54 SPORT SUNDAY MAY 24 2015 Tracy Village Rebels look in the pink for Green Sox challenge GREY MORRIS matchup of the Green Sox’s Donald hopes Pink Day will be full-on, with Tracy Village’s In today’s other game on In Friday night’s game, vet- offence and the Rebels’ well raise $1800 this year as com- playing coach Brooke Garton No. 2 field the in-form Night- eran Rebels pitcher Dwayne TRACY Village’s much vaunt- organised defence. pared to the $1200 in 2014 wary of a PINT side coming off cliff Tigers should have too McInness held the Reds bat- ed pitching staff should carry All four DBL clubs and the when baseball launched its two successive losses. much all-round strength for ters scoreless in a nine innings the Darwin Baseball League umpires will wear pink socks own fundraiser. “I think it “They’ll come at us hard the Palmerston Reds. performance that produced premiers to their eighth win of and caps today to acknowledge brings the baseball community with their batters and some The Tigers have moved into only two hits from opposition the 2015 season at the Village breast cancer awareness and together for a disease that accurate pitching and ground second position with a mini- batters in the first and fourth ground today. the research and treatment of affects everyone, including a fielding, so we know we’ll have mum of fuss and maximum innings. A Brent Carter home Callum Hooley is expected the dangerous disease affect- large proportion of baseball to be on our game in what is performances from Mitch run got the Village offence off to take the mound against ing thousands of women. families,’’ McDonald said. turning into an even season,’’ Green’s bat and the pitching of and running in the first inning third-placed PINT in another Nightcliff coach Mark Mc- The action on the field will Garton said. comeback kid Jason Ellery. on their way to a 12-0 win. Poms stalking Dizzy FORMER Australia fast bow- ler Jason Gillespie revealed yesterday he has held talks Tate terrorises Tahs as with Andrew Strauss about succeeding Peter Moores as England coach. Gillespie, cur- rently coaching English coun- ty champions Yorkshire, is a leading contender to replace the sacked Moores and has Tigers close in for kill been confirmed as “one of the candidates” by Strauss, who was recently appointed as the England and Wales Cricket Board’s new director of cricket. Paul Farbrace has been hand- SCOREBOARD ed the head coaching position for England’s current two-Test Darwin Premier Grade series against New Zealand, WARATAH 161 (B Schmulian but the ECB are keen to final- 49, F Kasteni 31; Jack Tate 4-29, ise a coach before the looming L Anthony 3-20) v NIGHTCLIFF Ashes series. 7-137 (Jamie Tate 46, K Suriaratchie 42; C Campbell 2-21, D Enniss 2-25) Kiwis plunder runs PINT 318 (S Francis 93no, S NEW Zealand’s top order rode Lavers 45, W Wright 45; S an easy pitch and some luck to Boralessa 6-97, L Shelton 3-66) knock off 2-303 and trail En- v DARWIN 0-15 gland by 86 runs on the sec- PALMERSTON 129 (B Zanker ond day of the first Test at 49, S Wilson 27; P Gallow 5-32, K Lord’s yesterday. A century Piccinelli 3-29) v SOUTHERN opening stand by Martin Gup- DISTRICTS 2-86 (R till and Tom Latham, followed Vandermeulen 24no, D by another century partner- Derrington 23; J Hoffman 2-15) ship between No.3 Kane Wil- liamson (92no) and No.4 Ross Taylor (47no), three of whom scored half-centuries, ensured New Zealand rubbed out the intimidation factor of En- gland’s total of 389. In fact, with the luxury of a deep bat- ting line-up, and wicketkeeper BJ Watling receiving extended rest for his badly bruised right knee, New Zealand looked set to post an imposing lead. Back on big stage PAKISTAN celebrated inter- national cricket’s return after six years with a five-wicket win against Zimbabwe in the PINT batsman Marc Calkin finds a gap as he eludes Darwin fieldsman Michael Deiacovo during Darwin Premier Grade action at Marrara yesterday Picture: HELEN ORR first T20 international in La- hore yesterday. Pakistan had JORDAN McARDLE Schmulian (49) put on a vital Red Caps hope, with the Tigers run out by a Mitchell Calder Opener Brad Zanker valued not hosted any international 57-run third-wicket stand be- at 7-137. direct hit attempting to get his his wicket before Gallow got cricket since terrorists at- NIGHTCLIFF are 25 runs fore the latter fell one run Schmulian (2-41) and fellow partner back on strike. him on 49, with captain Scott tacked the Sri Lankan team away from their first win of the short of his half-century. leggie Chris Campbell (2-21) Left-arm orthodox spin Wilson (27) the only other bus in Lahore in 2009. Opener Darwin premier cricket season Tate and Sri Lankan pair each took multiple wickets, as twins Sohan Boralessa (6-97 major contributor in a disap- Mukhtar Ahmed hit his maid- after a dominant opening day Lahiru Anthony (3-20) and did Dean Enniss (2-25). off 40 overs) and Luke Shelton pointing innings. en half century during his against Waratah at Nightcliff Udara Weerasinghe (2-26) did Some late-order runs have (3-66 off 29.2 overs) toiled hard Gallow tore through the rapid 45-ball 83 with 12 fours Oval yesterday. the rest to put their side on top. given PINT the upper hand in all day for the Eagles. Power batsmen to finish with and three sixes to help Paki- Teenager Jack Tate stole In reply, Nightcliff were in their top-of-the-table clash The pair bowled unchanged 5-32, while Kyle Piccinelli stan achieve their target in 19.3 the show, claiming 4-29 as the early trouble at 3-3 before with Darwin at Marrara Crick- for an astonishing 62 overs. (3-29) was also among the overs and take a 1-0 lead in the Tahs were rolled for 161. opener Jamie Tate and Kasun et Ground. At stumps, Darwin were 15 wickets. two-match series. Elton Chi- He got the ball rolling with Suriaratchie put on 78 runs for Led by Cameron Francis (93 for no loss with Jacob Dick- The Crocs finished the day gumbura hit eight boundaries two wickets in an over, the third wicket. not out), the three-time reign- man and Ash Doolan at the on 2-86 with Robbie Vander- and a six in his 35-ball knock dismissing dangerous opener Suriaratchie was the ag- ing champs went from 8-189 to crease. Palmerston once again meulen (24) and Matt Sam- after Zimbabwe won the toss James Seymour (29) and Ben gressor – smacking a quickfire 318 all out. struggled with the bat and pson-Barnes (19) the not out and compiled 6-172. Opener Musgrave (0) in consecutive 42 off 41 balls – with Tate Francis put on determined were dismissed for 129 against batsmen. Hamilton Masakadza scored deliveries. Captain Friday Kas- patient in his knock of 46. 87-run 10th –wicket stand with a Pat Gallow-inspired South- Josh Hoffman (2-15) took 43, while Pakistan’s Moham- teni (31) and coach Brad A few late scalps gave the Luke Lavender (14), who was ern Districts at Fred’s Pass. both scalps for Palmerston. mad Sami took three wickets. IN WEDNESDAY’S NORTHERN TERRITORY SCOREBOARD The NT’s most comprehensive compilation of world, national and local sporting results NTNE01Z01MA - V1.