Winter Royals March into Grand Final

Sandringhams Winter team played their semi-final at home on Saturday 31st August against Dingley in good conditions before a nice sized crowd. The Royals attack , much hyped by this correspondent, made good on its’ potential as we ran out 10-1 victors. Backed by a miserly defense based on the accurate and pacey pitching of David Housden and Josh Smith the Sandy hitters made scoreboard progress in 5 of our six innings. A slightly shaky start saw the first Dingley

REGISTRATION for PLAYERS (Summer 2019/2020 )

Registrations are now open for the Sandringham Royals 2019/20 Summer Baseball Season. Use the link below and login with your Baseball Australia login details. For those with siblings playing this summer the Club is offering $30 reimbursement. The BA registration site does not offer us the opportunity to have that as part of the registration process, but our Treasurer Michael Lewis will gladly refund you the relevant amount if you supply him with your bank account details. REGISTRATION IS VITAL

Winter Royals Off to the C1 DBA Championship Game

Sandringhams Winter team played their semi-final at home on Saturday against Dingley in good conditions before a nice sized crowd. The Royals attack , much hyped by this correspondent, made good on its’ potential as we ran out 10-1 victors. Backed by a miserly defence based on the accurate and pacey pitching of David Housden and Josh Smith the Sandy hitters made scoreboard progress in 5 of our six innings. A slightly shaky start saw The first Dingley hitter walked

Winter Royals Clinch Minor Premiership

Winter Baseball – Minor Premiers.  That particular term applies to your Sandy Royals representing the club this year in the Dandenong Baseball Association C Grade competition. We had a ripping year losing just two games of the 18 played whilst sharing the playing load across our roster of 16 team members. The depth of the squad allows us great flexibility both on the field and off the field when players need time away with family and business. This past Saturday

Winter Royals Match Report V Pumas

Our Winter baseball team had a comprehensive victory on Saturday against not a great team of baseballers but a good bunch of guys. Needing to win to give ourselves any chance of retaining top spot prior to the finals the Royals went back to our early plan and started Ben Kaplin who had shown good practice form. Ben was on song with a strikeout, a groundball to Rob at Shortstop and a beautifully executed pick-off to second base to snare

Women’s Baseball – HERE

Women’s Baseball at Sandringham Royals We are extremely pleased to announce the appointment of Charelle Ainslie as our new women’s baseball coach. Charelle joins the Royals after a distinguished professional sports career playing at state, national and international levels. A member of Softball Victorian teams at U16 and U19 level, Charelle represented Australia on the International stage. She is recognised for her talent by the University of Nevada (USA) where Charelle was offered a scholarship and promoted to team co-captain in only

Match Report – Winter Royals v Mornington

Our DBA Winter Baseball team showed they know how to win a tight game when they came from behind to snatch a valuable victory at home on Saturday. The teams defense has never been in question, yet again allowing just one run during the course of the afternoon. Our pitching is strong and preparing well for the upcoming finals campaign whilst the fielding is pretty much trouble free. The odd throw and play being stuffed up is probably more the

Seniors Training Schedule 2019/2020

Training for the 2019/20 summer season will commence on Tuesday 20 August from 6pm at Tulip St and will run on Tuesdays until the start of the season. For those who are not involved in winter baseball they can join the winter team training on Wednesdays from 6pm. Thursday night and weekend sessions will commence in September with dates to be advised. For further information please contact Paul Rutgers on 0413 972 158

Match Report – Winter Royals v Bonbeach

Sandy Royals V Bonbeach – Round 15 On what looked like a great day for our big hitters your Winter Royals were held to a tight fought 2 all draw by the third placed Blue Jays. The Bonbeach pitcher Glen Jones again had our measure for the majority of the game. Some of our players were battling the pitches thrown whilst others were seemingly throwing their turn at bat away with poor swing choices and poor techniques. The team has

