The Barrhead Black Orioles played two games on Saturday, July 18.
The first one, starting at 11 a.m., began without much of a bang – it was bright and sunny – the Orioles as the visitors, the Fort Saskatchewan Red Sox #2 as the home team. Each pitching exchange was fast and furious and neither team managed a run until the top of the third, when Tanner Whiting, Barrhead’s #10, stole his way to home plate all the way from first base.
In the fourth, Brendon Borle made it home, bringing the game to a 2-0 lead and in the fifth, both Whiting and Mitch Carstairs scored runs, further widening the gap to 4-0 for Barrhead.
It certainly looked like the Red Sox #2 were in for a blow-out, but late in the fifth they managed two runs and one in the sixth inning.
The Blacks switched out their pitcher for Carstairs and in the top of the seventh, Landon Sonnenberg brought one more home.
The game ended 5-3.
In the afternoon, Barrhead played the Coronation Royals in a foul-ball strewn second game that remained a stalemate for three quarters despite every attempt to the contrary by Sonnenberg and Whiting, whom threw everything from curves to grounders, in an effort to tip the scales towards victory.
Unfortunately, in the sixth inning, with bases loaded, Jayden Buxton, Cole Elliot and Corey Twa all scored runs for the Royals and took the game away from Barrhead.
The Orioles tried to switch it up, bringing in Dylan Moes to replace Whiting on the mound, but the game ended 3-0 for Coronation.
