Baseball Radio Episode 70

March 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Welcome to the weekly wrapup of all MLB and Australian Baseball news.

Congratulations are in order to our two intrepid hosts, Frita and Skinny, on both having a great season as respective coach’s, Frita in leading the Bonbeach Bluejays in winning the Victorian Div 2 grand final and Skinny, in leading the Williamstown Wolves in winning the Victorian Div 3 grand final.

On this weeks show Baseball Radio caught up the President of the Williamstown Wolves Michael Collins. Michael stepped the boys thru Wolves season and how they achieved their huge upset win in defeating the Springvale Lions for the Div 3 title.

Next up, the boys caught up with WA’s Shane Tonkin and they discussed the outcome of the grand finals matches in Western Australia. Shane was the winning coach of the Swan Districts Black Ducks who defeated the Wanneroo Giants 2-0 in the best of 3 State League Grand Final.

The boys were also able to catch up with the President of the Blackburn Orioles Bruce Dicker. The Orioles defeated the Malvern Braves 7-6 in the Baseball Victoria Div 1 competition. Bruce also spoke of how Blackburn had also won the BV Club Championship award for the 2nd season running which was highlighted by the fact that the Orioles have 11 teams, of the 11 teams 10 teams competed in their respective final series and of these 5 teams went on to claim their respective Grand Final.

As always, the show include the “Coach’s Rant” and the “Wood Duck” award and also covered all the latest baseball news from home and abroad including a wrap of all the Major League Action.

The presenters of this weeks program are Craig ‘frita’ Kernick and Dave “skinny” Simpson along with Jim “tiger” Hines on the panel. You can email the guys with questions for the broadcast at baseballradio@gmail.com

If you have an issue you want to discuss, call the studio on (03) 5996 6977 or send an sms on 0438 366 360. If you’re a podcaster and can’t listen live, call between 6.30pm-8pm each Friday night.

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