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Minor Bantam Cubs Win AAA OBA's
Cubs Win!
Cubs program first AAA Provincial Championship!
The Pickering-Ajax Cubs Minor Bantam AAA Baseball Team captured the Provincial Championship on Labour Day Weekend.
Despite a strong regular season, the team struggled during tournaments throughout the season. The team relied heavily on strong defense and pitching as their hitting was a weakness. However, on this final weekend during the biggest tournament of the season, it all came together as the bats came alive throughout the batting order, the defense rema
ined stingy and some great pitching performances sealed the deal.
The Team went 5-1 during the double knockout tournament and outscored their opponents by a total score of 62 -28 over the 6 games played. The tournament opened up on Friday August 30 against the defending champions, Mississauga North Tigers. The Cubs jumped out to an early 4-0 lead and held on to win the game 8-2. In the second game,the Cubs went down to defeat against the Burlington Bulls 12-4. The next two games were played on Saturday August 31 and the Cubs bats were sizzling all day long as they defeated the Windsor Stars 19-2 and then the London Badgers 15-3.
In the semi-final game, the Cubs were up against the always tough Etobicoke Rangers. Another quick start had the Cubs out in front 8-0 after 3 innings and they were able to snuff a late rally by the Rangers for an 8-6 victory. The victory earned the Cubs a berth into the Finals against the Etobicoke Rangers
once again. The Cubs bats remained hot as they scored 4 runs in the first inning. A few more insurance runs, great defensive plays and great pitching catapulted the Cubs to an 8-3 victory in the final game and earned them the 2013 “AAA” Minor Bantam Provincial Championship.
The Cubs team is coached by Scott Robinson, C
hris Papalia, Brock Robinson. Team members consist of Kurt Dawkins, James De Sousa, RJ Dutkiewicz, Jared Evans, Jonathan Henry, Matthew Hunter, Alex Jones, Neelesh Kaul, Dylan Latty, Landon Leach, Liam Miller-North,Kevin Stiles and Harrison Toms