Baseball Bats and Buccaneers enjoy clean sweeps

BOTH the Bristol Bats and Bristol Buccaneers completed sweeps on Sunday as the club's four teams won five out of their eight games.

- Richard EVANS

The Bats returned to action at Somerdale Pavilion and pulled off comfortable wins against Taunton Muskets in their BBFAA clash.

In the first game, the Bristol side produced their best display of the season winning 14-1 behind a strong pitching performance from Jake Boyer who struck out nine Muskets over his five innings.

Third baseman Michael Doar was the star with the bat hitting a double and triple as well as driving in three runs.

Infielders Kwan Cheung and Drew Mayhew both had multi-hit games with every Bat player registering a hit against James Carter, the Muskets starting pitcher.

Although game two was a closer affair, the Bats ran out 14-8 winners as their offense exploded late on with 11 runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Declan Meads, Sam Kaiser, Kwan and Doar were in devastating form with 11 hits and nine runs driven in between them. Jake Boyer, playing at shortstop, hit a big triple and then scored on the same play following a Taunton fielding error.

Kwan rounded off a good day for the Bats' pitchers with a complete game performance with four strikeouts.