HITTING OUT: Toowoomba’s Lewis Codd at the plate during the state softball championship at Kearneys Spring. Kevin Farmer TOOWOOMBA has had to settle for third place for the third year in a row at the Men's State Softball Championship.
Hosting the tournament at Kearneys Spring Sporting Complex couldn't help Toowoomba qualify for the final as the hosts lost 5-3 to Ipswich in the semi-finals.
Ipswich went on to be runner-up as defending champions Redlands Green powered to the finish line after the scores were locked at 3-3 in yesterday's final to win 9-3.
Earlier in the day, Ipswich got out to a 5-0 lead against Toowoomba in the semi-final before the hosts fought back to make a game of it.
Toowoomba coach Scott Cagney said his team managed to get runners on base but couldn't drive them in to reduce the deficit further.
"It was 5-0 at one stage so we really came back. Those things happen," he said.
"Today's game against Ipswich, they got five runs, four in the first inning and one in the second.
"We had a lot of runners on and just couldn't score them. We were one or two hits short of winning the game."
Cagney thought Adam King and Hamish Monkman were two of Toowoomba's better players over the course of the three-day tournament, the first of which was hit by rain on Friday.
There was one Garden City talent that did enjoy victory yesterday though as former Toowoomba player and Australian representative Ryan Merriman played first base for victorious Redlands Green.
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