As has often been the case this season, the Bellingen Brewers were let down by poor fielding on Saturday and were swept by the Woolgoolga Bluesox.
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In B grade, after Braiden Spalding singled and came around to score for the Brewers in the top of the first inning for a 1-0 lead, a two-out error opened the door for Woolgoolga to score three times.
Bellingen scored again in the second inning on Jon Lowe’s two-out single to cut the Bluesox lead to 3-2, but another two-out error by the Brewers led to four more Woolgoolga runs. From that point the Brewers offense stalled as the Bluesox rolled to a 10-3 win.
Bellingen got off to a hot start in A grade, scoring four times in the top of the first. After Cooper Bake-Smith knocked in brother Hunter for the first run with a sacrifice fly on a laser to center field, Jeff Wilson singled in Nik Doves and Terry Booth knocked in Wilson and Matt Erskine. But the lead was shortlived, as the Bluesox answered with five runs, aided by three Brewers errors.
The Brewers retook the lead with two runs in their next at bat, but with one run in, one out and the bases loaded, a “Keystone Cops” base-running blunder ended the inning with just one more run scoring.
The wheels fell off in the second inning, with the Bluesox piling on eight runs with the help of three walks, two hit batsman and three catchable balls that eluded Brewers fielders. From there Woolgoolga hurler Aiden Banks shut Bellingen down as the Bluesox ran out 14-7 winners.
In a walk-filled contest, the junior Brewers continued their winning ways, holding a 16-13 lead over the Allstars when time expired.
The Brewers meet the competition-leading Sawtell Dodgers on Saturday.