Close contest for seniors

IN the absence of the usual Under 13 baseball match, it was left to the senior teams to bring it home for the Miners; unfortunately both teams fell just short.
Under 13’s
No local game took place this week as seven of our super talented team took part in the State Winter Championships representing the Latrobe Valley Baseball League, held over two beautiful days, Saturday, July 16 and Sunday, July 17 at Knox.
The team had a great first day winning both their games and hanging on throughout day two to secure their spot in the Grand Final against Sunraysia.
Unfortunately the boys and girls just couldn’t close it out and Sunraysia took out the Championship 15 – 5 in a thrilling showdown.
South Gippsland Miners coach John Long was impressed with the performance and as a club it is looking forward to seeing these natural talents grow.
B Grade
South Gippsland 4 lt Churchill 12
The action was on again at the new ground and a very much improved effort it was! Our guys unfortunately got let down by some untimely defensive misses which led to Churchill scoring the bulk of their runs for the day. Surprisingly enough we actually out hit Churchill 5 to 3 but couldn’t quite get the runners home when needed.
Brodie Cocks yet again proved to be our shining star with a solid performance  on the mound as well as offensively; also putting in tremendous efforts were Damon Ginnane, Jordan Knox and Tasha Cocks with all reaching base as well as making mulptiple key defensive plays to keep us in the hunt.
The team of Jordan Gardner at second base and Michael Thomas on first is always a good combination and Annie Carter stepped up to the mound again for her second time as a pitcher.  Well done again to our ever improving team.
A Grade
South Gippsland 3 lt Churchill 6
Unfortunately our guys couldn’t quite replicate last week’s heroics going down in a close game in which we welcomed our newest member to the club Robert Birnie and boy didn’t he turn up to play! Birnie pitched six innings whilst striking out six; he really showed us he hasn’t lost much in 10 years out of the game.
The bats though, they went quiet, leaving runners stranded on base throughout the game whilst making fundamental mistakes throughout, proving to be the costly margin in the end; the boys though did take a lot out of this game!
With a massively positive outlook from the guys now being at home for the rest of the season, big things are to come for this talented group, Just wait and see!
Make sure you get down to the new ground located at Leongatha Secondary College/Federation Training oval on Nerrena Rd, Leongatha every Sunday from 11am to see all the action.

B Grade: after the dust settled, B Grade coach Michael Adams gathered the players for a debrief to discuss future game play for the weeks to come. Michael is pictured centre with Michael Thomas on his left and Bart Riyter on the right.

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