Mattamy's wins game one of Glen Cairn Finals
from Eric Rosenquist
Mattamy Homes 2 Don Cherry's 1 (8 innings)
The GCMFL finals got underway on Wednesday, pitting the top two teams from the regular season against each other. Both teams finished the regular season with 26 points in 16 games, but Mattamy Homes got the nod as home team in the finals by virtue of their 12-2-2 record compared to Don Cherry's 11-1-4 record. The squads were also the top two in the league in terms of runs scored (104 for Mattamy Homes, 91 for Don Cherry's) and fewest runs allowed (20 for Don Cherry's, 45 for Mattamy Homes). Both teams won their division by a margin of 9 points over the second place finishers.
As many had predicted, Wednesday's game #1 was a pitchers' duel, with Mattamy's Darren Featherstone and Don Cherry's Billy Gerber each reaching double digits in strikeouts and yielding very few baserunners. Don Cherry's jumped out to an early lead, scoring a run in the top of the second with a pair of two-out hits by Eric Kay and Hugh Murray, the latter leading to a throwing error that allowed Kay to score on the play. It looked like that lone run might be enough as the score remained the same until the bottom of the 7th. Scott Parsons began the Mattamy half of the 7th inning by reaching base as a hit batsman, then gave way to a pinch runner. After a passed ball that moved the runner into scoring position, Jason Cope hit a one-out single up the middle to tie the game and put the winning run on 1st. Gerber retired the rest of the side however, sending the game into extra innings.
With the last out of the previous inning starting at second base in extra innings, Featherstone struck out three consecutive Don Cherry's batters to end the half inning and strand the baserunner. In the bottom of the 8th, Mattamy hitter Derek Tysick executed a perfect sacrifice bunt to move baserunner Dan Gagne over to third. Shawn Mackenzie then stepped up to the plate and stroked an infield bouncer that was enough to bring Gagne home for the winning run.
Game #2 of the best-of-three series is Monday at 7PM at the A.Y. Jackson high school softball diamond in Kanata.
Mattamy Homes 2 Don Cherry's 1 (8 innings)
The GCMFL finals got underway on Wednesday, pitting the top two teams from the regular season against each other. Both teams finished the regular season with 26 points in 16 games, but Mattamy Homes got the nod as home team in the finals by virtue of their 12-2-2 record compared to Don Cherry's 11-1-4 record. The squads were also the top two in the league in terms of runs scored (104 for Mattamy Homes, 91 for Don Cherry's) and fewest runs allowed (20 for Don Cherry's, 45 for Mattamy Homes). Both teams won their division by a margin of 9 points over the second place finishers.
As many had predicted, Wednesday's game #1 was a pitchers' duel, with Mattamy's Darren Featherstone and Don Cherry's Billy Gerber each reaching double digits in strikeouts and yielding very few baserunners. Don Cherry's jumped out to an early lead, scoring a run in the top of the second with a pair of two-out hits by Eric Kay and Hugh Murray, the latter leading to a throwing error that allowed Kay to score on the play. It looked like that lone run might be enough as the score remained the same until the bottom of the 7th. Scott Parsons began the Mattamy half of the 7th inning by reaching base as a hit batsman, then gave way to a pinch runner. After a passed ball that moved the runner into scoring position, Jason Cope hit a one-out single up the middle to tie the game and put the winning run on 1st. Gerber retired the rest of the side however, sending the game into extra innings.
With the last out of the previous inning starting at second base in extra innings, Featherstone struck out three consecutive Don Cherry's batters to end the half inning and strand the baserunner. In the bottom of the 8th, Mattamy hitter Derek Tysick executed a perfect sacrifice bunt to move baserunner Dan Gagne over to third. Shawn Mackenzie then stepped up to the plate and stroked an infield bouncer that was enough to bring Gagne home for the winning run.
Game #2 of the best-of-three series is Monday at 7PM at the A.Y. Jackson high school softball diamond in Kanata.
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