Season ends on lows

The Arrows finished their 2011 season in very unacceptable circumstances, with 3 regular season games unplayed all against Croydon Pirates because of the rain effected double header on Aug 7th, The Arrows needing 2 wins to progress to the NBL play-offs, headed for Roundshaw with all intentions of playing a triple header to complete the all games, game1 was played as the make up game and saw an Arrows 11-7 win, Game2 which was basically the 1st game of the fixtured double header turned out to be a 9-7 loss, with the Arrows now having a 9-16 season record and Croydon's standing at 9-15, the 3rd game would be a straight shoot out for the Pool "A" play-off, winner taking the place, then for some reason all parties except the Arrows decided there was no time to play and proceedings finished and Croydon taking a forfeit win under unknown circumstances and taking the play-off place. So with the 2011 season being brought to an abrupt end it now leaves Manager Phil Chesterton, reflecting on what could have been, but also looking forward to 2012 and another progressive season after doubling the win column from 2010.
The Archers the following weekend took the diamond against Guildford Mavaricks in the 2011 "AA" divisons play-offs, with the preceeding weekends fixture unplayable, due to a waterlogged Townmead, both teams had not faced each other in the regular season, also with the BBF being forced to bring forward the NBC's forward the Archers lost both main pitchers, Manager Darren Ludlow and speedster Billy Marchant to prviously booked holidays. With season long injured Jeff Sumers making the start, the game was a see-saw affair over the 1st 3 innings, but in the bottom of the 4th leading, leading 5-4, a combination of Jeff reinjuring himself and the weather deciding to play it's part, the Arrows had to turn to Jed Oliver, 1 of last seasons youngsters that had moved up to the Arrows was asked to take the mound (after being out for the 1st half with a broken jaw and not pitching at all all season), weather conditions progressivly got worse and also with a 30-40 in rain delay, the Mavs were able to put up 10 runs and with the Archers unable to trouble the scorers in the top of the 5th, the Mavs plated run 15 to bring the game to an end on the 10 run slaughter rule

Arrows and Archers pick up wins

Since the last update, both adult teams have had results, this past Sun Aug 15th Mildenhall Bulldogs were the expected visitors, but unfortunately with their team being mainly US servicemen, they have lost a lot of players and have had to forfeit the rest of their season, meaning that The Arrows picked up 2 7-0 wins moving the onto a record of 8&13, The week preceding that The Archers hosted the Croydon 3rd team, after a slow start they got themselves in gear and ended the game 20-10 in 8 innings on the slaughter rule, with Jeff summers plating Paul Richardson with a sac-fly to left field

Historic weekend with all 3 teams recording at least 1 win

This past weekend saw a new 1st for the club, Saturday saw the Atoms play The Essex Redbacks counterparts in a double header friendly fixture, the 1st game was won 4-3 by the Redbacks, but undeterred the Atoms set about the 2nd game with the same vigor and recorded their 1st ever win, recording a score of 9-8.
Moving on 2 Sunday The Arrows faced off against near neighbors the Herts Falcons, the 1st game was won 9-4 in a regulation 7 inning game, Matt Gilbert picking up the win, game 2 was a slightly different story, on a very warm Sunday afternoon, no one would really want to be out in the field for longer than needed, but this game just didn't want to finish, with 9 ore innings in the book The Arrows finally plated the winning walk off run to record a final score of 9-8.
Meanwhile down in Kent, The Archers, with a depleted team of 8 players took on the Kent Mariners, the home team deciding to not enforce the automatic out in the 9 position allowed for a very exciting game with all 8 Archers turning it on with the bat and putting in excellent defense completed a 18-6 win.

 

 

 

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Arrows

BBF National League
	W	L	W%	GB
Pool A
Richmond F	19	5	.792	-
Southampton	17	7	.708	2
Croydon	10	15	.400	9.5
Bracknell	9	15	.375	10
Arrows	9	17	.346	11
Pool B
Diamondbacks	19	6	.760	-
London Mets	16	7	.696	2
Nationals	16	10	.615	3.5
Herts F	4	20	.167	14.5
Mildenhall	4	22	.154	15.5
2011 Final Table

 

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