Barrie Red Sox

2006 - The most memorable moments There were many highlights to the 2006 season. A season of change resulted with the team bringing on board four new players. The new faces fit right in and there was no doubt that the team was going to be well served by the addition of Ryan, Trevor, Boots and Cole. It was a bit of a roller coaster season with only 10 players and it seemed at times like we would never get the entire roster together for a game. With the short bench it meant everyone played – everyone played a lot. It was most certainly fun to watch Ryan and Dane face off in their batting practice home run derbys. Even more fun was watching Jake get the last laugh as he hit the team's final homer of the season in the CNE Tournament. Once again this year the boys proved they could play with the best in Ontario and they knocked off a couple of the top clubs and caused a couple of others some aggravation. The boys played hard and genuinely seemed to enjoy being with each other and many have formed great friendships. What follows are the games that really highlight the boys at their best. Click on the links and count down the heart stopping moments from the summer gone by. Here are the most memorable games and moments that we got to see:

• Highlight Five: Crowning Kingston. It was a weekend exhibition series that ended up dead even when it was all over but during Game 2 of the series the Red Sox proved to be resilient bouncing back from an early deficit and posting a 16 hit attack including Ryan’s homerun over deep centre.
  • Barrie 10 – Kingston 8 .
• Highlight Four: Putting it all together. As the Regular Season moved along the Red Sox showed some signs of brilliance, as they would go up against some of the YSBA competition and simply fire on all cylinders. In two particular games the boys put on an awesome display in all facets of the game:
  • Barrie 10 - Newmarket 2
  • Barrie 10 – Richmond Hill 0
• Highlight Three: Monumental moments battling Markham. Barrie opened the season with a sensational game with Markham only to have a repeat performance near the end of regular season. We may have come away with two losses BUT they were great games just the same:
  • Markham 3 - Barrie 2
  • Markham 2 - Barrie 1
• Highlight Two: Taking out North York. Barrie returned to defend their Vaughan tournament title in 2006 but there was not going to be a repeat. Barrie did have a return engagement with North York and the boys put on a great defensive showing making several sparkling plays. Combining the defense with some great pitching and timely hitting the boys knocked off North York once again.
  • Barrie 6 – North York 2
• Highlight One: Buffalo’d in Burlington. This was nothing short of fantastic, well up until the final call of the game. Putting that moment aside this game was a nail biter that everyone enjoyed.
  • Buffalo 3 – Barrie 2

MOVING ON TO THE NATIONALS OBA Eliminations Congratulations to the Mississauga North Tigers who won the OBA Eliminations Tournament (Aug 4-6) and as result earned the right to represent Ontario at the Peewee Nationals in Victoria B.C. The Tigers had their back to the wall coming from behind in the final at-bats to knock out Hamilton in a “win or go home” sudden death game by a score of 8-4 and then faced off with the Etobicoke Titans in the tournament finals. Etobicoke had been undefeated and the Tigers had to beat the Titans two straight in order win the tournaments. Credit to the Tigers because that’s exactly what they did winning Game One: 9-4 and Game Two: 6-0. Check out the results from the 2006 Provincials. Hamilton took "AAA" over London and Ajaz took the "AA" title over Cambridge. CLOSING OUT THE SEASON Red Sox close out the season in style as Jake puts a ball out at the CNE Tournament Burlington 7 – Barrie 3 RED SOX TOURNAMENT RESULTS YSBA Play Downs: The Barrie Red Sox string of consecutive vists to the OBA Championships was snapped following back-to-back losses at the playdown tournament. Barrie played a great game in Game 2 but it was not enough as Newmarket downed Barrie and took the entry into the OBAs:

• Game One: Markham 10 - Barrie 0
• Game Two: Newmarket 7 - Barrie 6

YSBA Championships: The Barrie Red Sox came out of the blocks strong in game one but seemed flat the next and paid the price with an uncharactoristic early departure from the YSBAs

• Game One: Barrie 16 - Bolton 7
• Game Two: Markham 7 - Barrie 3
• Game Three: Aurora 5 - Barrie 4

Orillia (Jul 28-30): The Barrie Red Sox reached the finals of the Orillia tournament and ran into a fine tuned machine from Ajax in the final game of the weekend. It was a tournament that had its share of oddities but in the end the Red Sox played well and are well positioned heading into August:

• Game One: Barrie 4 - Whitby "AA" 1
• Game Two: Ajax 7 - Barrie 2
• Game Three: Barrie 4 - Bloordale 1
• Semi-Final: Barrie 6 - Georgina 5
• Finals: Ajax 12 - Barrie 2

Burlington International (Jul 7-9): The Barrie Red Sox traveled to Burlington for the team's second tournament and it marked the mid-point of the season. The team got locked into a couple of really outstanding ball games but came up just short dropping one run games to Buffalo and the host "AAA" Bulls:
• Game One: Buffalo Inferno 3 - Barrie 2
• Game Two: Burlington Bulls 4 - Barrie 3
• Game Three: Barrie 6 - Mississauga Southwest Twins 6

Vaughan International (June 2-4): The Barrie Red Sox traveled to Vaughan for the team's season opening tournament to defend the title they had won the year previous. The team started strong and were a little washed out in game two – kind of reflecting the weather. In game three the boys knocked off the team that would eventually win the division and move on to the semi finals. Overall, this was a really positive team effort and showing – especially in game 3 against North York “AAA”. Barrie returned to Vaughan with 5 players from the 2005 line-up to defend their title, and relying on three Minor Peewee call-ups to help fill out the roster, the team finished with a very respectable 2-1 record:
• Game One: Barrie 10 - Burlington "AA" 0
• Game Two: Mississauga Majors 14 - Barrie 6
• Game Three: Barrie 6 - North York "AAA" 3

REGULAR SEASON RESULTS

	GP	W	L	T	PTS	RF	RA	PCT
Aurora Jays	18	12	3	3	27	157	84	0.750
Barrie Red Sox	18	12	4	2	26	148	82	0.722
Markham Mariners	18	11	6	1	23	158	92	0.639
Richmond Hill Phoenix	18	9	9	0	18	116	148	0.500
Newmarket Hawks	18	8	9	1	17	121	100	0.472
Georgina Bulldogs	18	7	10	1	15	92	124	0.417
Bolton Braves	18	0	18	0	0	55	217	0