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Victoria brought home bronze to finish out the 2023 Australian Youth Women's Championship in style.

The team finished with three wins, powered by a .359 team batting average and a .535 on-base percentage. They scored 59 total runs total with 41 RBIs and 23 strikeouts of opposing batters.

Congratulations to all the players and supporters, and a special shout-out to head coach Dean Anglin, assistant coaches Bronwyn Gell and Alan Sutherland, and EO Erin Collis for guiding these players through an amazing opportunity to represent on the national stage.

Victoria was well-represented in the #AYWC2023 Awards, too. Lily McKenner was named Golden Bat after hitting .667 and Athena Koulis earned Spirit of the Game honours for her fair play, teamwork, and respect on and off the field

The youth tournament may be over, but there’s still more women’s baseball to come as Victoria remains undefeated at #AWC2023.

Victoria fought hard on Day 3 of the 2023 Australian Youth Women's Championship but ultimately fell just short of victory.

During the morning game vs. Queensland, Lily McKenner had 2 RBIs and Ruby Benne singled and scored two runs. Victorian pitchers held QLD to three hits with Emma Sullivan, Eden Neave, Phoebe Martin, and Chelsea Nunn sharing duties on the mound.

In their second game of the day, Victoria took an early 1-0 lead over New South Wales, but the opposition fired back with seven runs in the second. Victoria did get three runs back in the third and another three in the fourth, but NSW put the game out of reach.

The final score was 12-7 to NSW, although Victoria outhit them 9-6. Eden Neave and Lily McKenner both hit big doubles and had 2 RBIs, while Amelia Wright and Emma Sullivan had two base hits. Ruby Benne and Billie McCulloch recorded one hit each.

McKenner, Wright, Morgan McConville, and Mackenzie Prentice-Evans put in work on the mound as well.

Victoria plays Western Australia at 12pm on Tuesday.

Victoria defeated New South Wales 9-4 to stay undefeated at the 2023 Australian Women's Championship on Monday night.

It was a rematch of the #AWC2022 game, which NSW won to secure gold in Adelaide. This time Victoria walked away winners, thanks to an impressive 13 hits vs. eight hits allowed.

It was scoreless until the bottom of the third, when Victoria scored three. NSW got one back in the top of the fourth but Victoria added four more with RBIs from Lili Cavanagh, Abbey McLellan, and Ruby Dale.

NSW made it 7-4 in the top of the fifth before Victoria scored two final runs. The sixth was scoreless and Allie Bebbere got out of a bases-loaded jam to close it out in the seventh. Bebbere struck out three in 2.1 innings after starter Jessica Johnson went 4.2 innings with two hits, two walks, three earned runs, and a strikeout.

Cavanagh went 3-for-3 with 3 RBIs and two runs scored. She joined Shae Lillywhite, McLella, and Abbey Kelly with extra-base hits. Lillywhite had three hits, with McLellan, Dale, and Maddy Patrick reaching base twice.

Now 4-0, Victoria takes on Queensland White at 1pm Tuesday as the women's tournament continues.

After back-to-back wins on day one, Victoria picked up another victory with a 12-4 result against New South Wales in the 2023 Australian Youth Women's Championship.

Victoria racked up eight hits while giving up just three. A pair of singles and walks made it a 2-0 ballgame in the bottom of the first, although NSW cut the lead in half their next time up.

A hit by pitch, three straight walks, and Ruby Benne's single made it 5-1 in the bottom of the second. The back-and-forth battle continued as NSW came within one in the third, but Victoria put the game out of reach with seven runs in the final frame.

Mackenzie Prentice-Evans, Chelsea Nunn, Emma Sullivan, Lily McKenner, and Benne all singled during the big inning.

Prentice-Evans threw the first two innings, with two hits, one earned run, and three strikeouts while Kendra Rutgers struck out one in an inning of work.

Benne and McKenner led the team with 3 RBIs each.

Victoria takes a 3-0 record into Monday's matchup with Queensland, starting at 9am.

Victoria remains undefeated at the 2023 Australian Women's Championship after defeating South Australia 4-0 on Sunday night.

Abbey Kelly threw a complete game shutout, giving up just three hits and striking out eight.

Victoria scored one in the second on a fielder's choice, and a few quiet innings followed before the three-run sixth. Abbey McLellan had a lead-off double and Maddi Weller reached on an error, with Jamie Bastian's base hit scoring the second run.

Lily Bell-Tanner scored two on a single, giving Victoria a bigger cushion going into the top of the seventh. SA got back-to-back singles with one out but a double play sealed the deal.

