Canberra Cavalry

Canberra Cavalry
Current season:
2017–18 Australian Baseball League season
Team Details
League Australian Baseball League
City Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Ballpark Narrabundah Ballpark
Year founded 2010
Inaugural season 2010–11
Postseason
Asia Series Championships 1 (2013)
ABL Championships 1 (2012–13)
Minor premierships 1 (2012–13)
Uniforms
Canberra Cavalry home and away orange uniform (also white shirt with orange and black writing)
Colours      Orange
     Black
     White
Management
Manager Australia Keith Ward
Owner ABL
General Manager Australia Donn McMichael
Assistant GM Australia Anthony Cangelosi

The Canberra Cavalry (nicknamed Cavs) is a professional baseball team in the Australian Baseball League. The team is based in the capital city of Canberra, Australia and the team's home ground is Narrabundah Ballpark.

Originally to be called the Colts, the team faced legal issues with the ACT Brumbies[1] that uses the same name for a local Rugby Union team.

History

Canberra Cavalry baseball team, with the Championship Claxton Shield for 2012-13.
2013 Asia Series champions banner

2010–11 Australian Baseball League season

    • 6th place (of 6); 12-24 record,[2] winning 11-9 at home but 1-15 away.

2011–12 Australian Baseball League season

    • 6th of 6: W 20, L 25

2012–13 Australian Baseball League season

In the 2012–13 season, the Cavalry won the Claxton Shield, having defeated the Perth Heat in the Championship Series in Canberra over 8/9 February 2013.[3] In November 2013, the Cavalry won the 2013 Asia Series resoundingly (14-4),[4] becoming the first non- Japanese or Korean side to do so.

    • Top of the stats by Christmas, then pulled away with significant wins against Perth Heat in away then home rounds in early January 2013.
    • Minor Premiership winners.
    • Premiership winners (Claxton Shield).
      • During the 2012-13 season, fan action caused the team to change the shirt number of a player. Marcus Knecht was wearing 51 but fans pointed out that he should have the number 4, in allusion to the game Connect Four; and, this became his catch-cry.

2013 Championship Series

Game 1
Cavalry win 6-4 over Perth. Cavalry pitch invasion after win, 2013 first Championship gane.

Score: Canberra Cavalry wins 6-4 over Perth Heat[3]

Game 2

Score: Canberra Cavalry wins 7-6. Takes Championship and Claxton Shield.[3]

2013 Asia Series - Champions

  • Cavalry won its first game against the CPBL Rhinos (2-0).
  • NPB Golden Eagles lost the second game (6-3).
  • Cavalry won the third game against the KBO Lions (9-5).
  • Cavalry advanced to the final, and played the U-Pres Lions, winning 14-4, to be Asia Series champions.[4]
    • The Cavalry was the 'home' side, on a coin toss. After being 2-0 up in the first inning, the Lions replied to be 4-2 up. The Cavalry replied in the fourth inning to be 4-3 down. In the seventh inning, Cavalry scored 5 runs, to be up 8-4. In the eighth inning, Jack Murphy scored a homer with loaded bases to make the score 14-4. The Cavalry's Toler pitched out the Lions to end the game.[4]

2013–14 Australian Baseball League season

2nd place out of 6. W:22, L:24. Cavalry defeated the Sydney Blue Sox in the Preliminary Final, held in Sydney, before losing to Perth Heat in the Final series.

2014–15 Australian Baseball League season

As December 2014 drew to a close, the Cavalry was equal second on the ABL standings. Cavalry finished fourth in the regular season with a win-loss record of 22-24 (.478) but the home-away record favoured the equally scored Sydney team.

2015–16 Australian Baseball League season

On the opening weekend (23–25 October 2015), the Cavalry won the first three of four games against Brisbane.

2016–17 Australian Baseball League season

  • Coming soon*

Players

Current Roster

Canberra Cavalry roster - 2018–19 ABL
Active RosterReassigned PlayersCoaching staff
Pitchers

Right-handed pitchers

Left-handed pitchers

 Catchers

Infielders

  • 45 Australia Boss Moanaroa
  •  4 Australia Cam Warner
  • -- United States Zach Wilson

Outfielders

Pitchers Infielders Outfielders

 Manager
  • 28 Australia Keith Ward

Coaches


Disabled list : 7-day disabled list

11 October 2018.

MLB players

Players with the Cavalry who play, or have played, for a United States Major League Baseball (MLB) team include:

Staff

Coaching Department

On 8 September 2010 former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher and Lakewood BlueClaws pitching coach, Steve Schrenk, was announced head coach.

