Sydney Sooners

The Dartmouth Moosehead Dry are in Victoria this week representing NS at the Canadian Championships. The Dry start their pool play Thursday morning 9am PST vs NFLD. Followed by a game at 3pm PST vs Mississauga. Check back for scores, but to follow live visit http://baseballcanada.bbstats.pointstreak.com/ or follow @mooseheaddry or @nssbl1977 on twitter.

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Visiting Battery Bradley Fuller(L) and Ted Higa

Home Battery Craig Field Brandon MacKinnon  (6) Jack Berrigan

Visiting Highlights Bolby Turple: three singles, 2 RBI Dryden Schofield: single Ted Higa: single

Home Highlights Josh Pelham: single, 2 RBI Steve Murphy: two singles, RBI Jack Berrigan: triple, single Pat Gilbert: two singles Cam Ritcey: double Brandon Devlin: single Jordan Pelham: single

The fog rolled in around the 6th inning forcing the umpires to call the game in the bottom of the 7th as the Halifax Pelham Molson Canadians came from behind to nip the Kentville Wildcats 4-3 at the Mainland Common.  Josh Pelham, with a single and 2 RBI, and Steve Murphy with a pair of singles and an RBI paced the Canadians while Jack Berrigan stroked a triple and a single.  Pat Gilbert lined two singles and Cam Ritcey chipped in with a double.  Colby Turple powered the Wildcats with three singles and 2 RBI.  Craig Field earned the win with five solid innings while Brandon MacKinnon got the save with two innings of hitless relief.  Bradley Fuller was the hardluck loser.

LEADERS HITS: Darson Murphy T 36; Jake Pelham H 35; Dan Comeau D 34; Anthony McKinley D 33; Chris Head D 32; Jordon Shepherd S 32.

RUNS: Anthony McKinley D 23; Devin Mahoney S 23; Jake Pelham H 21; David Wallace D 21; Chris Head D 20; Darson Murphy T 19; Jeff Chisholm T 19; Josh Pelham H 19. RBIs: Jordon Shepherd S 32; Anthony McKinley D 24; Cory Christie S 20; Dan Comeau D 19.

DOUBLES: Anthony McKinley D, Billy Hartley D , Jake Pelham H , Devin Mahoney S: each with 8.

TRIPLES: No leader: several with 1.

HOME RUNS: Jordon Shepherd S 5; Devin Mahoney S 5; Jake Pelham H 4;Anthony McKinley D 4; Jake Sanford D 3.

SB: Chris Head D 22; Jordon Shepherd S 18; John Chapman T 15; Anthony McKinley D 13; Justin Morton T 12; Chris Farrow S 12.

WINS:Jeff Reeves D and John Chapman T: each 5.

Ks: Jason Mosher D 67; Codey Shrider K 64; Jeff Reeves D 60; Devin Mahoney S 57; John Chapman T 53.

ERA: Devin Mahoney S 0.17; Jeff Reeves D 1.38; Jason Mosher D 1.76; Sheldon MacDonald S 2.11; Justin Davies D 2.44; John Chapman T 2.64.

INNINGS PITCHED: John Chapman T 75; Jason Mosher D 61.1; Brandon Mackinnon H 56.2; Codey Shrider K 56.1; Jason Smith T 56; Devin Mahoney S 53; Jeff Reeves D 52.1; Alex Ostrov K 51.1.

SAVES: Brandon Mackinnon H, Brett McGinnis H, Codey Shrider K, Reilly O'Rourke S and Dan Bates T: each with 2.

After starting the season 0-12 the Truro Bearcats have gone on a little roll. The Bearcats defeated Sydney 3-1 Friday to win their third straight game, which moves them 1.5 games up on Kentville for the final playoff spot. Jason Smith picked up the win and Dan Bates had two singles and closed out the game on the mound for the save. Kenny Long got tagged with the loss in relief of Devin Mahoney. Phil Brown and Sean Ferguson had two singles each to lead the Sydney offence. 

The Sooners won game 2 of the series on Saturday by a score of 4-1. No details available at this time.   The Bearcats have a 1 GB lead on Kentville for the fourth and final playoff spot and have two games remaining with Dartmouth (Sept 1 and 3rd). Kentville has 4 games remaining Tuesday in Halifax and host Sydney for a three game series on Labour Day weekend. Sydney needs one win to capture the regular season title. 

 Visiting Battery Aaron Ferguson (LP) Brett McGinnis (8) and Shawn Walsh

Home Battery John Chapman (WP) Complete game and Shawn Mullins  Matt Mingo (3) 

Visiting Highlights Josh Pelham Single RBI Nolan Latham Single RBI Pat Gilbert Single 2 runs scored Jake Pelham Double RBI Sean Walsh Double RBI 

Home Highlights Darson Murphy  Single, Double 2 runs scored John Chapman sac fly, double single  3 RBI Jeff Chisholm Single Double 2 RBI-Eventual Game winning run Adam MacAloney Single run scored

Game Summary Halifax open the scoring in the 1st inning as Pat Gilbert reached on an error.  With two outs Josh Pelham singles in Gilbert.  Truro bounced back in their half of the 1st inning with Darson Murphy scoring on a John Chapman sacrifice fly to tie the game 1-1.  We move to the 5th inning Nolan Latham singled in Brandon Devlin to make it 2-1 Halifax.  Truro tied it in the bottom of the 6th with a doudle from John Chapman scoring Adam MacAloney to tie again at 2 Halifax scored 3 run on 3 hits in the 8th inning. Pat Gilbert singled and scored on a Jake Pelham double.  Josh Pelham walked Jake Pelham would score   on a double by Sean Walsh. Walsh would score on a wild pitch to make 5-2.  Truro put on its hitting pants in the bottom of 8th scoring 4 runs to take  the lead 4 straight hits by Darsmon  Murphy singled, Adam Lombard singled, John Chapman singled and Jeff Chisholm doubled.  Chisholm would score what would be the  winning run on a throwing error by Pat Gilbert. Halifax had a 3 up and 3 down inning and Truro came up with its 2nd straight win vs  Halifax at home