to Trent Oeltjen, David Rodriguez, Logan Wade and Kevin Padlo. Brisbane claimed the Championship series with a 3–1 win in Game 2. Bandits starting pitcher, Kramer Champlin pitched 7 innings, allowing just one hit and one run. Ryan Searle pitched the final two innings, throwing four strikeouts, to secure back to back Championships for the Brisbane Bandits. 2017-18 season Brisbane finished the regular season in first position with 28 wins and 11 losses. The new four team playoff series meant the Bandits, instead of automatically hosting the Championship series, would host the fourth placed Melbourne Aces in a best-of-three Semi Final series at Holloway Field. Unrelenting rain caused the first two matches to be cancelled, resulting in a winner takes all decider. With the score tied at 8–8 at the bottom of the 9th innings, David Sutherland homered at 2-2 pitch from Jon Kennedy over right-center-field to send the Bandits to their third straight Championship series. Brisbane fell behind in the best-of-three by falling to the Canberra Cavalry at The Fort at MIT Ballpark, 5–1, in Game 1. Cavalry starting pitcher Brian Grening kept the Bandits bats quiet, allowing 5 hits and no runs through 6.2 innings. Returning to Brisbane for Game 2, the Bandits rebounded with a fury, pummeling Canberra, 12–2. Donald Lutz and Chih-Shen Lin both scored homers in the opening innings, with Lin homering again in the 7th innings with a two-run shot. David Sutherland and Andrew Campbell both hit homers in the 2nd innings, with Campbell scoring his second solo home run in the 4th innings. Bandits' Tim Atherton pitched seven innings, allowing three hits and throwing 11 strikeouts. In the decisive Game 3 Bandits' catcher Adam Weisenburger hit a 2 on, 2 out home run off Frank Gailey in the 2nd innings to give Brisbane an early lead. Mitch Nilsson followed up with a 2 out solo home run off in the 6th innings. Gailey then drilled Andrew Campbell and the benches emptied, with Brisbane Bandits Manager Dave Nilsson and Coach Adrian Lamb ejected when the dust settled. After a tense final three innings with Canberra scoring singles in the top of 7th and 8th, Ryan Searle pitched the final 1.2 innings. He got Cameron Warner to dribble a grounder toward third baseman Lin, who fired to Sutherland at first for the final out as Brisbane claimed their third successive Australian Baseball League Championship. Tim