15/12/2025
⛈️🥇Extra, Extra Reid all about it! 🥇⛈️
A storm has just surged across the Metro region!
74 put outs, 67 hits, 66 runs and an incredible 438 pitches over three epic days - Division 1 Storm have secured their 4th gold medal in 5 years.
It's all a bit of a blur of adrenaline... so what happened?
Catches, routine ground balls, throwing strikes, moving runners, winning one innings at a time. That's the basics of baseball. That's all it takes!
The first innings was neck to neck. Metro scored a run early but the team weren't phased. Bender on the mound, the team worked the game plan one out at a time.
The team answered run for run as Moloney secured a lead off hit of her own. 'Wheels Moloney' true to form made her way round the bases, scoring on a sacrifice fly from Hoshino.
After holding Metro scoreless in the second, the real hype began. Team discipline, heads up base running and quality team batting gave Coach Riggs 5 runs to wave through.
Metro answered in the fourth bringing the score to 6-6
Steady those who ride the storm though. Every innings the team chipped away one run after another.
We we're Hook-ed by Priya's efforts behind the dish. A last minute call up to don the mask, followed by a cannon pick off to 2nd base.
There were 11 hits across the team - Gattera (3), Moloney (2), Bender (2), Rowe (2)
On the mound the combination of Bender and Gattera had well over 50% strike rates. This put the ball well and truly in Metro's...zone?
Bender 72 pitches, 40 strikes, 3.2 innings
Gattera 53 pitches, 28 strikes, 3.1 innings
In every sense of it, this was a whole team victory.
Time to celebrate 🥳 🥂