This weekend the St. Albert Tigers are hosting a Sunburst Baseball League tournament at Legion Memorial Park.
Game times are 9 a.m., noon, 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. today and Sunday.
The Tigers (3-5) played the Fort Saskatchewan A’s (4-3) Friday but the score was unavailable at press time.
The Tigers are up to bat against the Riggers (5-1) today at noon and the Confederation Park Cubs (5-3) at 6 p.m.
Sunday’s game against the Parkland White Sox (2-7) starts at 6 p.m.
The Tigers resume league play Wednesday against the Athletics at 7 p.m. in Sherwood Park.
Last weekend’s 11-3 victory over the White Sox in St. Albert snapped a three-game losing streak.
Jessy Beley is the top batter on the Tigers with a .455 average and Craig Tomas leads all Sunburst pitchers in innings pitched with 35, is tied for first in strikeouts with 21 and is second in wins with two.
The St. Albert Cardinals knocked off the undefeated Okotoks Dawgs in extra innings in Sunday’s peewee AAA final at the Doc Plotsky Memorial Tournament in Sherwood Park.
The Cardinals are 15-6-1 after the 12-11 thriller against the team that beat them six times this season, including the St. Albert Early Bird final last month.
Okotoks had won 13 in a row before the Cardinals rallied from a 9-5 deficit with four runs in the bottom of the seventh, followed by a pair of runs by both teams in the eighth. In the ninth, Roka Baker drove in the winning run from second base.
In the seventh, after strong pitching by Tyson Kowaluk kept Okotoks from adding to its lead, Nathan McClinton homered and four batters later Maddux Nollski doubled in two runs with one out and the bases load. The next batter, Jackson Moffat, singled in the tying run.
Down by two in the bottom of the eighth, McClinton doubled home two runs to knot it at 11 after Carson Ironside laid down a bunt to advance the runners to second and third with one out.
In the top of the ninth, Nollski, the catcher, threw out a runner at third for the first out and then a runner at second for the next out. Kowaluk recorded the third out with a strikeout.
The Cardinals started the tournament with a 9-8 loss to the South Jasper Place Jays, then beat the Kamloops River Dogs 12-7 and 11-1 for a berth in the final.
This weekend, the Cardinals host Fort McMurray at 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. today and 10 a.m. Sunday at Legion Memorial Park.
Visit www.stalbertgazette.com to view the team picture.
