O’LEARY
New Brunswick teams for the girls and Nova Scotia teams for the boys are leading the way after Friday’s action in the Eastern Canadian U12 softball championships in O’Leary.
The Southern Black Bears and Kennebecasis Valley Dynamite, The New Brunswick Girls Teams 1 and 2 respectively, both take 3-0 records into Saturday’s schedule. In boys’ action, the Nova Scotia teams ganged up on the P.E.I entries to sit at 2-0 in the standings.
West Royalty Force, the P.E.I. Team 4 entry in the girls championship, got off to a 2-0 start with a 19-4 win over Summerside, P.E.I. on Thursday evening and a 14-10 win over the host O’Leary Reds Friday morning. Then they ran up against the New Brunswick teams in the afternoon, falling 12-0 to the Black bears and 21-1 to the Dynamite. They take a 2-2 record into Saturday’s schedule while Nova Scotia enters Saturday’s schedule with a 2-1 summary. They lost their opener 9-1 to the Black Bears but followed up with a 10-4 win over Tignish and a 13-6 victory over Summerside.
Tignish started off the girls’ tournament with a 7-5 win over the host Reds Thursday evening but a 9-1 loss to the Dynamite and their loss to Nova Scotia has them at 1-2
Summerside and O’Leary both go into Saturday games looking for their first win. They are both winless after three starts.
The seven girls’ teams and four boy’s teams in the respective championships are playing single round robin formats followed by playoff action.
In Boys’ games Friday, Nova Scotia 1, the East Hants Mastadons, opened with a 15-0 shutout of O’Leary and Nova Scotia 2, Brookfield, shutout Alberton by the same 15-0 score. Later in the day, East Hants got by Alberton 14-0 and Brookfield downed O’Leary 8-0.
The final round robin games of the boys tournament goes at noon Saturday with the P.E.I. teams playing for third place and the Nova Scotia teams playing for first. The boys’ teams will then be idle until 9:30 a.m. Sunday when the two Nova Scotia teams will meet again, this time in the first versus second page play-off game. The Island teams will play in the third vs fourth game at 11:30 a.m.
There are, however lots of girls’ round robin action happening Saturday.
Play resumes at 8 a.m., and all four P.E.I. girls’ teams are in action at 10 a.m. There will also be girls’ games at 2 4 and 6 p.m. with both Ellsworth and Ellis fields in use.
