The runs just kept flowing in the fifth round of the 2021-22 Mount Gambier and District Baseball League season last weekend.
Tigers bounced back to avenge its loss last week with a drubbing of South on Saturday afternoon at Mount Gambier’s Blue Lake Sports Park.
Tigers looked on from the get go and bounced out of the blocks before South knew it.
Soon enough the game was all but gone just 30 minutes into play as Tigers belted in seven runs to zero.
The Orange and Black army did not stop there either.
With some help from South’s large number of errors, that continued to see the runs cross the plate for the Tigers boys.
Kaleb Kermond collecting his first Division 1 safe hit saw a young kid with a smile from ear to ear, but he was not done there, collecting himself another just one bat later to make it a night to remember.
Tigers coach Karl Ransom controlled the game on the hill, whilst South’s Ryan Placucci just did not have the support around him, with even coach Bruce Morale having an afternoon to forget with three errors, it just simply was not South’s day.
Tigers finished the game with 14 safe hits and only one error, whilst South just five hits but a mammoth eight errors was all the difference.
Big performances from Brayden Morton with three hits, Kaleb Kermond with two and Brodie Forster with three hits.
For the Indians it was Jesse Balshaw with his double to left field that was south’s highlight of the night.
As all roads led to Millicent for what shaped as a danger game for Centrals, it was quickly extinguished in what was a one sided affair at Bolton Reserve.
Centrals currently sitting on top of the ladder had too much class for the Millicent/Federals boys with a white wash by the time the game was called, Centrals walking away 17-0.
Jordan Aston took control on the mound for the boys in the black and white and he looked like a find for coach Dylan Chuck.
With Aston sporting his Movember moustache and looking like a young Randy Johnson he was just too strong for the Millicent/Federals boys, throwing a shutout and giving up just three hits for the game.
Centrals blew the game to pieces in the fourth innings bringing seven runs across the plate in their stand out innings of the game.
Big performances came from Ethan Chuck with three safe hits including a nice double to left field, Dylan Gull with two hits and the coach himself Dylan Chuck with two hits also.
For Millicent/Federals Darcy Pink and Tom Winkley battled hard picking up a single hit each for the game.
Millicent/Federals takes on an inform Tigers at home next week, whilst Centrals looks to continue their winning streak against a young South outfit Saturday afternoon at Blue Lake Sports Park.
