Last night’s result in Cobourg – Legion Fields

Toronto Indians 9
Cobourg Diamond Kings 0

WP Grant Patterson
LP Wayne Wells

James Murchison (Toronto) 2 HR, 4 RBI

Series is tied at 1 game each.

Game 3 will be Thursday Oct 7 at Dieppe Park at 8 pm. Games 4 and “if necessary” game 5 are yet to be scheduled.

Mal Swift

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Promotion – www.ocdsa.ca
Durham Region Umpire Membership – Vice President
SpinMaster Pitching/Catching School – Head Instructor
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Union wins title in dramatic style

Wednesday October 05, 2005
Rob Ross
By Rob Ross
Times-Journal
FINGAL — Don’t invite the Union Storm to the Valentine’s Day party. They’re heartbreakers.
For the second time in three games, the Storm won in the bottom of the seventh inning for a sweep of the Glencoe Astros in the St. Thomas and District Fastball League championship Tuesday.
Kevin Lynch scored the winning run on a bases loaded, two out walk to Mark Coleman for a 6-5 comeback win during a foggy night Tuesday.
Union trailed 5-2 before tying the game in the bottom of the sixth inning on a RBI single by Troy Rick and Chris Wismer’s two-out, two-run single.
After two outs, the Storm loaded the bases for Coleman in the seventh against Astros pitcher Shaun Winship.
“I like to be patient in that situation,” Coleman said. “Coming down to one pitch you want it to be one you can put a good swing on. Really the pressure wasn’t on me. The pressure is on him.”
Coleman had three balls go by him before he took two strikes. The sixth pitch was high and outside.
“That wasn’t close. I had to let it go,” Coleman said. “Maybe a little anticlimactic. You really want to come up and knock one out of the ball park or hit a line drive to score that winning run but a walk is just as good as a base hit.”
Pitcher Dan Beecroft took the win. He allowed five runs, eight hits and two walks while striking out 11 batters.
“I appreciate any night the offence can bail me out,” Beecroft said. “Three pitches didn’t hit the spot where I wanted to and (Glencoe) made me pay every time.”
Glencoe led 4-0 after two innings on a pair of two-run home runs from Brett Neal and Bill Pisorowski.
Lynch cut the lead in half with his two-run liner over the fence in the fourth inning.
Rick Galbraith appeared to have given the Astros a little more insurance with a solo home run in the top of the sixth.
“We had them on the ropes and let it slip away,“ player-manager Tim Stover said. “(Union) is too good a team and they don’t give up. “
The Astros had the bases loaded in their half of the seventh when Ryan Wolfe was given an intentional walk but Beecroft ended the threat, striking out Neal.
Winship was handed the loss. He gave up six runs, seven hits and four walks. He struck out three.
Rick finished two for three and Lynch scored two runs.
Ron Pazitka and Pisorowski each had two hits for the Astros.
This is the Storm’s first league championship since 2001 after losing in the final in 2002 and 2003.

Micksburg 4 Team Easton 0

WP: Corey Costello – 7IP – 0R – 0H – 14K – 0BB – faced 22 batters. No hitter – one baserunner reached on an error.
LP: Dan Konkle – 7IP – 4R – 5H – 14K – 1BB – 1HBP

On a night that seemed more like August than October, the Micksburg Twins defeated Team Easton by a score of 4-0 in Stittsville.

The Twins got on the scoreboard in the top of the first. Lead off hitter Barry McIntyre was hit by a pitch. Jerry McIntyre sacrificed his brother to third and Corey Costello hit an RBI single to get the Twins up 1-0.

In the bottom of the first, with two out, Easton catcher Todd Fraser hit a long off hand fly ball that looked like it had potential for a home run. However, it only reached the warning track, and the Twins still led 1-0.

In the fourth, Corey Costello led off the inning by hitting a large solo homerun. Jamey Mick then got on base with a walk, but was stranded there. Micksburg led 2-0 after three and a half innings.

In the bottom of the fourth, Team Easton got their first (and it would turn out to be only) base runner of the game. Kevin Chevrier reached on an error when first base was left uncovered in a comeback dribbler to the pitcher. Chevrier got to second on a ground out, then stole third, but was stranded there as Randy Peck grounded to first to end the inning.

In the top of the seventh, Micksburg scored two insurance runs. Brad Steege led off with a single, was sacrificed to second by Kerr Childerhose, and was brought in on a Joran Graham single. With two out, Wayne Ready hit another single to score Graham to push the Twins lead to 4-0.

Corey Costello threw a no-hitter, facing only 22 batters and struck out 14. Dan Konkle only gave up five hits, and also struck out 14, including striking out the side in the second and sixth innings.

The next game will be up in Micksburg on Friday October 7, at 8PM, and if the weather cooperates, a large crowd is expected.

Adam Brown

Union Storm took control of the St. Thomas league final Sunday night with a 5-1 victory over Glencoe Astors. Ryan Cummings threw a 2 hitter, striking out 11 in his 1st playoff start of 2005. The offense exploded for 4 runs in the top of the 3rd on a bases loaded triple from Chris Wismer and a RBI single from Mark Coleman. Kevin Lynch added a RBI single in the 4th to round out the scoring.

