Tigers claw out solid victory over Millicent

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Tigers claw out solid victory over Millicent

Tigers held sway in the late game in Division 1 baseball at Blue Lake Sports Park on Saturday afternoon.


Batting in the bottom half of the first inning, lead off batter Riley Parsons picked a base on ball, Jake England’s sacrifice flyball to left field scored Parsons, Matt Thompson’s hit into the infield resulted in an error, Joe Sims pumped a standup double to centre field which saw Thomson cross for their second run and Sims scored on Koby Stratman’s Texas Leaguer to left field for their third of the opening inning.


The orange and black added five more in the next to lead by eight


Cooper Pitkin picked a walk, Jake England hit safely to centre field, Matt Thompson blasted a long hit to centre field for a triple scoring both Pitkin and England, Joe Sims’ hit to third base created a wild throw which scored Thompson, Pat Kermond was thrown a walk and both he and Thompson crossed home on wild pitches from some untidy pitching from the hill.


The Bandits fought back in the top of the third adding four to the scoreboard


Dave Langley hit safely to left field, Darcy Pink got to first on an infield error, Jordan Johnson clobbered a single to centre field, Anthony Mutton’s hit to shortstop was errored scoring Langley and Pink, Johnson scored on a wild throw and Mutton scored on a wild pitch before Tigers were able to curb their errors and close down the inning.


Tigers added another five in the even inning


Riley Parsons hit cleanly to centre field for a double, Cooper Pitkin followed with a single to left field, Parsons crossed home on a wild pitch, Matt Thompson was hit by a pitched ball as was Joe Sims, Pat Kermond crunched a safety to left field scoring both Pitkin and Thompson and Cameron Scott finished with a deep hit to centre field scoring both Sims and Kermond with Tigers now in sight of the two hour mercy rule.


This they achieved in the fourth after Millicent failed to add to their score


Lax pitching saw Cooper Pitkin and Jake England walked, Matt Thompson hit by a pitched ball loading the bases, Joe Sims hit into a fielder’s choice which resulted in a fine double play by the Bandits but was not enough to stop Pitkin Scoring for the mercy rule to be invoked.


Tigers had nine safe hits, nine base on ball, four hit batters, 10 runs batted in, three strikeouts and made five errors


Millicent had four safe hits, one base on ball, six strikeouts and made four errors.

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