A pitchers' duel in Sydney.  Perth gets Trapped.

SYDNEY 1, BRISBANE 0 IN SYDNEY

Twins:  Logan Wade (Brisbane) was 0-for-3.

Brisbane:  Marcus Bradley was 2-for-4.  Ryan Searle (Cubs) pitched seven innings, giving up one run on four hits and one walk with one strikeout.

Sydney:  Guy Edmonds was 1-for-2 with a walk and a home run, his second.  Mitch Dening was 1-for-3 with a double.  Aaron Sookee (Angels) pitched a complete game, allowing three hits and no walks with five strikeouts.

The game:  Edmonds homered to lead off the fifth for the game's only run.  The only time Brisbane got a man into scoring position was in the first, when Bradley led off with a single and was bunted to second.

MELBOURNE 4, PERTH 3 IN PERTH (10 INNINGS)

Melbourne:  Daryl George (Tampa Bay) was 2-for-4 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.  Jarryd Rogers was 1-for-3 with two RBIs.  John Hussey (San Diego) pitched five innings, giving up one run on seven hits and one walk with two strikeouts.

Perth:  Alex Stuart was 2-for-3 with a run.  Brandon Tripp was 2-for-5 with a run.  Cameron Lamb struck out two in 2.1 scoreless innings, allowing one hit and one walk.

The game:  Rogers' two-run single gave Melbourne a 2-0 lead in the second.  Perth scored once in the third on a Tucker Nathans (Baltimore) RBI single, but the score stayed 2-1 until the sixth, when George's double brought home a run to make it 3-1.  Perth tied it in the eighth on a RBI ground out and a run-scoring single by George Barber.  In the tenth, Justin Trapp (Kansas City) brought home what turned out to be the winning run with a single.  Perth put men on first and second with one out in the bottom of the tenth but could not tie the game.

ADELAIDE 7, CANBERRA 3 IN ADELAIDE

Canberra:  Jon Berti (Toronto) was 1-for-5 with a double, scoring once and driving in one.  Michael Wells was 1-for-4 with a double and a run.  Jeff Lyman struck out three in 3.2 innings, giving up two hits and no runs.

Adelaide:  Chris Jacobs (Dodgers) was 2-for-4 with two home runs (his second and third), driving in four.  Joe Sclafani (Houston) was 2-for-4 with a walk and two doubles, driving in two.  Fu-Te Ni struck out five in 3.2 scoreless innings, allowing one hit and one walk.

The game:  Canberra took a 3-0 lead in the second, scoring once on a wild pitch, once on Berti's double, and once on a Shane Opitz (Toronto) single.  That was as good as it got for them.  Adelaide tied it in the third on a three-run homer by Jacobs, took the lead in the fourth on Sclafani's two-run double, and put the game out of reach in the fifth when Jacobs homered again and Dylan Child (Pittsburgh) delivered an RBI single.  Canberra did not threaten to get back into the game.