8th November

Chief Ump.: Giancarlo R.Tolu

Sunday 8^th November saw the third game of the Co Ed Softball Exhibition league take place. This time it was up to the Mustangs and Devils to face off. The two teams won their respective first matches and wanted to keep their momentum going and this together with the existing rivalry between the two teams resulted into a very excited match. Devils won this match after 7 extremely hard fought innings and 1 Hour and 43 minutes.

Devils had a better start to the game, taking an 8 – 3 lead after the first two innings. However Mustangs clawed back into the game in the third inning when they scored 4 unanswered runs to cut the Devils lead to just 1 run. It was at this point that Devils strong of their fielding experience took control of the game as for the next 3 innings Mustangs offence was shut down by some nice defensive work and in the process Devils scored another 5 runs which gave them a 13 – 7 lead going into the 7^th and last inning.

Mustangs staged another comeback in the 7^th inning, when first they shut down the Devils offence and than they scored the maximum possible 5 runs, for a final score of 13 – 12 for the Devils.

Co-ed Softball Tournament

After the successful organisation of the first International Co-Ed Softball Slow pitch Tournament organised in July by the Devils Sports Club which saw participation of teams from Germany and the US embassy and the Softball Co-Ed Fast pitch Tournament organised by Mustangs Baseball and Softball Club last September.
On Sunday 11th October MABS inaugurated the new softball season when two new teams Mustangs Softball, and Mellieha Northenders took the field for an exhibition game. It was a very nice day and the spectators surely enjoyed this 7 inning match (1 Hour and 25 minute). The two teams although still lacking from game experience showed a lot of enthusiasm and at times some very nice plays like the Mustang double play which ended the 7th inning.
As the result indicates Mustangs started the game very strongly sprinting to a 10 – 0 lead after two innings, However once the Mellieha girls shrugged off their opening day jitters and managed to settle down, the game evolved into a very balanced encounter and very pleasant to watch too. Unfortunately it was a bit to late for Mellieha to stage a comeback and Mustangs ended up winning the game 19 to 5.