NL clinches double life at JR MEN'S

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Received: 8/9/07 6:52:23 PM 
From:  Patrick Healey <pat_healey21 at hotmail.com> 


Subject:  NL clinches double life at JR MEN'S  


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sending out as i know the Telegram has deadline and the time
diff. also to you CP because you can get it to the TORONTO STAR
or Scarborough area media asap as other games are later due to
the backup from rain yesterday and this morning. Thanks
 
N.L. clinches double life at Junior Men’s ch’ship
BY PAT HEALEY
MEDIA OFFICER
SUMMERSIDE - The Newfoundland and Labrador Kelly’s Pub Canadians
put an exclamation mark on their perfect performance at the 2007
Causeway Bay Softball Canada Junior Men’s fast pitch championship
Thursday night.
The Canadians beat Simcoe Wildcats (Ont 3) 1-0 and then beat
the Scarborough Wolverines 7-3. They were to resume their suspended
game, trailing 2-1 in the bottom of the third, with Saskatchewan
Junior Diamondbacks late Thursday 
Newfoundland and Labrador downed the only other team that could
take first place from them, the Ontario champion Scarborough
Wolverines, 7-3 thanks to a three run top of the seventh.
Brad Ezekiel, who has hit safely in six of 23 at bats driving
in four runs, said it was a relief to get the win and game out
of the way.
"That game was big for us, everyone played well," Ezekiel said.
"When we needed a hit we had someone come through for us."
Canadians coach Ross Crocker said the team held a meeting after
their game Thursday morning, a 1-0 win, after they thought they
hadn’t played well at all.
"We didn’t play well at all this morning and talked about cpoming
out with a better performance tonight," Crocker said. "The players
were all up and everyone did their job to get us the win, led
by Jason Hill’s strong pitching."
Thursday night, Ryan Boland hit a two-run triple with Sean Cleary
and Gary Bruce on second and third. He hit an 0-1 pitch to centerfield
that brought the two runners home and later he scored himself
on a wild pitch.
Cleary (1-1, two runs scored), Brad Ezekiel (2-4, two RBI), Justin
Gill (2-5, run scored, RBI), Steven Pittman (1-1, run scored)
and Stephen Strapp (1-3, RBI) also were tops at the plate.
Brandon Horn (2-3, run scored), Ryan Jaynes (2-3, RBI double),
Nick Dambrosio (2-4) and Andrew Putnam (1-4, run scored, three
strikeouts) had the offensive hits for Scarborough (5-2).
Hill pitched the complete game fanning nine, walking one, giving
up three runs on eight hits.
Matt Leahy suffered the loss, surrendering seven runs on nine
hits, walking four, striking out eight in seven innings of work.
Earlier Thursday, Sean Cleary tossed a complete game, no hitter
striking out 11 in the process as the Kelly’s Pub Canadians of
Newfoundland and Labrador edged Simcoe Wildcats (Ont. 3) 1-0.
The only blemish on Cleary’s game was a batter who reached base
in the fourth inning to break up the perfect game.
Ezekiel (1-2) drove home Mark Lewis (1-3) in the bottom of the
fourth with an RBI single for the game’s only run. Boland, Jon
Kane and Gary Bruce each also had a hit a piece.
Luke Raymer suffered the loss striking out nine while surrendering
just five hits.
Simcoe fell to 2-4 with the loss.
Later Thursday night, the defending champs turned their attention
to rallying from a 2-1 deficit in the bottom of the third against
Saskatchewan Junior Diamondbacks in a game suspended by rain
Wednesday. That game was to be played late Thursday night.
 

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