15U wins OBA D Provincial Championship.
Pictured:
Back row left to right – Coach Scott Walls, Coach Woody
Gilbert, Darren Prentice, Jade Campbell, Austin Gibson, Mason Pentz, Coach Chad
Kaye, Noah Kaye, Ethan Culling, Cody Frook, Owen Ottens, Evan Freeman, Coach
Chris Raben
Front row left to right – Equipment manager Eli Freeman,
Preston Walls, Cash Gilbert, and Wyatt Raben
Listowel 15U OBA team won the OBA championship this past
weekend in Mitchell winning all 5 games that they played. On Friday they faced a good hitting team in
Port Lambton which had finished top in their Western Counties Baseball
Association league. Noah Kaye pitched 4
strong innings allowing only 1 run while Wyatt Raben and Owen Ottens pitched in
the final 3 innings. Owen also led the offense
with two doubles and two runs and helped spark a 3 run-inning for a 6-5
walk-off win in the bottom of the final inning.
Friday’s second game had Listowel playing Exeter and Cody Frook and Cash Gilbert were called upon
to pitch the bulk of the game, only allowing 4 runs over against the high-octane
offense of Exeter’s big bats. Evan
Freeman, Darren Prentice, and Owen Ottens came in for relief pitching and allowed
only 1 run over 2 innings. Jade Campbell
reached base twice and started a 4 run rally in the 2nd innning and Cody
and Cash both had 2 RBI doubles to lead Listowel to a 7-5 victory. Listowel received a bye the next round and
only played one game Saturday evening versus Mitchell who also was 2-0 thus far. Preston Walls started on the mound and
pitched 5-2/3 innings allowing only 2 runs and 6 hits while striking out 4. Mason Pentz made some key defensive plays at
first base and Austin Gibson, Darren, and Owen charged up the offense by
reaching base a combined 9 times to help Listowel win 8-3. This set up Listowel to play Exeter again in
the semi-finals. Cody got the start and
pitched a full 6 innings allowing only 1 run and striking out 8 batters. Listowel only managed to score 2 runs over 7
innings and Exeter was able to tie the game in the top of the 7th. Extra innings saw Exeter load the bases with
no outs but on the next play Listowel got an out at home and the following play
was able to turn a double play that resulted in a tied game with Listowel going
into the bottom of the extra inning. With
runners on 2nd and 3rd and two outs Cody hit a single to
drive in the winning run and walk off Exeter.
Listowel then went on to face Mitchell in the finals. Mason fired up the offense, and bench, with a
towering shot for an out-of-the-park home run and Listowel went on to lead 5-3
heading into the final inning. However,
Mitchell was able to score 4 times in the top of the 7th innning for
a 2 run lead going to the bottom of the inning.
Again with runners on 2nd and 3rd and two outs Cody
hit a singe that scored both and tied the game.
Ethan Culling then hit a deep fly ball over the left fielder to drive in
the winning run for another walk-off victory and for the championship win.