Each summer baseball season, the Club brings out overseas baseball players to assist our Club by

1. Playing strong baseball with our Division 1 team
2. Coaching one of the Club junior teams
3. Being a role model for all of our players
4. Bringing a different culture to our Club

The Club needs Host families to accommodate these players

The Club will assist with providing some funds to each Host family for food (@$1000) as well as providing a car for the player to use for the season.

This is a great opportunity for a family to experience hosting an overseas player gaining a rich insight into the player’s country and baseball activities as well as gaining a good friend and a possible exchange opportunity for your child to play baseball overseas.

Wests are pleased to announce the following dates for our pre-season Come & Try Days

1. Come & Try Day – Saturday 10 August – 3.00pm – 5.00pm
2. Come & Try Day – Sunday 11 August – 9.00am – 11.00am
3. Come & Try Day – Saturday 17 August – 9.00am – 11.00am

To enable the Club to conduct these sessions, we will need a lot of help from all members

We will need

1. Coaches to teach baseball skills to new players
2. Parents to help in talking to new player parents about their experiences at the Club
3. Any member to assist with the administration of each day such as record keeping and helping set up and put away all the equipment needed for each session

The Club will be holding the following two events on the same night

WHEN: Friday 10 May 2024

WHERE: Clubrooms

TIME: 6.30pm – 8.30pm

KIDS ARE INVITED – we will have some fun activities for the kids to do in the Batting Cage while their parent/s are upstairs joining in the Club Forum and AGM

1. Club Forum – all members are invited to attend to participate in a club forum to discuss where the club needs to improve to achieve better results on the field next season
   • Topics to discuss could be
     • Coaching
     • Academy
     • Training
     • Skills training
     • Training infrastructure
     • Other
2. Annual General Meeting
   • Receive Annual Report
   • Receive Annual Financial Statement 2022/2023
   • Presentation of the details of any remuneration paid or other benefits given for the financial year to management committee members and any of their relatives; and to senior employees of the association and any of their relatives, as prescribed by the Act.
   • Appoint an auditor/accountant
   • Election of Office Bearers
     • Committee Positions
     • President
     • Vice President – Club Operations
     • Vice President – Baseball Operations
     • Secretary
     • Treasurer
     • Committee – Sponsorship
     • Committee – Governance
     • Committee – Communications
     • Committee – Women
     • Committee – Special Projects
     • General Committee (six (6) positions)
     • Volunteer positions
     • Wet Weather Contact
     • Scorers Coordinator
     • Umpires Coordinator
     • Canteen Coordinator
     • Volunteer Coordinator

Quorum for, and adjournment of, general meeting
8.3.1. The quorum for any general meeting is at least the number of members equal to the number of members on the management committee at the close of the association’s last general meeting plus one.
8.3.2. No business may be conducted at a general meeting unless there is a quorum of members.

Finger food will also be offered

We need your help to upgrade our fields

When: Saturday 20 April

Time: 8.00am – 12.00noon

Items for working bee 20th April 8am to 12pm

1. Running lanes – take out grass lip – top field – hire Turf Cutter
2. Replace home plate – top field
3. Replace all base ferrules – except 1st & 3rd Seniors top field
4. Field 2 – take out grass lip
5. Blow out batting cage carpet – bring blowers
6. Repair “L” nets
7. Clean clubrooms & toilets
8. Raise fans in batting cage and replace broken fan
9. Tie down shade mesh on outfield fence – top field
10. Clean out of clubrooms upstairs / downstairs- TIP RUN 
11.  Pull done old sponsor signs
12. Spray poison onto all fence lines – both fields
13. Replace mounds AFTER winterball comp.
14. Replace old tarpaulins at home plates and pitching mounds with new ones 

Please come along and help – even for an hour

Bring any equipment you have to assist in the above rectification items

Masters State Titles
Dates: 25-28 April 2024 (Games commence 12pm ANZAC Day)
Location: Surfers Paradise Baseball Club
Ages: Masters 35+ (Female players 25+)
Divisions: Division 1, Division 2 & Women’s*
*Women can register for any of the three divisions.

No minimum participation requirements

Once the Team Manager registers, they will receive a team code to share with their players.

The Masters Player registration form is now active again: https://membership.mygameday.app/regoform.cgi?formID=113304

Players will need your Team Code to be able to register into your team.

This can be found by logging into membership.gameday.app with your Team Manager email.

Please also ask your scorer/EO/umpire(if you are able to find one) to register via this link, selecting the appropriate member type.

Fees are the same structure as last year: 

Player: $110 incl GST + Game Day Fees

Wests have become a Corporate Member of The Lion and we are encouraging all members to also join The Lion as a corporate member.

FREE corporate membership at The Lion includes 15% off all food and beverage. If any of you have a membership card with The Lion, they can easily swap over to corporate membership for you.

It is the Club’s intention to use the facilities at The Lion more often during next season including monthly get togethers after a Sunday Division 1 game for a meal and drinks – it is only ten minutes down the road from our Club

If you wish to join, please use the following link

https://wests.link/TheLion

Our Little League teams played off for the Grand Finals at Narangba on Saturday.

Little League Division 1 played off for the Divisional Grand Final and unfortunately lost to Narangba 0- 9.

Little League Division 2 played off for the GBL competition Grand Final and unfortunately lost 1 – 5

Little League Division 3 played off for the GBL competition Grand Final and WON – 4 – 2

Congratulations to the team, Coach Braxton-Taylor King, stand in Coaches Bruce Luck, James Stirling and Matt McDonald

CONGRATULATIONS to ETHAN STIRLING for receiving the Best Player for the Grand Final award – he pitched beautifully and also batted in one of the team’s four runs.

Congratulations to the many Wests players that have been selected to play for Queensland, Regional or Schoolboy teams.

Charlie and Zye are pictured on this post however there are a lot of club players chosen for these teams and good luck to them all for the upcoming Championships.

Wests held our Senior Presentation for all Senior players including Masters and Women players on Sunday 10 March at The Lion in the Sportsbar.

It was a hugely successful night – great venue, good food and wonderful company.

Here are the Award winners.

Wests held our Presentation Day for all Junior players and teams on Sunday 3 March. It was a great day with many players and families attending.

Here are the Award winners

AWARD WINNERS