Tigers bring it home

Bacchus Marsh Baseball

The first home game of the season saw Tigers matched up against Guild All Stars at Masons Lane, Bacchus Marsh on a cold, wintery Saturday.

Guild’s Duane Davenport and Tiger’s James Bailey each pitched for the full seven innings for their respective teams, James ending with 12 strike outs, and Duane with 8.

Some highly creditable fielding during the game including a brilliant ankle high line drive catch by Thomas Shaw, who then threw out the runner at first base for an inning finishing double play, plus an excellent pitchers pick-off was implemented by James and Shiori Hoshini to put out the runner at first base.

The big difference between the teams was the second innings when the Tigers batted through their order and put together a game winning total of 7 runs. Guild was able to get themselves on the board with two runs in the fourth innings but weren’t able to do more, while Tigers added another run in the fifth.

Tigers had 8 players with hits with a team total of 10 hits including Nathan Gell’s impressive multiple base hit, a triple to the right field fence.

This Saturday – BM Tigers will be playing Bellarine Bears at Bellarine at 2:25pm.