Victoria Traveller's Inn hosted Saskatoon Black Sox in Super Series
Fastpitch action in front of 250 fans at Royal Athletic Park in Victoria
Saturday night. Traveller's Inn improved their record to six wins and no losses by taking both ends of the doubleheader from Saskatoon, 7-2 in the opener, then 9-2 in 5 innings in the nightcap. These two teams play another Super Series twin-bill Sunday morning starting at 11:00 A.M. Traveller's Inn conclude a 3-week home stand next weekend, Friday-Saturday, May 28-29, with a 4-game set against Calgary Diamond Dawgs. Doubleheaders start at 6:30 P.M. each night.

Game 1
                                                   R         H         E
Saskatoon               010 000 1 - 2          5          3
Traveller's Inn       200 005 x - 7          6          0
Bryan Newton(L), Kevin Careless(6) & Mike Gurash.
Rick Smith & Tyler Werbowski.
Home Runs: Sask.: Pat MacKintosh(2).
Umpires: P - Gary Schmidt, B - Scott McLaren.
Time: 1:56 (6:35-8:31 P.M.).
 

Traveller's Inn rode Rick Smith's third strong starting performance to a
7-2 win in the opener of this weekend's 4-game series. Smith threw his third complete-game win of the young season, scattering five hits while striking out 15 batters. Smith has now struck out 45 batters in 24 innings pitched over the last two weekends.  Even more remarkable, Smith has done all this while walking just one batter - and that was an intentional walk issued in the 9th inning of the first game last weekend!

Traveller's Inn took the early lead in the bottom of the 1st inning in this game. SS Zenon Winters drew a leadoff walk, then promptly stole second base, and moved to third base on a groundout. 3B Glenn Ormsby then hit a sharp one-hopper down the third-base line, which was niftily fielded by Saskatoon 3B Jarrod Teichreb. Winters broke for home on contact and was quickly caught in a rundown. However, the throw back to third base was errant, allowing Winters to score and Ormsby to advance to second base.  1B Kevin Bobroske then lined a single to left-centre field to plate Ormsby for a 2-0 lead. Traveller's Inn loaded the bases with two out, but failed to score any more runs this inning. CF Pat MacKintosh cut that lead in half in the top of the 2nd inning, belting a solo home run over the right field fence. Smith and Saskatoon starter Bryan Newton then settled into a nice pitching match-up over the next few innings, although Newton got some special defensive help from Teichreb, who robbed Ormsby his next two times up also. In the bottom of the 3rd inning, Ormsby led off with a pop foul which Teichreb leapt high to grab just before it hit the fence. Then in the bottom of the 5th inning, after Winters had singled and eventually moved around to third base, Ormsby drilled another hot smash just fair down the third-base line. Teichreb dove to his right to snare the ball on a short-hop, slapped the tag on Winters, who had no chance to get back after jumping to his lead, then jumped up and fired across the diamond to complete the inning-ending double play.

Traveller's Inn took advantage of a tiring Newton and a big error to put the game away in the bottom of the 6th inning.  Bobroske led off with his second hit of the game, a single, and CF Jeff Hurford followed with a walk. After a strikeout, Newton hit DP Doug Cain to load the bases, then walked LF Pat Walsh to force in a run. Kevin Careless came on in relief of Newton and immediately got C Tyler Werbowski to bounce sharply back to the mound. Careless fielded the ball cleanly, but threw well wide of first base, and by the time the ball was retrieved three more urns had scored and Werbowski was standing on third base. RF Harvey Stevenson singled to score Werbowski and cap the scoring. Pat MacKintosh led off the top of the 7th inning by drilling his second solo home run of the game, but Smith then struck out the side, around a single by Teichreb, to end the game.
 

Game 2
                                              R         H         E
Saskatoon               110 00 - 2          2          3
Traveller's Inn       213 12 - 9          7          1
Jeff Farion(L), Kevin Careless(3) & Colin Newton.
Collin McKenzie & Brian Banner.
Home Runs: Sask.: Keith MacKintosh.
                     T.I.: Harvey Stevenson, Glenn Ormsby, Jeff Hurford,
Kevin Bobroske.
Umpires: P - Scott McLaren, B - Gary Schmidt.
Time: 1:25 (8:53-10:18 P.M.).
 

Traveller's Inn blasted four home runs and got another solid effort from
starting pitcher Collin McKenzie to post a 9-2, 5-inning victory in the
nightcap. McKenzie posted his third straight complete-game victory at home by tossing a sharp two-hitter, striking out 10, and also not walking a batter. He struck out the last eight batters he faced. Saskatoon grabbed the first lead in this game in the top of the 1st inning
when Keith MacKintosh hammered a two-out solo home run to left-centre field to put his side ahead 1-0. Traveller's Inn tied the game 1-1 in the bottom half of the inning when RF Harvey Stevenson lofted one over the left field fence; they then took the lead when 3B Glenn Ormsby walked, moved up a base on one wild pitch, then raced all the way home from second base on another wild pitch. Saskatoon tied the game at 2-2 in the top of the 2nd inning when McKenzie fielded what should have been an inning-ending groundout but instead threw the ball down the right-field line, allowing Saskatoon LF Troy Gordon to score all the way from first base.