{"id":92057,"date":"2023-09-22T04:42:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T18:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bendigotimes\/?p=92057"},"modified":"2023-09-22T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T01:45:12","slug":"dodgers-top-of-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bendigotimes\/sport\/dodgers-top-of-the-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers top of the table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">THE Strathfieldsaye Dodgers have come out of the recent Bendigo Baseball Association grand finals with a five-out-of-six-game success rate.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Coach of the club\u2019s division one team Brett Ritchie said he \u201cabsolutely\u201d believed the club would do so well this season.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cIt\u2019s been really good, we got to play a lot of young kids as well,\u201d he said.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cIt was mainly just hitting and running really, scoring as many runs as possible, and we knew we were good enough to hold the other teams to lower scores.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cAll of our nine players [per team] managed to hit most weeks.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThe plan is to do it again, hopefully this time we can win all six, the only one we missed out on was Under 12.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ritchie said the club\u2019s success had a lot to do with the support of volunteers.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:256}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cWe just get to play, and they do everything else. 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