Muenster prevails at Midget ‘AAA’ westerns

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Saskatchewan baseball players have had quite a run over the past two weeks in Manitoba.

Two weeks ago, Saskatchwan won gold at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg, defeating Manitoba 3-1 in the gold medal game in front of 7,000 fans at Shaw Park.

Sunday at Ile des Chenes, five of those players that won Canada Games gold for Saskatchewan were in the line-up for the Muenster Red Sox that captured the Western Canadian Midget ‘AAA’ Baseball Championship.

Muenster blanked Winnipeg’s Bonivital Black Sox 3-0 in the final.

Six teams competed in the tournament, with each team playing five round robin games and the top two went straight into the final.

Bonivital finished first in the round robin with a 5-1 record while the Red Sox were 4-2. Rounding out the field were the Langley Blaze from B.C.  and Alberta’s Sherwood Park Athletics at 3-2, followed by the Saskatoon Diamondbacks at 1-4 and finally the host Carillon Sultans 0-5.

The Sultans struggled in the tourney as they lost 7-0 to Sherwood Park, 11-3 to Langley, 4-3 to Bonivital, 7-2 to Saskatoon and finally 11-1 to Muenster.