Tamworth Timberwolves juniors prepare for 2024 Country Championships

The Tamworth Timberwolves' hopes are high ahead of the 2024 Junior Country Championships. Video by Gareth Gardner.

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00:00This is Massie for Tamworth Baseball. We've gone through a rebuilding phase. So last year

00:09we started off with 13 kids that we put into a country championships. We kind of did it

00:14the wrong way around. We started with rep and then built on from rep. And from last

00:19year's country championships, our kids kind of, you know, who all were sons and daughters

00:25of players in our current competition. We then went to build a junior competition and

00:30ended up with 90 odd kids. We're really excited that we've got two teams going to country

00:37championships this weekend. So we'll have a Azuka team, which is a tens and under tens

00:42competition and they play off machine pitched pitching. And we'll also have a little league

00:47team, which is sort of 11s to 13s. We're already seeing the benefits of it in our senior program

01:01because we've got mums and dads who, you know, either haven't played for a long time returning

01:05to play or willing to have a go and have a play. So we're already seeing increased numbers

01:10in seniors as a result of the junior program. However, we've also started to have our first

01:15kids who are sort of hitting 14 now, start to enter the B grade competition, which is

01:19really exciting as well.

01:28I think the future is looking much more positive for Tamworth Baseball than what it was.