Co-ed 3 Pitch Silver Medalists

Our J.C. Hill co-ed 3 Pitch team competed in a double knock out 3 Pitch Tournament today.  Our first opponent was Emily C. General.  The team got the bats going with in-field home runs from Jared (two), Jason and MacKenzie en route to an 8-0 victory.  Kevin secured the shutout with an awesome "climb the ladder" catch.

Game 2 was against I.L. Thomas immediately following our first game.  Our opponent got their bats working while our team quieted theirs, dropping the game 8-3 and making the rest of the day's games a must win.

Falling into the loser's bracket, we were pitted against ECG again.  Jared got his 3rd home run of the day and the team played some good team defence when the bases were loaded to escape two error filled innings early in the game to knock ECG out of the tournament by a score of 8 to 3.

In our fourth game, Kevin got a big ovation from the crowd when he pedalled backwards to make an excellent catch.  The rest of the team followed his lead by tightening up their defensive play, avenging the loss to I.L. Thomas by shutting them out 8 to 0.

In the final, J.C. Hill had a matchup against the undefeated Lloyd S. King juggernaut.  LSK had won their first two games by scores of 20-0 and 20-2.  Playing their third game and our fifth, the game started out with 3 up and 3 down from both teams in the first inning.  The coaches knew it'd be a closer game than what LSK had against Kawenni:io and I.L. Thomas.  After 5 innings, we couldn't recover from one error filled inning, losing the game 7 to 1.

Today we earned silver and we look forward to meeting LSK in the Brant County Boys tournament final on Friday.