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Dark clouds threatening a downpour, jackets zipped up tight, wind whipping away at your scorecard: it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the idyllic baseball weather we all hope for, but sometimes you have to battle the elements to enjoy a ballgame.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
The British spring took a turn for the worst in many places on Sunday; less sun cream and shades and more hoodies and gloves.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Single-A: Cambridge avoid the cold<\/strong><\/p>\n It was certainly a chilly Coldham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Common in Cambridge on Sunday, making it preferable for the players to keep moving to keep warm.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n The home town Royals did just that against the Herts Raptors.\u00c2\u00a0 They brought nine batters to the plate in the first inning, twelve in the second and eleven in the third on their way to scoring nineteen runs over those frames.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Cambridge also decided that standing around on the field wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much to their liking either on such a day and made relatively short work of the Herts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 hitters in the top half of each inning, before bringing the game to an early close after the top of the seventh inning.\u00c2\u00a0 The Raptors had a crack at four different Royals pitchers but were unable to get a hit against any of them.\u00c2\u00a0 They did bring three runs* around to avoid the shut-out though and it was to Herts\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 credit that they were still battling hard, and playing in good spirit, in the latter stages when the game was already gone.<\/p>\n (* I should add that the score on the BBF website is 25-2, but I had the Raptors scoring single runs in the fourth, fifth and seventh innings).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n The victory kept Cambridge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s unbeaten start to the season going, an unbeaten start matched in the A South by Southampton Mustangs II.\u00c2\u00a0 They defeated the Old Timers for the second week in succession, this time in a 42-21 run-fest<\/a> in Enfield.\u00c2\u00a0 The Royals and Mustangs II are scheduled to meet in Southampton on 12 June, but both teams will know better than to look too far ahead.\u00c2\u00a0 This Sunday the Royals have a home game against Braintree Rays (2-2), while Southampton are on the road to Guildford Mavericks II (2-2).<\/p>\n Double-A: Latin Boys lead the way, Robots win again, Bucks beat Birmingham<\/strong><\/p>\n Latin Boys made it three wins from three with a 15-13 victory over Kent Mariners (0-3).\u00c2\u00a0 Head Coach Pedro Figueroa brings plenty of colour to his game reports<\/a> and his commentary from this contest suggests that while the Latin Boys are a force to be reckoned with, the Mariners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 0-3 record really doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell the whole story about how they are playing.<\/p>\n The Latin Boys are tied with the Essex Archers at the top of the AA-South Pool A.\u00c2\u00a0 The Archers had scored 51 runs over their first two games and they tacked 32 more onto their season total against the Essex Redbacks II in a 32-6 win.\u00c2\u00a0 Sidewinders (3-0)\u00c2\u00a0remain on top in\u00c2\u00a0Pool B after a 27-16 win over Herts Hawks continued their unbeaten start to the season.<\/p>\n The Bolton Robots of Doom (6-0) are a winning machine at the moment and they blunted the Sheffield Bladerunners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 previously-perfect 2-0 record with a double-header sweep<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The victories give Bolton an early three game lead in the AA-North standings over Sheffield and the Humber Pilots, with those two teams set to meet in Sheffield on Sunday.<\/p>\n Meanwhile in the Midlands<\/a>, the MK Bucks and Birmingham Maple Leafs met at the former\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Woughton Playing Fields in a top-of-the-division double-header.\u00c2\u00a0 The home team edged a close opener 8-3 and then plated five runs in the opening frame of the second game to set up a 12-6 victory and a two-game lead in the standings.\u00c2\u00a0 Nottingham Rebels repeated their two-win trick over Leicester from the previous Sunday, this time winning both games of a double-header against the Blue Sox II team.\u00c2\u00a0 Those wins have turned an 0-4 start into a 4-4 record for the Rebels and it will be interesting to see how they match up against the MK Bucks when they return to action on 5 June.<\/p>\n Triple-A: Halton halt the A’s, Metros are Badgered by Bristol<\/strong><\/p>\n In the AAA-North<\/a>, the Halton Jaguars recovered from a heavy 20-4 defeat in their first game against Manchester A\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to win the second 14-4.\u00c2\u00a0 That gave the Jags their first victory of the season and was also a boost for the division-leading Liverpool Trojans, who saw their closest rivals drop a game.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The Trojans and A\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meet again on Sunday and have a lot to live up to after their excellent double-header a few weeks ago.\u00c2\u00a0 They should be two more exciting games and Bootle Stadium in Liverpool is the place to be on Sunday if you’re in the area.<\/p>\n