13-14^th September    Invitation to play in Tournament in Italy

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Sunday 20^th April 2008

Old Timers 33   v   Herts Raptors 8

 Game commenced at 2pm and although dry it was rather windy. George went into pitch and had 2 strike outs in the first innings a good start no runs scored. In fact he pitched for a total of 6 innings and never gave up 1 base on balls. Paul took over and pitched for 2 innings and Tony came on as the clean up pitcher for 1 inning. Total runs for Herts 8.

Hits from the Old Timers were Justin a HOME RUN in the fourth inning Paul and Justin had a 3b hit apiece, Gary and Paul a 2b hit each and singles from Tony (1), Justin (3), Brian (1), Paul (1), Gary )2), Billy (2), Peter (2), Mike H (1) and George (4) making a total of 23 hits in all. We had a total of stolen bases 26, strike outs 3 only and RBI’s 31.

John Thomas umpired the game. 

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Sunday 4^th May 2008

Essex 2    V   Old Timers

 Today we travelled to Waltham Abbey and had 13 players. Our pitchers today were George who pitched 5 innings and Paul 1. Unfortunately we only played 6 innings as the Essex team were struggling. We gave them the opportunity to use the slaughter rule but they were determined to carry on as long as they could. Hits today from Justin 3b(1) Peter B 2b(1), Mike H 1b(1), Paul 1b(5), Gary 1b(3), Tony 1b(2), George 1b(4), Justin 1b(3), Michael F 1B(1) and Rob 1b(2), a total of 23 hits in all. Stolen bases numbered 22 and RBIs 23 and only 2 strike outs. There was a double play involving George-Paul and Tony.

 John Thomas did the umpiring once again. Well done John.

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Sunday 11^th May 2008

Old Timers 21   V   Braintree Rays 16

 A very warm day and today we were missing five players George, Mike, Peter B, Rob and Ian.  However we had a new signing John Turpin who had previously played for us 2-3 years ago. Our pitchers today were Paul and Tony who pitched 7 and 2 innings respectively.  We had hits

 from Michael F 2b (1) 1b (1), John Turpin 1b (2), Tony 1b (2), Paul 1b (2), Justin 1b (3), Gary1b (1) and Billy 1b (1).

Paul and John Turpin who was catching did an excellent job between them and all the team were encouraged very loudly by Andy Marchant who is at present recovering from an operation on his arm. Umpire today John Dornin.

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Sunday 25^th May 2008

Tonbridge Bobcats  22    v     Old Timers 30

 Today with just 10 players we travelled to Tonbridge. We had a total of 24 hits with a HOME RUN from Paul Raybould 1(2b) 4(1b), Justin 1(3b), 1(2b), 3(1b), Gary 2(1 b), John Turpin 2(1b), Rob 1(1b), George 2(1b), Billy 3(1b) and Colin 3(1b). Steve Chandler who volunteered to play for Tonbridge had 2 singles for them. George and Paul were our pitchers for the day. There were 38 stolen bases and 24 RBI’S AND 12 BB.

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Sunday 1^st June 2008

Herts Raptors  8    v    Old Timers 18

 Today we were travelling the M1 to Hemel to play the third team of the Herts Group. There was a game in progress when we arrived and several of that team stayed behind to play for the Herts Raptors. We had a new player coming along that day John Dodd an Australian teaching over here and he had been watching a game previously at Milton Keynes and had spoken to Steve Simmons who advised him to give me a ring which he did. He went in at the Top 5^th and did okay. My thanks to Steve as John has proved to be a useful addition to the team. We had a total of 11 hits with Gary 1(2b), Paul 1(2b), 1(1b), Peter Barratt 2(1b), Tony 2(1b), Steve Chandler 2(1b) and Mike Foley 1(1b). We had 29 stolen bases 13 rbi’s 12 bb. Pitcher today was Paul Raybould

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Sunday 8^th June 2008

Braintree Rays 6   v  Old Timers 8

 Home ground today and an earlier pitch off at 1pm. John Dornin was our umpire and we had 12 players. Pitcher today were George and Paul. A total of 10 hits with singles from Gary 1, Mike Harrold 3, John Turpin 2 Tony 1, Mike Foley 1 and 2b hits from Paul 1 and Billy 1. 17 stolen bases 7 rbi’s Double plays George-Gary-Tony and George-Tony.

A very enjoyable game to watch.

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Sunday 15^th June 2008

Old Timers 14    v    Essex Arrows 2   4

 Home game again and today’s game pitched by Paul. a total of 6 hits with a single and a double from Gary, a double from Paul, singles from John Dodd and 2 singles from Steve Chandler. 10 rbi’s, 16 stolen bases, and double plays from Ian-Tony, Gary-Peter Barratt. The game was called after the top of the 7^th with the mercy rule.

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Sunday 22^nd June 2008

Braintree Rays 24  v   Old Timers 13

 I am sorry but having sent the score sheet off to Brian it has unfortunately got lost in the post so I am unable to give you a précis of the game which was called for the mercy rule.

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Sunday 29^th June 2008

Braintree Rays 13  v   Old Timers 23

Sunday 27^th July 2008

Old Timers 25   V   Bracknell  7

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Sunday 3^rd August 2008

Cancelled due to inclement weather conditions at Bison’s ground in reading. We are trying to rearrange the fixture.