In what could be the upset of the season Central Magpies travelled to Millicent for the Mount Gambier and District Baseball League Division 1 baseball game and came home with the bacon.
Magpies batted first and scored two runs.
Cooper Smith dropped one short in the infield and beat out the throw, Brad Lynagh picked a walk, Josh Aston’s hit back to the pitcher was errored on the throw to first base allowing Smith to score and Lynagh crossed on Justin Tzioutziouklaris’ sacrifice fly to centre field.
In the even dig Millicent equalled the score.
Anthony Mutton singled to deep short stop and beat out the throw, Darcy Pink drew a walk, Jordan Johnson batted in Mutton and Pink hit the home plate on Phil Altschwager’s hit into an out.
From that point on it was all Central Magpies scoring runs with five in the third.
Justin Tzioutziouklaris hit a long ball to centre field, Mitchell Cutting bombed one out to left field, Lauchie Tilley clipped a safety out to right field scoring Tzioutziouklaris, both Cutting and Tilley crossed the plate on consecutive pitches that got away from the catcher, Jobe Harten clobbered a two bagger to left field, Cooper Smith lined a hit to centre field and both he and Harten were batted in by Josh Aston.
This had the Magpies leading seven runs to two.
In the top of the sixth Jobe Harten drew a walk, Cooper Smith’s infield hit resulted in an error and they were again both batted in by Josh Aston.
Central drove the nail all the way into the coffin in the final inning, scoring a further six runs with 10 batters appearing in the batters’ box.
Lauchie Tilley picked a base on ball, Chris Roberts singled to left field, Jobe Harten’s hit to left field was errored, scoring Tilley, Cooper Smith picked a walk, Brad Lynagh hit a Texas Leaguer to left field which scored Roberts, Josh Aston crunched a hit to centre field pushing Harten home, Jake Turner’s infield hit scored Smith and finally Lynagh ran home on Mitchell Cutting’s deep hit to centre field.
The Magpies had 13 safe hits, four base on ball, two hit batters, 12 runs batted in, eight strikeouts and made two errors.
Millicent had four safe hits, four base on ball, two runs batted in, five strikeouts and made six errors.

CENTRAL PUTS TIGERS TO THE SWORD
In the ball game at Blue Lake Sports Park on Saturday afternoon Central shut down Tigers, only allowing them to score a solitary run in the Tigers’ last at bat.
The black and white scored four runs in the first.
Five consecutive safe hits saw four batters home.
Josh Chuck, Patrick O’Hehir, Dylan Gull, Koby Chant and Alex Ridding all hit safely with the first three being batted in by the player following and Chant batted in with Nathan Meinck’s sacrifice fly.
In the second inning Tigers only allowed one run to be scored.
Colby Muller beat out a throw from short stop and crossed home on Patrick O’Hehir’s shot to left field.
There was more pain for the black and orange in the third when Central piled on another six runs.
There were four more consecutive safe hits as Alex Ridding singled to left field, Dylan Chuck doubled to right field scoring Chant, Nathan Meinck’s single to centre field scored Chuck, Kyall McClean hit safely to left field, Colby Muller’s hit into an out scored Meinck, Josh Chuck picked a base on ball and Patrick O’Hehir’s third consecutive single batted in both McClean and Chuck.
Central’s final and 12th run for the game came when Dylan Chuck plopped a safety out to right field and crossed the plate on Kyall McClean’s crunch to left field.
Tigers’ solitary run was gifted to them after Joe Sims found himself aboard on a fielder’s choice and scored on a wild pitch.
Central had 14 safe hits, two base on ball, 11 runs batted in, three strike outs and made one error.
Tigers had three safe hits, five base on ball, two hit batters, nine strikeouts and made two errors.