Newton Brewers

September 05, 2016

Well how about that?! The Brewers made the front page of the sports section in the Torquay & South Devon Herald Express.

At tonights meeting the Brewers voted on designs submitted to agree on the jersey to be used during the 2016 season. the Brewers decided on the maroon jersey with 7 of the 12 votes being for. The remainder of votes went 4 - Blue and 1 - White.

The club also elected Frazer Thomas as Club Secretary and invited David Jarvis and Ian Durrant to be board members.

Following an onsite meeting with representatives of Teignbridge District Council, Newton Brewers have been able to agree to book Micheals Feild and facilities for the 2016 season.

On Sunday evening, following his suprise attendance at the Inargural meeting of the Newton Brewers, Center Fielder, James Lunt became the 6th official signing for the Brewers.
Hampsire born, James began his baseball career with the Torbay Barons in 2012, and quickly established himself in the outfield by showing his natural ability to read the flight of the ball and cover ground quickly.
James played for a full 3 years, bar the last few games for the Clennon Valley club, batting with the right and throwing with the left further demonstrate the vesatility of James' armoury, add to this his knowlage of the game, social media skills and unbounded enthusiasim, and it is clear to see why, the Brewers organization are thrilled to have James on board.

 

Newton Abbot Baseball are overjoyed at the news that Frazer Thomas is to join theSouth Devon outfit for the 2016 season.
Thomas, who confirmed his pledge earlier today, becomes the 4th player to link himself with the new fledgling outfit, and is also currently unattached and looking forward to playing baseball again next season.
Frazer Thomas began his career with the Torbay Barons in 2012, winning club awards at the end of his first season. Whilst with the Barons, Frazer batted 470. and further exceeded these heights by batting 595. for the Taunton Muskets the following year. His sporting prowess is also demonstrated, when in 2003 he was an apprentice with Exeter City Football Club, unfortunatly, a career ended due to injury.
A skilled, solid and knowlagable player, who can play first or second with ease, Frazer posesses much thay he can offer to the new organisation.

 

Newton Abbot Baseball are pleased to announce that catcher, and former Exeter Spitfires player, Andy Bundy has pledged to join the Newton Abbot team for the 2016 season. Bundy, who went on to become the Spitfires regular catcher for the 2001 season, also played in the very first Exeter Spitfires game the previous year, on 7th May 2000 when he turned out for the Spitfires in the outfield against Cheddar Rockies, sadly a 23-8 defeat for the Devon side. Current Exeter Spitfires Pitcher, Tony Watson, also featured in this game.

Bundy, (pictured 3rd from the right in the back row, in this picture taken on the day of the very first game) didn't have to wait long to show his impressive form with the bat, the following week he helped the Spitfires to their first ever victory when from 3 at bats, he scored 2 runs from 2 hits, driving in 3, in a dominant win for Exeter over Birmingham side, Rowheath Raiders.

Newton Abbot Baseball described Bundy as an asset to any club and are delighted to have this experienced ball player associated with the new project at such an early stage.

After an absence from the diamond for 10 months, Paul 'Robbo' Robinson has stepped from the limelight to become Newton Abbot Baseballs' third signing in 3 days.
Robinson, played the complete 2014 season from behind the plate for Torbay barons and achived his highpoint when he captained the Bluejackets as they secured their first wins of the season in last years Macron Futures Cup.
Acting manager for the Newton Baseball Prodject, Neale Raleigh, said, "I'm delighted that Paul has chosen our club to re-launch his Baseball career", "we are glad to have him on board, we will refine and polish his catching skills during our training sessions and he will become another valued addition to our line up".
Raleigh also added, "whilst managing the Exeter Spitfires at the begining of last season, I travelled to watch the Barons play a home game prior to their visit to Exeter the following week, at the time we had employed an aggressive attacking game whereby, for the first 3 innings or so, every time we had a runner on first, our next batter would take the pitch and our runner would steel, at times in games we would achieve a 95% sucsess rate, I had no reason not to employ this tactic in our upcoming game against Torbay,....untill that is, I witnessed Robbo throwing to second, lets just say, that for the following week i had to replan our strategy".