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Canadians advance to next level
By PAUL COSTANZO
Times Herald • July 6, 2009

Joe Triest and the Alvinston (Ontario) Indians became pretty comfortable in Port Huron.

In three days, the Indians won six games, including a 4-3 victory against the Ohsweken (Ontario) Redmen on Sunday in the finals of the Quay Street Brewing Co. Blue Water Invitational at Pine Grove Park.

“This was great,” said Triest, who had three hits in the finals. “Anytime we can come to a different country and get treated like this, it’s great.”

With the win, the Indians advance to the International Softball Congress II Tournament as champions, a tournament they won in 2002.

The team failed to qualify for the tournament last year, the first time since they won that had happened.

“It will be fun,” Triest said. “I went last year with another team, but you want to go with your own team.”

Alvinston defeated Alexander’s Stallions 1-0 in the semifinals. Brad Young picked up the shutout in the game, and also picked up the win in the championship game.

He held the Redmen’s bats in check throughout the final, especially after the second inning. Ohsweken jumped out to a 1-0 lead on an RBI double from Robert Bomberry in the first inning. Geoff Bomberry added a home run in the second, which tied the game at 2.

Young allowed five hits the rest of the way and didn’t walk a batter.

One of those hits was a triple by Robert Bomberry, who was driven on a Curtis Cornelius single.

That made the score 4-3 in favor of the Indians, who put together their runs in the second and fifth innings.

Triest drove in two runs with an RBI single in the second. He scored on a passed ball in the fifth, before Jason Hope drove in what would be the winning run later in the inning.

The fifth came with some drama, however, as Triest and Steve Donald had initially scored on a single by Scott Smith. After the umpires discussed the call, however, Smith’s hit was ruled a foul ball, sending the runners back to the bases and drawing the ire of Indians Coach Paul McCart. Both runners eventually would score, however.

Also in that inning, Redmen pitcher Darren Zack was injured and had to leave the game. He was responsible for the two runs that scored.

In the bottom of the seventh inning, the Redmen had their own close play down the third-base line not go in their favor. A line drive was headed foul but the Indians third baseman attempted to make a play on it. The play was immediately ruled foul, but Redmen Coach Darrell Anderson felt it was played in fair territory. Had it been ruled fair, it would have scored the winning run. The Redmen batter eventually flied out to centerfield to end the game.

“That was a tough one to swallow,” Anderson said. “The umpires were a little shaky. You can’t blame the umpires, but that was a tough one to swallow.”

The Redmen defeated Port Huron Lanes Hurricanes in the semifinals, 4-3.

Thomas Hill had the game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Redmen the lead.

In the top half of the inning, Ryan Enright had tied the game with a solo home run for the Hurricanes.

Luke Smith also had a home run in the game for the Hurricanes, while Chris Heinlein had an RBI double to drive in Greg Fowler, who had tripled.

The tournament’s final day drew a good crowd, filling practically all of the bleachers at Pine Grove Park, with several fans watching behind the outfield fence.

“It was amazing,” McCart said. “It was great weather, great hospitality and great fans.

“If I have my way, we’ll be here again.”

WINDUP: Alexander’s Stallions pitcher Dewey Dycke throws against the Alvinston Indians on Sunday at Pine Grove Park. (Times Herald photos by WENDY TORELLO)

QUICK MOVES: Alvinston Indians second baseman Joe Triest puts the tag on Alexander’s Stallions’ Nate Simmons during the Quay Street Brewery Blue Water Invitational tournament Sunday at Pine Grove Park. (Times Herald photos by WENDY TORELLO)

OUT: An Alvinston Indians player puts the tag on the Alexander’s Stallions’ Eric Williamson for an out during tournament semifinal action Sunday morning at Pine Grove Park. (Times Herald photos by WENDY TORELLO)

And, after the jump, pun intended, a companion piece on the tournament from the Times Herald.

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UPDATED
Kitchener Outlaws take the Oswego Qualifier tournament with a 4-3 extra-innings win over NY Gremlins, capturing the available Canada East berth, while Quyon Combat Flyers take the at large berth.

