baseball Team - Twitter

I have been getting up dates on Twitter about the boys and I was very excited when I received the message to say that our very own Nelson United Boy 'Mahutu - Mason' had hit the first run in for the Kiwi team (RBI) scoring the first run on USA soil for the Kiwi boys.

You can follow the boys on the link below.

https://twitter.com/baseballnz

NZ U 17 Baseball Team Fly Out

Ka kite Dom! See you in 2 weeks.

TV 3 Baseball Link

Here is the link to the TV 3 news item on the NZ U17 Baseball Team heading to Seattle.

http://www.3news.co.nz/Home/News/Display/tabid/209/articleID/162658/Default.aspx?src=email

Softball on TV this week - A Must Watch!

Black Sox Documentary

Maori TV are screening the Black Sox Documentary “Band of Men” on Wednesday 26th May 8.30-9.30pm. The documentary provides insight into the history of our nation’s most successful sporting team and to understand the culture and values behind such legendary teams. Previous and current legends have been interviewed such as Mark Sorenson, Jarrad Martin, Dennis Cheyne, Bill Massey and Chubb Tangaroa. The screening is to be celebrated with a function at Sportshouse on the night of the documentary where all those involved in the making of the documentary have been invited.

A feature of the night will also be the official presentation of awards for 2009 International Softball Federation Hall of Fame inductees Rhonda Hira, Wayne Saunders and Naomi Shaw. Both Mark Sorenson and Don Tricker who are unable to attend will be presented their awards at a later date.

Hyundai Code
8:30, Thursday, June 3rd White Sox pitcher Michal Tangaroa along with Black Sox pitching legend Chubb Tangaroa will be interviewed on Maori TV’s Hyundai Code. Tune in!!

NZ U17 Baseball Team - The Dominator Represents Churr!

A big congrats to Dom who has just made the NZ U17 Baseball Team, with Brendon, Nick, Jack, Paul and Joel. They are heading to the States on July 2nd.
There are two big fundraisers coming up.
A Fawlty Towers Dinner and show on sat 29th May and a quiz evening in June. If you want to come to the El tavern night be in quick as tickets are selling fast. We are desperate for prizes for the quiz evening so again if you can hep please let us know. Or how about getting a United Quiz Team together.

Nelson United Softball Club Prizegiving - 2009 - 2010

Congratulations to all those that received awards at prize giving last weekend.

R & B
MVP - Celia
Sportsmanship - Denise and Teresa
Most Improved - Levi
Pirates
MVP - Cary
Sportsmanship - Tony V
Titans
MVP - Dominic and Ben
Sportsmanship - Steven
Raiders
MVP - Brad
Sportsmanship - Ryan
Warriors
MVP - Troy
Sportsmanship - Kieran

Sportsmanship Trophy - United Raiders
Harvey Personality Cup - Tony A
Junior Most Promising Player of the Year - Pakuwera
Senior Female Player of the Year - Eddie
Senior Male Player of the Year - Dominic
Sports Person of the Year - Tui

Prizegiving Dates

Nelson United Senior Softball Club Prize giving
Sat 1st May, 2010
Stables Restaurant and Bar
5 - 6pm mix and mingle
6 - 7 pm prize giving

Nelson Softball Association Senior Prize giving
Sat 15th may, 2010
New Softball Pavilion
Time and price for tickets TBC

Prizegiving - 2009 / 2010

The date has been set for this years prize giving - Sat 1st May at the Stables in Richmond. 5 - 6 pm is mix and mingle. Prize giving starts at 6pm.

NZ United - Webb Shield Pics

Nayland College Boys Finished 2nd at Secondary School Champs - Dunedin

The Nayland College Boys finished 2nd at the South Island Secondary School Champs in Dunedin last week. After the round robin they had finished in 2nd place and came back and beat Burnside in the semi finals. In the finals they just lost to Otago 4 - 3 in the bottom of the 7th. It was an amazing trip and all they boys can be proud of what they achieved.

Nayland College Boys Softball Team

The Nayland College Boys are heading off to Dunedin in the morning for Secondary School Champs.
Thanks to all those that have brought raffle tickets and supported the team in their prep to get them ready for this tour.


The draw is a follows:
Thursday V Otago Boys and Waitaki Boys High
Friday V Burnside High, Kings High and Dunstan
Saturday V St Thomas and St Peters
Sunday - Play offs

I will keep you posted on our results and I hope to get some good photo's posted too. I'm also planning to make a doco while we are away too so watch this space!!!! A bit of techtonik softball dancing!!!!

