Eastern Athletics have secured their first Australian Senior League Championship.
Aiden Patterson provided the Athletics with a strong start and a trio three-run innings lifted the Victorian charter to gold with a 10-0 win over Cronulla in Geelong on Tuesday afternoon.
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Patterson went five scoreless innings, striking out three and allowing only four hits.
He was handed an early lead as Max Saggers sacrifice fly put Eastern up 1-0 in the bottom of the first after Ryder Wilson and Jack Ratcliffe singled and Taran Rose walked to start the home half of the inning.
The Athletics extended their lead on an error in the third before a sacrifice fly from Patterson and RBI-single by Jack Noble made it 4-0.
Ratcliffe’s RBI-single an inning later extended the lead to five. An error and Jack Noble groundball provided another two runs, with the Athletics completing a mercy-rule win in the fifth.
Saggers delivered a two-run single and a bases-loaded walk punched Eastern’s ticket to the 2022 Senior League Baseball World Series in Easley, South Carolina.
Saggers and Noble finished with three RBIs. Wilson and Ratcliffe each had three hits at the top of the lineup for Eastern.
It is the third time a Victorian charter has claimed gold at the Australian Senior League Championship.
The 2022 Australian Senior League Championship is supported by City of Greater Geelong through its community events grants.
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