Our Sporting Life SA

21 January 2020

McGARRY BROTHERS SHOCK PORT
By Robert Laidlaw

IN A TIGHT GAME, which was a crucial result in the run to the division one baseball finals, West Torrens beat Port Adelaide 4-0, on the back of the McGarry brothers hitting, at West Beach in midweek match-ups.
The contest was scoreless until the bottom of the fifth inning, where the deadlock was broken on Tom McGarry’s RBI single, his third hit of the game.
Then after Thomas DeWolf walked, Sam McGarry came up and outdid his sibling with a long three-run home-run, which capped the scoring.
DeWolf pitched 3.1 innings for one hit and six K2s to keep the Eagles in the game, while Nathan Vanderlinden threw the final 2.2 frames for one hit and two strikeouts to claim the win.

IN A SHOCK RESULT, Woodville held on to beat Henley & Grange 3-2, after the Rams mounted a challenge in the top of the seventh and final inning.
The Senators scored all three of their runs in the third frame, after an error and RBI hits to the Nicholson brothers, Troy and Nathan, as well as a RBI groundout to Wade Moore.
Rhett Feser for Woodville was having a tight battle from the mound with Henley’s Landon Hernandez, with the game remaining 3-0 until the top of the final dig, where hits to Liam Bull, James Bell, Jack Partington and Brett Hattersley closed the gap, but it wasn’t enough.
While Hernandez went the distance, conceding seven hits for three strikeouts in six innings, Feser last 6.2 frames for seven hits and seven K2s but still got the win.

KENSINGTON GRABBED A SHARE of top spot with a grinding 3-1 victory over a plucky Golden Grove Central Districts.
There is no doubt Cardinals’ pitcher Chase Cunningham was the best man on the diamond, as he not only pitched a complete game gem, he batted two of Kensington’s runs in, with a two-run double in the fifth inning, to break open a 1-1 ballgame.
Cunningham conceded three hits for nine strikeouts from the mound, while John Inglis took the loss for the Dodgers, pitching 6.1 frames for eight hits and seven K2s.
The Cardinals scored a run in the third dig on Bas Nooij’s two-out infield single, with Josh Golotta scampering home from second base. The Dodgers equalised in the fourth when Matt Phillips singled and took advantage of two errors.

EAST TORRENS WAS IN a tight battle with Northern Districts until a six-run sixth inning provided much needed breathing space.
A Charlie Ashcroft two-run single at the top of the first got the Redsox going, but North fought back with a pair of runs in the bottom of the dig, after hits to Dan Oswald, Mitch Gould and Zane Tomaszek.
Then in the second frame, Zac Heintze-Unger singled home a run to give the Redsox a 3-2 lead, which held up until the sixth, where three errors, three free passes and four hits saw six runs cross the plate. Jack Higginbotham collected two hits in the frame.
Higginbotham also was the winning pitcher, conceding five hits for four strikeouts in six innings.

ADELAIDE JUST WILL not go away, with its 12-0 victory over Southern Districts keeping it within touching distance of the top six.
It was a complete game effort by the Angels, with Josh Lapiana pitching a three-hit shutout, collecting eight K2s, while the batters exploded for 14 hits.
In four of the five innings Adelaide scored multiple runs, with Jordan Spratt batting four runs in on three hits, and Justin Roe scoring four runs while batting 1000.
The writing was on the wall in the first frame, as the Angels scored four runs, with Ty Forney running out an infield single followed by four consecutive walks, before the first out was made.

GOODWOOD RESPONDED TO THE weekend’s loss by coming out the blocks with six first inning runs, on the way to beating Glenelg 8-2.
In that fateful first frame, Josh Cakebread, Brendan Pett, Brodie Heeps and Owen Hughes collected RBI hits, in a solid batting performance through the line-up, for a 6-0 lead.
Glenelg scored two runs at the top of the fourth dig and the Indians managed another pair of runs in the fifth, in an otherwise uneventful game after the opening act.
Matt Watkins pitched five innings for the win, conceding four hits for seven strikeouts, in one of his best performances from the mound this season.

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RESULTS:
East Torrens d Northern Districts 9-3 (hits: ET – Heintze-Unger 3, Stewart 3, Higginbotham 3, Probert 2, Sanderson, Ashcroft, Croce; North – Oswald, Gould, Howell, Tomaszek, Dziego, Ikeda, Whelan. WP: J. Higginbotham; LP: M. Howell).
Adelaide d Southern Districts 12-0 (hits: Adelaide – Forney 3, Roe 3, Spratt 3, Cann 2, Smith 2, Lapiana; South – Martin, N. Rees, Scarabotti. WP: J. Lapiana; LP: D. Mitchell).
Woodville d Henley & Grange 3-2 (hits: Woodville – Owens, Dunstall, E. Marchioro, T. Nicholson, Dineen, Sowton; H&G – Weber 2, Bell 2, Partington, Hattersley, Suzuki, Bull. WP: R. Feser; LP: L. Hernandez).
West Torrens d Port Adelaide 4-0 (hits: WT – T. McGarry 3, Turner 2, S. McGarry (hr), Scott; Port – Carter, Trebilcock. WP: Na. Vanderlinden; LP: A. Crabb).
Kensington d Golden Grove Central Districts 3-1 (hits: Kensington – Golotta 2, N. Platten 2, Talbot, Gallagher, Nooij, Cunningham; GGCD – Phillips 2, Walsh. WP: C. Cunningham; LP: J. Inglis).
Goodwood d Glenelg 8-2 (hits: Goodwood – Hughes 2, Child 2, Hutchings 2, Heeps 2, Cakebread, Pett; Glenelg – Gluyas 2, B. Clavell 2, Ziersch. WP: M. Watkins; LP: F. Luders).

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Premiership points: Henley & Grange 28, Kensington 28, Sturt 26, East Torrens 22, West Torrens 22, Goodwood 22, Port Adelaide 20, Adelaide 18, Northern Districts 14, Woodville 10, Glenelg 8, GGCD 6, Southern Districts 4.