Kanata 5 Kars 4 - with DETAILS

The Kanata Pirates won tonight in Carp in their first game in the Greater Ottawa Fastball League with a 5-4 rain-shortened victory over the Kars Aces.

Jason Smith earned the win for the Pirates with relief from Trevor Lahey while Brad Porter took the loss. Kristian Knapp and Cory Morrison had homers for Kars.

details from Duane Bromley

Kanata Pirates win their inaugural game in the GOFL, edging Kars Aces 5-4 in a rain shortened game on Thursday.

Kars got off to a quick start as Kristian Knapp led off the game with a home run. Kanata threatened in the bottom of the first but their aggressive base running ran them out of the inning as Joe Allen was caught trying to steal home and Kevin Shonfield got caught rounding second after walking to get on base. 

Kanata scored three in the bottom of the second sending eight men to the plate. Jon Ferguson and Trevor Power led off the inning with walks and Ferguson scored on Lindsay Medynski’s double. After Kevin Williams walked to load the bases, Power scored when Trevor Watts was hit by a pitch. Medynski later scored after tagging up when Joe Allen’s shallow fly to left was caught by Kars shortstop Nick Ellis.  Ellis had no chance at the plate but made a head’s up play throwing out Kevin Williams trying for third. Brad Porter gave up another walk but got out of the jam when Aaron Amo was caught looking.

Kars used the long ball again to regain the lead 4-3 in the top of the third on Cory Morrison’s three-run shot to centre.

The see-saw battle continued in the bottom of the third.  Derrick Bulley led off the inning with a triple and scored when Kars 2^nd baseman Knapp couldn’t scoop Trevor Power’s slow bouncer. Power advanced to second on a wild pitch and on to third when Medynski was thrown out at first. Power later scored on another wild pitch to make it 5-4 for the home team (note: it was actually Medynski who scampered home as he was running for Power on the two-out catcher rule).

Trevor Lahey entered the game in relief of Kanata’s starter Jason Smith. While he gave up a single he got out of the inning quickly with a pair of strikeouts. With rain starting to fall, Trevor Watts led off the home half of the inning with his first career GOFL homerun. The skies started to open up and with a bleak forecast the blue crew quickly called the game. 

Trevor Power gets the Caveman’s Choice as player of the game scoring twice including the winning run.