Baseball was the winner on the weekend as a combined Japan University Women’s All-Stars team faced off against a Victorian Women’s All-Stars side.
The two teams played five games across the weekend, with the first two on Saturday at Newport and then three matches at Port Melbourne on Sunday.
Despite rain on both days, the sides were able to take to the diamond with the Japanese team taking the series 4-0.
In the first game at Newport on Saturday, the Japanese team won 10-3.
Scores were 3-3 after the first innings before the Japanese side had seven runs in the second innings.
There was a ceremony in between the games with dignitaries from both countries and local MPs and councillors.
In the second game, the Japanese led throughout on the way to a 7-1 win.
Footscray’s Abbey McLellan hit the run for the Victorian team.
The first of the games on Sunday was a 0-0 tie, before the Japanese team won 5-1 in the second game and 6-2 in the third game.
Newport Rams’ Kira Kuwamoto was the run scorer for the Victorian’s in the second game on day two before scoring both runs in the final game as well.
She was one of five Rams players in the team along with Paula Doherty, Ruby Dale and Mackenzie Prentice-Evans.
Coach Dean Anglin was part of the coaching team.
McLellan, who was a player-coach, was the only representative for Footscray.
