It’s been a busy couple of weeks for our MSA Baseball program with State and National Championships and the naming of 2 of our students into an Australian squad.

Firstly congratulations are to be given to year 11 student Declan Spiers and year 9 student Jayden Kim for being named in the Baseball Australia U18 World Cup squad which will head to America in August.  They will be based at Perfect Game’s Fort Myers facility for a final selection camp.

The final team will then depart for the September 9-18 World Cup in Bradenton and Sarasota.

Jayden, Declan and our head coach Scott Meager spent a week during the term 1 holidays at the AIS in Canberra for the selection trials.

Three year 8 student baseballers Roman Coote, Oliver Bergin and Sam Land represented the Twins Charter at the National Championships in Mildura for the Intermediate league championships.  The Twins defeated Victoria’s other team at the Nationals the Southern Mariners to claim 3rd in the tournemant.  Oliver hitting a home run for the Twins in the Bronze medal match.

Meanwhile Josh Bence played for the Twins in the Senior League National Championships in Geelong.

Maribyrnong College won the Intermediate School Sport Victoria State Championships defeating Frankston High School in the final played at Cheltenham 6-0.  5 players from our baseball program Andy Land, Jayden Kim, Lauchlan Schumann, Dylan Brooks and Josh Bence were joined by Cricketers Bailey Toesland, Sam Syan and George Eaves and Volleyballer Dan Nguyen to claim their 2nd state championship in 4 years (No championships were played in 2020 and 2021).