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.

Anyone interested in taking part please contact Robert Mifsud on robmif@onvol.net

Day 2 - 1st November

Chief Ump.: Giancarlo R.Tolu - 1^st base Ump.: - Silvan Busuttil

On Sunday 1^st November the second softball exhibition game took place at the Marsa baseball

& softball field. This time it was up to the new Devils team to square off against the Mellieha Curves. Weather conditions were once again ideal for the game of softball and the two teams battled it out for the entire 7 innings of the game which took 1 Hour and 30 minutes to complete.

The Mellieha team showed considerable improvement since playing their first game 3 weeks ago however this was not enough to beat a more experienced Devils team. Mellieha took a 1 – 0 lead during the first inning, however in the second and third inning the Devils bats came to live and this enabled the Devils team to take a 10 – 5 lead. This enabled the Devils to settle more into the game and thanks to some good defensive work and constant hitting Devils emerged victorious with the final score of 21 – 13.

On Sunday 8^th November, another exhibition game will be held at Marsa Sports Ground. This game will feature Devils against Mustangs. Game starts at 10.30 am. Anyone interested in taking part please contact Robert Mifsud on robmif@onvol.net.