Manly Eagles win bronze at nationals

By Adam Lucius
Updated June 10 2022 - 5:14pm, first published June 7 2022 - 6:00am
DREAM: Manly pitcher Luke Donaghey. Picture: Brendon Beacom
DREAM: Manly pitcher Luke Donaghey. Picture: Brendon Beacom

MANLY hadn't won a Senior League (under-16s) NSW baseball title in 21 years and the drought didn't look like coming to an end as they sunk to a second straight defeat at this year's state championships. Coach PJ Patterson was downcast and kicking stones as he came to grips with seeing another campaign go down the gurgler until his wife Michelle, a maths teacher at Davidson High, pulled him aside. She'd crunched the numbers and looked at the history of the tournament, working out Manly could still make the final if it didn't drop another game.

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