Since 2012-13, former Cavalry player, Michael Collins has been the coach.

Managers

# Head Coach From To Reference
1 United States Steve Schrenk 20102012 [6]
2 Australia Michael Collins 2012Current [7]

Club Management

General Managers (GM)

# GM Name From To Reference
1 Australia Tony Fraser 20102011 [8]
2 Australia Peter Bishell 20112012 [9]
3 Australia Peter Bishell
United States Thom Carter		 20122013 [10]
4 United States Thom Carter 20132014
5 Australia Donn McMichael 2014Current [11]

Assistant General Managers (AGM)

# AGM Name From To Reference
1 Australia Megan Salic 20102011 [12]
2 United States Thom Carter 20112012 [13]
3 Australia Anthony Cangelosi 20132014

Venue

The Cavs play home matches at Narrabundah Ballpark, located in the south-central Canberra suburb of Narrabundah, ACT, Australia. The fans nicknamed the venue "The Fort", which the Cavs management has embraced. The ballpark received a major renovation upgrade in 2010 with a second stage of upgrades planned for 2017.[14][15]

The Fort, 28 November 2014, game-ready field

Club Identity

Mascot

The Canberra Cavalry team mascot is a Yosemite Sam-type character named 'Sarge', with an Australian slouch hat, Cavalry-orange shirt, Auscam pants and brown Army boots. The team song, played after winning games, is "I Wanna Be in the Cavalry" by Corb Lund. In the 2014-15 season, Sarge got a 'quad' car.

Community work

In the 2012-13 season, the degree of community work and outreach was markedly up on previous seasons, with game-day shirts for sale to assist community organisations for most days of home seasons. This began with Legacy Australia that supports family members of service people, and included the Canberra Hospital Trust, the Heart Foundation, Red Cross ACT, and The Global Poverty Walk's Matt Napier.

Local politicians

Narrabundah Ballpark is owned by the Government of the Australian Capital Territory. The Cavalry management regularly hosts local politicians and their families at games, to raise their awareness of baseball and the Australian Baseball League. This is extended to each part of the political spectrum.

Sponsors

The current major sponsor, since the 2014-15 season, is Canberra Elite Taxis.[16]

Supporters

  • Coming soon*

See also

References

  1. ↑ The countdown is ON! Only 3 days to go!, 2 November 2010, ABLbuzz.com, accessed 25 January 2011
  2. ↑ A case of the Blues for Canberra in ABL, Joe O'Sullivan, 24 January 2011, The Roar, accessed 25 January 2011
  3. 1 2 3 Canberra Cavalry win ABL championship, Sydney Morning Herald, 9 February 2013, 11:12PM
  4. 1 2 3 Canberra Cavalry wins Asia Series, David Polkinghorne, Canberra Times, 21 November 2013
  5. ↑ Strike Zone, ABC Grandstand Sport, 15 February 2013, accessed 17 February 2013
  6. ↑ Fraser, Tom (8 September 2010). "Former Philadelphia Phillies Pitcher to Serve as Canberra Cavalry Head Coach". Canberra Cavalry. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
  7. ↑ , Team Story about appoiontment
  8. ↑ , SMH about Fraser's hiring with Basketball ACT and reference to time with Cavalry
  9. ↑ , Team Story about appoiontment
  10. ↑ Canberra Times, Cavalry CEO returns to States 1 July 2014
  11. ↑ The Canberra Elite Cavalry, and Baseball ACT welcome the appointment of Mr Donn McMichael, The ABL, 16 September 2014, accessed 6 January 2015
  12. ↑ Meet the Cavalry, Barry Barnes, 28 September 2010, accessed 25 January 2011
  13. ↑ team story, 3 January 2012, accessed 7 January 2012
  14. ↑ "An upgrade for Canberra's premier ballpark". www.act.gov.au. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  15. ↑ Polkinghorne, David (2016-05-28). "ACT govt to give Narrabundah Ballpark $4.5m facelift in budget". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  16. ↑ http://web.theabl.com.au/news/article.jspymd=20140625&content_id=81644562&fext=.jsp&vkey=pr_l595&sid=l595

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