News - Mar 08

Forgive me for being a bit slow with this but Sportsworld have given their site a coat of paint. It's a new look that does offer a sharper image for the boys. The content for the most part is the same but new features are the photo show on each page that scrolls through what seems to be hundreds of digital shots taken in all sports. In checking it out I also found that they have updated the Best and Fairest. Also the tables are now up to date. Aren't they a bunch of good eggs!

Details are sketchy (and that isn't helped by the amount of Guinness I've been drinking lately) but I'll drag myself away from Halo 3 long enough to update you all on what I know. Apparently we lost. BIG TIME. Something to the tune of 37-144. But this is the part I don't get. We actually managed 2 skins! With that score line it's really hard to believe but that's the mail I've received from the Hammer. Three Stars went to Sam, Sheeds and Todd. I'll hassle Rob for the tally so we can update the Three Stars for this season.

Before I sign off. Just a quick "did you know". Bungie are releasing a new "Map Pack" (the Legendary Map Pack) for Halo 3. I kind of set of new playgrounds for those with Xbox 360 who are bored of the current maps. One of the new maps will be called "Blackout" in honour of an older map called Lockout. I just thought that it was cool to have a Halo 3 map with the same name as our team! Sorry... it's the nerd in me.

Last Tuesday saw a team on a winning streak brought crashing back to Earth as some striking sixes on their behalf helped bolster their lead to an unreachable 146 runs. It was mostly thanks to their 2nd pair that Blackout struggled to come to grips with the game conditions. In the end only one skin was won with our total being 115. Rob snared the Three Stars award with Todd and Langy grabbing two and one star respectfully.

Tonight we saw a Blackout side all pumped up to win. After a small delay thanks to a mess up with the centre and game times we finally got a match underway with approx 1 hour delay.

We got sent into bat first and got off to a flying start with 40 off the first pair for only one wicket lost. The wicket will go down as one of the most bizarre I've seen in my 14 odd years playing the game. Basically Richo got out by hit wicket after taking WAY too much room for his run up the pitch and collided his foot with the stumps.

Todd and Sam continued the good form with 35 runs with a fairly uneventful set. However Todd did have an up and down match having getting caught off a certain six and following it up with some great cover drives to really make the opposition look silly.

Langy and myself stumbled a bit to get our 19 odd runs. I was out caught off the only silly shot I played and Dave managed to get bowled off a full toss that would put Bart from Hooters to shame.

Rob and Sheeds finished off the job with a session of 38 runs. Could have easily been 52 runs if not for the couple of run outs that ruined their otherwise faultless hit out.

Our turn on the field saw a decent 1st over by yours truly with a bowled out batsmen resulting in a scoreless over. But Langy's over knocked Blackout around the park with 2 power play sixes hit off the one over. This left the scoreboard on 31 runs after being scoreless of the 1st over. They continued to beat our 1st skin in what was the only blemish in our fielding.

Sam bowled like a demon. His ultra slow approach to the crease had 'em all fooled. Even Sam himself was unsure of how he managed to deliver 12 of the best but we don't want him to figure that out or it may change!

On a personal note I was kept busy taking 4 catches up the back. One of which in the final over was pretty surreal as it all seemed in slow motion. Full dive to my right with my right arm fully out stretched and snared the best catch I have taken since 2005 (my game before our wedding was insanely good for me!) leaving me upside down, tangled up in the nets!

Top Batsmen:
1) Mark 19
2) Sam 16
2) Rob 16
2) Sheeds 16

Top Bowlers:
1) Rob 4/-5
2) Sam 3/-3
3) Sheeds 2/4

Three Stars
3 - Brian
2 - Sam
1 - Rob

Winter 2008 Heats Up...

Brian Costelloe (02-3-08)

We won by a huge margin. Don't have the score on me. But I'll get Rob to email it all to me. All I can tell you about the match was that we were playing along side a noisy Grand Final match on court 3 and so it was tough to hear calls, listen out for the ball being hit... basically... it was tougher than normal. But we batted like demons. Richo and I opened up with 50 runs which included a blusterous power play over where yours truly managed to find the back net a few times. Then we had the father son team come out and better us with 70 runs. So that was the theme for the most part in batting.

Fielding was also a Blackout side well oiled. Sam played a blinder of a game with bowling that truly hit the mark every time! Langy also continues his recent good form with a solid performance where he had Big Pete from Pud Boys bamboozooled.

Three Stars went to Sam (3), Brian (2) and Rashid.

Match report to follow once I can get my hands on the bloody score sheet!