Softballers’ rich reward
Sixteen teams, among them the defending men’s and women’s champions, Demons, of Invercargill, and Robert Brown Albion, of Christchurch, will contest the annual Old Boys Softball Club tournament In Timaru tomorrow. This is the seventh year the tournament has been held and teams will be competing for a record
$2410 in prize money, including $5OO for the winner of the men’s section and $4OO for the winner of the women’s section. The Demons’ main rivals for the McConnochie Challenge Cup will Include the leading Christchurch teams, United, Burnside and Suburbs. Demons, which have the New Zealand emerg-
ing players’ pitcher, Greg Newton, as their spearhead, have both Bumside and Suburbs in their section. In the women’s section Albion will be favoured to win the Garry’s Bakery Challenge Cup for the fourth year in a row with Bumside almost certain to be its opponent in the final. Both teams boast two New Zealand representatives.
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Press, 15 February 1986, Page 80
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156Softballers’ rich reward Press, 15 February 1986, Page 80
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