Ottawa, ON – In Bantam 16U Girls action, provincial nemesis’s Ontario and Québec will face-off in Sunday’s final. Québec, picked up their sixth win in six games on Saturday, has been rolling throughout the tournament led by an offense that has roughed up every pitcher they have faced. Ontario comes into Sunday’s final with a 4-2 record and will look to give everything they have to limit Québec’s offense.
Over in the 15U Boys tournament, Ontario and Nova Scotia will face off in semi-final #1 while Québec and British Columbia will do battle in the other. Ontario finished round-robin play with a 4-0 record and will look to continue their momentum into the medal round.
16U Girls Invitational
Québec 15 Ontario 8
In a preview of Sunday’s final, Québec made sure to show Ontario exactly what they will be facing with a convincing 15-8 win. With Québec leading by one run going into the fifth inning, they took over the game scoring six straight runs to end it. Molly Leclair (Repentigny, QC) was a terror at the plate, recording four hits to go along with three RBI, while Catherin Labelle (St-Jerome, QC) also drove in three runs. Maggy Dalpe (Varennes, QC) also picked up her fourteenth RBI of the tournament.
Ontario’s Jenna Hillman (Tecumseh, ON) has had quite a tournament herself, and continued her dominance in this game by going 3/3 and picking up her eleventh and twelfth RBI.
Newfoundland and Labrador 7 Nova Scotia 1
Newfoundland and Labrador built up a 4-0 lead early and ran away with a 7-1 victory over Nova Scotia. With their finish today, they will be playing in Sunday’s Bronze medal game against British Columbia. Cailey Drover (Upper Island Cove, NL), McKyla Brasil (Mississauga, ON), and Melissa Verge (Titusville, NB) each drove in two runs while Victoria Curran (Mount Pearl, NL) scored three times. Heather Healey (Conception Bay South, NL) was exceptional on the mound with an amazing fourteen strikeouts over seven innings.
Québec 11 British Columbia 4
Even with the loss to Québec, British Columbia was still able to qualify for the Bronze medal game in which they will take on Newfoundland and Labrador. Québec’s blistering offense proved to be too much for BC, who dug themselves into a deep whole early. Courtney Desjardins (Kelowna, BC) had three walks in the loss.
Other scores from Saturday include:
Manitoba 17 British Columbia 11
Ontario 8 Alberta 4
Alberta 4 Newfoundland and Labrador 2
Manitoba 13 Nova Scotia 2
15U Bantam Boys
Québec 16 Prince Edward Island 6
Québec pounded out fifteen hits to score all of their runs as they took care of Prince Edward Island 16-6. Ten different players had at least one RBI, including two from Simon Tremblay (Québec City, QC) who also had three hits and three runs scored. Pierre-Olivier Avoine (Gatineau, QC) was also able to score three times in the victory.
British Columbia 5 Alberta 1
Aiden Mordecai (Cloverdale, BC) struck out eight over six innings to guide British Columbia to the 5-1 win over Alberta. Over on the offensive side, Cole Ensing (North Vancouver, BC) went 2/2 at the plate to go along with two RBI. Ryan Coop (Tofield, AB) drove in the lone run for his team in the losing cause.
Ontario 15 Vaughan 11
Ontario was able to withstand some questionable defense by using their offensive power to defeat host Vaughan by a score of 15-11. Clean-up hitter Adam Yerzy (North York, ON) smacked two doubles and drove in four runs in the high scoring affair, while Connor May (Oshawa, ON) reached base four times and scored twice. Jared Beens (Windsor, ON) had two hits and two RBI in the loss.
Manitoba 7 Nova Scotia 4
Even with the loss, Nova Scotia was able to qualify for one of four semi-final spots. Cameron MacPherson (Canning, BC) will look to continue his hot play at the plate tomorrow as he went a perfect 3/3 in this game with one run scored and one RBI. Chad Kilimnik (Russel, MB) had three hits in Manitoba’s win.
Other scores from Saturday include:
Prince Edward Island 7 New Brunswick 3
British Columbia 10 Québec 3
Newfoundland and Labrador 7 Saskatchewan 6
Reminder: All 16U games can be live streamed through the following link here. Also, be sure to follow live updates on all games for both tournaments through Pointstreak.
