Hometown Sports Weekend Recap — Friday July 3 to Sunday July 5 — Giants 11U Tier 1 Rally Past Vaughan
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Baseball diamonds across Norfolk and Haldimand stayed busy all weekend, from Friday through Sunday, and the Simcoe Giants 11U Tier 1 saved their best for last. The Giants rallied past Vaughan on Sunday to cap a big weekend of one-run baseball. There was plenty more to cheer, too: run-rule wins from the Giants 15U and 14U, a doubleheader sweep for the Caledonia Bears 18U, and Six Nations Smoke rolling through the fastball slate.
Game of the Weekend: Simcoe Giants 11U Tier 1
Sunday afternoon, the Simcoe Giants 11U Tier 1 find themselves knotted 5-5 with the Vaughan Vikings, and by then this was a team that had learned how to win the tight ones. A day earlier they swept Saturday, grinding out a 6-5 decision behind Reid G and his ten strikeouts, then busing to Barrie and taking a 5-3 game off the Baycats. So when Sunday came down to the wire, nobody flinched.
The Giants push three across in the sixth to break the tie. Carter M is the difference, a 2-3 afternoon with three RBI and a triple. Ben T drives in two more. On the mound, Theo C works 4.1 steady innings with three strikeouts, then Mak K comes on to close it out with two punchouts. Vaughan scratches back to make it a one-run game, but the lead holds.
Final: Simcoe Giants 11U Tier 1 8, Vaughan Vikings 7.
Three days, a handful of one-run games, and a Tier 1 hometown squad that kept finding a way. Not a bad way to spend a July weekend.
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Around the Diamond
Friday
The Simcoe Giants 13U Tier 1 turned Friday into a pitching clinic, riding Jackson W's five-inning one-hitter to an 11-1 win over Woodstock. Blake L went 2-4 with a pair of doubles and three RBI, and Dexton M doubled and came around to score three times.
The Simcoe Giants 15U jumped out early and never looked back, run-ruling TNT Thunder 18-3. G Ramirez drove in four, B Martin went 3-3 with a triple and three RBI, and C Smith and B Robyn combined to keep TNT off the board.
The Simcoe Giants 14U made quick work of Aurora, run-ruling the King Jays 12-2 in five. Zintel went 3-3 with a triple and five total bases, Beck and Staats each tripled, and Staats and Habel combined for scoreless innings on the mound.
The Caledonia Bears 18U T2 chipped away on the road and edged Waterloo 7-4. J. Stoddart got the start with five strikeouts over 2.2 innings, D. Hill slammed the door, and B. MacQueen drove in a pair.
The Six Nations Smoke 19Ur olled Stratford 12-5 on the fastball diamond. T. MacDonald was everywhere with four RBI, K. VanEvery added a double and a triple, and C. Skye picked up the win.
The Delhi Tigers Rep 11U survived a walk-fest to nip the Simcoe Giants Tier 2 11U 12-11. Simcoe made them sweat, plating eleven runs on a single hit (Thayne V's) and a dozen walks.
Saturday
The Caledonia Bears T1 18U ran into a heartbreaker, falling 5-4 in nine innings after their staff piled up 20 strikeouts. The bats did their part, with L Snider (2-4, triple, RBI), M Smith, L Seabrook and A Amos all collecting two hits, but a handful of unearned runs made the difference.
The Simcoe Giants 14U owned Saturday, sweeping their doubleheader. They blanked Leaside 10-0 behind Beck's seven-strikeout gem, then went to MNBA and won 13-5 as Black tossed six and drove in three, with Habel adding three RBI of his own.
The Haldimand Heat 09 rebounded in a big way, sweeping their Saturday two-fer. They handled Oshawa 11-1 behind Ella Courneyea, then buried Brampton 14-4 as Margaret Gibson drove in five across the day and Maddie Myers went 4-4 with a triple.
The Six Nations Smoke 19U kept rolling, taking down UTM Impact 14-3. Cara Skye did it on both sides, four innings in the circle plus a 3-4 day with two RBI, while Logan Wrightman drove in three and Draedyn Wrightman homered.
The U15 Haldimand Bulls came up a run short against Innerkip, dropping a 5-4 decision. Ben Simington kept them close with a 2-3, two-RBI double, and Tyson Lichti doubled and drove in a run.
The Simcoe Giants 15U had a split Saturday, dropping a 9-7 game to Caledon and then battling RHP to a 2-2 tie. C Smith stayed hot with a triple and three RBI, and C Inman doubled and drove in a run.
Sunday
The Caledonia Bears 18U T2 capped the weekend with a doubleheader sweep of Cambridge, 8-2 and 8-6. Lucas Haanstra went five in the opener with a two-RBI double, and Jude Stoddart followed with seven strikeouts and a clutch two-RBI knock in the nightcap.
The Caledonia Bears 15U closed strong, beating the GNBA Falcons 8-5. Jacob Almas was a menace on the bases with three runs and four steals, Knox Galbraith got the start, and Blake Martin worked three scoreless with four strikeouts to close.
The Simcoe Giants 14U wrapped a huge weekend with a comeback, erasing a 4-2 deficit to beat Waterloo 9-7. Kapogianis went 3-4 with two RBI and a double, Staats added two more, and Underhill picked up the win. They dropped the nightcap to MNBA, but the weekend still belonged to them.
The Simcoe SR Giants dropped both ends to their crosstown Juniors, 3-1 and 6-3, but kept grinding, drawing twelve walks in the nightcap with Devin Holmes and Steve Martinow driving in runs.