Titans V Pirates......again

The Titans beat the Pirates again to finish 3rd in the Nelson Men's Softball Comp on Saturday.It was another close game with the score being tied up at 4 all after the 4th innings. At the top of the 5th Titan Ben tapped a beauty out of the park with runners on base. Final score 7 - 4. The R & B play their finals on April 10th. After the game it was great to see players relaxing and socialising with a bbq and game of slow pitch with the kids. United we stand .

Car Wash!!!!

The crew traveling to new Plymouth for the Webb Shield are doing a car wash and sausage sizzle tomorrow at Haven's, Port nelson - 8:30 - 11:00, $5.00. See you there. Not many sleeps now until we go!!!

Pirates Slow Pitch - 2010

The sun was out today for the Pirates Annual Slow Pitch Tourny and what a day it was! It was great to see lots of Whanau out enjoying the sun and having a good time. Well done to the Stu Pies who took out the 1st place Trophy and to the Toxic Coffee Grinders who took out 2nd place!!! A good effort was put in by Cary's Team and The Little Rock lads and lasses too. The Nayland College Boys did a great job on the BBQ toady too with all funds going toards their trip to Dunedin coming up in a couple of weeks.

Nayland College Boys are off to Dunedin

Nayland College Boys Softball Team 2009 - Greymouth

Once again preparations are under way for the Nayland College Boys Softball Team as they prepare for Secondary School Softball Champs in Dunedin.

This is the last year for some of the boys and I know that they will do well.

So if you see the boys at the park over the weekend selling raffles please buy one as this trip is close to $10,000 in total to go.

They are also doing the BBQ at the Pirates Slow Pitch on Sunday so make sure you come and buy a sausage or too.

Pirates Slow Pitch - Sunday 7th March 2010

If you haven't entered a team or made your self available for the Pirates Slow Pitch on Sunday it's not too late. See Duck at the park on Sunday to register your team or interest.

Saturday 27th Jan 2010

The United teams were busy on Saturday with the Inter city finals and all other grades being played. Awesome to see United out there in full force again. We have managed to get 3 new intermediate teams from Broadgreen this year. Welcome to the rangers, Red Hawkes and the Flames and a big thank you to all those coaches, managers and parents out there supporting these new teams. And a big thank you to Tui for her continued effort with the youth teams too. She is coaching an intermediate team and two secondary school / Mens B teams!!!! Wow!!
Our United Softball club teams now stands at: Primary x 1, Intermediate x 4, Secondary School / Mens B x 2, Senior Womens x 1 and Senior Mens x 2.

The finals day started early with the R & B team winning by deafult to the Wairau team who couldn't come over from Blenheim which put them through on a win to g through to play Saints. A great game and the lost by one run in the last innings. Excellent effort. Next they faced Royals but just could get enough bat to ball to get the runs in, finishing 4th in the Womens Intercity Comp.

Although games were happening all over the park, the Club game of the day was between the Pirates and the Titans. It went down to the bottom of the 7th innings. Pirates had two on base, two out. Titans ahead by one. The Titans needed an out to win and of course the Pirates needed at least one to tie and two to win. Lucky for Ben he gloved a tidy drive up the middle and got Duck out. leaving the Titans as the winners!!!!!! A great game boys.

Softball still continues for another few weeks with the Travis Gibbs memorial Shield to be played for in the men's comp and the women playing for the Nerrelle Te Puri. The season of course will be wrapped up by the seniors traveling to new Plymouth for the NZ United Tourny. Yay!!!!!

NZ United 2010 Up Date

Just a quick up date to get your minds thinking about this years Webb Shield coming up soon. It's time to get those costumes organised for Snow Whites Road Trip with the Dwarfs.
If you have forgotten who you are, here's the list: Duck - Sparlkie Nicky - Slutty Cary - Sparkie Teresa - Doc Muzz - Nursey Barb - Sporty John - Muscley Pat - Sleezy Tony A - Chippie Dom - Grumpy Ben - Nerdy Daniel - Jamaciany Cory - Cookie Marty - Trendy Celia - Lusty Di - Flirty Lisa - Brainy Lisa L - Farty Kev - Horney Eddie - Hairy Jilly - Sleepy Wayne - Cheeky Jackie - Army Levi - Crafty Julie - Posh Denise - Vege Shirley - Snow White