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  • Table Update - Round 7
    • After last night\'s win we are still lurking at the bottom of the ladder. Sigh... but. We still have some weeks left to make good on a finals showing. Tables mean nothing if you string the wins together in the finals. But you got to make them finals! We are in 8th placing on the ladder with the second lowest skins won tally up there with only Pud Boys fairing lower in that department. We need to focus on getting the skins more from here on if we want to be there for finals in this massive division!
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    Wednesday, September 08, 2010
  • Great Win Over Nick\'s Team
    • Again we struggled to make a full team but again we somehow drew on our roster to rack up eight. Our last game against Nick\'s Team was a loss. In fact since record keeping began last season in Google Docs we have failed to register a win against Nick\'s Team. Thanks to Jeff calling on one of our work mates to help fill in and also Avanti\'s two stars, Pete and Rob helping to fill the void.

    We fielded first and got off to a flying start against what I suspect were a top batting pair having an off night. Theo and Pete just couldn\'t get started and lost a wicket per over. We kept them to a dismal 10 runs. Their next pair faired better with a tally of 31 runs. Only two wickets falling here with one of them being new gun, Jawal bowling out Charlie.

    Next out of the guns were Justin and Spyro who lost only 3 wickets but it was enough to keep them to 23 runs. Their last pair were shell shocked and just couldn\'t get much right at all. They were peppered by Rashid (3 runs), Bruce with a awesome display of dominating bowling (1 run), Rashid again (-5 runs) and last of all Rob Donovan (7 runs) who was on a hat trick on the final ball after bowling Nick himself out twice.

    Next it was Blackout\'s turn to bat. It got off to a dreadful start. Rob D and Pete must have used up their mojo from their earlier game. They looked flat and unfortunately registered a minor 9 runs and lost what should have been a given skin. Well done to Nick\'s Team for snaring that one. But then the real Blackout attack entered the nets. Blackout unleashed Bruiser. Langy did well to support him too by only losing the one wicket. We saw a ferocious attack on the scoreboard. All done with only three back net scoring runs. Bruce rocked up a total of 40 runs! They walked off the court with a total of 58 runs for the skin. This left Blackout in an ideal situation.

    Rashid and myself went out next and suffered only two wickets but despite a lunge at the back net on my last ball I fell short of the total by only one run as I only managed three of the last. Another vital skin lost. The last two pair were as up and down as it gets. They cruised to 27 runs by the end of the third over in a flurry of some awesome batting prowess shown by newcomer Jawal. He simply lobbed two back net sixes in a way that looked disturbingly easy. He also managed to dismiss a head high bowl aside like a toy that made my previous similar effort look amateurish. But in the last over the wheels really fell off in what could only be put down to lack of Indoor Cricket experience. He managed to get run out three times in a row. This ate away into his awesome total of 19 runs and left him with only 1 run to talk about.

    But all that aside this was a great win over a dominating side. This shall help us later on in the season as all points are needed to get into the finals!
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    Wednesday, September 08, 2010
  • Cromford Beaten by Blackout

    • First time against this lot and our introduction to Cromford was a good one for our team. After waiting to have an umpire assigned to us we had Andrew take to the umpires ladder and we were underway. We quickly learnt that they were anything but NEW to Indoor Cricket. There was some great fielding and bowling from their lot. One or two batsman that frustrated our players with sneaky runs here and there as well. Our first pair plotted along to record 23 runs with only one out. That was Bruce and Brett in that lot finding out the hard way that runs were not to come easily.

    Langy and Peter (who was presented with an honourary Blackout Hahn shirt) also struggled grabbing 16 hard fought runs. Three wickets here with two of them being run outs. Not good.

    It was time for Rashid to turn up the heat. Sheeds rocked the nets to record 24 runs and the total of the pair ended on 41 runs here! Langy was picked again to bat with me and we struggled slightly to record 19 runs.

    Luckily for us that fielding was a happy hunting ground. 20, 17, 18 and 27 runs being the totals recorded against us here with Rashid recording the best bowling figures (2/1) and Brian recording good figures too (3/3). 
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    Wednesday, September 01, 2010
  • Avanti Down Blackout

    • Avanti made mince meat of Blackout. I contributed to this by falling asleep and missing the game. Scoresheet shows a thumping to the tune of 177 to 64 runs. Lachy was one of the few shining highlights of the match and received three stars accordingly. Also Mick slammed 18 runs with the bat to take out two stars and last stars went to Sheeds who continues to dominate the Three Stars Selection ladder this season!

