Courtesy Al Doran

Cobourg Force won the Intermediate Championship on Sunday defeating Alvinston 3-0 in Game 1 to win.

Cobourg Force defeated Ottawa Easton 10-3 in the winners category.

Ottawa Easton then lost to Alvinston Indians, who had defeated the Elmira Cubs in the bottom of the seventh.

Sunday turned out beautiful, some sun and good wind to dry the diamonds out along with some good fastball.

On behalf of Cobourg Legion Minor Softball we want to thank everyone who came out and who followed it on the internet.

We had some visitors to Legion Fields who had never seen the diamonds and were impressed with the facility. As we all know it’s the workers of the facility who make what it is, so we thank them again for their tremendous hard work and dedication over the weekend.

Thanks,
Greg Rylott and Scott Tuttle

Editor’s Note: Wayne Wells of Cobourg will be pitching for Waterdown Hammer next week at the ToC, while Gord Scott and Doug Charlton, who were on the mound for Alvinston will be with Palermo Athletics. One of the biggest questions will be whether or not Corey Costello will be making the trip to Wisconsin with Ottawa Team Easton Thunder. Finishing fourth won’t be enough to satisfy Elmira as they will look to return to the dominating form they showed in Harriston/Palmerston.

Elmira will be in the first Ballpark Radio broadcast on Sunday at 10:30 am central time vs Hoffman Rise while Waterdown will follow at 12:30 pm vs Keating’s Fitness.

SATURDAY scores from the OASA Intermediate eliminations in Cobourg:

courtesy Al Doran

Game #5
Stouffville – 5
Wellington – 2
MVP – Scott Eyre
Winning Pitcher- Jay Nesbitt – 7ip, 5hits, K
Losing Pitcher – Jamie Blakely 5 2/3 – 10 hits, 4K, Kevin Ferguson – 1 2/3, 0Hits, 1K
Highlights – Rich Burkholder – 2B, 1B, Brett Boyd – 2B, 1B
– Bartman – 2B, 1B, R. Brooks- 3B, 1rbi

Game #6
Ottawa Easton – 7 – WP – Jeff Murphy – 5 IP, 1hit, 4K
Alvinston Indians – 0 – LP – John Ferguson – 5 IP, 8H,
MVP – Jeff Seed – 3B, 2B, 2rbi
Highlights – Scott Herriot – Home Run,

Game #7
Cobourg Force – 2
Elmira Cubs – 1
Winning Pitcher – Wayne Wells – 7ip, 1run, 2 hits, 5K
Losing Pitcher – Casey Halstead 7IP, 2runs/4hits, 3K
MVP – Dave Brownhill 2/3, 1B,3B
– Bob Gillow – BB,Sac,1B

Game 8
Colborne – 6
Jarvis Rock – 3
WP – Brad Meldrum 4IP, 4hits
– Ian Knott – 3IP
Highlights – Brad Reid – HR
Greg Bacher – 2 HR,
Wayne Garlough – 2/3, 2 singles
Nica Clarey- 2/4 – 1B,2B

Senior and Intermediate Eliminations
Due to weather conditions games were postponed for 4 hours, games were played at Baltimore and Cobourg at 8:00 pm on Saturday night. The grounds crew in both facilites did a great job, thanks to Neil Cane in Baltimore, and Rory Quigley and Stuart Dafoe for their hard work to get the diamond in playing conditions after the monsoon that rolled through Cobourg and Baltimore.

Games will be played at 10:00 am on Sunday morning, the two division winners, Ottawa Easton and Cobourg Force on one diamond while the 2 second place finishers Alvinston Indians and Elmira Cubs on the other diamond. The second games begin around noon, and 2:00 pm for the final and the if necessary game at 4:00 pm.

Game #9
St. Thomas Cenntennials and Jarvis Gamblers – game was called due to weather conditions, teams will organize a game themselves.

