The first half of the Mount Gambier and District Baseball League season came down to one last game on Saturday afternoon in front of a number of onlookers.

Federals took on the Tigers army in what shaped as a game that could potentially spell danger for the orange and black.

Coach Karl Ransom went with a young lineup to really prove a point that he was leading the club in the correct direction.

Harrison Elletson and Jarvi Mee (both 14 years old), Koby Startman (15 years old) and Pat Kermond (20 years old) were given the chance to shine, and shine is what they did.

Mee set the tone from the first play, laying out and being parallel to the ground on a shot that was absolutely drilled at short stop to then take it cleanly and get to his knees and fire to make the out at first, which had Tigers up and about early.

The game was all locked up until the third innings at one run a piece.

This called for a Pat Kermond shot to left field which emptied the bases making it four to one.

From there Tigers rallied and Ransom and Reppin proved a great one-two punch combo with Ransom really finding his groove on the hill, while Reppin led the way with the bat.

Tigers again found bat on ball and the run margin continued to grow upwards for Tigers and it was all of a sudden a 10 run margin and the game was gone for Federals.

Ransom collected 12 strikeouts on the hill whilst giving up just one earned run proved valuable, along with Reppin’s four hits and Kermond four runs batted in.

For Federals it was Alex Pearson who was like a rock in the outfield with six catches and two hits.

The final score was Tigers 13 to Federals two.

In the other Div 1 match to round out the first half of the season it was Centrals again proving to be too strong, defeating the South Indians 8-5 under lights on Friday night.