Come and Try Days Announced for 2019/20 Season

2019 K2 Baseball Academy U14 Tryouts

Winter Royals Match Report v Black Pirates

Jack Giuliano field saw the Royals take on the Mornington Pirates Black team last Saturday. The Pirates have been in reasonable form and with Sandy having dropped a game last week it was crucial the Royals rebounded. Our pitching rotation had Josh Smith pencilled in for the start and his bullpen form from Wednesday night did not bode well for Mornington. Strangely though the Pirates started well with two hits to score an early run but when Josh fanned the

Winter Royals Match Report v Pakenham

On Melbourne’s coldest baseball day for a number of years our hardy Winter Royals travelled through hail and rain storms to do battle at Pakenham on Saturday. We were there as the Pumas celebrated their 20th Anniversary so we knew they would be keen to provide an upset victory for their club. With the wind blowing in and light showers coming and going the game was a good battle between two sides at either end of the ladder. The Royals

Winter Royals – Match Report v Mornington Black

Our Sandy Winter team bagged another victory on Saturday after over-powering the Mornington Pirates Black team. The final score saw us at 13-3 , bases loaded and two out with our final batter trying desperately to smack the cover off the ball and score some extra runs when Geoff Francis chimed in with the 10 run rule to finish us off. Standing at two runs apiece going into the third we eventually got moving with two out. Pete Forwood drew

Match Report – Winter Royals v Bonbeach

Saturdays clash at Tulip Street was delayed by rain but with some good ground work by the Sandy team we got underway just 25 minutes late. Bonbeach came into the round as a team on the rise and the Royals had to battle hard all day in order to retain top spot on the ladder. True to our plan for the year we started young Ben Kaplin with an experienced infield backing him up. In three innings of work he

Match Report – Winter Royals v Mornington

Saturdays game against Mornington Black was more of a struggle than the score line may indicate for your Sandy Royals winter team. A seemingly comfortable victory at 9-3 comes into true focus when it is revealed we scored 6 runs with two out in the third dig and a further run in the last in junk time. Down a few regular contributors we struggled to hit the ball long in the perfect but chilly conditions.  Josh Smith was again unstoppable

AGM – President’s Report

Sandringham Baseball Club Annual General Meeting 2018-19 12th June 2019 President Rick Wills Tonight signifies the conclusion of the 2018-19 Summer League season and the commencement of the 91st season of the Sandringham Baseball Club with the election of new office bearers. Firstly may I take the opportunity on behalf of the current committee, members, players and supporters to recognise the achievement of the Sandringham Baseball Club and all those who have contributed to its longevity being, 90 years as

Winter Royals Match Report – Wow and Wow Again!

Wow and Wow again! Wanting to make a statement in the top of the table clash with Dingley last Saturday, the Sandy Royals smashed their way to a very comfortable 13-1 victory. On a great day for baseball out at Dingley we put one of our strongest line-ups into the field and from the top of the first headed towards victory after scoring three runs. Hits to Twinkletoes Steve Lester, Josh “Sticks” Smith and Robbie Anthony gave us a great

Winter Royals – Round 6

Sandy v Pakenham 1 June at Jack Guiliano Field Our Winter Royals cruised to a reasonably comfortable 10-4 victory on Saturday against a gallant but under-performing Pumas team. The Royals are now sitting at 6-1 and in second position. We enjoy the rare luxury of having two complete batteries to interchange throughout the season. This week it was Dave McKinnon starting with Steve Lester in relief pitching to Scott McLaughlin. Each one performed their role well with the pitchers surrendering

Winter Royals Round 5 Match Report

Our Winter team traveled to Mornington on this past Saturday to face winter conditions for the first time this season. With a limited roster due to other commitments our ten included Josh Smith back for the first time in two seasons. It was great to have the lanky baseball tyro back with us. Ban Kaplin again started the game as per our goal to give him lots of pitching experience this season. After we escaped the bottom of the first