Now 3-0, Victoria takes on New South Wales at 5pm Monday as an action-packed week of women's baseball continues.

The 2023 Australian Youth Women's Championship opened at Melbourne Ballpark today, with Victoria winning two big games to start their campaign off right.

In the morning, Victoria snuck past South Australia 10-9, with Lily McKenner's single scoring Chelsea Nunn in the final inning to secure the win.

Victoria had four hits and gave up three, with seven runs coming in the first inning and another two in the second. South Australia scored one in the first and another in the second before seriously firing up their offense, scoring seven in the top of the third to tie it up at nine.

Nunn walked with one out in the bottom of the frame, followed by a walk to Emma Sullivan and McKenner's two-out winning hit. McKenner had a double and two singles throughout the game, with Victoria's other hit coming off the bat of Kendra Rutgers.

Emily Loong held SA to one hit in 1.1 innings while Isabella Lee-Young and Lacey Tompkins also pitched for Victoria.

Excited by the win, Victoria kept up the momentum in a 19-5 performance against Western Australia on Saturday afternoon. The team collected 12 hits and gave up just three.

Victoria opened with five runs and WA responded with five of their own, but the next few innings were more one-sided. The winners added eight runs in both the second and the third for a much more comfortable margin than game one.

Morgan McConville, Amelia Wright, and Phoebe Martin held things down on the mound while McKenner doubled twice for 3 RBIs. Emily Brennan and Eden Neave also had extra-base hits, while Martin knocked in three on two singles.

Brennan, Neave, and Isabella Lee-Young recorded 2 RBIs apiece as Billie McCulloch and Ruby Benne also brought runners home.

Victoria heads into Sunday's 3pm game vs. New South Wales with a 2-0 record.

Victoria has scored 37 runs and given up just four in the first two days of the 2023 Australian Women's Championship.

After a 14-0 win against Queensland Maroon to start the tournament, Victoria carried the momentum into Saturday's matchup with NSW Development, dominating at the plate for a 23-4 victory.

Victoria scored seven runs in both the first and the second. Lili Cavanagh and Shae Lillywhite doubled in the first while Jessica Brown and Jamie Bastian singled, too. The next inning saw Lilly Simpson double and Nyah O'Brien single to keep up the pressure.

They went on to add two more in the fourth and seven in the sixth, outhitting their opponents 12-7. O'Brien had 4 RBIs total as Abbey Kelly knocked in three. Lillywhite, Cavanagh, and Simpson all had extra-base hits on the day while Bastian, Johnson, Simpson, Maddi Weller, and Allie Bebbere singled.

Gabby Bevan led the charge on the mound, giving up just one run on one hit over two innings, striking out three. Maddy Patrick struck out four in two innings while Jasmine Bentley and Abbey McLellan also contributed quality innings.

Now 2-0, Victoria plays South Australia at 7pm Sunday before a blockbuster vs. New South Wales at 5pm Monday.

Victoria is off to a great start at the 2023 Australian Women's Championship, thanks to a 14-0 performance over Queensland Maroon on Friday afternoon.

Victoria got started early, scoring four runs in the first inning with Lili Cavanagh's double, Maddy Patrick's groundout, and Ruby Dale's single. A bases-loaded walk by Jamie Bastian added another run in the second.

Victoria racked up 13 hits. Cavanagh, Abbey Kelly,  Shae Lillywhite, and Abbey McLellan all went on to collect multiple hits as Victoria scored four runs in the third, three in the fourth, and a final two in the sixth.

Starter Allie Bebbere threw four scoreless innings with three hits, one walk, and a strikeout. Jessica Johnson secured the shutout with two scoreless innings.

It was a clean fielding day for Victoria as McLellan had five chances in the field, the most on the team.

Overall, Victoria had 13 hits compared to Queensland's seven. Kelly doubled twice while McLellan, Cavanagh, and Jasmine Bentley also recorded extra-base hits.

Cavanagh, Lillywhite, and McLellan knocked in two runs each, with Bastian, Bentley, Ruby Dale, Maddy Patrick, Maddi Weller, and Kelly recording one RBI each.

Victoria's next game is a 2PM matchup with NSW Development on Saturday, while the youth women's team starts their campaign vs. South Australia at 11am.

Best of luck to our Victorian State Teams as the Australian Women's & Youth Women's Championships get underway at Melbourne Ballpark from Friday.

Check out our tournament matchups and head down to the ballpark for an action-packed week of women's baseball!

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