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The
Corunna #2 Midget Girls team captured Bronze at the
2nd Annual Cambridge Fastball tournament this past
weekend. “Although our team is listed as the #2
Midget team, we are actually a bantam team (ages 15
& 16) and competed in the bantam division of the
PWSA sanctioned tournament.” explained assistant
coach, Devin Galvin. “These were the first games
this season playing against teams in our own age
group and we were very pleased at how well we
matched up with some of the top teams in the
province.”
Corunna faced a very strong Port Perry team in their
opener on Friday night. “Nerves played a key role in
the first two innings” commented coach Tom Coyle.
Port Perry capitalized on 3 hits and 3 Corunna
errors to post a 6 run lead after two innings.
Corunna settled down and held them to just 2 more
runs over the last 5 innings, but just could string
together enough consecutive hits to get on the
board, dropping the game 8-0.
On Saturday morning Corunna defeated the Haldimand
Spitfires 5-2. Maddy Neely led the offence with 2
hits and Alex Coyle went the distance posting 7
strike-outs and allowing just 4 hits.
At 1 PM Corunna defeated the host club, the
Cambridge Coyotes, 6-5. Corunna came out on fire in
the bottom of the first scoring 5 runs as many hits.
With the score tied up in the bottom of the fourth
Megan Thevenot singled to bring home Maddy Neely for
the winning run. Thevenot and Neely recorded two
hits each in the game with Alex Coyle on the mound.
Corunna lost the toss in the quarter final game
against the Halton Hills Hawks but took advantage of
the first bats scoring 11 runs on 6 hits and 5
walks. Daylin Galvin hit a bases-loaded triple to
start the scoring. Mia Miles recorded the win
allowing just one run on three hits. Corunna won the
game 16-1 in a three inning mercy.
In the semi-final game on Saturday night against
Milverton a very tired Corunna squad worked very
hard to tie the game at 3 after 5 innings. Milverton
exploded for 5 hits in the bottom of the 6th and
shut out Corunna to post the 7-3 win and advance to
the Gold Medal Game on Sunday. The defensive
highlight of the game and quite possibly the weekend
was a Corunna double play in the top of the third.
With the lead-off batter on first the second batter
hit a ground ball to right field. Jess Vickerd threw
the ball into Daylin Galvin who threw a strike to
Emily Williams at third to nail the runner and made
a perfect throw back to Galvin at second to catch
the batter-base runner trying to stretch her single
to a double.
Corunna
faced Haldimand again the Bronze Medal game on
Sunday morning. Corunna got off to a rocky start
allowing 3 runs on 1 hit and 3 errors in the first
inning. Corunna battled back to tie the game at 5 at
the end of regulation play. Using the International
tie-break rule which put the last batter from the
previous inning on second base to start the inning,
both teams managed to score one run in the 8th and
9th innings. In the top of the 10th Haldimand
threatened to put the game away. They had one run
in, runners on 2nd and 3rd with only one out and
their pitcher and clean-up hitter, Kelsey Hanly at
the plate. Alex Coyle dug deep and got her to pop up
to Emily Williams at short then struck out the last
batter to end the inning.
In the bottom of the tenth with Emily Williams on
second base, Daylin Galvin hit a sacrifice fly to
right field to advance Williams to third. Megan
Thevenot knocked Williams home with a solid single
to right field and the Haldimand catcher overthrew
first on Jess Vickerd’s bunt to put runners on 1st
and 3rd with only one out. Maddy Neely singled to
drive home the winning run and end the game! Alex
Coyle went the distance for Corunna with 10
strike-outs and giving up 5 hits over the 10
innings. Makenna Harrison and Alex Dobson led the
Corunna offence with two hits each, but Maddy Neely
recorded the top batting average for the tournament
with 8 hits in 17 attempts. Alex Coyle logged 35
innings on the mound and recorded 34 strike-outs in
6 games to lead the team to their Bronze medal win.
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