2011–12 Canberra Cavalry season

2011–12 Canberra Cavalry season

Season: 2011–12 Australian Baseball League season
Team Details
League	Australian Baseball League
City	Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Ballpark	Narrabundah Ballpark
Management
Manager	Steve Schrenk
Owner	ABL
General Manager	Peter Bishell
Assistant GM	Megan Salic
← 2010–11

The 2011–12 Canberra Cavalry season will be the second season for the team. As was the case for the previous season, the Cavalry will compete in the Australian Baseball League (ABL) with the other five foundation teams, and will again play its home games at Narrabundah Ballpark.

Regular season

Standings

Key

†	Clinched major semi final berth
‡	Clinched minor semi final berth

2011–12 regular season standings

Team[1]	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road	1st Tiebreaker[S 1]	2nd Tiebreaker[S 2]
Perth Heat^†	34	11	.756	–	15–8	19–3
Melbourne Aces^†	21	24	.467	13	12–11	9–13
Adelaide Bite^‡	20	25	.444	14	10–12	10–13	16–11 (.593)
Sydney Blue Sox^‡	20	25	.444	14	14–8	6–17	13–14 (.481)	5–4 (.556)
Brisbane Bandits	20	25	.444	14	11–11	9–14	13–14 (.481)	4–5 (.444)
Canberra Cavalry	20	25	.444	14	11–12	9–13	12–15 (.444)

Notes

1. In a multi-way tie, the winning percentage from games in head-to-head competition with the other tied teams is used as the first tiebreaker.^[2]
2. In a multi-way tie, where after the first tiebreaker two teams are still tied, the winning percentage from games in head-to-head competition between the two tied teams is used as the second tiebreaker.^[2]

Record vs opponents

Opponent	W–L Record	Largest Victory			Largest Defeat			Current Streak
		Score	Date	Ground	Score	Date	Ground
Adelaide Bite	2–2	10–2	10 Nov 2011	Coopers Stadium	10–7	11 Nov 2011	Coopers Stadium	W1
Brisbane Bandits	2–2	6–0	4 Nov 2011	Narrabundah Ballpark	7–4	5 Nov 2011	Narrabundah Ballpark	L1
Melbourne Aces	–	–			–
Perth Heat	–	–			–
Sydney Blue Sox	–	–			–
Total	4–4	Against Adelaide Bite			Against Brisbane & Adelaide			W1
		10–2	10 Nov 2011	Coopers Stadium	7–4 10–7	5 Nov 2011 11 Nov 2011	Narrabundah Ballpark Coopers Stadium

Game log

W	Cavalry win
L	Cavalry loss
T	Cavalry tie
	Game postponed
Bold	Cavalry team member

2011–12 Game Log
November # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Crowd Record Ref 1 4 November Bandits W 6–0 Mike McGuire (1–0) Simon Morriss (0–1) 1,685 1–0 [3] 2 5 November (DH 1) Bandits L 7–4 Alex Maestri (1–0) Nathan Crawford (0–1) John Veitch (1) — 1–1 [4] 3 5 November (DH 2) Bandits W 5–4 Steven Kent (1–0) Chris Mowday (0–1) 1,224 2–1 [5] 4 6 November Bandits L 9–6 John Veitch (1–0) Brian Grening (0–1) Chris Mowday (1) 987 2–2 [6] 5 10 November @ Bite W 10–2 Brian Grening (1–1) Dushan Ruzic (0–2) 876 3–2 [7] 6 11 November @ Bite L 10–7 Darren Fidge (1–0) Hayden Beard (0–1) Ryan Beckman (1) 1,110 3–3 [8] 7 12 November @ Bite L 3–2 Paul Mildren (1–0) Tristan Crawford (0–1) Wayne Ough (1) 1,360 3–4 [9] 8 13 November @ Bite W 9–5 Steven Kent (2–0) Jandy Sena (0–1) Mike McGuire (1) 706 4–4 [10] 9 24 November Aces – 10 25 November Aces – 11 26 November Aces – 12 27 November Aces –
December # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Crowd Record Ref 13 2 December @ Heat – 14 3 December @ Heat – 15 4 December @ Heat – 16 5 December @ Heat – 17 8 December Bite – 18 9 December (DH 1) Bite – 19 9 December (DH 2) Bite – 20 10 December Bite – 21 11 December Bite – 22 15 December @ Blue Sox – 23 16 December @ Blue Sox – 24 17 December @ Blue Sox – 25 18 December @ Blue Sox – 26 29 December @ Bandits – 27 30 December @ Bandits – 28 31 December (DH 1) @ Bandits – 29 31 December (DH 2) @ Bandits –
January # Date Opponent Score Win Loss Save Crowd Record Ref 30 1 January @ Bandits – 31 5 January Blue Sox – 32 6 January Blue Sox – 33 7 January (DH 1) Blue Sox – 34 7 January (DH 2) Blue Sox – 35 8 January Blue Sox – 36 12 January Heat – 37 13 January Heat – 38 14 January (DH 1) Heat – 39 14 January (DH 2) Heat – 40 15 January Heat – 41 18 January @ Aces – 42 19 January @ Aces – 43 20 January @ Aces – 44 21 January (DH 1) @ Aces – 45 21 January (DH 2) @ Aces –

Roster

Canberra Cavalry roster - 2011–12 ABL
Active roster				Inactive roster		Coaching staff
Pitchers Right-handed pitchers 17 Hayden Beard 10 Jarrett Commane 30 Nathan Crawford 31 Tristan Crawford 41 Brian Grening  4 Daiki Kiyohara 40 Mike McGuire Left-handed pitchers 23 Steven Kent 20 Michael Laird 21 Chris Morgan  8 Alex Rogers		Catchers 11 Kyle Perkins 16 Travis Scott Infielders  5 Kody Hightower  6 Kellen Kmiecik 37 Masashi Nohara 24 John Tolisano Outfielders  7 Brian Burgamy 14 Todd Glaesmann 13 Yuhei Kai 25 Ty Morrison  3 Kenny Wilson		Pitchers -- Takumi Akiyama -- Tim Atherton -- Matthew Fawcett -- Mark Trau -- Luke Wilkins Catchers -- Robbie Perkins -- Mark Thomas Infielders -- Byron Aird -- Fumiya Araki -- Carlos Diaz Outfielders -- Kevin Kiermaier		Manager 27 Steve Schrenk Coaches  9 Mike Johns (Coach) 29 Keith Ward (Coach) 26 Michael Wells (Coach)
Correct as of 8 November 2011.

References

1. "Australian Baseball League Standings". Australian Baseball League. Retrieved 13 November 2011.
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