14/07/2025
🏆 GOLD MEDALLISTS! 🏆
Hunter Coast – 2025 Little League Invitational Champions 💪⚾🩵
We honestly don’t think we’ve fully digested what happened last week yet… what an unbelievable adventure!
From start to finish – both on and off the diamond – this team of 12 absolute legends showed heart, hustle, and Hunter Coast pride. Every single player gave their all and grew in ways that made us prouder each day.
🩵 To our coaches – thank you for your unwavering dedication, leadership, and belief in these kids. You’ve helped shape them not only as players but as teammates and young people.
🩵 To the team behind the team – Hannah & Elese; the helpers who helped me wake, feed, heard, launder, and organise the boys, and somehow you did it all with smiles (albeit with a lot of caffeine) 😜
🩵 To our supporters, both in person and online – whether you were in the stands or watching nervously from afar, thank you. We felt every bit of your support (and hope your heart rates have recovered!).
🩵 To Michael Ibbotson & Marc Roberts – for your seamless coordination and ownership of the tournament. What a well-run, smooth-sailing event!
🩵 To Redcliffe Leagues Padres Baseball Club and their incredible crew of volunteers – thank you for your hospitality and for creating such a welcoming, well-run tournament.
🩵 To the umpires and scorers – your kindness off the diamond and professionalism on it made a lasting impact. And to our scorer Elese 🙌 These tournaments simply don’t happen without you!
🩵 To Baseball NSW – thank you for the opportunity to represent our region. We hope we did you proud, and are grateful for your support along the way!
🩵 To Baseball Australia & Baseball.com.au – thank you for building a stage where kids from all corners of the country can compete, connect, and create memories that will last a lifetime. The opportunity for these teams who do not usually get the opportunity to see a national stage was life changing for them.
🩵 To the other teams – your sportsmanship, dancing, singing, high-fiving, and championship game energy meant the world. You helped make this experience unforgettable.
🩵 To Newcastle Baseball Association Inc. – your generous sponsorship helped make this trip possible and eased the load for so many families. We are truly grateful.
🩵 To everyone who supported our (many!) fundraisers – thank you! This opportunity only happened because of you and your support for the families!!! And we’re not done yet…
📍 Join us this Saturday at Bunnings Wallsend (NSW) for a good old-fashioned sausage sizzle! Help us celebrate and raise a few more dollars to support this incredible group.
What a week. What a team. What a memory.
Hunter Coast – 2025 Champions! 🏆⚾🩵
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Hunter Coast are 2025 Australian Little League Invitational Champions.
They are: George Azzopardi, Nicholas Brown, Kade Coleman, Jackson Dowse, Hendrix Glover, Denver Hill, Jehd Ireland, Bailey Khodaverdian, Noah Khodaverdian, Max Linnan Angus Powell, Noah Randle. Coaches: Josh Van Eynde, Brendan Randle, Matt Ireland, Elaine Scotty
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www.baseball.com.au/littleleagueredcliffe
