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New look sure to be a hit for Mustangs

23 Feb, 2010 12:00 AM
A NEW era is about to befall the Melton Baseball Club.

The Mustangs are serious about building a viable future in the Baseball Victoria ranks.

Still in contention for a fifth straight premiership with one round remaining in the home-and-away season, Mustangs president Brad Davis already has an eye on the off-season where he aims to re-launch the club's brand in the community.

"This is going to be a complete rebirth of the club," he said. "New logo, everything. We're going to wipe the slate clean."

The Mustangs re-launch will coincide with the introduction of the profession new Australian Baseball League.

With baseball being shown on free-to-air, pay-television and the exposure of the new ABL, now is the time for the Mustangs to strike.

At the top of the list of what Davis wants to achieve is a strong junior program, the basis of which the club will be built in the next decade and beyond.

"We're pushing for a solid junior program and we'll build the club from there," he said.

"We'll hit up all the local schools - every area surrounding us."

Davis is likely to trim the Mustangs senior side to one team next summer.

The club has constantly asked Baseball Victoria for extensions to fee payments with players not paying memberships on time and he is only interested in playing fully paid members.

"We'll have a clean out of all of the dead wood," he said.

"We'll also concentrate on getting all of the old members back and involved with the club."

On the field, the Mustangs are poised to strike on a phenomenal fifth straight premiership.

They sit third on the division three ladder and will go into the finals as rank underdogs behind unbeaten top side Chelsea.

Davis believes the gap between first and third is not a pronounced as the ladder might suggest.

"We've lost to them by one run and three runs the two times we've played," he said.

"We'll have to be on top of our game but it will be nice and competitive."

Troy Davis, the brother of Brad, looms as a match-winner for the Mustangs.

He is the everywhere-man of the team working as a catcher, pitcher, shortstop and, of course, batter.

Matthew Martin, a one-time division one player with the Newport Rams, has been the most efficient hitter for the Mustangs this summer and has excelled in his firtst year as coach.

"He's been really good," Davis said.

"All the boys respect him and he's played at a high level of baseball. What he says you listen to."

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New direction: Brad Davis will be a busy man over the winter re-launching the Mustangs brand. Picture: Scott McNaughton.
New direction: Brad Davis will be a busy man over the winter re-launching the Mustangs brand. Picture: Scott McNaughton.

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