    Sadly the game was a total white wash with no skins won. We\'ll need to go re-think our approach for our next match up!
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    Wednesday, September 01, 2010
  • Avanti Showdown
    • ROUND 5 - Blackout vs Avanti 7pm. Our next match is penned in for a grudge match against Avanti. It\'s been sometime since we last faced these blokes but we now have a chance to execute a win to back up our last week\'s winning game. We lost to Avanti in our last encounter with them with a score of 107-129 back in Round 13 last season.
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    Saturday, August 21, 2010
  • Farewell Arty
    • Sometime during the week I received some sad news from Andrew at the centre via Facebook. Last weekend we lost Arthur Townsend. \"Arty\" was the man who started up the Sportsworld centre under the name of All Seasons centre. When I first started playing at the centre he was still at the helm and was just a super friendly top old bloke. He retired after selling the business in the late 90\'s and moved up the coast to go fishing from what I remember him telling me! Here\'s the message from the centre:

    \"I am sorry to announce that Arty passed away on the weekend. not sure on all the details as yet but will let you all know of Funeral services.
    Arty Started up Peaky Indoor sports some 30 years ago then sold it to the sportsworld group approx 13 years ago. Court 1 at peaky is named after Arty.Our depest sympathy go out to his Family and friends\"


    He\'ll be sadly missed by all who remembered him at the centre.
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    Saturday, August 21, 2010
  • Blackout Goes Mobile!
    • A quick announcement but an exciting one. Blackouthouse is now iPhone and Android friendly! Introducing iBlackouthouse! All news feeds will be found to be available on a nice cut down site at the following address:


    Click this link and book mark it on your iPhone or Android phone. Then you can view all sorts of goodies right there on your phone without having to squint! SWEET!
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    Thursday, August 19, 2010
  • Throwdowns Blitz Blackout


    • In last night\'s match up against Throwdowns we were given a lesson in how to field AND bat. They convincingly took command of the scoreboard for the most part of the match but mostly thanks to an onslaught by their opening pair. The end score was Blackout 54 against Throwdowns 122 but their first pair got more than half their teams total. But lets go back to the start of the game. With eight players locked in for this one it was a bit of a nervous wait for players to rock up but sure enough all eight did arrive. \"Coulto\" and \"Muscles\" were presented with their \"Saggy Whites\" which is the Blackout equivalent to the Baggy Green. So with a fully kitted up team (with the exception of \"Free Hit\") we took to the field to bat first. We quickly discovered that Throwdowns like to bowl... WELL! They also like the odd run out too! Poor Mick and Richo (AKA Muscles) could only amass a total of 2 solitary runs! At least it\'s a plural! They fell with wickets five times with two run outs and three catches.



    We picked up a little more but never got fired up with the ball doing all sorts of crazy things out of the bowler\'s hands. Langy and Rob got out there to tally up 17 runs with two wickets. Sheeds and Jeff had similar success with 18 runs. Finally Brett and Brian were looking dismal with only 1 run after three overs but had a minor come back in the 16th over to walk off with 17 runs. On a personal note I have to say that Ryan from the Throwdowns had some wicked bowling as he was bowling at approx 115km/h and it was swinging crazily all over the pitch. I had a third ball facing him (something I\'m not use to) and so I did my trademark run and block to actually connect!


    So with that 54 run total to hold onto we took to the task of defending. First ball was a catch. Good start. Only six off the first over. But then a power play over with Brian bowling saw 23 runs smacked with a six (13 runs) but a wicket to save some face! Joe and Daniel from Throwdowns continued to pepper the back nets to net 65 runs. OUCH!


