Coming off just its second loss in the Baseball Victoria state league firsts season, Werribee remains in a strong position at the top of the ladder.
After losing last weekend, this weekend the Giants enjoyed the bye as they get ready for the final five games of the regular season.
Giants’ coach Andrew Christou said he is pleased with where his side currently stands.
“Yeah we’re pretty happy at the moment,” he said. “Getting towards the tail end of the season so we’re just trying to get the team healthy and build some momentum into the finals.”
With the frequency of games about to drop coming into finals, with the last midweek game taking place this week, Christou said it’s a good time to get players experience before the post season matches.
“At the moment we’re getting some of the guys from the reserves playing and getting more of an opportunity because that becomes important once you get into finals,” he said.
“The reserves end up playing a bit more in different situations so just getting a bit more experience for everybody and keeping the momentum going.
“We’re right in the middle of the busiest part so it’s nice to have the bye then everything kind of leans out again and gets back to the weekends and it goes pretty well after that and it’ll be finals time soon which should be good.”
Christou said that the bye has come at the ideal time for the Giants as they prepare for a Tuesday night clash with Ormond GH, which was after deadline.
“It’s good timing after a couple of mid-weekers, everyone gets a weekend off which is nice and back into it during the week, so it’s good timing,” he said.
“They (Ormond) are a really good team, so it should be a tough game and everybody has plenty to play for, but with them sitting in fourth they have a bit more on the line so it should be a really competitive game.”
Sitting clear at the top of the ladder is where Christou said he wants to stay heading into finals.
“We’d love to finish on top, win the minor premiership and then take it from there,” he said.
“We want to just play our best going forward, you always play to win and what happens, happens but we want to keep that momentum going and keep playing good baseball to carry us through.”
Harper Sercombe
