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Vics head table ahead of SA clash

Posted on December 17, 2008, 6:06pm

South Australia and Victoria Aces will carry vastly different form into this weekend’s historic Claxton Shield baseball clashes in Mount Gambier.

The Mount Gambier Baseball League will host three South Australia v Victoria matches at Blue Lake Sports Park this weekend, starting Friday night at 7pm.

South Australia is yet to taste success from its opening four games, while the Aces head the table with five wins and just one loss.

Now in its 75th year, the Claxton Shield has undergone massive changes in recent times.

Once held as an annual state representative carnival, the Claxton Shield was turned into an international event in the mid 1980s and later became a six state national competition before the introduction of the International Baseball League Australia.

In 1988 the Australian Baseball League assumed responsibility of the shield and an eight team competition was created.

Eleven years later the ABL folded and the Claxton Shield appeared doomed.

But a national competition returned in 2000 and for the last nine years baseball has enjoyed a resurgence around the country.

The Claxton Shield this season is contested by five state representative teams, each of which will play 16 roster games before the finals in January/February.

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