North Western Titans have exceeded expectations early in the Baseball Victoria summer league regional north-west competition.
The Titans won their first four games of the season.
While on Sunday they suffered their first loss of the season in a top of the table clash with Mitchell Majors, things are still on track.
Speaking before the weekend, Titans coach Nick Conroy said it had been going really well so far.
“We’ve been doing really well and the whole team has put in a lot of hard work,” he said.
“We’ve got a few guys who weren’t sure about playing and said no are now joining the team and are helping us out.”
Conroy said the playing group was buying into his coaching and how he liked to go about things.
He said some of his coaching was a little bit unconventional,
“We’re starting with the basics and fundamentals of baseball,” he said. “How I was taught in America.
“We didn’t have the money so he found other ways for me to learn and pick up the skills.”
Conroy said they had been pleased with the start of the season but knew there would be challenges ahead.
He said they had keen to face Mitchell Majors and weren’t getting ahead of themselves.
While all games were called off on Saturday due to the weather, the Titans were able to get on the park at Macpherson Park on Sunday.
A 5-0 second innings proved the difference in the match, with the Mitchell Majors winning 9-6.
“We’re always striving for the next thing,” Conroy said before the match. “We have a big match up with them on top with us.
“We will size them up and it’ll be a good test of where we’re at.
“We’re realistic that we’ll have a loss at some stage which I think will show us some areas that we have to improve.”
Having not won many games the past few seasons, Conroy said the morale in the group was high and their confidence is growing.
“It makes training and helping people get better even easier.”
Conroy said it had been a strong start for the junior program as well, with a lot of what they were working on at senior level being put into their junior program as well.
“There’s a lot of players hitting a lot of balls and fielding a lot of ground balls.”
The Titans face Fitzroy Blue this Sunday in round six.
