Big night for Smitty: Kanata wins both in doubleheader, over Micksburg 4-2 and Kars 2-1 NOW WITH DETAILS

The Kanata Pirates won both games in their doubleheader in Carp in Greater Ottawa Fastball League play on Thursday night and got fourteen innings out of veteran chucker Jason Smith.

In the first game they came away with a 4-2 win over Micksburg Twins. Smith earned the win while Corey Costello took the loss.

Kanata 4 Micksburg 2
details from Ivan Taylor

As expected, it was a well pitched game last night in Carp with the Kanata Pirates defeating the Micksburg Twins 4-2.  Jason Smith for the Pirates and Corey Costello for the Twins both pitched complete games.

In the first inning, Corey Costello drew a two-out walk for the Twins but was left on base and the Pirates went three up and three down.  In the second inning, the Twins started in the inning when Kevin Humphries walked but then Jason Smith struck out the next three batters.  The Pirates had something going when the first two batters in the bottom of the inning, Trevor Power and Duane Bromley, reached base on errors.  However, Corey Costello closed the door with three straight strikeouts.

The Twins scored first in the top of the third inning.  Mike Moss drew a walk and then was driven around the bases by Kyle Jackson's double.  Mike Moss scored on Jamie Mick's ground out to second base.  Corey Costello struck out the side in the bottom of the inning.

Both teams went three up and down in the fourth.  Micksburg went three up and down in the top of the fifth inning before the Pirates broke the game open in the bottom of the inning.  After two strike outs, the Pirates hit four consecutive singles.  Al Read started the rally and advanced to second on a passed ball.  Jordan Adams knocked in Al Read.  Kevin Shonfield followed with a single.  Then Joe Allan hit a ball that got past the right fielder and went to the fence.  Jordan Adams and Kevin Shonfield scored and Joe Allan ended up on third base.  Joe Allan then scored on a passed ball to make the score 4-1 for the Pirates.

The Twins closed the gap with a lead off solo home run by Jamey Mick in the top of the sixth inning.  Then Corey Costello followed with his second walk of the game.  However, Kevin Shonfield ended the rally with a neat double play.

Trevor Power led off the top of the sixth for the Pirates with a walk but the Pirates couldn't knock him in.  Then Jason Smith got the Twins to go three up and down in the top of the seventh to seal the win for the Pirates 4-2.

The Caveman player of the game was Jason Smith who allowed just two runs on two hits and struck out 10.  (It should be noted that Jason Smith followed this game with another complete game win 2-1 over the Kars Aces in the nightcap.)  Corey Costello had an exceptional performance for the Twins allowing only 2 earned runs and striking out 13.

Twins Pitching

Corey Costello 6IP 4R 2ER 4H 13K 1BB

Twins Batting

Kyle Jackson 1-3 2B

Jamey Mick 1-3 HR 2RBI

Corey Costello 2BB

Kevin Humphries 1BB

Mike Moss 1BB R

Pirates Pitching

Jason Smith 7IP 2R 2H 10K 4BB

Pirates Batting

Kevin Schonfield 1-3 R

Joe Allan 1-3 R RBI

Al Read 1-3 R

Jordan Adams 1-3 R RBI

Trevor Power ROE BB

Duane Bromley ROE

For the second game, Kanata prevailed 2-1 over the Kars Aces. Smith again earned the victory, while Luke Severson took the loss. Lindsay Medynski homered for Kanata. Kars were limited to three hits while Kanata had four.

Kanata 2 Kars 1 
details from Chad Milne

Kanata faced Kars in the back-end of their doubleheader on Thursday night in Carp. Jason Smith started for Kanata, while Luke Severson pitched for Kars.

There wasn’t much scoring in this one. Kanata got on the board first in the top of the 2^nd courtesy of a Lindsay Medynski homerun to right-centre. Kars threatened to tie the game in the bottom of the 4^th, when Morrison and Milne each singled with one out, but Smith was able to get out of the inning inducing a pop-up to second and getting a strike out.

In the bottom of the 5^th Kars finally broke through to tie the game. With one out, newcomer Alex Balswall walked and was brought home on a two-out double to left field by Knapp. But Kanata came right back in the top of the 6^th to retake the lead. Joe Allen reached base when he squibbed a ball off the end of the bat that Severson fielded but didn’t have time to get the speedy Allen. John Ferguson followed with a double off the left-centre field fence to score Allen. Then Smith set down the Kars’ batters in order in the 6^th and 7^th to preserve the 2-1 win for Kanata.