Rangers hoping for a Xmas cracker
BASEBALL: Toowoomba Rangers will be out to make it a double Christmas celebration when they wind up their 2017 playing year at Coomera today.
Rangers remain on the trail of their first GBL Division One season win in a double-header this afternoon against the Cubs.
Today’s games were held over from a round-two washout in October.
It is the second time the teams have met in the space of seven days after the Cubs clinched two victories on Rangers’ turf last weekend.
Toowoomba coach Tony Tarca is hoping today’s quick back-up games can provide Rangers with the ingredients needed to break their competition duck.
“Hopefully the boys can take what they saw out of last weekend’s games and
turn it around and get a couple of wins this time,” Tarca said.
“If the boys can make the adjustment they need to make to get contact with the bat our first win is not far away.
“It’s just about trying to get everything right and do the little things that need to be done correctly.
“We know what they’re
(Coomera) capable of and what their weaknesses are.
“It’s more to do with our guys needing to adjust to their pitchers.”
Rangers will be missing pitcher Sam McNeice for today’s clashes.
He will be replaced in the second game by Chris Austin with Daniel Luchterhand starting in game one.