YOUTH:
Victoria slumped to a third loss to trail behind the rest of the competition, losing to New South Wales 16-2.
Victoria play Queensland and Indonesia tomorrow in more tough assignments for the team.
YOUTH: NSW v VIC ׀ BOX SCORE
New South Wales closed out Day 3 action with an emphatic 16-2 win over Victoria after just three innings.
In a scoring galore, Lucy Wallace finished as the highest run-getter with three, all followed by Taylor Toni, Tallulah Lewis, Olivia Bonello and Emma Hooper with two apiece.
New South Wales played clever baseball, continuously piercing the infield by hitting safe ground balls and deep line drives.
This tactically sound baseball meant New South Wales registered four runs on the board even before the first out.
Victoria’s only two runs of the game came in the third inning. A bomb hit to the outfield by Kira Jensen allowed Macy Priamo and Keeley Harrison to score.
Jensen was the pick of the batters, getting to second for only four hits for the game for Victoria.
Victoria used four pitchers over three innings with starter Georgia Davis the only one to record a strikeout, although this was a solitary one for Victoria.
New South Wales continues their Youth campaign against Western Australia when Day 4 commences whereas Victoria will hope to get back on the winner’s list when they come up against Queensland.
OPEN:
Victoria White endured a close 7-4 loss from South Australia, while Victoria Blue remained undefeated thus far with a resounding 16-6 win over Western Australia.
Tomorrow, Victoria White are against New South Wales in the first match of the day and straight after Victoria Blue take on South Australia to continue their dominance.
OPEN: SA v VIC ׀ BOX SCORE
South Australia recorded their first win of the AWC2019 Open tournament when they beat Victoria White 7-4 on Diamond 1.
After mounting pressure following two days of slender losses earlier in the tournament, South Australia showed poise in what was a come from behind win.
Victoria White jumped to a 2-0 lead in the first inning when Jasmine Bentley and Kayla Adams put the team in a promising position by scoring.
However, it was South Australia’s resurgent fourth inning that propelled them to a 5-1 lead – and they never looked back.
SA scored four runs in the pivotal fourth innings, highlighted by Ashleigh George’s bunt off pitcher Amanda Torrington, which allowed Carly Moore to make it home.
Torrington was the pick of the batters for White, collecting two hits from three at bats while Bentley crossed for two runs as she was walked three times.
Torrington did her work on the mound too, pitching all six innings Victoria were faced with defending and there she sat down five batters via a strikeout (one looking), a game-high.
With South Australia and Victoria now both holding a one win and three loss record, both teams must find a way to consistently win games over days four and five if they want to make it to the gold medal game on Sunday.
OPEN: VICB v WA ׀ BOX SCORE
Closing out Day 3 on Diamond 1, Victoria Blue continued their dominance over the rest of the competition, recording their fourth win in four starts.
Victoria Blue won 16-6, forcing the mercy rule onto Western Australia.
However, it didn’t look like it would be smooth sailing early on when WA launched four first-inning runs. These runs came from the likes of Narumi Kametani, Kaila Borgomastro, Yuuki Ishikawa and Megan Everitt.
Although, WA’s early blitz sparked Victoria Blue into action, amassing a staggering nine runs in the first innings.
When Vic Blue added another five runs in the second innings the result looked beyond reasonable doubt.
Leslie Anglin and Jamie Bastian were both the leading run scorers for Victoria Blue, while Emily Devine, Courtney Foura and Abbey Kelly all ran in two each.
The majority of the Blue team were able to make the bases from their at bats which went a long way to seeing their 12 hits and therefore 16 runs.
Brittany Cedelland started on the mound for Blue but when changes were made, the runs stopped. Allisson Bebbere and Gabby Bevan tallied no runs and three hits between them, with neither allowing WA to reach first via four balls.
The fielding was on point too, Blue managing two double plays in the fourth and fifth innings, both being handled by Kelly and Belinda Cannington.
The undefeated Victoria Blue side look a hard team to top – and at this stage of the tournament favourites. This theory is backed up by Vic Blue’s undeniable roster depth, filled with talented players.