Continued improvement from the Spitfires

The Exeter Spitfires have continued to improve as their inaugural season in the South West Baseball League is approaching the finish. The Spitfires took on the Torbay Barons for a double header recently at Chadwick Field. The Spitfires, behind good pitching and some excellent hitting, including the first home runs for the club, managed to win both games.

In a back and forth battle in the opening game the Spitfires eventually came through 23-18 winners. In game two, after initially allowing the Barons to jump into an 8-0 lead, the Spitfires fought back strongly for a convincing 29-11 win.

In their most recent game on Sunday the Spitfires were presented with a very different challenge as they faced the unbeaten league champions, the Plymouth Mariners. Despite suffering a 24-2 loss in this game the Spitfires showed much improvement from their opening day 33-0 loss to the same team.

There are now only two games remaining for the Spitfires this season as they travel to Torbay to face the Barons on 1 September and then face the Mariners again at home two weeks later.

Training continues at Chadwick Field at St. Luke's Sports College on Monday and Thursday evenings at 6.30pm. As always, new players are welcome for these last few sessions of the season.

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