Singles night in Canberra opens the Australian League season.
CANBERRA 10, MELBOURNE 3 IN CANBERRA
Melbourne: Justin Huber was 1-for-3 with a walk and scored once. Darryl George (Tampa Bay) was 1-for-3 with a walk and scored once.
Canberra: Casey Frawley was 4-for-5 with a run and an RBI. Jeremy Barnes was 3-for-5 with two runs and three RBIs. Brian Grening struck out eight in seven innings, allowing three unearned runs on five hits and one walk.
The game: Melbourne scored tw0 in the second and still led 2-1 after four. Canberra came back with four in the fifth and five in the sixth to take control. Mike Crouse (Toronto) had a two-run single in the fifth and Barnes had a tw0-run single in the sixth.
Random: Fourteen of the fifteen Melbourne hits were singles.