Southern Cross Challenge softball tournament in Brisbane but his Canterbury Red Hawks team lost the grand final to Queensland.
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Former Canterbury pitcher Craig Gibson helped beat the Canterbury Red Sox in the Southern Cross Challenge men’s softball tournament in Brisbane this week.
Gibson and ex-Australian national team hurler Andrew Blackshaw pitched the Queensland Patriots to a 8-3 win in the grand final on Monday.
Canterbury pitchers Scott Sutherland and Ben Watts shared 17 strikeouts but gave up nine safe hits to the Queensland batters, including a first inning home run by Luke van der Griendt, which laid the platform for the home team.
Red Sox player-coach Tyron Bartorillo, Callum Muir, Carson Cox and Brisbane-based Kiwi Corey Matakatea had the Red Sox’s four safe hits.
Canterbury pulled back a run in the second inning after Muir and Cox collected back-to-back singles. Matakatea hammered a two-run home run with Callum Bishop on base in the third inning. But the Patriots steadily added to their score with Gibson batting in two runs in the sixth inning when the Queenslanders scored four times.
Canterbury beat Queensland 7-6 in the playoff to advance automatically to the final. Bartorillo, a world championship gold medallist with Australia and New Zealand, had three hits at the top of the Red Sox order and Watts swatted a two-base hit.