Div 1 14/02/10 Topsy turvy Torrens

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 ”Progress always involves risks.  You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.”  ~Frederick B. Wilcox

 A split weekend has made our equation of making the finals simple. Win our five remaining games and hope the cards fall in our favour in regard to the teams currently above us.

 In another topsy-turvy 2 games we scored 25 runs and gave up 25.

 On Saturday Tom Fiebig recovered well after giving up 2 early home runs to get stronger as the outing went on. He delivered 3 consecutive donuts to finish his first start of the season.

 On our side it took our hitters 2 innings to adjust to the Adelaide pitching, after which we poured on 14 runs over the next 3 innings. Some good execution and patient hitting were the highlights.

 Adelaide re-entered the game in the 6th and seventh scoring 8 runs, 5 of which were unearned in a disappointing blow to our much needed percentage.

 In the 8th we put the game beyond doubt to mercy with 6 further runs, albeit helped along by some poor opposition fielding.

 Although the game went longer than expected the positives included a perfect day in the field with no errors and several multi-hit games. The standout was the veteran David Forbes delivering his second consecutive 3 hit game.

 On Sunday we travelled to Glenelg determined to take a win and keep our momentum going.  However the Glenelg bats had other ideas, the Tigers scoring twice in the first, second and third frames.  Steve-O appeared to be pitching well, but the scoreboard told another story.  Even slight mistakes against better hitting sides are more often capitalised on and this was the case here.

 Whilst Steve-O continued to toil, our bats gave us some hope top 3 with a second base hit to Moose Falls followed by an RBI double to Tom Fiebig, and in the next dig a leadoff solo moonshot to Tim Holland.

 But the Glenelg bats were not to tire adding another in the fifth and then breaking the game open in the 7th and 8th to extinguish all hope of an Eagle come from behind win.

 In a credit to our boys, the final score did not reflect the game situation.   In the 7th and 8th good hitting including a ground rule double from Adam Lewis kept our hopes alive. As late as top 8 with runners on we were only 2 or 3 good hits from being right in it.

 Another pleasing aspect of the game was aggressive baserunning with 4 stolen bags putting runners in scoring position on different occasions.

 Although the result was disappointing we remain positive and will look to keep our hopes alive against Souths this weekend at home, starting at 3pm.

 In an aside, as we have the bye this coming Saturday, all Div 1 and 2 players are required to come down to the club Saturday afternoon to support the Div 3 and Div 4 boys, starting at 12:30pm. The club will be putting on a BBQ for us, so get down and show some voice for the teams that have supported us during the year.