Game three is Tuesday Oct 4th at 8:00pm in Fingal.

http://www.unionstormfastball.com/
http://www.glencoeastros.ca/

FINGAL, ON

The Union Storm scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 7th inning to erase a 2 run deficit to take Game 1 of the best of 5 Final by a score of 5-4. Glencoe took a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the 7th only to see Union’s Aaron Gould hit a game tying 2 run homerun, then Tex Lessard hit a single and Kevin Lynch smacked a double which scored the winning run. Dan Beecroft pitched the complete game for the Storm. Shaun Winship took the loss for the Astros. Shaun Winship, Ryan Wolfe and Kyle Mitchell all homered for Glencoe, while Chris Payne also homered for Union. Game 2 of the Finals will be played tonight in Glencoe at 7:30pm.

The Waterdown Hammer took home the Waterdown Championship last night, winning 9-4 over the Hamilton Hawks. They broke open a tight game with a bunch of runs in the 6th inning.

Brian Lisk got the win for the Hammer.
Dwayne Singer took the loss for the Hawks.

Dean Carr, Joe Reeves, and Kyle Davis each got a couple of ribbies for the Hammer.

Dwayne Singer hit a 2 run shot for the Hawks.

Congratulations to the Hammer on a well played series, as well as having a fine season overall. Good job fellas.

Brian Costie
Hamilton Hawks

Looks like the dates are set for the Eastern Ontario Regional Final – times are subject to change but I think this will be it:

Game 1: Tuesday Oct 4, 8PM Micksburg at Team Easton (in Stittsville)

Game 2: Friday Oct 7, 8PM Team Easton at Micksburg

Should be some great ball, if you are in the area, c’mon out.

If the teams split the games, I believe they are going to have a sudden death “mini-game” immediately following game 2; i.e. first team to have a lead after a complete inning is the champ.

Adam Brown

Thursday September 29, 2005

The Glencoe Astros’ long ball made short work of the Alvinston Indians as the defending champions routed the host 11-0 Wednesday in decisive game five of the St. Thomas and District Fastball League semifinal.

Tim Stover, Kyle Mitchell, Brett Neal and Shawn Winship all hit home runs. Stover also had a two-run single in the third inning and Rich Galbraith went three-for-three. Winship was the winning pitcher while Greg Moore took the loss for the Indians.

Glencoe meets the Union Storm in the STDFL championship starting Friday in Fingal at 8 p.m.

The complete schedule for the best of 5 Final is:

Friday Sept. 30th 8:00pm in Fingal
Sunday Oct. 2nd 7:30pm in Glencoe
Tuesday Oct 4th 8:00pm in Fingal
Thursday Oct 6th 8:00pm in Glencoe (if Nec)
Friday Oct 7th 8:00pm in FIngal (if Nec)

Both teams have web sites that are usually updated after games:

Union – www.unionstormfastball.com
Glencoe – www.glencoeastros.ca

Toronto, ON

Oshawa City & District Fastball League

Final Series
Game #1
Cobourg Diamond Kings 1 Toronto Champion Indians 0

WP Wayne Wells
LP Grant Patterson

Sylvia Ryan
sylvia.ryan at rogers.com

Kitchener, ON

Phoenix Outlaws defeated the Waterloo Classics 5-1 in winning the best of 5 Championship Series 3 games to 1 to claim the KFL championship.

The Classics started out on the right foot by scoring their only run in the first inning, and the game stayed at 1-0 until the Phoenix exploded for 4 runs in the 4th inning. Phoenix then added one more run in the 6th.

Mel Ross, once again, got the win for the Phoenix giving up 7 hits and recording 5 strike outs, in his 3rd win of the series.

Peter Spitzig started the game for the Classics and took the loss. Spitzig gave up 4 runs on 7 hits and 2k, before being relieved by Don Stebbing, who gave up 1 run on 3 hits and no strike outs.

The Phoenix were led by Richie Gordon who went 2 for 3 at the plate along with Jim Culling and Sean Geehan who chipped in a couple hits each.

John Sexton once again lead the Classics going 3 for 4 in the game.

On behalf of both teams I would like to say thanks to Trevor Botting and the rest of the executive of the KFL for another fine year and the many hours spent putting the league together.

Hope you all winter well, and return for another year of Fastball in the spring.

Rick Boyd
rdboyd@rogers.com

Waterdown, ON

In stark contrast to game 2 which had 24 runs and took nearly three hours to play, game 3 was won 3-1 by the Hammer to take a 2 games to 1 lead over the Hawks. This game took, ohhh, about an hour and half less time than game 2 to complete!

Rod Favreau got the win for Hammer

Chad Reed took the loss for the Hawks

Hammer: Joe Reeves 1/3, HR, Dave Kingdon 2/3, RBI
Hawks: Kevin Shewfelt 2/3, 3B, HR

Game 4 goes Thursday Sept 29 at 8pm in Millgrove.

Brian Costie
Hamilton Hawks