10 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2024 pret eee abe SE ees Hadley Upshall shows textbook form fielding this ground ball down the third base line for her 9U WOBA (Runhart) team during action from their | year end tournament in Mitchell's Keterson Park Aug. 9. The Astros defeat- | ed Howick 11-7 in this game and also beat Clinton #2, 13-12 before losing ) 20-10 to St. Marys in the consolation side of the ledger. anpy BADER a Chase Elligsen tosses the ball from second to Kendrick Cook at first for the Mitchell 9U WOBA (Wolfe) team during round-robin action of their WOBA playoff tournament in Mitchell Aug. 10. The Astros won all five games, including a narrow 13-12 win over Howick, to win the championship. | | {Ree { ( Wes Fischer of the Mitchell 9U WOBA (Runhart) baseball team takes a swing at the ball during action from their year end tournament in Mitchell's Keterson Park Aug. 9. The Astros defeated Howick 11-7 in this game and also beat Clinton #2, 13-12 before losing 20-10 to St. Marys in the consola- tion side of the ledger. pionship on their home field Aug. 11 after a Team members of the Mitchell 9U Mitchell Cycle (Wolfe) WOBA baseball team celebrates their consolation cham- Rick Cook and Fraser Jordan. Third row (left): Paxton Elliott, Nick DeGroot, Karsen Jordan and Carter Wydeven. Second row (left): Everett Douglas, Dana Wolfe, Riya Michel, Kendrick Cook, Eddie Pol, Denver Wernham and Landon Gould. In front are Annie Laverty and Chase Elligsen. 9U baseball squad gets hot at right time to win consolation title ANDY BADER Over the Aug. 9-11 weekend the Mitchell Cycle 9U WOBA Wolfe team got hot and won five straight games to claim the South Consola- tion title on their home field. Over the season this youngteam continued to improve and it all came together with a pair of excit- ing walk-off victories, 13-12 in the semifinal against St. Marys, anda big plays on defence to preserve the narrow victory. The next day the locals came up against Goderich and Carter Wydeven led off the game with a double, while Dana Wolfe and Ev- erett Douglas each added two hits. Karsen Jordan and Gould were solid defensively once again to make some keys outsina16-1] win. Later, their final round robin ead 3 snuff a Rockies’ rally in the fifth. Annie Laverty then got their own rally going in the sixth to draw the game even. Still tied in the seventh. Elligsen started offthe inning with asingle and a Gould single moved him over, setting up Everett Doug- las to drive in the winning run. Inthe finals against Howick once again, the crowd was loud and rowdy. The kids played hard, but couldn’t game pitte Ho- walk-off extra inning triumph by thesame 13-1 d Howick wick and in this contest, Riya Mi- hel i i hotbatb: The tournament began Aug. 9 with a 14-10 win over Zurich. Nick DeGroot reached base and scored three times to pace the attack while Eddie Pol scored twice. Landon Gould made some hittingapair the offense to another 16-run out- put and narrow 16-14 victory. The three wins set up the locals for a semifinal against St. Marys and in a seesaw affair, Chase El- ligsen came up with a key catch to tight defence. Kendrick Cook sin gled in two runs and made some big plays at first to try and keep the locals init. Howick helda four-run lead heading into the sixth when coach Shannon Cook rallied the troops with a key motivational talk as DeGroot and Wolfe reached base and came home when Paxton