Game 10
Ottawa Easton – 10
Jarvis Rock – 2
WP – Dan Konkle – 5IP, 4 hits, 7K
LP – Dave Martin – 3IP, 4 hits 3K
MVP – Scott Herriot – 2/4, 4 rbi
Highlights – Kevin Chevrier 2/3,
– John Baverstock – 2/2, 1 rbi

Game #11
Elmira – 7
Stouffville – 0
WP – Ryan French – 5IP, 2 hits, 6K
LP – Greg Dalgarno – 4IP, 5K
Highlights – Bob Gillow – 3/4, 2 rbi
– Shawn Betzler – 2/3

Game #12
Alvinston Indians – 4
Colborne – 1
WP – Gord Scott – 5 2/3
Ryan Swift – 1 1/3
LP – Ian Knott – 7 IP, 4 hits, 5K
MVP – Scott Smith – homerun
Ted Maloney – 2/3

Game #13 – Baltimore
Cobourg Force – 8
Wellington – 0
WP – Scott Evans – 5IP, 3 hits, 10K
LP – Will Claus – 4 IP, 5 hits, 6K
MVP – Matt Dasilva – 1B, 2B, 2 runs scored
– Chris Smith – 2 1B’s, 1 run scored

Editor’s Note: The OASA Eliminatins, being held this year in Cobourg, are the final tune-up for many Ontario teams and players heading to the ToC. In action Friday night were #7 Ottawa Team Easton Thunder, and #6 Elmira Cubs, and along with a pair of veteran pitchers who will be suiting up for #8 Keating’s Fitness, Mike Crawford and Dave Martin.

Scores courtesy Al Doran

Game #1 Ottawa 10 Colborne – 4
WP – Dan Bradley – 7ip, 2er, 10K
Lp – Ian Knott – 3 2/3, 7er, 1K
Highlights – Scott Herriot & Jeff Seed Home runs
– MVP Gary Manley 4/4 4 rbi
– Lucas Kamps – 3/4
– Colborne – Nica Clarey 2/4

Game #2 Cobourg 7 and Stouffville 3
WP – Mike Crawford , 6K
LP – Greg Dalgarno
MVP – Dave Brownhill, Craig Buttar 2/4
– Dale Boadway – 2/4, Curtis Reesor – 1/3 Tri.

Game #3 Elmira 7 Wellington 0
WP and MVP – Ryan French
– Graham Baechler – 1/2 – 3rbi
– Matt Rhinghart – 1/2
– Nathan Vadar – 1/2

Game #4 Alviston 6 Jarvis – 0
WP and MVP – Ryan Swift – 7ip, 1 hit, 5K
LP – David Martin 6ip, 3eruns
Highlights – Joe Triest – 2 hits, 2 rbi
– Andy Richardson – 1/4 – 2 rbi

courtesy Al Doran

Editor’s Note: A big THANK YOU to Dennis Dosman for outstanding reporting all weekend long from Hillside Park in Waterloo.

Waterdown Hammer win the Cubs Classic in Waterloo over the home town Bridgeport Braves 6 to 5.

The Hammer took 9 innings to beat the Braves in the championship final. Tied at 3 after 7 innings, and with Anthony Palmieri, on second with the ITB to start the 8th, he was sacrificed to 3rd by Kyle Davis, and then scored on Paul Barron’s single. Trevor Bownhill singled and Chris Smith scored Barron with his FC hit.

Bridgeport opened the bottom of the 8th with Duanne Gee on second (ITB). He scored on a Dan Harris single. Harris was sacrificed to second byJason Hoch. Right fielder Greg de Belleval then singled, followed by a Sam Forbes RBI single to score Harris. Jodie Schnarr walked and with two away Waterdown’s Tim Neil struck out Terry Eaton.

In the 9th, Dave Brownhill started at 2nd, was sacrificed to 3rd by Matt da Silva, and scored by DP John Kemp’s single. Bridgeport,with Eaton on second went 0 for 3 in the bottom of the 9th and the Hammer won the first Elmira Cubs Classic 6 to 5.

