A big day for Trent Oeltjen.  A Tripp-el double gives Perth the early lead.

SYDNEY 5, CANBERRA 2 IN SYDNEY

Canberra:  Jon Berti (Toronto) was 2-for-4 with a home run.  Casey Frawley was 2-for-4 with a triple and a run.

Sydney:  Trent Oeltjen was 2-for-3 with a walk, a triple, and a home run (his second), driving in three.  Jacob May (White Sox) was 2-for-4 with a triple and a run.  Craig Anderson pitched seven innings, allowing one run on five hits and two walks with six strikeouts.

The game:  Oeltjen hit a two-run homer in the first to give Sydney a 2-0 lead.  Berti homered for Canberra in the third to make it 2-1, but Sydney got two more in the fifth on a balk and an Oeltjen triple.  Canberra did not get the tying run up to bat.

PERTH 8, ADELAIDE 1 IN ADELAIDE

Perth:  Joey Wong was 4-for-5 with a double, scoring  twice and driving in two.  Brandon Tripp was 3-for-4 with a walk and a double, scoring once and driving in two.  Anthony Claggett pitched six innings, giving up one run on five hits and four walks with four strikeouts.

Adelaide:  Jeremy Cresswell was 2-for-4 with a double.  Blake Holovach (Seattle) struck out six in five innings, allowing two runs on six hits and two walks.

The game:  It was close for a while.  Tripp hit a two-run double to give Perth a 2-0 lead in the first, but Adelaide scored one in the second on an error.  It stayed 2-1 until the sixth, when Perth scored three times, two of them on a two-out double by Wong.  Perth added three in the ninth to put a ribbon on it.