1st Grade – Game 1: BARNES, Corey

1st Grade – Game 2: HOLLAND, Mark

1st Grade – Game 1: DLOUGHY, Gavin

3rd Grade: WOODS, Andrew

Our team won their first game of the season 6-4 against Manly at Aquatic on Sunday. It was a good team effort for the Vikings to pick up the win and showed a marked improvement over the first couple of games.

The pitching staff did a great job to kept us ahead throughout. Ashley Hapgood’s accuracy was the key and he threw 6ip 4h 1k 2bb 2er to get us off to a great start and then Ivan Turnbull closed Manly down with 2ip 3h 2bb 2er. In the outfield Andrew Booth and Peter Borg took a number of well judged catches and the infield was solid to back up the pitchers.

In the batting box players finally showed more patience with pitch selection and kept the score ticking along. RBIs were recorded by Rob Cook, Michael Kentwell, Sean McMillan and Andrew Booth.

Thanks to Jackson Light and Brayden McFarlane from the U18s who played full games for us at short notice and performed well with both bat and in the field.

A quite disappointing start to the Game after the return of the Cougar “Nick Kennedy” started us off with a walk followed by a hit to Blair we were unable to knock in our first 2 base runners. We started our fielding off with a 3 up 3 down inning, however some poor defence later in the game saw Manly score 3 runs in the second innings. After being down 3 nil we were definitely in the contest but were unable to claw back the last run after getting to 3-2. Michael McLellan and Nathan Ward had great games on the mound dominating in all innings.

Great games with the bat from our Youngster Blake Boehm who was called up from the U/18’s to go 2-3 and Andrew Woods who went 3-3 with a double. Ben King also picked up a hit.

1st Grade – Game 1 – Liam Blackbourn

2nd Grade – Michael McLellan

3rd Grade – Ashley Hapgood

1st Grade Players’ Player of the Week – Alex Rogers