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Help is at hand for landholders
Landscape SA Limestone Coast officers lend their expertise
Landscaope SA Limestone Coast has officer located across the region and are on hand to help landholders control declared pest plants and animals by providing: · Advice such as best practice control methods and timing of control · Bait supply and equipment to assist with your fox and rabbit control program · Publications and factsheets
Landholders can contact their local Landscape Officer for pest control advice by calling the offices in Mount Gambier on (08)8735 1204 or Keith on (08)8755 1620.
HERE TO HELP: Kym, Team Leader for Northern Landscape Operation (above top) and Deb, Team Leader for Southern Landscape Operations (above bottom)
Warriors Blue hang onto slim finals hopes
Mount Gambier Softball League action heats up in the race for the major round
Corcordes United overcame both COVID and their opposition in Wanderers on Saturday, taking the win despite missing pitcher Dana Jones and key playmaker Codie Jackway.
Wanderers welcomed back Em Hart and Leanne Little, and both reached base in an opening innings which saw Wanderers score three as Montanna Millard looked to find the strike zone.
Concordes replied with two, thanks to RBIs from Hannah Taylor and Bec Von Duve, who shone with the bat recording three hits on the day.
Lily Clifford-Finch placed a perfect hit to the vacant right field area for a triple to open the second innings for Wanderers, and was scored along with Hart, bringing Wanderers to five runs, however this was the end of their scoring as Millard tightened the screws as the game progressed, wracking up five strikeouts after a slow start.
Concordes kicked into gear in the final innings, with consecutive hits, including a triple to Millard, a double to Taylor, and singles to both Von Duve and Amber Lindquist piling on eight runs to end the game 14-5, despite the match being very tight for all bar about 10 minutes of playing time.
Rej Smith pitched accurately all game for Wanderers but couldn’t stop the hot bats of Concordes, who are hoping to secure a top two finish to get a double chance in the finals.
League champion Smith from Wanderers backed up in the heat by throwing every innings of their double header, showing pure grit and determination, and also scoring one of her team’s two runs for the day via a clinical double to left in the first.
Em Hart was scored having previously lined a triple to centre which scored speedster Fiona Finch.
Apart from Lily Clifford-Finch’s single in the fifth, that was all she wrote for Wanderers batters against Leyna Bruggemann pitching for the Blues side.
Easily the best play of the day went to Jasmine Disselbach who executed a fabulous 9-3 and anyone who was watching would have thought it was a grand final with the excitement generated.
It was categorically manifested as Blues were talking about Skylea Tindall’s recent 9-3 as they walked out on the field and the very next play was all Disselbach at right.
She also smashed a ball to short, surprising even herself, after having legged out a single to third base.
Disselbach’s crisp high fives lifted the Blues’ energy, along with the supportive cheering of Elly Hogben and McLean in the outfield.
McLean added another cracking single to her season tally, along with the smiling assassin and the level headed leader of the Blues Melissa Chuck, she is on fire with the bat and dominating RBIs.
Jarvo Queale had a day out with the bat, an early shot looked destined for the home run fence but found the left field line meaning Queale had to run out two bases.
She later showed her supreme speed by running out an infield single followed by jinxing herself in the field.
As the team sprinted out at a snail’s pace to defend in the last dig, Queale commented that she was yet to field a ball and thankfully she remembered to use her glove when Finch nailed a line drive for the last out of the game.
Vicki Taylor was calm and composed at second base for Blues, making two key plays and getting on base each time she came up to bat with three BBs.
Daena Wombwell also had patient at bats picking two walks while catching in the heat.
Bec White found the middle of the ball, smashing one up the middle for an RBI.
Bruggemann (pictured) was relieved to have regained the skill to catch a fly ball while striking out six hitters in five innings. as her team picked up a rare win - 10-2.
Blues need to win most, if not all, of their remaining matches to have a chance at making the finals while Wanderers remain well and truly alive in the finals hunt.
Similarly affected by player outs, Concordes United fell to a spirited Demons outfit 7-1 in the final match of the weekend.
Demons took their opportunities with both hands and deserved the win, producing enough hits against the fill in pitchers of Sam Brown and Jo Hopgood to get the runs on the board.
Concordes could not get anything at all going with the bat, and apart from two hits to Linda Dodds and, doubles to Brown and Maddie Bowd they didn’t trouble the scorer much.
This was mostly due to the excellent pitching of Jordi Gower, catching of Bree Ridding and fielding of Cody Manning, who were all excellent all game.
Despite their frustrations Concordes won’t worry too much about the result, and will look forward to getting their players back and rebounding in their last two games before the finals.
RESULTS
Concordes United 14 (H Taylor, B Von Duve 3, L McCallum, M Sutherland, M Millard, A Lindquist) d Wanderers 5 (L Clifford-Finch, E Hart, F Finch, L Little); Demons 7 (C Manning 2, B Ridding) d Concordes White (L Dodds 2, S Brown, M Bowd); Warriors Blue 10 (A Queale 2, M Chuck, S McLean, J Disselbach) d Wanderers 2 (L Clifford-Finch, E Hart, R Smith)
