"Finally... it only took us 8 years"!!, one Marlay player after the final out.

On a sunny Tuesday evening in Marlay Park, The 'Pak lined out looking to chalk up another win. Aware of the Marlay potential we were warned by Skipper Pete that this would be no walk in the park and we would need to turn it on right from the start.

Oh dear God why didn't we listen to him..?

BatPak led off with a conservative one run in the first, thanks to the solid base hitting of Dave. Marlay matched this with 2 of their own. The next four innings saw the Pak knock in only a single run while Marlay kept the pressure on stringing hits together and taking advantage of extra bases gifted by costly errors in the field. By the 6th we were chasing a lead of 8 runs. After a rallying call by Pete, who pointed out that we've scored more than that in one inning before and now would be a nice time to try it again! We took to the plate to set things right. Unfortunately a further 2 runs was the best we could do. Marlay continued to chip away and deservedly came away with a 12-4 win.

And so our unbeaten run against Marlay came to a very ugly end. Not one of our finest displays, in fact probably one of our worst plate displays with only 8 hits in the entire game, 6 of them coming from Dave and Emma.

Some positives to take from the game...

1. Stephen Ralf from the Pakkers more than capably standing in and pitching a great game.
2. We could never suck that badly again!

BatPak have scored the most runs in the league and have the best runs difference (+60). We have everything to play for. So lets learn from this one, move onwards and upwards and mark this one off as a minor blip on an otherwise successful season.

Captain's MVPs
Male - Dave Pepper
Female - Emma Kilbride