Stingers
Eliminated From OBA's. August 30 Like two fighters trading punches till one goes down The Stingers came up on the short end to Georgetown 10-8. Only able to hold The Eagles scoreless in 1 inning we took a 1 run lead into the 6th. Unable to add any insurance, Georgetown struck for 3 in the bottom half and that was all they would need to end The Stingers season.
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Stingers Lose Heartbreaker In Extra Innings. August 30 The Stingers fell behind 6-1 to Cambridge after 4 innings but were able to claw back and tie the game in the 7th. However Cambridge scored in the bottom of the 8th to take the game 7-6. A couple of costly errors and leaving too many men on base hurt our chances of winning yet again. With our first loss we go on to face Georgetown in a do or die game.
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Stingers Shut-out Twins In OBA Opener. August 29 An outstanding pitching performance by Sammy, who went six innings, allowed only two hits and no runs in the 5-0 win. He faced only 18 batters the minimum possible in six innings. The one batter he pitched to in the seventh got their second hit and he was pulled due to pitch count. Luc then sat them down in order leaving their only stranded baserunner of the game. David had a great game at the plate. Going 3 for 4, with 3 runs scored and an RBI. Sean was 2 for 3, and had 2 RBI's, and Steven T. was 2 for 2, with 2 RBI's and a walk.
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Majors Give Stingers Early
Exit In CNE Tournament. August 19
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Titans Take Title. August 13
The
Stingers quest to repeat as City Champs was not to be. Three errors that
each resulted in an unearned run and eight men left on base were the
difference as The Stingers fell to The Etobicoke Titans 4-1. Ice cold
bats resulted in only five hits. The Titans only had five as well but
got them when they needed them. Good job to Adam and Patrick for getting
four of our five hits with two each. Hopefully our hitting will come to
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Bulldogs Have Bite, Force
Extra Innings. August 10
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Titans Take Rain Soaked Game. August 9
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Stingers Cruise To Victory Over Bulldogs. August 7
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Stingers Defeat Twins To Advance To Hamilton Final. August 6 In a game that went to an extra frame the Stingers were able to beat the Twins 8-7 to face North York in the rain delayed tournament final. Luc pitched a strong start holding them to one run over five innings as we built a 7-1 lead. But the tough squad from Mississauga wasn't prepared to lay down and struck for 6 in the bottom of the sixth to tie it. In the top of the eight Steven H. got a lead off walk, stole his way to third and with two out, Patrick singled him home for the winning run. Steven T pitched two hitless innings in the seventh and eighth to close out the game.
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Congratulations Windsor Stars August 3
The Windsor Stars defeated Richmond Hill 3-0 to win the Peewee Elimination Tourn ament. They will now represent Ontario at the Canadian Championships in Vaughan.
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Stingers Go Down In Flames To Phoenix In Game 4. August 2 Not much can be said about this one as Richmond Hill mercy ruled us to knock us out of the Elimination Tournament.
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Stingers Stay Alive With Victory Over Waterloo. August 2 Taking home for the first time since forever, the Stingers jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first. Only to be erased as Waterloo tied it in the top of the second. A sixth inning run explosion broke a close game wide open. With the score 6-5 the bats came to life big time as we stung Waterloo for seven in the bottom half of the inning.
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Tigers Show Claws In Last Inning Victory August 1 Runs seem hard to come by so far this tournament. In another pitching and defense showdown versus the Mississauga North Tigers. Sammy Brown and Luc Wiebe pitched great, limiting the Tigers to only six hits. Tiger pitching however held us to only four hits. The turning point may have been when in the 6th inning with the score 1-1, we loaded the bases with two out and were held from scoring. We left five runners on base to the Tigers two. The game remained tied till the bottom of the seventh. With one out and runners on first and third they scored the winning run while we had the runner on first in a run-down.
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Whitby Peewee Eliminations Tournament. August 1 Stingers Take Game One 3-0. Thanks to shut-out pitching by Trevor Whitaker and Steven Tierney, and timely hits by Steven Harland, Trevor, and David Rahikka. We were able to scratch out the win against the much improved West Toronto Wildcats. In fact they got our only hits in this hard fought pitchers duel. Colin Edwards also walked twice and scored what would be the winning run. Fielding was excellent for both teams with West Toronto committing the only error, a dropped third strike on Josh Williams who reached first and got the RBI when Trevor scored on the play. Steven T would have also scored but was called out on coaches interference. We'll have to show Frank where the coaches box is......just kidding Frank.
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Stingers better Badgers in Hamilton July 18
Propelled by a 3 homerun performance the Stingers pounded the London
Badgers 27-1 in game one of the tournament. Sean Ratcliffe hit a
solo dinger, Trevor Whitaker had a 2 run shot, and Josh Williams
wailed a grand-slam. Steven Harland and Sammy Brown both had 2 RBI
triples.
Game two was a real pitchers duel against Richmond Hill. Luc Wiebe
and Steven Tierney both had strong outings. Unfortunately so did the
RH pitchers as we lost 3-1.
Not long after, the skies opened up and our third game against Oakville was postponed till Sunday. With still more rain in the morning our game kept getting pushed back. Finally Oakville said enough and forfeited the game. That win gave us the Wildcard spot against Miss. Twins, to be played at a later date as it never really did stop raining.
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Stingers place second in Gatineau, Quebec tournament. July 6
After a hot and hard fought tournament,
the Stingers were out of gas when they faced Whitby in the
championship. Finishing with a 4-2 record including a win against
arch rival Richmond Hill which sent them packing. Our only two
losescame at the hands of three time ranking Provincial Champs
Whitby. Once in the preliminary round 8-5 and again in the finals
10-0. Good job to all the boys on a well played tournament.
After a hot and hard fought tournament, the Stingers were out of gas when they faced Whitby in the championship. Finishing with a 4-2 record including a win against arch rival Richmond Hill which sent them packing. Our only two loses came at the hands of three time ranking Provincial Champs Whitby. Once in the preliminary round 8-5 and again in the finals 10-0. Good job to all the boys on a well played tournament.
Congratulations to David Rahikka on winning the tournament MVP.
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East
York was our equal in everything but runs, (the important one) in an
exciting and sometimes scary victory for The Stingers. Taking a 3-1 lead
into the bottom of the seventh, The Bulldogs were able to tie it and
send the game into extras. Great job to Adam who knocked in a run in the
sixth on a sac fly and with two out in the top of the eighth hit a
double to score Trevor from second for the winning run. Adam you get my
MVP of today's game. But these dogs weren't about to put their tails
between their legs and go home. In the bottom of the eighth, with two
out and runners on second and third, Coach Frank intentionally walked
one of their heavy hitters to load the bases. The next batter worked the
count to full while fouling off three pitches. Then with the runners
going on the pitch Luc got the called third strike to end the game. Now
we wait to see whose next.
The
Stingers were handed their first loss of the TBA's by Etobicoke in a
close 5-3 game. The Titans got hits in every inning for a total of
thirteen and struck for four runs in the third that turned out to be all
they would need. Our bats went cold as we only managed five hits and
stranded six base-runners. The loss sets up a re-match against East York
who beat The Wildcats knocking them out of the tournament.
In
the opening game of the TBA Championships the Stingers scored runs in
all but the second inning to win 8-2. Trevor and Sammy combined for
strong pitching, allowing only one run each and limiting East York to
five hits. It was an all around team victory. With the win we go on to
face Etobicoke Saturday morning.
