Kentville Wildcats

WINS: Mark Haverstock H 7; Matt MacDonald D 6; Cameron Marling D 6. 

Ks:  Matt MacDonald D 62; Cameron Marling D 62; Brandon MacKinnon H 36; Codey Shrider K 34; Mark Haverstock H 30; Jeff Reeves D 29.   

ERA: Matt MacDonald D 1.51;  John Chapman T 2.22; Mark Haverstock H 2.40; Cameron Marling D 2.47; Paul Doucette s 2.53; Guy Pellerine T 2.65. 

INNINGS  PITCHED : Mark Haverstock H 60; Cameron Marling D 51; Matt MacDonald D 41.2; John Chapman T 40.2; Paul Doucette S 39; Shane Conrad K 35.1; Joey Cavadini H 35.1; Josh Fushtey T 33.1; Craig Fields H 31.    

SAVES: Joey Cavadini H 4; John Chapman T 3; Jeff Reeves D 3. 

Visiting Battery: Craig Field(L), Jordon Pelham and Shawn Walsh

Home Battery: John Chapman(W) and Nick Best

Visiting Highlights

Jake Pelham HR

Paul Davie Double, Single

Home Highlights

Dan Bates Double

Matt Mingo Single GWRBI

Adam Lombard Single 2 RBI

The game was called in the bottom of the 8th after a collision at the plate which caused both benches to clear.

Game 1

 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 R   H   E

Sydney      0  0   0   0   0   1   0   0   0 1    7   0

Halifax  1   0   3   0   0   0   0   0   0 4    6   2

Winning Pitcher: Mark Haverstock

Losing Pitcher: Justin Brewwer

Sydney Highlights

Duncan MacDougal: two singles

Chris Farrow: single

Cory Christie: single

Halifax Highlights

Pat Gilbert: two doubles

Adam Lucas: single, two RBI

Jake Pelham: double, RBI

Game 2

1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9 R   H   E 

Sydney 0   0   1   0   0   1   0   0   1 2   11   1

Halifax 1   0   3   0   0   0   0   0   x 5    8   0

Winning Pitcher: Joey Cavadini

Losing Pitcher: Nate Brewer

Sydney Highlights

Duncan MacDougal: two singles

Phil Brown: single

Robbie Biron: single

Halifax Highlights

Jake Pelham: two singles, RBI

Josh Pelham: two singles

Shawn Walsh: double, two RBI

Sydney: Anthony Iannetti(L) and Matt Denney

Halifax: Brandon MacKinnon, David Keeping (6), Mark Haverstock (7, W), Joey Cavadini (9,S) and Shawn Walsh

Sydney:

Corey Christie: two singles, two RBI

Matt Denney: two RBI

Justin Brewer: single, RBI

Halifax:

Adam Lucas: double, two singles, four RBI

Jake Pelham: double, single, RBI

Josh Pelham: single, GWRBI

Brandon Devlin: double, single

Ryan Veinot: two singles

Shawn Walsh: single, RBI

The Halifax Pelham Molson Canadians scored four runs in the first inning highlighted by three doubles but had to come from behind to defeat the Sydney Sooners 7-6 on a balmy evening at the Mainland Common.  Adam Lucas reached safely in five trips with a double, two singles, two walks and knocked in four runners, while Jake Pelham, Brandon Devlin and Ryan Veinot had two hits each.  Josh Pelham drove in the game winning run with a single in the eighth inning.   These two teams play a doubleheader today at the Mainland Commom with the first pitch scheduled at Noon.

Sydney Sooners Coach & GM announced last night that the team will be bostering their pitching staff for Canadian Senior Baseball Nationals in Newfoundland in August with the addition of four quality pitchers from their League opposition.

Added to the Sooners pitching staff are Mark Haverstock from the Halifax Pelham Canadians, as well as Matt MacDonald, Cameron Marling and Jeff Reeves from the Dartmouth Moosehead Dry.

McEachern cited, “the four very competitive pitchers gives us additional quality pitching with National experience and creates substantial depth to our staff, to try to weather the busy schedule of games that we will be faced with over the four days of play. All four pitchers create a great mix with our existing pitching core.”

Sooners will start play on Thursday, August 21 when they face the Manitoba entry in their first game , followed the same day with the Newfoundland representative. British Columbia and Ontario round out the five team pool Sydney is in. Championship play is scheduled for Sunday, August 24.

Sooners last represented the Province at Nationals in 1982, ironically, in the same location, St. John’s, Newfoundland.