HP Baseball is a club with a proud history. Baseball is a relatively new sport in NZ starting just a little under 20 years ago with mainly senior aged players. HP was one of the founding clubs at this time with a Senior team. In 1993 the club expanded to include youth baseball. This provided depth and longevity to the HP story and helped make it NZ’s premier Baseball Club.

At HP we are committed to the enjoyment of all our players at all levels of baseball. We do this through excellent coaching and development programs, providing the best possible training facilities and offering extended opportunity for overseas play and an educational career path that is unequalled.

Currently HP has a number of its players involved in overseas baseball programsm, including players attending universities and colleges in the US through baseball. We are proud to add to this group the name of Scott Campbell. Scott started at HP as a junior baseball player and can still be seen down at Lloyd Elsmore playing with the seniors, when he is not playing professional baseball in the USA. His determination and hard work along side of his supportive parents and the structured support of the club has seen Scott rise to the highest level of baseball for any NZ player ever. Working his way through college through baseball he was able to achieve a playing record that saw him drafted into Major League Baseball. Currently he is playing in the Blue Jays AAA program with the Las Vegas 51 AAA team, and in 2008 played in the prestigious “Future Stars Game” at Yankee stadium. Scott said this was his “dream,”..so if you dream and work at it your dreams will come true.

2008 Season Summary

This was one of the biggest seasons in the clubs history, with over 160 registered players in 16 teams across all grades.

• T-ball 25 players 4 teams
• U10 31 players 3 teams
• U12 40 players 3 teams
• U14 23 players 2 teams
• U16 9 players 1 team
• Senior 37 players 3 teams

Below is a summary of the results from our junior grades:

2008 ABA All-Stars

- Dec Tournament U14 1st U12 2nd place

- Feb Tournament U12, U14, U16 – Winners!!!!

2008/09 ABA Competition Season

- U12 Tigers 1st Place, Bullets 3rd

- U14 Angels 2nd, Blacksox 3rd

- U16 Rockies 1st place

2008 BNZ Nationals

- U12 Team 2nd place

2007 and before Season Summary