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

Well, the consensus expected teams have come through the playoffs of their respective leagues in Eastern Ontario.

Kanata Team Easton won the Greater Ottawa League, 3 games to 1 in the best of five over the Stittsville 56ers. Third year in a row as GOFL champs for Easton.

Micksburg Twins won the Upper Ottawa Valley League, 4 games to 2 in the best of seven over the Campbell’s Bay Royals. Second year in a row as UOVMFL champs for Micksburg and 4 out of the last 5.

So now we have Micksburg facing Team Easton in what is scheduled to be a best of three regional final. Micksburg has home field advantage as they edged Team Easton 3-2 in regular season league cross over play. (Hopefully scheduling/weather will allow for a best of three series – up to the captains to schedule the games.)

Dan Konkle vs. Cory Costello – should be some excellent ball.

Adam Brown

In the absence of Alvinston Indians mainstay pitchers Doug Charlton and Brad Young, rookie pitcher Greg Moore, with a little help from Norm Logan, held a potent Glencoe offence to 1 run enabling the Indians to win 3-1 to even the series at two games apiece with Game 5 to be played Wednesday Sept 28 in Alvinston at 8:00 pm.
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Kitchener, ON

KFL resumed it’s Championship series tonight, with the Phoenix Outlaws blanking the Waterloo Classics 3-0

Phoenix Pitcher Mel Ross got the win with a tidy 4 hitter along with 4 strike outs. Don Stebbings got the loss giving up 6 hits and striking out 3.

Phoenix spread out their hits through the order with 6 batters recording singles: Adam Snider, Jeff Hatt, Tim Dubois, Sean Geehan, Joe Siefreid and Travis Murdoch.

Classics were lead by John Sexton with two singles, Keith Woodward and Ben Blackwell each chipped in a single.

With Phoenix now leading the best of 5 series, 2 games to 1, game 4 in the series goes Wed. Sept 28th at Budd Park at 7:00 PM

Game 5 (if necessary) will go the following night at Budd Park at 8:00PM

Rick Boyd

Glencoe Astros defeated Alvinston Indians 4-0 to take a 2-1 lead in their best-of-five semi-final in the St. Thomas & District Fastball League. Game 4 is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 27 at 8 pm.

The Hammer evened up the Waterdown League finals at a game apiece last night by outlasting the Hawks 15- 9.

Brian Lisk pitched the win with relief from Jim Hurst.
Chad Reed took the loss with relief from Dwayne Singer.

Dean Carr hit his 3rd Hr (grand slam) for the Hammer.
Kevin Shewfelt hit a 3 run shot for the Hawks.

The score being what it was, there were numerous highlights and lowlights for both squads, but not enough room here to post all the stats!!

Game 3 takes place Sunday, Sept. 25, 11am at Millgrove Park.

Brian Costie
Hamilton Hawks

Waterdown, ON

The Waterdown League final series began last night at Millgrove Park. Hamilton Hawks took the first game, beating the Waterdown Hammer 9-4.
Dwayne Singer pitched the win for the Hawks, Rod Favreau took the loss, with Brian Lisk in relief. Chris Shewfelt had 4 RBIs with two 2-run HRs, to lead the Hawks. Dean Carr had a 3-3 night, with 2 HRs, 2B, and 3 RBIs for the Hammer.

The series resumes Friday, Sept. 23 at 8pm in Millgrove, with game 3 scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 25, 11am, at Millgrove. Games 4 and 5 are scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 27, 8pm, and Thursday Sept. 29, 8pm, if necesssary.

Brian Costie
Hamilton Hawks

Kitchener, ON

The Kitchener Phoenix Outlaws evened their series with the Waterloo Classics with a 6-4 win on Tuesday night.

Sean Geehan got the win for the Phoenix, coming in in the 4th inning. Geehan gave up 4 hits with 3 K’s. Mel Ross started for the Phoenix giving up 10 hits and recording 2 strikeouts. Jim Schnarr took the loss in giving up 8 hits and striking out 6. Mel Ross and Beatson lead the Phoenix offense with 2 hits apiece while Jodie Schnarr and John Sexton contributed 2 hits each for the Classics.

Game three in the best of 5 goes Thursday Sept 22 at Budd Park at 8:00pm

Rick Boyd
rdboyd at rogers.com

Oshawa. ON

Toronto Champion Indians captured the final spot in the Oshawa City and District Fastball League last night in Sharon, ON where they beat the home town Lake Simcoe Lightning 3 – 2 to sweep the Lightning 2 games to 0.

Tuesday September 20th
Toronto Champion Indians @ Lake Simcoe Lightning
Indians 3
Lightning 2
WP Grant Patterson
LP Rick May

Toronto Champion Indians(2) and the Cobourg Diamond Kings(6) will battle it out for the OCDFL Crown.

Game 1 Wednesday September 28th 8 pm @ Dieppe Park – Toronto

Game 2 Thursday September 29th 8 pm @ Legion Fields – Cobourg

The last three games will be announced once they have been confirmed with Toronto having the home field advantage.

Mal Swift malswift@rogers.com
Oshawa City and District Fastball League – Vice President – Media and Promotion – www.ocdsa.ca
Durham Region Umpire Membership – Vice President
SpinMaster Pitching/Catching School – Head Instructor
Coach – Durham Jack’s Fillin Station Eagles – OCDFL
Assistant Coach – Durham College Women’s Varsity Fastball Team – OCAA
International Softball Congress II (Intermediate Men) – Game Controller/Awards Committee