SUMMERSIDE – The Cardigan Clippers’ offence got hot at the right time.
The Clippers scored 22 runs in their final two games en route to emerging as champions of a parity-filled Summerside Area Baseball Association peewee AA tournament.
The Clippers defeated the Hammonds Plains A’s from Nova Scotia by a score of 9-2 in the championship game at Queen Elizabeth Park’s Very Important Volunteer Field on Sunday afternoon.
The Clippers, who entered the playoff round as the No. 3 seed, also pounded out 13 runs in a 13-1 semifinal win over the second-place Kentville Wildcats on Sunday morning. The fourth-place A’s outscored the first-place Port City Pirates 16-10 in the other semifinal. Port City went 3-0 in the round robin.
Teams tied
However, the playoff picture was far from clear at the end of round-robin play on Saturday night as six teams – Clippers, A’s, Wildcats, Fredericton Royals, Sherwood-Parkdale Knights and Kennebecasis Valley Red Sox – all finished with identical 2-1 records.
The tiebreaking formula featuring defensive runs allowed, divided by defensive innings play, with the lowest being the best was implemented.
Here are the results of the tiebreaker:
Kentville: 13 runs allowed in 21 defensive innings – 0.619.
Cardigan: 13 runs allowed in 20 defensive innings – 0.650.
Hammonds Plains: 16 runs allowed in 21 defensive innings – 0.762.
Fredericton: 18 runs allowed in 21 defensive innings – 0.857.
Sherwood-Parkdale: 19 runs allowed in 20 defensive innings – 0.950.
Kennebecasis Valley: 28 runs allowed in 19 defensive innings – 1.47.
The three-day tournament was sponsored by Dixie Lee Family Restaurant in Summerside.
Round robin
SABA peewee AA tournament round-robin scores:
Friday, June 15
Fredericton 11 Cornwall 3.
Cardigan 7 Dartmouth 1.
Kennebecasis Valley 11 Sherwood-Parkdale 9.
Port City 10 Hammonds Plains 5.
Kentville 8 Summerside 5.
Saturday, June 16
Fredericton 21 Dartmouth 8.
Kennebecasis Valley 13 Summerside 7.
Sherwood-Parkdale 6 Kentville 3.
Hammonds Plains 6 Cornwall 1.
Cardigan 7 vs. Fredericton 5.
Port City 9 Summerside 5.
Sherwood-Parkdale 8 Dartmouth 5.
Kentville 12 Kennebecasis Valley 2.
Port City 11 Cornwall 1.
Hammonds Plains 7 Cardigan 5.
