Wolves take premiership

Wolves are premiers of the Central Coast Winter Baseball League after narrowly defeating Dodgers 2-1 in game three of the grand final series.

Both teams used their strike pitchers for the entire match, which saw the Wolves' Paul Jones up against the Dodgers' Jason Davis.

The first run of the game came in the second innings when Dodgers' Russell Box bunted up the line to score off Geoff Brotherton.

The fifth innings saw Wolves lead off when batter Adam Blight hit to centre field with none out.

Infield hits to Jason Marks and Matt Buttsworth loaded up the bases.

Another infield hit from Craig MacDonald scored Wolves first run to tie the game at one-all and keep the bases loaded with none out.

Adam Smith then hit a sacrifice fly to centre field to score the Wolves' second run and put them in the lead.

Davis then K2'd the next two batters to end the innings.

Good defence from both teams kept the remainder of the game scoreless with Wolves the eventual winners at 2-1.

Wolves' coach Matt Buttsworth said coming into the game the players knew they would have to play their best.

Winter baseball president Peter Clare congratulated the clubs involved and said it been the best and closest winter season in years.

Third grade also went to game three of the finals, which saw the Lions dominate the early innings.

The Wolves made a late charge in the final innings but it was not enough to keep the Lions from an 11-5 premiership win.

E-mail, September 9 Jeff Ashton, Central Coast Sport