The Adelaide Bite have reached the Australian Baseball League Championships Series. They defeated the Canberra Cavalry 2-1 in the best-of-three playoff series this past weekend. Adelaide won game one 6-4 behind two home runs by Travis Demeritte on Friday.
On Saturday game two got suspended in the first inning and resumed play on Sunday with Canberra prevailing 3-2 and forcing a decisive third match. In the rubber game Adelaide won 9-2 to join the Brisbane Bandits in the finals. Once again Demeritte went deep twice to pace the Bite.
With Adelaide taking on Brisbane in the Championship Series (February 5-7), the 2015/2016 season in the Australian Baseball League ends next weekend. It also will feature a European duel between Bite reliever Loek van Mil from the Netherlands and Brisbane’s designated hitter Donald Lutz from Germany.
FOX Sports and MLB Network are broadcasting the finals live.