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    Brief Club History

Season
Commencing

 
1947 CLUB FOUNDED. One team B Grade (Semi Finalists)
1948 A Res - Semi Finalist
B Grade - 4th
   
1951 First Premiership - A Res
   
  (Disbanded)
   
1968

Club Reformed, readmitted to WABL B Grade

First Intervarsity (IV) Team (Adelaide)

1969

Club Enters A Grade (Current State League)

Winter League A Grade (Uni Blue) - Semi Finalist

                    A Res (Uni Red) - 4th

1970 Diamond located western side of McGillivray Oval (UWA Sports Park)
1971 Reintroduction of Night Baseball at Claremont Showgrounds
   
1973 Diamond moved to current location. First permanent diamond with cut outs in WABL
1974 A Grade - 3rd, best result 1969-1979
1975 IV Champions (Sydney)
   
1977 IV Champions (Perth)
1978 Men's Softball commences
1979 Last Season in A Grade. 
Combined UWA / WAIT team - 8th
1980  
   
1984

A Res Premiers. Long time between Premierships

WABL runs 6 games A Grade Night Series and incl UWA and Curtin University

   
1986 UWA commences involvement with coaching Dalkeith (Nedlands) Dodgers Juniors
   
1991

Now UWA Baseball and Softball Club, Womens Softball reformed, Baseball 6 teams

Circa 1991 new Club House built

   
1994 Softball enters team in Inagural Women's Baseball League (one season)
   
1999 B Grade Premiership. Third Premiership
   
2000 & 2001 AA Grade back to back Premierships
2002 & 2003 B and D Grade back to back Premierships
   
2003

Most Successful Season

Baseball:

B and D Grade Minor Prem & Premiers,

AA Grade Minor Prem and Grand Finalists

Oxford Cup Grand Finalists

Silver Sands Cup Champions

Women's Softball:

B1 - Minor Prem and Grand Finalists

B2 - Semi Finalists

Juniors - Grand Finalists

   
2004

All six teams in Finals (Baseball & Softball), three (3) Grand Finalists, D Grade Minor Prem.

First all club grade Minor League games at new Baseball Park, UWA v Rockingham

Silver Sands Cup Champions (back to back)

   
2006/07

UWA wins the inaugural Provincial League flag over Balcatta 6 - 4.

   

UWA History Book

Preface [pdf]

Chapter 1 - The Very Beginning [pdf]

Chapter 2 - The Renaissance (1968-73) [pdf]

Chapter 3 - Intervarsity - The Early Days [pdf]

Chapter 4 - The Swinging 70's [pdf]

Chapter 5 - A New Winter Sport [pdf]

Chapter 6 - A Premiership at Last! [pdf]

Chapter 7 - Intervarsity to the Australian University Games (1988-95) [pdf]

Chapter 8 - The 80's and 90's [pdf]

Chapter 9 - The Girls of Summer [pdf]

Chapter 10 - The Future [pdf]

Appendices [pdf]

Updated Appendices [word] as of July 2005

 
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Baseball Awards
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