This past weekend our 11U T2 team (sponsored by The Apple Place) travelled to Caledonia to compete in the SCBA Year-End Tournament and came home as Champions!
Starting their run on Friday, the Giants faced the Woodstock Wranglers, winning the game after six innings by a score of 12-2.
Saturday morning the Giants started the day against Caledonia Bears. Unfortunately, the Bears got on the board in the first and managed to maintain the lead, shutting out our Giants 3-0. The team battled back in the afternoon game against the Tillsonburg Otters, capturing the lead in the bottom of the second and never looking back, winning the game 14-6.
On Sunday the Giants kept up the momentum. In their first game of the day, against the Walsingham Senators, the team trailed by as many as four runs. But our Giants rallied to win, ending the game 13-8. In their first second game of the day our Giants had a rematch against Caledonia. This time the game ended in our favour as the Giants took the game with a 6-5 walk-off win. Facing the Ingersoll Ironbirds in the Finals, our Giants captured the lead in the bottom of the second and continued to build, ending the game with a 13-9 win.
But the story doesn’t end there!
As the tournament is double knockout, and the game on Sunday was Ingersoll’s first loss, our Giants had to face them again to declare the winner.
Meeting in Delhi on Monday, the teams matched each run: one in the first inning and four in the fourth. Our Giants were able to capture the lead in the bottom of the fifth and held on, winning the game 6-5.
Congrats on your great SCBA season, Giants!