The St. Albert Junior Cardinals host the Stony Plain Mets in Sunday’s North Central Alberta Baseball League doubleheader at Legion Memorial Park.
The first pitch goes at 1:30 p.m.
The Cardinals, winners of two in a row, are 2-3 and the Mets are 3-2.
Hayden Chies of the Cardinals is batting .500 with six hits and five RBIs to lead the attack.
Matt Billo also has six hits and is the team leader in home runs with two and RBIs with seven.
Nate Coffin scored a team-high seven runs, registered six hits and batted in five runs.
McLean Cruthers is 2-1 on the mound, with 17 strikeouts, 13 earned runs and 4.40 ERA in 20.67 innings pitched.
The first-place St. Albert Senior Cardinals carry a three-game winning streak into Monday’s Alberta West Central Baseball Association game against the Edmonton Blues.
Start time is 6:45 p.m. at Legion Memorial Park.
The Cardinals, last year’s playoff finalists, are 6-2 and the Heat is 2-5.
The Cardinals are gearing up for the Canadian Oldtimers Baseball Championships. They will compete in the 35-plus age division at the Aug. 2 to 5 tournament, which also features 44-plus and 50-plus divisions. Games will be staged in St. Albert, Spruce Grove, Telus Field and other Edmonton diamonds.
The St. Albert Cardinals snapped a four-game losing streak in the Norwest Midget AAA Baseball League in Thursday’s doubleheader against the Sherwood Park Dukes.
The Cardinals edged the Dukes 6-5 after dropping the twinbill opener 2-1 in Sherwood Park.
Both teams share fifth place at 7-5 in the Norwest standings.
In game two the Cardinals battled back from a five-run deficit with one in the third, four in the fourth and one in the sixth.
The Dukes out-hit the Cardinals 11-5, but committed seven errors.
Connor Burns replaced starting pitcher Alex Marthiensen in the top of the third and tossed five innings of four-hit ball while striking out six.
Burns and Tanner Karpinski also batted in one run apiece and Adam Foo scored twice.
The first game was scoreless until the sixth, when both teams tacked up a run and in the bottom of the seventh the Dukes pushed across the game winner.
Mat Brisson gave up four hits while going the distance for the Cardinals. He walked four and fanned two in 6-2/3 innings.
Karpinski batted in Foo with the only hit by the Cardinals in the loss.
Today the Cardinals are in Calgary to play the first-place Dinos (14-1) in a doubleheader.
Sunday the Red Birds travel to Red Deer for two games against the 12th-place Braves (2-9).
The St. Albert Cardinals have a bantam AAA doubleheader scheduled today in Spruce Grove.
The Cardinals (9-5) play the host White Sox (12-3) at 10 a.m. and the Okotoks Dawgs Red (3-8) at 1 p.m.
The Cardinals are undefeated in eight games in the provincial seeding round.
Wednesday the Cardinals host SEEBA (9-3) at 7 p.m. at Legion Memorial Park.
