Federals took on South in Friday night baseball with both sides coming off big losses the previous week.

South was the first side to score and did so early with a couple of runs.

Federals were trying hard but they just could not get across the plate early to push South.

When South scored three more in the second innings thanks to some Jesse Balshaw brilliance the game was getting away from Federals.

Tarkyn Morale kick started the Indians again with his second shot of the night and it was again some Balshaw magic that scored him to put the score at eight to zero and the game started to get away very fast.

Deegan Habner followed by Morale both landed themselves another hit and sat at the corners for Balshaw to empty the bases and put his na3me on his third hit for the night and remind the league that he is in career best form and making a statement.

Federals tried but they could not manage to get that elusive runner cross the plate and the final score saw South finish winners 10 runs to zero.

Saturday afternoon shaped as what would be a belter – and it ended up being the Dylan Chuck show.

Chuck led from the front both on the hill and with the bat from the get go.

Tigers looked disjointed, flat and at times defeated mentally.

Tigers coach Karl Ransom took the job on the hill and it was clear Centrals liked this, knocking in four runs early to give themselves some breathing room.

Chuck, Gull, Cutting and Chant all continued to do damage with the bat and a couple of errors later and Tigers were staring down the barrel of what would be another defeat to the hands of Centrals.

Chuck continued to make a statement on the hill and when he finished the fifth innings with his eighth strike out, he was getting closer to a baseball feat that only you could dream of with a no hitter looking on the cards.

Tigers again went to bat and failed to make any noise and Chuck was again closer to that no hitter. 

As Tigers got going into the seventh they still had not had a hit.

Centrals added more pain in the bottom of the innings to make the scoreboard a horrible 10 to zero score line but now it was Chuck’s moment to savour.

Three batters up and three outs saw him finish the game with a career best no hitter against last year’s champions to stamp a huge message that Centrals are back with a vengeance and the team to beat in 2022.