Tara Murray
The Werribee Giants are on the board in the Baseball Victoria summer league premier 1st nine competition.
The Giants have been competitive for most part in their first season back in the top flight without getting across the line.
That changed on Tuesday night in the first of the midweek games, when the Giants accounted for Geelong, 4-2.
Giants coach Andrew Christou said it was a good feeling to finally get that win on the board.
“It was very exciting and everyone was really happy,” he said. “We felt like it was a long time coming.
“Everyone was excited to get that first one.”
The Giants played a few midweek games last season, but nothing to the volume of the 12 they will play this season.
Christou said the biggest challenge was managing their pitchers and availability as they tried to get the results they were after.
He said the match against Geelong was a good game.
The Giants took the lead in the fourth innings with two runs before scoring another two in the fifth innings to get out to a 4-2 lead which would be the final score.
Addison Bishop-Worn, Christou, Levi Packer and Wade Balzer were the run scorers for the Giants.
“It was a well played game by both teams,” Christou said. “We were happy to be in front at the end.”
Christou said they were hoping this would be the start of some more wins this season.
“We’ve been competitive in games so far, it’s about being able to learn how to win one.
“Now that’s done, we want to build on that.”
The Giants will be back in action on Saturday, taking on Sandringham at Presidents Park at 4pm.
Sandringham has two wins for the season.
“It should be another good game,” Christou said. “They have similar results to us and we are expecting a competitive game and we’ll do our best to try and win.”
The Giants women’s state team is also at home on Saturday before the men.
They play the South East Warriors from 1.30pm.
