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Pine Hills moved to the top of the Greater Brisbane League standings on Friday night after downing Ipswich behind an impressive complete game from starter Jeremy Atkinson.

Atkinson struck out 12 across eight innings and surrendered only two unearned runs on five hits in a 9-2 win at James Drysdale Reserve.

Adelaide will host the Australian Women’s Baseball Championship in 2021, for the first time since the tournament’s inception.

West Beach, in the city’s western suburbs, will hold the event from April 2-9.

Wembley got on the WA State League 1 winners list for the first time this season on Wednesday night, downing Perth 4-2 at Perth Harley-Davidson Ballpark.

The Magpies jumped to an early lead and added to it in the third before holding Perth off to open their account at the ninth attempt.

Cronulla continued its impressive start to the New South Wales State Baseball League on Wednesday night, inflicting top-placed Baulkham Hills’ second loss of the campaign.

The Sharks jumped to an 8-0 lead and held the Kookaburras at bay at Blacktown International Sportspark’s diamond two, prevailing 8-5.

Chargeball will become the official umpire partner of Baseball Australia under a new partnership.

Australian owned and operated Chargeball™ will back the umpiring division for at least the next 12 months.

Greenway used a five-run third to break open its NSW Women’s Baseball League clash against Macarthur on Saturday before winning 11-2.

The teams traded early blows before the Giants pulled away with nine unanswered runs at Gilchrist Oval improving to 5-0.

Kevin Clark drove in three runs and Daniel Schmidt allowed one run in seven impressive innings to lead Braves to a 5-1 win over Morley in the WA State League 1 on Sunday.

Clark delivered a two-run single in the third and drove in another run in the fifth after Kieran Chapman had homered to pull the Eagles within two runs at Winnacott Reserve.

Redlands used eight late runs to see off Carina 11-4 in the Greater Brisbane League on Sunday to keep pace with a pack emerging at the top end of the standings.

The Rays fell behind in the top of the seventh but used a three-run bottom of the inning to take the lead before adding insurance with five runs in the eighth as they improved to 10-3.

Blacktown put an end to its five-game New South Wales State Baseball League losing streak with a walk-off 5-4 win over Macarthur at Laybutt Reserve on Sunday.

A groundball from James Yates levelled the score in the bottom of the ninth ahead of Josh Strong’s sacrifice fly bringing home Luke Passmore (walk) to return Workers to the winners’ list.

Victoria Park/Belmont moved back to .500 in the WA State League 1 on Friday night, riding seven shutout innings from Matthew Martin to victory against South Perth.

Martin struck out seven, allowed two hits and surrendered only two walks in a 98-pitch shutout as the Reds prevailed 1-0 at Perth Harley-Davidson Ballpark.