GNBA

1. All Star Game, Saturday – 27 November 2010

What a game!!! In a very close, competitive game the National League side came out on

top with a 5 – 1 win over the American League team. The American League batted first

and went up 1 - 0 in the 1st innings with no.3 batter Mike Valentine hitting starting pitcher

Gary Maree for a home run. The National’s immediately leveled the game with a couple

of base hits. Gary Maree came back strong with not allowing only allowing one more hit

in his 2 innings pitched. Llewellyn Gerber (starting pitcher American League) did well

allowing only 1 run in 2 innings pitched. In relief for the American League, Craig Goodspeed

allowed the National League to score another run giving up 1 hit and allowing 3 walks. Deon

Landsberg then brought in the go ahead run with an excellent sacrifice bunt in the 4th innings.

In the 5th innings 3 more runs were scored by the Brewers with Dwayne Koot (1 for 3) hitting

a 2 run double. Kyle Garret (2 for 3) and Campbell v/d Merwe (1 for 1) were the other contributers

for the National’s. Kyle Garret (relief) and Louis Botha (closing) shut the American League out

for 4 innings, aloowing only 2 hits and recording 4 strike outs between them. For the American

League team Stephanus Nothnagel (1 for 2), Mike Valentine (1 for 1) and Llewellyn Gerber (1 for 2)

Contributed with the bat.

All in all, it was a game played with very few errors committed. The pitching was of a very high

standard, which shows that Gauteng North Baseball is on the right track to become a force as a

provincial team in the near future.

2. Home Run Derby

Out of the 12 competitors JP Lourens (Tigers) and Deon Landsberg (Brewers) made it through

to the final round. Deon eventually came out on top hitting one more home run than JP. Well done

to both for an awesome display of power batting.