Talobilla Park is a sporting facility located in the suburb of

Kippa-Ring, Queensland Kippa-Ring is a suburb in the City of Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia. In the , Kippa-Ring had a population of 9,745 people. Geography Kippa-Ring is located in the centre of the Redcliffe Peninsula, by road west of Redcliffe and by roa ...

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. Sports include

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ing,

Association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

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and

softball Softball is a Variations of baseball, variation of baseball, the difference being that it is played with a larger ball, on a smaller field, and with only underhand pitches (where the ball is released while the hand is primarily below the ball) ...

. Talobilla Park also contains an Automated Weather Observing System for the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. It is built on an old

landfill A landfill is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s. In the past, waste was ...

reserve.

Baseball

Talobilla has two regulation-size baseball diamonds built in 2004 including one regulation Little League field. The main diamond is a fully fenced and regulation-sized baseball field with field-level

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, two

bullpen In baseball, the bullpen (or simply the pen) is the area where relief pitchers warm up before entering a game. A team's roster of relief pitchers is also metonymically referred to as "the bullpen". These pitchers usually wait in the bullpen if ...

s, two battery cages, a scorers box,

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and shaded seating for approx 100. Major A standard floodlighting and a second amenities block with an umpires change room and showers has also been proposed by the

Moreton Bay Regional Council The City of Moreton Bay, known until July 2023 as the Moreton Bay Region, is a local government area in the north of the Brisbane metropolitan city in South East Queensland, Australia. Established in 2008, it replaced three established local g ...

and will be completed before the 2010 season.{{update after, 2010, 12, 31 Diamond two is also a regulation-sized baseball diamond with training standard floodlighting. It is home to the

Redcliffe Padres The Redcliffe Leagues Padres Baseball Club, also known as Peninsula Padres Baseball Club is a baseball club located in Redcliffe, Queensland that participates in the Greater Brisbane League competition and Brisbane North Region competition. As o ...

, the largest baseball club in

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and second largest in

. It has hosted a variety of events including

schoolboys and club junior state titles.

Ground Rules

*A baseball hit onto the left field batting cages that rolls or bounces back off into play, shall be ruled a

home run In baseball, a home run (abbreviated HR) is scored when the Baseball (ball), ball is hit in such a way that the batting (baseball), batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safe (baseball), safely in one play without any error ( ...

External links

Talobilla Park – Moreton Bay Regional CouncilRedcliffe Padres Club Site
Sports venues in Queensland Baseball venues in Australia Sports venues in Brisbane Redcliffe, Queensland