ADELAIDE Bite baseball club will be allowed to play past its curfew during next week’s championship series at Norwood Oval.

Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Council has granted the club an exemption to the curfew to allow lights on until 11pm for the championship series against Perth on Friday to Sunday.

Adelaide Bite general manager Nathan Davison said the games would be broadcast worldwide, including on the Major League Baseball Network in the US, and finishing any of them early because of the curfew would “question the integrity of the sport”.

“Given that playoff games sometimes can go a little bit longer with more people in the ground we worked with the council,” Mr Davison said.

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Glenda Sterling, who owns a 24-hour phone answering business on Woods St next to the oval, would prefer baseball to finish earlier rather than later.

“Some of the girls have absolutely died of fright when a ball hit our shed,” Ms Sterling said.

Three games this year have been cut short because of the curfew.

This weekend’s games start at 7pm.

Adelaide last won the championship, formerly known as the Claxton Shield, in 1980.

Baseball returned to Norwood in 2011 after the Bite agreed to switch off its floodlights by 10.30pm because of neighbours’ concerns.