Sydney Sooners

Mike Lockhart hit a 2-run double in the top of the 17th inning to put Kentville ahead to stay in the longest Senior League game of the season. Matt Pearl, Luke Smith and Kevin Miller all chipped in with three singles and a double each for the Wildcats while the Gateways had a single, double and triple from Julian Dease and a single and double each from Curtis Falls and Andrew Williams. After blowing the save attempt, Curtis Falls, who came on to pitch in the eighth settled down to shutout Kentville until he gave way to Clyde Landry in the sixteenth. Kevin Daurie, Matt Pearl, and Alex Sabean combined to shutout Yarmouth from the seventh to the seventeenth with Sabean picking up the win. Kentville 010 030 011 000 000 03 - 9 23 1 Yarmouth 120 021 000 000 000 00 - 6 15 2 Joel Fuller, Kevin Daurie (7), Matt Pearl (9), Alex Sabean (W)(14) and Luke Smith; Jevon Titus, Curtis Falls (8), Clyde Landry (16) and Tim Clayton, Russ Grant (17). HR: Kent - Todd Benjamin

Jim Mosher has released the list of players that the Kentville Wildcats are picking up for Nationals this year in Kentville. The players announced are Craig Higgins of the Truro Bearcats, Jamie Vallis of the Sackville Chiefs, Sheldon MacDonald, Mark Stiner and Jason Adams of the Halifax Blues, Richie Walcott of the Sydney Sooners and Jason Macdougall of the Wildcats' affiliate Hantsport Shamrocks. Mosher also is picking up Shawn Wilson of the Sydney Sooners but has to verify with Baseball Canada as to his elligibility. Jeff Fielding, who played with the Truro Bearcats last year, was asked but he could not commit to Nationals. Higgins, last year's league MVP, plays infield and pitches. He is currently batting .377 with five steals and ten RBI. As a pitcher he has a 2-2 record with 25 strikeouts and a 3.52 ERA. Vallis is second in the league in batting with a .463 average as an outfielder and is leading the league in ERA with a 1.88 mark. Sheldon MacDonald is leading the league in wins with an 8-1 record and second in strikeouts with 57. Mark Stiner is second to MacDonald in wins with five and amoung the league leaders in strikeouts. Third Baseman Jason Adams who tied in voting for top third baseman was tied first in triples with, third in RBI with 39, tied fifth in homeruns with 6, and had a .563 Slugging Percentage. First Baseman Richie Walcott is third in the league with 28 hits. Jason MacDougall is currently batting .435 with two homeruns and 13 RBI for Hantsport. Today, July 15th, is the date that Kentville had to make their first ten pickups known to allow the Dartmouth Dry time to make their Nationals' selections. The Dry have until August 1st to make their picks.

The Sackville Chiefs have appealed to BNS, President, George Farmer the decision to overturn an earlier ruling issued by the NSSBL with regards to the game played June 6, 2001 against the Truro Bearcats. The appeal committee issued their decision on July 5,2001. The Sackville Chiefs then had 7 days to appeal this decision to President Farmer. Today, Sackville Chiefs, General Manager Gordon Jones filed the appeal at the BNS office. While the Sackville Chiefs have the utmost respect for the appeal committee, General Manager Jones strongly feels all the facts were not presented. No one from the Sackville Chiefs was invited to attend the appeal hearing. Therefore the action taken today will hopefully give the Sackville Chiefs an opportunity to present their case.

The NBSBL banged out 18 hits and Jay Magee pitched three innings of one-hit ball as the New Brunswick squad went on to take the game 12-7. Chatham Ironmen outfielder, Dino Gallant was the New Brunswick All-Star MVP going three for six with a single, double and homerun to go along with three RBI. Catcher Mike Ivey of the Moncton Mets also homered for the victors. Jamie Vallis, who garnered the MVP accolades for the Nova Scotia team, had a single, homerun and two RBI. Jay Turple and Billy MacKenzie also hit homeruns while Darren Doucette added a pair of singles. NBSBL 001 201 152 - 12 18 1 NSSBL 000 012 013 - 7 11 2 Jay Magee (W), Steve Estabrooks (4), Woolfsmith (5), Kevin Martin (8), Mark Lagone (9) and Mike Ivey, Allen Hilchie (5); Craig Higgins, Rob Hanson (L), Jevon Tirus (5), Kevin Daurie (7), Sheldon MacDonald (8) and Russ Grant, Craig Cooper (6). HRs: NB - Mike Ivey, Dino Galland NS - Jay Turple, Billy MacKenzie, Jamie Vallis

Baseball Nova Scotia overturned the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League's ruling on the eligablity of the Truro Bearcats' Jeff Maxner. The Sackville Chiefs had protested a game between the Chiefs and the Bearcats in which Truro won 4-3. After the information went before a NSSBL protest committee, it was decided that Jeff Maxner was inelligible to have been on the Bearcats' roster, and the win was taken away from Truro. With the appeal, Truro gets their win back.