Chinese Taipei secured a four-games-all draw in the final game of an eight game series to conclude the 2006 Financial Wealth International Baseball Challenge in Geelong last night

Taiwan third-baseman Yung-Chi Chen led the hitting attack going 3-for-3 with 3-runs batted and Chih-Yao Chan added three hits of his own as part of an 11-hit effort against the Aussie pitching

Australia managed to score only 5-runs despite registering twelve hits - Brad Harman led the team with three of those hits

The Aussies mounted a huge comeback in the top of the ninth inning while down 7-3
Brett Roneberg and Tom Brice hit back-to-back solo homeruns off Po-Hsuan Keng to bring the Ausssies to within two but the comeback fell short when Luke Hughes flied out to end the game

Australia will now play the 2005 Japanese Professional League champions, the Chiba Lotte Marines, for a two-game series beginning tonight at Geelong Baseball Centre (7.30pm EST)

Not even back-to-back home runs by Brett Roneberg and Tom Brice could revive Australia as it lost 7-5 to Chinese Taipei in Geelong last night

The heroics by Roneberg and Brice in the top of the ninth inning wasn't enough to rally Australia, which gave up a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the fifth

After taking a 4-3 lead in the sixth, Chinese Tapei added three more in the seventh to take a matchwinning lead

Chinese Taipei executed much better than Australia, which out-hit the visitors 12-11, but left 12 runners on base
Brad Harman had three hits, while Roneberg, Brice and Matthew Kent each had two

After holding a 4-2 series lead heading into the weekend, Chinese Taipei won the final two games to square the series

Australia plays Chiba Lotte, the 2005 Japan champion, at Geelong tonight at 7.30pm

Chiba Lotte, managed by Bobby Valentine, who took the New York Mets to the 2000 World Series, has held its spring training camp in Geelong over the past week