Provincial baseball champions crowned

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Published on Thursday, July 21, 2016

By Morgan De Peña 

Executive Director

This past weekend, July 15-17, Baseball Manitoba crowned its 2016 provincial champions in the minor age AA categories and at the senior AA all-stars. Pee Wee, Bantam and Midget AA provincial champions will all compete in the Western Canadian AA championships being held in St. Albert, Alta. Aug. 19-21.

The previous weekend, July 8-10, provincial A champions were declared in the 11U, 13U and 15U divisions. Complete scores for all games are available on the Baseball Manitoba website www.baseballmanitoba.ca under “championships”.  

This coming weekend (July 22-24) will be the Rural AAA 13U and 15U qualifiers.  The top six teams from these eight-team tournaments will advance to the provincial championships. The 13U  teams that advance will attend provincials in Hamiota July 29-31. The advancing 15U teams will attend provincial championships in Altona, also on July 29-31.

Also being held this weekend is the 18U provincial championships; 12 teams are vying for the chance to represent Manitoba at the national 18U championships in Sherbrooke, Que. Aug. 18-22. 

Oak River not only hosted the Midget AA provincials on diamonds in that town as well as Hamiota and Rivers, but they claimed the championship with an unbeaten record of 6-0. Two games on Friday saw them defeat Macdonald 13-3 and Portage la Prairie 15-0 on home diamonds. Saturday’s game played in Hamiota was a slightly closer score when they defeated Morden 3-2. They faced Portage once again in the semifinal game on July 17 though it was only half the landslide of the first competition; final score was 7-0. The final game was played against La Broquerie with a score of 15-1. This makes the second consecutive year Oak River Midgets have won the 18U provincial crown; this year’s players come from Oak River, Strathclair, Hamiota and surrounding smaller districts.