Adelaide Bite will need its pitchers to keep firing to hold Canberra Cavalry at bay tonight Craig Stem in action for Adelaide Bite. - Photo: Ryan Schembri. THE stats say the Adelaide Bite boast the best pitching ranks in the ABL and manager Brooke Knight knows he'll need them to keep firing against the Canberra Cavalry. Four weeks into the season and the Bite sit atop the ladder - thanks largely to a battery of arms that have kept the scores relatively low. The team ERA (earned run average over nine innings) sits at 4.24, more than half a run better than the second-ranked Cavalry (4.85), the team the Bite takes on in a four-game road series starting tonight. Knight has been pleased with the improvement on the pitching side of things and now wants the bats to catch up. "The numbers reflect that (our pitching is the best in the ABL) and playing in a small park, there's something to be said for that," Knight said. So our mound effort has been pretty good, to me it's still coming back to the offensive side and I think there is still a little bit more in the tank with the bats. We just really need to focus on quality at-bats. Import starting pitchers Craig Stem (1.88 ERA) and Morgan Coombs (2.87) have been leading the way, both ranked among the top eight arms in the league. Stem will take the mound tonight, Coombs will be up on Saturday night with Wilson Lee (game two) and Matt Williams (game four) filling out the rotation. Knight says it means nothing that the Bite, with a 7-5 record, are on top of the ladder at this stage of the season. "It's just so early, the wins and the losses are almost meaningless at the moment," he said. Sure you don't want to be in a hole, that's no fun, but in the same breath you can go from first to fifth in two games right now. At this point we're just looking to continue to clean things up, get a little bit more refined as a team. Leading Bite hitter Tom Brice is expected to return to the line-up after missing a couple of games with a calf injury. Knight knows the Cavalry (6-6), who have won five of their past six games, will provide a big challenge. "They can really pitch, they've got some veteran arms," Knight said. Their elite middle of the order bats put up some runs against a pretty good Perth team, so they're in form and we're going to have to figure out a way to go in there and quiet them down. We got three off them last year on the road, and I'd like to do that again but it's going to be no easy task. We've got to play good baseball.