By Tara Murray
The Sunshine Eagles know they now have their destiny in their own hands in the Baseball Victoria summer league premier 1st nine competition.
The Eagles sit in third spot after the first part of the season, with the top two teams having broken away from the pack.
Eagles coach Stuart Clayton said they weren’t worrying about the top couple of teams in the second part of the season.
“That is where we want to be,” he said. “We’re not worrying about the top two teams, we’re just hoping they keep beating the teams below us.
“We’re only worrying about what we can do and trying to control our own destiny.”
On Saturday, the Eagles had a strong 11-5 win against Moorabbin in their first game back after the break.
Clayton said they were happy with the performance.
“It was a good win,” he said. “You never know after a break the way that people come back.
“To swing our bats the way we did, was really good.”
The Eagles scored three runs in the first innings before getting the margin out to 8-1 in the middle of the game.
Moorabbin scored three runs to bring the margin back to 8-5. The Eagles were able to finish the game off strongly to seal the win.
“Josh Byrne hit a triple with bases loaded before hitting a homerun in the next innings. It was a really good performance, and it was a good job.
“They did what they needed to do, to get them going again.”
The three Young brothers, Jamie, Jeremy and Jordan, all got a chance to pitch with Jamie starting to get back into pitching after being injured early in the season.
The midweek games start back up this week, with the Eagles to face the Werribee Giants on Tuesday night before facing Melbourne on Saturday.
The Giants had a 29-0 loss on Saturday, but Clayton said they were reading too much into it.
“They were struggling for numbers,” he said. “On Tuesday they will be back at full strength and hopefully we can play our best and we should be alright.”
The Eagles women’s side was also back in action on Saturday in the women’s regional west competition,
The Eagles suffered a 13-2 loss to the North Western Titans.
After 12 rounds the Eagles sit in fourth spot.
The Eagles face fifth placed Newport this Saturday.
