The Werribee Giants Baseball Club, which has just started training again following the lifting of state-wide COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, is inviting community members to attend its Summer Come ‘n’ Try days this weekend.
The sessions will be held Saturday and Sunday from 1pm to 3pm at the club headquarters in Presidents Park.
The events will include baseball activities and a free hotdog and drink for juniors.
The club’s junior co-ordinator Tanya Dewhurst said that for the Summer Come ‘n’ Try days, everyone in Wyndham who is interested in baseball was invited to come and say hello.
“Each day we will be running some drills including the fastest pitch competition with daily prizes including vouchers from Sprinkles, Bubble Cup and a signed baseball from the Melbourne Aces,” she said.
Ms Dewhurst said Werribee was a family-oriented club where everyone is welcomed, regardless of age and ability.
“We have teams ranging from tee-ball for the little ones, juniors for 12’s, 14’s and 16’s as well as women’s and senior’s teams for the grown-ups,” she said.
The club offers junior baseball for boys and girls of all skills levels, aged between eight and 17 years old.
Tee-ball is also available for youngsters aged between four and eight years old.
With lockdown ending, the club has just commenced training for juniors on Tuesday nights from 5pm to 6.30pm.
As well, the club will offer women’s baseball during the summer 2021/22 season, for girls and women of all skill levels aged 13 and above.
The Werribee Giants Baseball Club was formed in 1983 and is one of the few Victorian baseball clubs that runs 12 months of the year, competing both in winter from April to September, and in summer from September to March.
In its early days, the club played on what could best be described as a “sheep paddock” and had no clubrooms.
Nowadays, the club’s main diamond is fully enclosed with lights for training purposes, a double batting cage, a six-person bullpen and a scorer’s box.
Its second diamond is large enough to play two junior games on, without the matches encroaching upon one another.
The Werribee Giants Baseball Club is located at Presidents Park Gate 2, McGrath Road, Werribee.
For more details see: www.werribee.baseball.com.au/, www.facebook.com/werribeegiantsbaseball/, www.instagram.com/werribeegiantsbaseball/ or baseballvictoria.com.au/club/werribee/.
