Annual report to VSA

SALE ASSOCIATION

Our Association had quite a successful year. We entered teams in all State Championships except Under 16 Boys. Our Primary Girls won the C Grade Championship and our Under 14 Boys were runners up in B Grade. Thank you to all host associations for their organisation and hospitality at Championships.

We had several of our Primary Girls and Under 14 Boys invited to go to coaching clinics or camps which proved to be a great experience for all those involved. Thank you to VSA for running these.

We held the Under 14 Championships in November 1993 even though it was a lot of work it was very rewarding for the weekend to go so well with 24 teams entered in the 5 grades offered. We would like to thank all associations that took part.

Our T-Ball/Mod-Bal1 competition was very successful with a total of 24 teams, from local primary schools, playing over 3 time slots on Saturday morning. We hope that introducing Mod-Ball to our competition will help keep the kids interested and they will go on to Softball. This year we were unable to run our Under 15 competition due to the lack of numbers.

After several years of having 4 open women's teams we had 5 teams enter this year which was great.

Our open mixed competition, which is held twilight mid week, was very successful again this year with 10 teams entered.

Our umpiring committee worked hard to encourage some of our older junior and adults to further their umpiring so hopefully we should have some people ready for clinics and exams over the next 12 months.

We would like to thank Nicole Richardson for coming to Sale and running clinics at two of the Primary schools during the day and a coaching clinic in the evening.

All in all the Sale Association had a successful 1993/94 season and we hope to be bigger and better in the 1994/95 season.

Tina Johnston

President

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Golden Era

In comparing all the seasons, the 1993/94 season is considered the beginning of the "golden era" of softball in this region, where the Association had over 400 players, 40 teams and entered 8 representative teams to Victorian State Championships.

During this season the Sale Softball Association and the sport was at its peak.

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Sale Softball Association Inc.

Season      1993 / 94

Grounds    Rotary Reserve

Committee

President                         Tina Johnston

Vice President                 David McGrath

Secretary                         Christine Campbell

Assistant Secretary         Leanne Heywood

Treasurer                         Russell Booth

Assistant Treasurer         Annmaree Holmes

Match Secretary             Joe Field

Property Officer              Shirley Redmond

Publicity Officer              Jacqui Glassey / Megan Fahy

Grounds Manager           Russell Booth

Umpires Committee       Frances McGrath, David McGrath, Stephen Beare

Social Committee           Julie McMillan, Natalie Dimarco

Teams

T-Ball / Modball

24 teams play Saturday morning 9.00, 10.15, 11.30am, approx 300 junior players.

Open Women 1.30, 3.30pm

Squaws

Musgoes

College

Bombers

Pink Panthers

Open Mixed Twilight

Blue Jays

Black Ducks

Dads Army

Blade Runners

Road Runners

SSP

Maybes

Sadida

TNT

Condors

Finals

Open Women A                       Squaws d 

Open Women B                       

Open Mixed Twilight A           Blue Jays d Road Runners   11 - 6

Open Mixed Twilight B           Maybes d Blade Runners    22 - 7

Best & Fairest

Open Women A

Open Women B

Secondary

Primary

Championship

Regional Championships

U12 Primary Girls             Sale host

U12 Primary Boys            Sale host

U14 Girls                            Bairnsdale host

U14 Boys                           Bairnsdale host

U16 Girls                           Sale host

U16 Boys                           Sale host

U19 Girls                           Drouin host

U19 Boys                           Drouin host

Open Women                   Drouin host

State Championships

U12 Primary Girls            WON C Grade 1st / 4 teams defeating Berwick 21-11 in final at Berwick

U12 Primary Boys           A Grade finished 3rd / 5 teams at Berwick

U14 Girls                           C Grade finished 4th / 4 teams at Sale

U14 Boys                          RUNNERS UP B Grade 2nd / 4 teams losing to Frankston 4-6 in the final at Sale

U16 Girls                           C Grade finished 3rd / 5 teams at Frankston

U16 Boys                          Not entered

U19 Girls                           C Grade finished 3rd / 4 teams at Northern Districts

U19 Boys                          A Grade finished 4th / 8 teams at Northern Districts

Open Women                   C Grade finished 5th / 6 teams at Werribee

Season Highlights

Successful holding of Victorian U14 State Championships with 24 teams attending, playing in five grades.

Primary Girls won the Victorian State Championships in C Grade, coached by Bev Beard.

Under 14 boys were runners up at Victorian State Championships in B Grade, coached by Pat Fahy.

Softball to be part of Sales 150th anniversary celebrations by participating in a town parade.

Submission to council for funding for permanent back net on diamond one, approx cost $5000.

VSA representative and player Nicole Richardson held coaching clinics at primary schools in Sale.

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