Sunday update
Oswego round robin
Gremlins 4-0
Outlaws 2-2 beat quyon and Kars (Easton) lost to gremlins and cpi
Kars (Easton) 2-2 beat quyon and cpi lost to gremlins and outlaws
Quyon1-3 beat CPI lost to Outlaws, Gremlins and Kars (Easton)
CPI 1-3 beat Outlaws lost to Quyon, Gremlins and Kars (Easton)

Semi finals
Outlaws vs. Kars (Easton)
Gremlins vs. Quyon

Kitchener over Kars (Easton)
WP-Ross LP-Porter

Gremlins over Quyon

Finals
Kitchener Outlaws 4- NY Gremlins 3 (8 innings) final.
WP Ross LP Tracy

Saturday
Via phone from Mike Cutro
CPI finished 1-3, beating Kitchener, but losing to New York 3-1 on Saturday.
New York at 2-0 was playing Kars (Ottawa) who were also 2-0.
Kitchener beat Quyon.
Scores & details later tonight.

Friday July 3
Kars Aces 1 CPI 0
WP-Bradley LP-Winship

Quyon 5 CPI 1 – 8 innings
WP-Hanlon LP-Murphy

Courtesy Paul McCart, Alvinston Indians

On Sat morning the Alvinston Indians defeated Secorys 5-0 with Ryan Swift throwing a 3 hitter with 2 rbis ,Joe Triest had 2 hits as well. In game 2 the Indians defeated the Hurricanes 8-0 in 5 innings with John Ferguson getting the 5 hit shutout with Jason Hope and Ryan Swift each hitting 3-run HRS .The Indians will now play Oshweken Redmen at 7:30 Sat evening .

In Port Huron, in the Bluewater Invitational, the 7:30 pm matchup pitted the Ohsweken Redmen (2-1) against the Alvinston Indians (3-0).

Darren Zack took the mound for Ohsweken, while Ryan Swift toed the rubber for the Indians. It remained a pitcher’s duo, with Ryan Swift escaping a scare in the bottom of the second inning, when Ohsweken had runners on first and second with no one out, but failed to score in the inning.

Alvinston finally touched up Zack for their first hit in the third inning, but they failed to score. However, in the fourth inning, Chris Drew reached second base via a slap hit, and scored on an RBI single by Indians catcher Scott Smith. The next batter for Alvinston, Ryan Swift, then promptly made it 2-0 when he tripled into the gap to score Smith for the game’s second run.

Alvinston would go on to play sound defence en route to a 2-0 win over Ohsweken. Ryan Swift was the winning pitcher for Alvinston, allowing 4 hits, 0 earned runs, and adding 7 strikeouts for the shutout victory. Darren Zack allowed 5 hits, 1 earned run, and struckout 11 for Ohsweken, but suffered the loss. Curtis Cornelius was 3/3 for Ohsweken in the game.

Alvinston will now face the Alexander Stallions in the semi-finals at 9:00am Sunday morning. Ohsweken plays the Port Huron Secory’s at 11:00am in the other semi-final.

This morning, the 9:00am semi-final matchup had the Alexander’s Stallions square off with the Alvinston Indians.

In the opening inning, Joe Triest singled, was sacrificed to second by Steve Donald, and scored on an RBI two-out single by Scott Smith. In the Stallions half of the first inning, Brian Fanion led off with a triple, but was stranded, as Brad Young shut the door on the mound for Alvinston.

Young went the rest of the game for Alvinston allowing only 2 more hits along the way, while striking out 10 to earn the shutout victory, 1-0. Dewey Dyck was the hard luck losing pitcher for the Stallions, allowing 4 hits, while striking out 10.

At 1:00pm on Sunday, the Bluewater Invitational Fastpitch Tournament fans were treated to a great championship game between the Alvinston Indians and Ohsweken Redmen. The game featured Ohsweken’s Darren Zack, while Brad Young took the mound for Alvinston.

Ohsweken jumped out to an early lead in the bottom of the first inning, when Robert Bomberry singled to score Luke Hopkins for the game’s first run. However, in the Alvinston half of the second inning, they managed to count 2 runs. With one out, Ryan Chapman and Scott D. Smith both singled for Alvinston, and then Rob Burns followed with a well placed bunt single to drive in the first run. Then with two out Joe Triest gave the Indians the lead, scoring Scott D. Smith for the go ahead run. But, in the home half of the second inning, Ohsweken’s Geoff Bomberry squared matters hitting a solo blast off of Young to tie the contest at 2’s.

The game remained 2-2 until the top of the fifth inning, when Joe Triest led off with a double for Alvinston, advanced to third when Steve Donald reached base via an error, and then Triest scored on a Darren Zack wild pitch. Zack landed funny with his landing foot, and tweaked his knee and was forced to exit the game, and Lee Hopkins took the mound as his replacement. Hopkins issued Scott Smith a one out walk, and that put runners on first and third for Alvinston with one out. Jason Hope followed with a groundout that was almost a double play, but Hope was able to leg it out, and Donald scored Alvinston’s fourth run in the process.

