Quebec Seniors wins the Gil Read Memorial Tournament

The Quebec Seniors scored 60 runs in six games en route to winning the 4th Annual Gil Read Memorial fastball tournament in Carp this weekend. The victory wraps up a productive past three weekends, with a tourney win at the ten team Au Sable, NY event, a finalist showing at Cambridge, MASS, and now a championship at the ten team Gil Read.

Without their ace Francis Leclair this weekend, the Quebec team relied on scoring runs - and lots of them - on Saturday, and turned the ball over to Gregg Garrity on Sunday for two wins.

The defending Canadian Junior Champions, the Napanee North Key Express, were the finalists, while the Kars Aces and Fitzroy Harbour West Carleton Electric shared third place.

The weather was outstanding all weekend and facility top notch. Congratulations to Al Read, Chris Read and the rest of the organizing committee on an excellent event. The local community, both Carp area residents, and eastern Ontario and western Quebec fastball fans came out in good numbers to watch and support the cause. (Rumour going around was that they sold more beer by 3pm on Saturday then they did at the entire event last year.)

These results are "unofficial" but should be pretty close - if you have any updates or corrections, please let me know at fastball@fitzroyharbour.com.

Friday Pool Play

Fitzroy Harbour West Carleton Electric 8 Carp I4C Victory 5
WP: Steve Cavanagh
LP: Neil Cooke with relief from Bill Gerber
Jeff Cavanagh and Neil Murphy had home runs for West Carleton Electric in the tourney opener, with two local teams playing in front of a good crowd.

Barrhaven Broadway Blues 6 Ottawa Taylor's Blitz 2
WP: Paul Ceppi with relief from Trevor Lahey
LP: Shannon Borho

Kars Aces 6 Napanee Shoeless Joe's Juniors 0
WP: Jeff Murphy
LP: Matt Hannewich with relief from Kyle Crawford

Saturday Pool Play

Quebec Seniors 14 Napanee North Key Express Juniors 8
WP: Pat Leclerc
LP: Ian Wallwork in relief of Joran Graham with relief from Cory Alkerton
The score was 6-5 in the sixth until Quebec blew the game open with eight runs in the of the seventh. Matt Greer had a grand slam for Quebec.

Barrhaven Broadway Blues 5 Stittsville 56ers 3
WP: Paul Ceppi, Save: Trevor Lahey
LP: Dan Bradley in relief of Adam Smith
The Blues scored two in the top of the seventh to break the tie and take the win.

Fitzroy Harbour West Carleton Electric 4 Napanee Shoeless Joe's Juniors 3
WP: Bill Sherman
LP: Jordan Wrightly
The Electric were up 4-2 after six and the Juniors came close to tying the game in the top of the seventh as the tying run was called out at the plate when trying to score on a wild pitch.

Napanee North Key Express Juniors 15 Ottawa Taylor's Blitz 4
WP: Cory Alkerton
LP: Matt Davis

Kars Aces 8 vs Cree Nation 1
WP: Brad Porter
LP: Will Lowe

Quebec Seniors 15 vs Stittsville 56ers 8
WP: Jonathan Roy
LP: Darren Featherstone
The games was tied 8-8 until the Quebeckers scored seven runs in the sixth inning.

Carp I4C Victory 9 Napanee Shoeless Joe's Juniors 0
WP: Sean Cleary
LP: Kyle Crawford
Newfoundlander Cleary shut down the Juniors and also hit a monster bomb that made it to second base on diamond two - probably about 320 feet.

Kars Aces 9 Fitzroy Harbour West Carleton Electric 0
WP: Jeff Murphy
LP: Steve Cavanagh
Murphy threw a three hitter and Cory Morrison had two home runs for Kars.

Quebec Seniors 9 vs Ottawa Taylor's Blitz 8
WP: Pat Leclerc in relief of Luc Thibault
LP: Shannon Borho
Quebec won the game on a home run by Steve Savard that tipped off the centre fielder's glove and went into the beer garden.

Carp I4C Victory 9 vs Cree Nation 1
WP: Sean Cleary
LP: Ray Shanoush with relief from Will Lowe

Napanee North Key Express Juniors 6 vs Barrhaven Broadway Blues 5
WP: Ian Wallwork
LP: Jason Smith with relief from Paul Ceppi

Ottawa Taylor's Blitz 4 Stittsville 56ers 0
WP: Shannon Borho
LP: Kyle Jamieson with relief from Darren Featherstone

Napanee Shoeless Joe's Juniors 5 Cree Nation 2
WP: Matt Hannewich
LP: Will Lowe

Sunday Pool Play

Napanee North Key Express Juniors 8 Stittsville 56ers 0
WP: Joran Graham
LP: Darren Featherstone

Barrhaven Broadway Blues 6 Quebec Seniors 6
P - Barr: Trevor Lahey and Paul Ceppi
P - QC: Jonathan Roy and Pat Leclerc
With the tiebreaker in place, Barrhaven needed to win by four runs. They were up 6-2 at one point but the Quebec team came back to tie the game.

Kars Aces 6 Carp I4C Victory 2
WP: Steve Price with relief from Brad Porter
LP: Sean Cleary

Fitzroy Harbour West Carleton Electric 11 Cree Nation 10
WP: Jeff Barber in relief of Bill Sherman
LP: Duane Bromley in relief of Will Lowe with relief from Gord Flannery
This was a wild game that kept the good crowd on hand entertained. The Crees got out to a 5-1 lead until Fitzroy scored nine runs in the third, but almost blew the lead. Tom Dexter had two home runs for Fitzroy and went 4 for 4.

Pool Standings
Kars Aces 4-0
West Carleton Electric 3-1
Carp I4C Victory 2-2
Napanee Shoeless Joe's 1-3
Cree Nation 0-4

Quebec Seniors 3-0-1
Napanee North Key 3-1
Barrhaven Blues 2-1-1
Taylor's Blitz 1-3
Stittsville 56ers 0-4

Semi-Finals

Quebec Seniors 10 Fitzroy Harbour West Carleton Electric 1
WP: Gregg Garrity
LP: Steve Cavanagh
Garrity hit a two run homer and Joe McCleary had a three run homer for Quebec.

Napanee North Key Express Juniors 8 Kars Aces 5
WP: Joran Graham in relief of Ian Wallwork
LP: Jeff Murphy
One inning was the difference as Napanee scored six runs on only two hits in the fifth.

Final

Quebec Seniors 6 Napanee North Key Express Juniors 0
WP: Gregg Garrity
LP: Joran Graham
Quebec was never really threatened in this game as they finished 5-0-1 and won the Gil Read championship title.

Order of finish:
1. Quebec Seniors 5-0-1
2. Napanee North Key Express Juniors 4-2
T3. Kars Aces 4-1
T3. Fitzroy Harbour West Carleton Electric 3-2
5. Barrhaven Broadway Blues 2-1-1
6. Carp I4C Victory 2-2
T7. Napanee Shoeless Joe's Juniors 1-3
T7. Ottawa Taylor's Blitz 1-3
T9. Cree Nation 0-4
T9. Stittsville 56ers 0-4