A beautiful sunny weekend provided the setting for the 25th anniversary edition of the Edinburgh Festiball, held on 28-29 August at Peffermill Fields in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n
Thirty-two teams took part \u2013 12 Comp and 20 Rec \u2013 and awards were given for eight different competitions named after Scottish whiskeys.<\/p>\n
All players received a special memento from the tournament (shown on the right), and former BASU Umpire of the Year Jeff Robinson flew over from Doha to be part of the umpire crew.<\/p>\n
The Grand Final, between the Manchester Greensox and the Battle Cruisers, a mix of players from Pioneers and Blue Steel, was a great game watched by around 200 spectators, who participated in the fun between innings by running up and down withscoreboards in exchange for beer.<\/p>\n
The Battle Cruisers led 6 – 0 until the fourth inning, but Greensox came back to tie the game with a series of solid base hits. The Cruisers pulled ahead by one, the Sox tied the game again, but the Cruisers took the lead with three runs in the top of the seventh inning, only to see the Greensox come back and score the four they needed to win. The final tally was 12-11.<\/p>\n
GLENGOYNE GLENLIVET GLENMORANGIE BEN RIACH BOWMORE GLEN GARIOCH GLEN MORAY TOBERMORY Edinburgh Festiball celebrates 25th Anniversary with whiskey A beautiful sunny weekend provided the setting for the 25th anniversary edition of the Edinburgh Festiball, held on 28-29 August at Peffermill Fields in Edinburgh. Thirty-two teams took part \u2013 12 Comp and 20 Rec \u2013 and awards were given for eight different competitions named after Scottish whiskeys. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-winners","tag-festiball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festiball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFinal:\u00a0 <\/strong>Manchester Greensox 12, London Battle Cruisers 11
\nMVPs:<\/strong>\u00a0 Sadie Hamilton (Battle Cruisers and Leo Hernandez (Greensox).<\/p>\n
\nFinal:\u00a0<\/strong> Rally Caps (Edinburgh) 12, Terriers (Leeds) 10
\nMVPs:<\/strong>\u00a0 Ellie Lane (Terriers) and Brandon Nihmey (Rally Caps).<\/p>\n
\nFinal:\u00a0 <\/strong>KKs (London) 13, Cheeky Monkeys (Bristol) 8
\nMVPs:<\/strong>\u00a0 Caroline Meads and Jeff Unsworth (KKs).<\/p>\nRecreational Level<\/h3>\n
\nFinal:\u00a0<\/strong> Fish (Manchester) 9, Honey Badgers (Glasgow) 6
\nMVPs:\u00a0<\/strong> Sherry Kenyon and Carl McCarthy (Fish).<\/p>\n
\nFinal:\u00a0<\/strong> Fechin Focialas (Edinburgh) 8, Lucky Strikes (Bristol) 7
\nMVPs:\u00a0 <\/strong>Lindi Smith and Andrew Owens (Fechin Focialas).<\/p>\n
\nFinal:<\/strong>\u00a0 Mavsmix (Manchester) 17, Dazzlers (London) 15
\nMVPs:\u00a0<\/strong> Kayleigh Chamberlain (Mavsmix) and Gregor McMaster (Dazzlers).<\/p>\n
\nFinal:\u00a0<\/strong> Capitals (Edinburgh) 19, Demons (Edinburgh) 7,
\nMVPs:\u00a0<\/strong> Tara and Dan Hertzfeldt (Capitals).<\/p>\n
\nFinal:<\/strong>\u00a0 MouseRats (London) 18, Forgers (Edinburgh) 10
\nMVPs:<\/strong>\u00a0 Emma Ko and Joe Hippensteel (Mouserats).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"