Day 2 of the 2020 Australian Youth Championships is complete, with Victoria Blue recording their first win in the U16s and Victoria White taking away a walk-off win in the U18s.
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The tournament continues on Sunday with another day of exciting matchups in store, as U18 Victoria Blue looks to go 4-1 in pursuit of back-to-back championships.
DAY TWO RESULTS - U16 VICTORIA BLUE & WHITE
New South Wales 3 v Victoria Blue 1
New South Wales improved its U16 record to 2-0 after downing Victoria Blue 3-1 in a hard-fought battle Championship on Saturday morning.
Starter Tom Stancic built a solid platform, striking out five in three scoreless innings, and his offence did the job to collect a hard-fought victory on diamond one at Geelong Baseball Centre.
NSW v VICB: Box Score and play-by-play
Stancic did not give up a hit and allowed just one walk ahead of relievers Ethan Treble and Wilson Spinks conceding just one hit in a solid pitching performance from NSW.
New South Wales took the lead in the bottom of the third behind his strong start.
Tyler Spiteri’s RBI-double broke a scoreless deadlock.
Lachlan Bojarski’s two-out, two-run double, in the fourth extended the NSW lead to three runs.
An error allowed Victoria Blue to pull a run back in the fifth, but the NSW bullpen kept Vic Blue at bay. NSW had just three hits for the game as pitchers dominated.
Victoria Blue starter Tyler Ellis went 2 2/3 scoreless innings, not allowing a hit.
South Australia 10 v Victoria White 4
South Australia downed Victoria White 10-4 as Max Stagg starred with four hits, including a homer, in an impressive win at Melbourne Ballpark.
SA v VICW: Box Score and play-by-play
South Australia took a 2-0 lead in the first but it was erased in the third.
But the next five runs were scored by SA to blow the game wide open.
Stagg homered in the first inning after Jack Bushell walked.
He singled in the bottom of the fifth to finish with three RBIs.
Liam Westdijk, Archie Lovelock, Jordan Hodges and Lucas Burnell also drove in runs for South Australia.
Drew Davies worked two scoreless relief innings and Lachlan Spratt recorded the final four outs to close out a second win in as many games.
Xander Gunn, Harrison Elustondo, Campbell Every and Ben Jon Howard collected RBIs for Victoria White.
Victoria White 8 v Queensland 12
Billy Baker blasted a grand slam as Queensland overpowered Victoria White 12-8 in their U16 clash on Saturday.
The Carina-product gave Queensland a five-run cushion in the top of the fourth and they held off Vic White, padding their advantage in the sixth before recording a first win.
VICW v QLD: Box Score and play-by-play
Victoria White took a 2-1 lead after one but a sacrifice fly drew Queensland level in the third.
A six-run fourth put Queensland out on top.
Baker’s slam headlined the inning.
Cain McClelland and Gabriel Valdez-Cadena each drove in two runs for Queensland.
Joel Prpic and Alek Siddans had two RBIs for Vic White.
Queensland faces New South Wales from 2pm at Ballarat tomorrow.
Victoria White faces the Australian Capital Territory in the early game at Ballarat from 11am.
Victoria Blue 11 v Australian Capital Territory 1
Victoria Blue has opened its U16 account with an 11-1 win over the Australian Capital Territory on Saturday.
Blue conceded in the top of the first but scored three in the second and six in the third to pull away and record a strong win after dropping its first two games.
VICB v ACT: Box Score and play-by-play
Nicholas Bertucci homered and Charlie Pierson, Ned Hargreaves and Jimin Lee drove in two runs each.
Felix Brunner gave up an early run but finished with three strikeouts.
Nicholas Parton also struck out three in two scoreless innings.
Koby Chesterton collected the ACT’s sole hit.
The ACT will head to Ballarat on day three to face Victoria White at 11am.
Victoria Blue plays Country New South Wales from 3.15pm on diamond two at Geelong Baseball Centre.
DAY TWO RESULTS - U18 VICTORIA BLUE & WHITE
Victoria White 5 v South Australia 4
Victoria White walked it off in Ballarat for a brilliant finish over South Australia.
Trenell Hutchins singled to drive in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth to score Jordan Baumann (single) and lift Vic White to a 5-4 win in its second game.
VICW v SA: Box Score and play-by-play
SA had pulled level in the top of the eighth on a bases-loaded walk to set up the thrilling finish.
Pitching was on top early with the teams both failing to score through five.
Victoria White starter James Lynch struck out four in five scoreless innings and Connor McLeod had seven strikeouts and allowed only one hit in four frames for SA.
The South Aussies struck first offensively.
Liam Bull’s two-out single opened SA’s account.
But Vic White hit back with a three-run inning of its own.
SA pulled level in the top of the eighth ahead of the teams trading runs.
Kyan Jones had four hits for Victoria White.
Vic White plays Country New South Wales and Queensland at Melbourne Ballpark on day three, starting from 11am.
SA is back at Geelong to face Western Australia and Victoria Blue. First pitch against WA is slated for 9.15am.
Victoria Blue 6 v Western Australia 14
Western Australia has taken down Victoria Blue in its first completed game of #AYC2020.
After having their opener yesterday suspended due to rain WA’s bats fired in a 14-6 win to open their account.
VICB v WA: Box Score and play-by-play
They totalled 16 hits, led by four from Brady Oilphant and three from Tye Kazmierowski.
Western Australia scored four times in the second and three in the third to go up 7-2 early.
They kept chipping away offensively, adding runs in the fourth, fifth, eighth and ninth.
Victoria Blue was unable to keep pace despite tallying 10 hits, dropping to a first loss after two extra-inning wins on day one.
Andrew Hurrelbrink (1 2/3 scoreless innings) and Connor Chehab (two strikeouts) closed out the game to deny Blue.
Adam Harris had two RBIs for the Victorians.
Both teams have doubleheaders tomorrow.
Western Australia faces South Australia from 9.15am on diamond two at Geelong Baseball Centre.
They then face the Australian Capital Territory from 3pm on diamond four.
Victoria Blue has New South Wales from 9.30am on diamond one ahead of a clash with South Australia later in the day.
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