Harper Sercombe
Werribee lost its undefeated record in Baseball Victoria state league firsts losing to a winless Essendon outfit on Sunday.
The Giants lost in a close one 7-6.
The sides last met in round one the Giants took home a 20-7 win and speaking before the clash coach Andrew Christou said he was hoping for more of the same.
“I’m sure they’ll be ready to go, we’re almost halfway through the season now so they’ll be all fired up,” he said.
“When you’re on top everyone is going to play their best against you and try and beat you so we’ve got to be nice and consistent and show up again.”
With the 9-0 start Christou said he is pleased with the way his side has begun the season.
“Sitting on top with two more games left before Christmas, so I’m very happy with how it’s started so far,” he said. “It’s been a good mixture of both offence and defence.”
“We’re the highest scoring team in the league at the moment, so a bit more production on the offensive side has been really good.
“From top to bottom we’ve had good standout performances in each game, it’s kind of been a couple of different guys each week putting their hand up and scoring the runs or knocking them in.
“It’s been a really good team effort to score a bunch of runs each week really helps, takes the pressure off the pitchers, they can give up a couple of runs and still have a lead which is good.”
The Giants currently have scored the most runs in the league with 82, while conceding the least at 35.
“It makes it pretty easy to manage the team when everyone is performing,” Christou said.
“Selection is pretty tough at the moment, our twos are playing pretty well for a young side so there’s a lot of people trying to push up into the ones which is really good.
“But unfortunately for them the ones are also playing pretty well so it’s hard to push anybody down.”
While there is an “injury bug” going around the Giants base at the moment, the Christmas break has arrived at the perfect time for Christou’s side as he begins to dream of premiership glory.
“I’d say [winning the championship is the goal], we need to finish the season as well as we can and take it one game at a time in finals,” he said.
“We’re just trying to get everyone back on the park and everyone should be back after Christmas, we’re kind of crawling to the break.
“But we’ll gear up next year and try to make a big push towards finals.”
The Giants top women’s side had the bye on the weekend.
