Bellarine Bears walked away from grand final weekend with two Geelong Baseball Association premierships.
The Wallington based club won both the A Grade and A Reserve grades.
The Bears won their last and only A Grade premiership in 1995, with several runners up in the subsequent 24 years.
Under new coach Lewis Weldon the Bears had an emphatic win, 15-7 over the East Belmont Saints.
Bears starting pitcher and game MVP Lachlan Hockey threw five innings giving up no earned runs to the Saints.
Supported by Simon Murry, who played in both the Bears premierships, fittingly closed out the last four innings after announcing he would be hanging up the cleats.
Bears’ offence was on fire with 20 hits spread across all nine of the starting line-up, scoring in all but one inning.
Wayne Visser, Lewis Weldon, Lachlan Stott and Simon Murry had three RBIs (enabling other runners to get home), two to Cameron Brown and one to Kris Kieffel.
Dan Stott also had a great day with four hits from four at bats.
A-Reserve, which won the 2018 premiership, injected a very youthful infield into the side under coach Wayne Visser.
Their opponents, Guild Lions, had not lost any of their previous encounters with the Bears this season but the club’s faith in the younger team was rewarded with a strong 6-2 win in perfect conditions at the baseball centre.
Starting pitcher Matt Sage and reliever Josh Crotty threw four innings each and conceded just one run each with the Bears solid defence again on show.
Strong hitting across the line-up was a feature of the win, with Chris Hockey having another great day with the bat after missing a lot of the season with injury.
