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GATORS NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
August 04, 2005
Ile Perrot, PQ - The Guelph Erik's Cabinets Midget Gator girls capped an incredible week on Sunday by edging the BC White Rock Renegades 1-0 in the Canadian Championships, to return the title to the Royal City. The Gators last won the title in 1997 and have been second twice and third once since then.
Molly Yetman completed a run of three straight shutouts in the playoff round by allowing only 2 hits in the final and striking out 11. Lauryn Longo tripled to lead off the third inning and scored one out later on a Steph LeClair liner to centre for the winning run. Yetman had a tremendous week with 5 wins in 6 starts (including 4 shutouts and a no hitter) and recorded 67 strikouts while walking only 1 hitter intentionally in the tourney. She was voted the MVP of the playoff round while Longo got player of the game in the final.
The Gators reached the final on Saturday evening with their first win over White Rock and giving national team pitcher Danielle Lawrie her first defeat of the week. Jenna Campagnolo led off with an outstanding at bat, fouling off several pitches before getting a 9 pitch walk. With one out Robyn Haig was hit by a pitch to put 2 on and Ashley Fitzgerald drilled a liner to left centre to get the locals on the board. One out later Marcie Bruder hit one off the left field fence to score Haig and give Yetman all the cushion she would need as she fanned 11 and only allowed 3 hits on the evening.
In the first playoff game on Friday, the Gators downed the defending national champs from Scarborough 1-0 in a huge game. Scarborough had won 2 consecutive national championships (1-Bantam and 1-Midget) and were undefeated on the week so the locals stopped a 27-game winning streak for the Spirit at this level. Yetman allowed 4 hits and fanned 7 while Campagnolo singled in the third was sacrificed over by Sarah Berry and scored on a Haig single to centre for the decisive run.
On the week Haig was named an all star at 3B and maybe had the key hit drilling a 2 run homer in the 7th to score her and LeClair in the final pool play game to give the Gators momentum for the playoffs.
The complete list of scores is as follows:
July 24 Guelph
Manitoba II 9
0
July 25 Quebec
Guelph 2
1
July 26 Guelph
Alberta II 2
1
July 26 Guelph
Saskatchewan II 5
1
July 27 Guelph
Newfoundland 9
0
July 28 Guelph
Nova Scotia 8
1
July 28 BC I
Guelph 1
0
July 29 Guelph
Alberta II 3
2
(tie breaker for 2nd life)
In the playoff round the results were:
July 29 Guelph
Scarborough 1
0
July 30 Guelph
BC I 2
0
July 31 Guelph
BC I 1
0
Championship Game
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