From The Guardian
“Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew”

Host P.E.I. squad suffers five-inning loss to Scarborough at junior fastpitch nationals

JASON SIMMONDS
Transcontinental Media
Tuesday, July 7, 2007

SUMMERSIDE — The Scarborough Wolverines and defending champion Kelly’s Pub Canadians from Newfoundland and Labrador are tied atop the standings of the Canadian junior men’s fast pitch championship.

Both teams sport 3-0 records.

Monday, the Wolverines overcame a 1-0 deficit to defeat the Saint-Leonard Express from Quebec 2-1 in eight innings and blanked the host P.E.I. Source for Sports Twins 10-0 in five innings under the lights.

Scarborough blew the game against P.E.I. (1-1) open with a five-run second inning to open up a 7-0 lead.

“It was a tough result,”said Twins assistant coach Todd Richard. “One big hit put us behind the 8-ball a little farther than we wanted to be early.”

Andrew Putham, who connected for a second-inning grand slam and also tripled, drove in six Scarborough runs and Nick Dambrosio, who also hit a triple, plated three runs.

Winning pitcher Matt Leahy and Greg Dalgarno combined to limit the Twins to three hits. P.E.I. starter Neil Arnold suffered the loss.

Jeremy McKinnon, Mike MacIsaac and D’Arcy LaPierre had the Twins’ hits.

The Canadians received a grand slam from Jon Kane and a three-run blast from Ken Gosse in a seven-run third inning in a 9-2 five-inning victory over Miramichi (N.B.) Vics in the afternoon. In an early-evening matchup of two undefeated teams, the Canadians edged Elmira, Ont., 5-4 in a wild game.

In other games Monday, it was: Elmira 5 Nova Scotia 4 (8 innings); Simcoe 8 Quebec 1; Simcoe 5 Saskatchewan 4; Nova Scotia 11 New Brunswick 2 (6 innings).

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Canadian junior men’s fastpitch at a glance:

Standings –

Kelly’s (N.L.), Scarborough (Ont.), 3-0;
Elmira (Ont.), Simcoe (Ont.), 2-1;
Summerside 1-1;
Saskatoon (Sask.), East Hants (N.S.), 1-2;
Miramichi (N.B.), St-Leonard (Que.), 0-3.

Today’s Games –

12 p.m., Simcoe vs. Summerside;
12:15 p.m., East Hants vs. Scarborough;
2 p.m., Saskatoon vs .Elmira;
4 p.m., Miramichi vs. St-Leonard;
4:15 p.m., Simcoe vs. East Hants;
6 p.m., Summerside vs. Kelly’s;
6:15 p.m., Scarborough vs. Saskatoon;
8 p.m., Elmira vs. St-Leonard.

Website – www.2007jrmensfastpitch.com.

47th Annual Seattle Invitational
Fastpitch Tournament
Fort Dent Sports Complex, August 4-5, 2007

The Comox Valley Cannons from Courtenay, British Columbia defeat Cleons Auto to Win the 47th Seattle Invitational.

The Comox Valley Cannons hung on to defeat Cleons Auto 5 – 3 to win the 47th Annual Seattle Invitational. The Cannons from Courtenay, British Columbia, jumped out to a 2 – 0 lead in the bottom of the third inning on a 2-run home run by the Cannon first baseman Brad Douglas. The Cannons extended their lead to 5 – 0 in the bottom of the 5th inning on 4 consecutive hits. Left fielder, Kyle Law, lead off the inning with a triple. Right fielder, Michael Pohl, followed with a double to drive in Law. Brad Douglas then singled to drive in Pohl. Center fielder Tyler Douglas completed the scoring by driving in his brother Brad. However, Cleons Auto would not give up. In the 7th inning, as the Cannons Joe Robbins (Tournament MV-Pitcher) began to tire and yielded a couple of walks, Cleons Auto came back with 3 runs highlighted by Sean Praven’s 2-run single. Robbins recoved to get the last 3 outs and wrap up the Championship for the Cannons.

The hard fought Championship Game featured each team’s workhorse pitcher. Ryan Divish of Cleons Auto (Tournament All-Star Pitcher) started all 7 of their games in the tournament. Joe Robbins pitched in 5 of the Cannons 6 games. Robbins finished the Championship Game with 12 K’s.

Game 35 (Championship Game)

Cleons Auto (Tacoma, WA) 3 – 4 – 1
Comox Valley Cannons (Courtenay, B.C.) 5 – 5 – 0
WP – Joe Robbins
LP – Ryan Divish

CR/Adidas (Portland, OR) won the Consolation Championship.

All Stars

C – Mike Loder Cleons Auto
1B – Al Khalaf Cleons Auto
2B – Mike Shock Screaming Yaks
3B – Josh Agnew CR/Adidas
SS – Sean Praven Cleons Auto
OF – Tyler Douglas Comox Valley Cannons
OF – Mike Linnane Bodle Chiropractic
OF – Derek Stith Boise Clippers
U – Benny Van Buskirk Cleons Auto
U – Todd Barnes Comox Valley Cannons
P – Ryan Divish Cleons Auto
P – Jim Robinson Screaming Yaks

MVPitcher – Joe Robbins – Comox Valley Cannons
MVPlayer – Matt Friesen – Comox Valley Cannons

SCOREBOARD
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Baytown Hawks Win Their 9th Championship Behind MVP’s Potoliccio and Pena

The Baytown Hawks with the pitching of Juan Potoliccio from (Argentina)and Lalo Escobedo from (Chiguagua,Mexico) won the Latin tournament there was also help from other parts of the world like Mark Santillano (Woodbridge Cali.) Reymundo Parra (Encenada, Mexico) Joe Morales ( El Paso Texas) Rene Solis ( El Paso Texas) Roland Gonzales (Houston Texas) Johnny Villanueva (San Antonio Texas) David Rocha (San Antonio Texas) Mark Parre ( San Antonio Texas) Jr Hernandez (Houston Texas) Daniel (pops ) Garcia (baytown texas) Roo Hinojosa ( Baytown Texas ) Matt Hinojosa (Baytown Texas) and Charlie Pena (Brownsville Texas ) the Coaches Michael (Dub) Garcia, Perry Garcia, Daniel (lalis) Garcia and the great Bebe Garcia led us to the 9th championship

All Tournament Team Selections

Mark Santillano third base
Johnny Villanueva outfield
David Rocha catcher
Lalo Escobedo pitcher
Joe Morales golden glove

Outstanding Pitcher – Juan Potoliccio
Most Valuable Player – Charlie Pena