    But we then sort to nab some skins to at least walk off with some points from this match. The next pair were nowhere near as devastating as the openers so we saw a chance to steal some points. At was a miracle over by Langy with three wickets including two bowled outs to seemingly steal the skin. But it was later found out that Shorty the umpire had screwed the tally on the scoreboard up and had us actually LOSING the second skin despite displaying that we had won it by a run. Not happy Jan! It was a major shame as Langy did magnificently against an arrogant batter who was marching up the pitch seeking to dispatch his bowling for a six on the final ball (after just being bowled out) only to swing and miss and have his (invisible) bails dislodged! A highlight for Blackout to walk away with.


    We had better success with the third pair five wickets going down (two in Rob\'s over) to win the third pair\'s skin. We also had a chance to win the final skin but they just got away from us to secure it by 6 runs. Overall the match was actually a lot closer than the score suggested as we had the chance to gain three skins but marginally lost two of them. We had some minor successes with the bowling with Rob (3 wickets) and Langy (4 wickets) being the stand out.


    Langy was an easy choice as with Three Stars, Two Stars went to Sheeds and the last Star went to Richo. Thanks goes to all players for voting in the Three Stars Selections for tonight and hope you are all looking forward to next week\'s match up as we seek revenge against... PRIZE FIGHT!



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    Wednesday, August 11, 2010
  • Full Line Up for Season Opener
    • After some slight problems with Google Calendar we have finally managed to put together a line up to take on the much talked about \"Prize Fight\" team. The season opener line up will be as follows:
    1. Brian
    2. Rob
    3. Keith
    4. Mark
    5. Rashid
    6. Langy
    7. Mick
    8. Greg M
    As you can see after last games surprise inclusion of Mark we have yet another surprise return. Rashid enters the line up after many months away from his beloved Indoor Cricket! Here\'s hoping that he hasn\'t gotten too rusty with his time off!
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    Monday, July 26, 2010
  • Blackout Look to Spring 2010
    • Blackout\'s season has officially come to an end with the Sportsworld centre having released the game times for next Tuesday\'s Semi Finals. A few good things came out of the Winter 2010 season. We had a mixed season with 7 wins and 8 losses. We struggled somewhat for player numbers at the beginning of the season but by mid way through the long Winter we found new players and that helped fill the void. A couple of new rivals in Chak De and Prize Fight were found as these clashes were more exciting than the usual match ups. Speaking of rivals, Grumpy Old Men lost their Hooters to become Avanti. This led to them gaining black shirts as their new look. So not to be out done we launched a new \"Whiteout\" look. Thanks to Hahn Super Dry\'s shirts we had them personalised to make them feel more at home with Blackout. We also announced a new Blackout strip to be launched sometime soon for the new season. We also had two new players join the line up. Jeff (Wiggle) and Lachlan (Lach) have entered the teams long list of players to don the Black. Would be interesting to see a total 21 year roll call list Rob!

    In other developments for the season off the field. We saw the site evolve again even further in it\'s on going change since it started as a TAFE project all those years ago! With a new homepage theme we saw the introduction to a News bar which houses not only the latest in Blackout headlines but also contains past photos, videos and gamesheet scans! Not bad for a non-professional site eh? Also we saw the start of something that has been overdue for many years. Google docs have now been used to house records of past results. In the past we use to be super nerdy with stats and the like. We use to have the worm to show the games dynamic scoreline. Also we use to keep an eye on other stats such as 6\'s hit and wickets. With the new season I hope to start this once again.

    Click here if you wanna check out the Winter 2010 Season results!

    But all in all we can be excited to see that the Blackout movement is showing no signs of slowing down. With a new player this season taking out the Season Star Selection award, Keith! It was down to either him or Mick to take out the big prize. Also Richo was lurking in third place to threaten the both of them. But in the end Keith was just too strong with game changing performances that were not only enough to convince us that he was the season\'s best but also he was the highest rated Blackout player in the centre\'s very own \"Best & Fairest\" tally. So on behalf of the whole Blackout outfit I\'d like to say congratulations big fella. I hope that you continue to pour on the pressure for the other teams in the seasons to come!

    So with Spring 2010 coming soon I\'d like to say that my ride with Blackout has been a fun one since I joined up in \'99. I hope to see another premiership soon though as it\'s been a long time between drinks but more importantly I\'m just glad to be doing this whole Indoor thing (both the on court and off court stuff) with a great bunch of guys! Now I\'m gonna sign off now before I cry! LOL
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    Friday, July 16, 2010
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