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.