Ohsweken failed to touch up Indians hurler Brad Young in the fifth, but did make things close in the bottom of the sixth. Robert Bomberry led off with a triple, and Curtis Cornelius followed with an RBI single for the get close run. The Indians escaped further damage however, because of a double play to the end the inning.

With the score now 4-3, and Alvinston failing to score in their half of the seventh inning, it set things up for an interesting last three outs for the fans. Dave Hill led off the inning for Ohsweken with a double, but the Indians defence put away the next two batters, setting the stage for Luke Hopkins. Hopkins hammered a ball to deep centre field, but Kyle Vink was able to reel in the ball on the warning track for the game’s final out, thus preserving Alvinston’s 4-3 lead and ultimately the win.

Brad Young was the winning pitcher for Alvinston, allowing 3 runs, 7 hits, and striking out 4 to earn the imporant win. Darren Zack suffered the loss for Ohsweken.

courtesy Paul McCart, Alvinston Indians
#29 Alvinston Indians defeated the Alexander Stallions Friday night 3-1. Brad Young picked up the win with relief from Ryan Swift. Ryan Chapman had a home run and Joe Triest drove in the other run.

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Storming out of the gate
Before fans could settle into the bleacher seats or their lawn chairs in the outfield at Pine Grove Park, runs were plentiful.


And the offensive show continued through the Quay Street Brewery Blue Water Invitational fastpitch tournament opener Friday night.

The Port Huron Lanes Hurricanes scored six runs in the second inning and never looked back in a 14-8 victory against the Secory Flyers.


“I knew there were 6 to 7 of us who could hit, but we also had a lot of guys with little or no fastpitch experience,” Hurricanes Manager Gary Marinez said. “I was impressed with how we hit the ball.


“If we can continue to hit like that, we’ll be competitive this weekend.”


In the nightcap, the Alvinston (Ontario) Indians defeated Alexander’s Stallions 3-1.

The Hurricanes finished with 10 hits off a pair of Secory pitchers but also took advantage of some control problems (nine walks).


The top two hitters — Doug Kilpatrick and Greg Fowler — connected on solo home runs against the Flyers’ Chris McAuliffe.


HEATER: The Port Huron Lanes Hurricanes’ Chris Heinlein pitches Friday against the Secory Flyers during the Quay Street Brewery Blue Water Invitational. (Times Herald photos by WENDY TORELLO
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UNDERNEATH: Secory Flyers third baseman Adam Hoskins is late with the tag as the Port Huron Lanes Hurricanes outfielder Ryan Enright slides in safely Friday night during the opening game of the Quay Street Brewery Blue Water Invitational at Pine Grove Park. (Times Herald photos by WENDY TORELLO
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TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
 AT PINE GROVE PARK

FRIDAY

Hurricanes 14, Flyers 8

Indians 3, Stallions 1


TODAY

9 a.m.: Redmen vs. 
Hurricanes

9:30: Flyers vs. Indians (Memorial)
10:45: Stallions vs. 
Hurricanes

12:30: Redmen vs. Flyers

2:15: Indians vs. Hurricanes
4:00: Stallions vs. Flyers
5:45: Redmen vs. Stallions

7:30: Redmen vs. Indians

SUNDAY

9 a.m.: Seed 1 vs. Seed 4

11 a.m.: Seed 2 vs. Seed 3

1 p.m.: Championship game

With the last of the qualifiers this weekend, four berths will be available in US East and Canada East.

Canada East
Travel League – 1 berth

Canada East/US East
Oswego, NY – 2 berths

US East
Port Huron, MI – 1 berth

2009 Blue Water Invitational Schedule – updated

Friday 6:30 Secory vs Hurricanes
Friday 8:00 Stallions vs Indians

Saturday 9:00 Redmen vs Hurricanes
Saturday 9:30 Secory vs Indians (Mem)
Saturday 10:45 Stallions vs Hurricanes
Saturday 12:30 Redmen vs Secory
Saturday 2:15 Indians vs Hurricanes
Saturday 4:00 Stallions vs Secory
Saturday 5:45 Redmen vs Stallions
Saturday 7:30 Redmen vs Indians

Sunday 9:00 Seed 1 vs Seed 4
Sunday 11:00 Seed 2 vs Seed 3
Sunday 1:00 Championship Game

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