Sandringham 3 defeated Essendon 0
Strong performances on the mound and at the plate led Sandringham to a 3-0 defeat over Essendon in their first clash of the season.
Jackson Boyd allowed just one hit and two walks for no runs in 2.2 innings of work, while Sam Street pitched 6.1 innings for three hits, a walk and no runs to keep Essendon scoreless.
With the bat, the Royals managed 10 hits over eight innings off Gareth Formisano, Luke Abels and Russell Spear with eight of the nine Royals in the line-up achieving hits.
For Essendon, Ross Bament was the only one that delivered multiple hits, going two for four on the day.
Fitzroy 2 defeated Newport 1
Fitzroy’s Fine Fellows have kept their winning streak alive with a narrow 2-1 over Newport at home.
In a game largely dominated by pitching, Newport’s Jimmy Jensen would throw 8.0, striking out nine and conceding just the two runs while Fitzroy’s pitching staff of Leigh McKay and Brock Pawley combined to give up just a single run on six hits.
For the Lions, Tom Wilson and Reese Gregory picked up two base hits each while for the travelling Rams, Jimmy Jensen and Jack Van Wyngaarden also picked up two hits each.
Waverley 5 defeated Moorabbin 3
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Moorabbin 8 defeated Cheltenham 7
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Blackburn 9 defeated Cheltenham 0
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Preston 4 defeated Geelong 3
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Mid-week FIXTURES
Melbourne and Essendon passed the lead back-and-forth on Tuesday, but eventually Essendon prevailed 7-5.
The game started with Essendon scoring 4 in the first followed by Melbourne scoring in the bottom half and it looked like it could be a long night for the fielding teams.
Essendon knotted the game up at five in the top of the fifth inning scoring one run when Tim Sullivan homered with zero outs in the fifth inning.
Essendon batting in the top of the sixth on an error, a bunt, a single for one run and a double driving another run.
Melbourne failed to score in the bottom of the sixth to give Essendon the win.
Scott Moore, Nathan Aron, Mitch Ayres and Sam Boone were the only players for Melbourne to get hits. On the other hand Essendon racked up a team total of 10 including a solo shot.
The Sandringham Royals visit to the Blackburn Orioles home ground, Billabong Park, started of with the Royals scoring 2 runs in the first from a walk and three hits. In reply the Orioles scored 3 runs off 2 walks and 3 hits from Jackson Boyd's start.
Jackson was then replaced by Branden Stenhouse who allowed 3 further runs by Blackburn batters, before Reed Mason took the mound to close for Sandringham.
The Royals struggled to get further hits from the Orioles non-national pitcher Nathan Harris, and were unable to add to their score, whilst Blackburn added runs off Reed Mason.
Blackburn clinched the 2 hour time game in the bottom of the sixth, with 4 final runs, three unearned from a muffed fly then a wild throw from the left field boundary to produce a final score of 11-2.