#10 Waterdown Hammer 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 6 10 2
#14 Bridgeport Braves 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 5 9 1
WP Tim Neill
LP Fred Follings

Waterdown MVP was John Kemp with a HR, 2 singles and 3 RBIs.
Bridgeport MVP was Ross Herold

There were some defensive classics for the Cubs Classic, in the 4thboth Don Harris of Bridgeport and Anthony Palmieri both 3rd basemen,made excellent line drive catches in their halfs of the inning. In the top of the 5th and the top of the 9th, Jodie Schnarr made two spectacular diving catches for the Braves.

Congratulations to the Waterdown Hammer.

Here are the last two games of pool play played at 9 Sunday

Game 19
Elmira Juniors 6, #4 Oswego CPI 1

Elmira Juniors 1 0 2 0 0 2 1 6 9 1
Oswego CPI 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 8 1
WP Corey Avery
LP Ryan Sharp
Dan Martin of Elmirs Jrs MVP with 2 run home run, and single. BenWideman 2 singles
For CPI Shaun Winship, and Chad Hodkinson two singles each

Game 20
Waterdown 10 Scarborough 1

Scarborough Wolverines Jr. 0 0 0 1 0 1 4 1
Waterdown Hammer 0 9 0 1 10 11 0
WP Wayne Wells
LP Andy Skelton
For Scarborough Brandon Horne a 3B and Blake Underwood a HR
For Waterdown, Anthony Palmieri two singles and Chris Smith a singleand a 2B
Game MVP was Waterdowns Chris Smith with 2 RBIs on a 2 for 3 at bat

That closed pool play with Elmira Juniors and Bridgeport Braves in on top of their pools and Oswego and Waterdown meeting along with Scarborough and the Kitchener Outlaws with the winners to face the top seeded teams.

Game 21
#10 Waterdown 5 #4 CPI 0

Oswego CPI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Waterdown Hammer 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 5 8 0
WP Tim Neil (no hitter)
LP Jason Smith
John Kemp has 2 singles and 2 RBIs and Kyle Davis a HR for the Hammer, Tim Neill was the MVP on the No Hitter

Game 22
Scarborough Wolverines 8 #13 Kitchener Outlaws 3

Scarborough Jr Wolverines 4 0 0 1 0 0 3 8 13 2
Kitchener Outlaws 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 10 0
WP Kevin Buckley
LP Mel Ross
Sean Geehan led the Outlaws with 2 HRs and Brad Hackert and Derek Martin each had 2 singles
For the Wolverines, Brandon Horne, Chad Lowey, Antony Paradiso Richard Colin Thome and Ryan Jaynes each had 2 singles,. Blake Underwood was the MVP for Scarborough with his 3 run HR.

Game 23
Waterdown Hammer 8 , Elmira Jrs 1

Waterdown Hammer 3 2 1 1 1 8 12 2
Elmira Juniors 0 1 0 0 0 1 3 1
WP Wayne Wells
LP Corey Avery
Waterdowns Tim Coe was game MVP , 2 singles and a 3 run HR…4 totalRBIs
Also for Waterdown Matt DaSilva a 2 run HR and Dave Brownhill a 3B and2 singles

Waterdown in Classic final

Game 24
Bridgeport Braves 9 Scarborough Wolverines 3

Scarborough Juniors 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 6 0
Bridgeport Braves 4 0 2 1 1 1 x 9 10 1
Rick Johnson was game MVP for Bridgeport with 4 RBI’s Jodie Schnarr hit a lead off HR for Bridgeport in the 1st inning. Rick Johnson followed 4 players later with a 3 RBI HR of his own. Ross Herald has 2singles.

Bridgeport in the finals agaist Waterdown.

Wonderful weather in Waterloo this weekend for a great ball tournament. The 6 teams in the Tournament of Champions in Wisconsin in two weeks got a great tune up, and the two great Junior teams representing Ontario in the Canadian Junior Men’s CASA championships in Owen Sound tested their bats and pitching against some great senior ball clubs and did not disappoint the fans at Hillside

Next Hillside event is the OASA intermediate championship on labour dayweekend.

Enjoy Wisconsin Braves, Cubs, Outlaws, Hammer, Brewers, and CPI,
Enjoy Owen Sound Elmira and Scarborough Juniors

Congratulations Brad Thomson and the Cubs on a great tournament.