Morning Star Staff
The Hi-Pro Sportswear Stingers came from behind to shade the Sun Dial Lighting Red Jays 10-9 in Mosquito baseball league play Thursday night at Lakeview Park.
Kabe Balardo scored the winning run with some great hustle in the sixth inning. Brendan Fisher and Connor Jones were great defensively behind the plate as Owen Turnbull, Ryan Cox, Hunter Johnstone, Kyle Wheeler and Austin Seibel shared the pitching duties.
Hunter Johnstone delivered some great hits for the Stingers. Garret Louis had a great pitching performance for the Red Jays. Pwalken Joe made some great defensive plays at first base and Feenix Pasco showed great hustle throughout the game for the Red Jays.
Troy Jones coaches the Stingers, while Ben Louis guides the Jays.
The Rotary Blue Jays posted an 8-7 win over Team Green in other Mosquito action.
Jamie Campbell pitched the first two innings and helped his own cause with a hit, a walk and an RBI. Adam Hansen hurled two shutout innings with five strikeouts.
Hansen was 2-for-2 with a walk. Riley Cormier earned the save with four strikeouts. Luke Gardiner had a clutch hit to spark a four-run rally for the Jays in the fourth.
Dillen Carter had a solid hit in the fifth and contributed an RBI and a run. Logan Killingbeck, Ella McPherson, Maddex MacAulay, Emmah Pederson, Jaden Anderson and Seth Poulin all had nerves of steel at the plate taking key walks.
In Pee Wee action last weekend, the Vernon Yellow Jackets lost 11-4 and 7-5 to Kelowna at Edith Gay Park in Rutland.
Adam Battersby and Justin Geistlinger pitched well in Game 1 for the Jackets, who got some spledid fielding by Brydon Pilon and some good bats by Nolan Thomas (2-for-2), Carson Minshull (2-for-2, double) and Tysin Taylor-Hesk (2-for-2 double).
The second game saw a back and forth battle with Vernon carrying a one-run lead into the bottom of the fifth after being down by four before Kelowna struck for three runs, putting the game out of reach in the sixth.
Carter Rachwalski turned an unassisted double play, Taylor-Hesk, Olivia Lattery and Minshull all went 3-for-3.