[Alsfastball] Bantam EC's - Scarborough beats Napanee for chship; E.Hants takes bronze over CBSS

[Al Doran]

From: "Patrick Healey" <pat_healey at pei.sympatico.ca>
To: "Al Doran" <aldoran at pmihrm.com>, "Al Doran" <fastball at pmihrm.com>
Subject:  Bantam EC's - Scarborough beats Napanee for chship; E.Hants takes 
bronze over CBSS
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 09:11:27 -0300





Subject: Bantam EC's - Scarborough beats Napanee for chship; E.Hants takes 
bronze over CBSS


Here is the wrapup of the bantam eastern canadians. coming shortly will be 
photos for you to use if you wish. They will be of the awards presentation 
and presenters as well as maybe a team pic and a SCARBOROUGH FANS celebrate 
win pic. Thanks

Pat Healey


Ramoutar pitches Saberwolves to Bantam championship

By Pat Healey

ALBERTON - Many of the Scarborough Saberwolves are going to savour their 
2004 Tignish Credit Union Bantam Boys Eastern Canadian championship - but 
none more then Matt Martinello.

Martinello drove in Wesley Dyck, who reached base on a two-out triple, with 
the game's only run in the third inning as the Saberwolves topped their 
Ontario rivals Napanee Express 1-0 Sunday afternoon at Memorial Park in 
Alberton.

The third basemen is playing with the Wolves after a year of seeing 
teammates from Stouffville win it all last year and not being able to play 
with Stouffville at the Easterns. Martinello was born in Scarborough and 
returned there this year and played a vital role in helping the Wolves to 
their title.

This is the first title for many of the player's who all live in one area 
of Scarborough on two streets that cris-cross.

Playoff Most Valuable Player and round robin top pitcher Chris Ramoutar 
earned his awards by showcasing his great stuff, striking out 10. He got 
the Wolves out of a jam in the fifth inning as Napanee had runners on 
second and third and no out, but Ramoutar struck out three straight batters 
to end the Express' only threat in the game.

Ramoutar helped his cause at the plate going 2-for-3 while Ryan McCluskey 
(2-3) was the other top bat for Scarborough.

"It was an interesting, close game," he said following the win. "I was 
trying to take it one batter at a time. They got a couple hits on and I was 
trying to stay focussed but it was hard."

He added he was happy to see the bats come around, despite the fact they 
scored just one run and missed a golden opportunity in the fourth inning 
with the bases juiced, before Brooks struckout three straight to keep it 1-0.

"Our team came together pretty well," he said. "I knew we were going to 
face two tough pitchers (Brooks and Luc Lahey) in the final.

"It felt good to win, but it felt better to beat Napanee. It was a classic 
game, it was clean there was no trash talking, I didn't expect that at all."

When the Express and Wolves met in the provincials, it resulted in a bench 
clearing brawl which saw a punch thrown by a Napanee coach on a Saberwolve 
player.

Ramoutar and losing pitcher Nick Brooks gave up just 10 hits, with Ramoutar 
allowing just three hits.

"They (the awards) are equally honorable for me," he added. "I like them 
both but I like the top pitcher because that's for the tournament.

"It's nice to know that I was recognized as one of the better ones (playoff 
MVP) that stepped up in the playoff round."

Luc Lahey pitched an inning in relief for the Express, striking out two.

EAST HANTS CLAIMS BRONZE

Adam Day hit a two-run triple in the second as the East Hants High Tide 
coasted to the bronze medal with a 4-0 defeat of the Conception Bay South 
Storm.

The High Tide lost their semifinal game against the Scarborough Saberwolves 
3-0 as a result of a two-run triple by Jamie Wellman.

They looked to head back to Nova Scotia with at least the bronze medal and 
amde sure that the CBS Storm wouldn't be claiming it early and often. 
Conception Bay lost 12-0 to Napanee Express in the other semifinal, setting 
up the bronze medal match.

Day hit a two-out triple to plate Matt Dillman (1-3) and Tim Colbert (0-1, 
walk, run scored) in the second and Colbert shut down the Storm offense to 
pick up the win. Trent MacKiel (2-3, run scored, two RBI) plated Josh 
Connor (0-1, two runs scored) in the first to open the scoring.

For the Storm, Sean Quinlan (2-3) picked up the only two hits Colbert allowed.

Colbert struck out 10 while losing pitcher Andrew Murphy allowed four runs 
on five hits, walking one and fanning five.

WOLVES HAUL IN TOURNEY AWARDS

The Saberwolves not only go back home with the skills competition title and 
the Eastern Canadian title, they also take with them three of the four 
tournament awards.

Jamie Wellman took home the Top Batter award hitting 6-for-7 with an .867 
average and six RBI.

Ramoutar took top pitching honours with a 2-0 record and 0.00 Earned run 
average (ERA) in 10 innings pitched. He allowed just six hits and two runs 
were scored agaiunst him, but as a result of errors and were unearned.

The son of coach Shuckie and team manager Pamela Ramoutar also won the 
Playoff MVP award by leading his team to the championship.

Johnny O'Reilly of the Placentia Lions took honours as the round robin MVP, 
hitting .667 as he went 6-for-9 in the three games his team played during 
round robin. He had a home run and two rbi, while scoring four times.

Next year's tournament is set for Moncton, N.B.

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