WEEK 1

WEEK 1

Enterprise Mortgage Professionals @ Napanee Midget Express
Enterprise opened the season with a 3-1 victory in Napanee. Kevin Brown was the winning pitcher with Nick Brooks taking the loss for the Midgets.
FINAL SCORE: Enterprise Mortgage Professionals 3 Napanee Midget Express 1

Sydenham Amey's Drilling @ North Fred Kings
Last year's champion Sydenham stumbled out of the gate in their attempt to repeat with a lop-sided 12-2 five inning loss to the North Fred Kings. North Fred has added Mike Finn and Aaron Shiels, both of whom played with the now defunct Darren Green Sandblasting. North Fred hit five homeruns off of Sydenham pitcher Justin Heyman. Finn, Shiels, Pat Severin, Cory Brooks and Jon Peters all hit round trippers for the winners. Bryan Brooks took the pitching win. Ken Spicer homered for Sydenham in a losing cause.
FINAL SCORE: North Fred Kings 12 Sydenham Amey's Drilling 2 (5 Innings)

Battersea Merchants @ Napanee Junior Express
Battersea and the Napanee Juniors opened their 2006 season as the Fairgrounds in Napanee. Napanee took a short lived 1-0 in the bottom of the first inning when Chris Lewis lead off the game with a double and came around to score on a passed ball. Battersea responded quickly, scoring three times in the top of the second inning. Mike Paul lead off with a single and scored on an RBI double by Kevin Burtch. Burtch came around to score when Brad Cashman reached on an err or and Mike Tye drove home Cashman with an RBI single. Napanee's Nate Moffat hit a solo homerun in the fourth inning before Battersea restored it's two run lead when Chris Switzer singled and eventually came around to score. In the home half of the fifth inning Napanee tied the score with an RBI single by Kyle Mack and an RBI triple by Andy Madden. The Express struck again for two runs in the sixth inning to take the lead for the first time since the opening inning. Andrew Wemp led o ff the inning with a walk. After Mike Roantree reached base on an error both runners scored on a single by Ben Tee. Battersea tied the score in the top of the seventh inning on a two RBI single by Ryan Dixon that scored Derek Shaver, who had singled, and Devon Lake, who had walked.
Napanee won the game in the bottom of the seventh on a one out RBI single by Moffat that scored Madden, who had reached on a walk and advanced into scoring position on a passed ball.
FINAL SCORE: Napanee J unior Express 7 Battersea Merchants 6
WP: Andy Madden (relief) 3IP 4H 4BB 5K 3ER 0UER 0HBP
Tim Kellar (Starter) 4IP 6H 1BB 4K 1ER 2UER 1HBP
LP: Chris Switzer (relief) 1.33IP 2H 2BB 2K 2ER 1UER 0HBP
Mike Paul (Starter) 5IP 7H 2BB 9K 4ER 0UER 0HBP

Sydenham Amey's Drilling @ Kingston Cowboys
Sydenham jumped out to a 2-0 lead after their first at-bats last night with the help of two Cowboys errors. Hughie Vankoughnett hit a one out single and then scored on an RBI single to right centre field by Tyler Robinson. Blake Orr, who had reached base on a walk and moved to third on Robinson's hit, scored on a throwing error. Sydenham loaded the bases before the Cowboys were able to get out of the inning thanks to a double play. Geoff Crawford caught a fly ball in left field for the second out of the inning and gunned out Robinson at home plate to end the frame. The Cowboys responded with two runs of their own in the home half of the inning. Jeff Hannah led off with an infield single and Tim Murphy reached base via a walk. Two outs later, Adam Garrision hit a two RBI triple to right centre field. Sydenham regained the two run lead in the second inning, again with the help of a couple of Cowboys errors. Robinson hit his second RBI single of the game to score make the score 4-2. The Cowboys deficit grew to 5-2 in the third on an RBI single by Terry Redden that scored pinch runner Matt Rennie. The Cowboys defense started to round into form with a nice full extension catch by David Purdon in right field in the second and a nice catch by Jeff Hannah in centre off of hot hitting Tyler Robinson in the fourth. The Cowboys offence started to make noise in the fifth inning off of relief pitcher Blake Orr. Jeff Hannah hit a hard line drive to right field that forced Robinson to make a tough running/diving catch on for the first out of the inning. Tim Murphy followed with a bloop single to centre and one out later Jon Swaine hit his first homerun of the season to left centre field. Sydenham responded in the sixth inning scoring on a throwing error to make the score 6-4. Shortstop Jamie Purdon made a nice play up the middle to throw out Ken Spicer to end the Sydenham threat.   In the bottom of the inning the Cowboys used some patience at the plate and some clutch hitting to score five runs Orr gave up five walks in the inning along with an RBI infield single to Jeff Hannah and a grand slam homerun to Doug Kane. Kane became the first Cowboy to hit a homerun into the right field netting. Starting pitcher Jon Swaine came back onto the mound in the seventh in relief of Adam Garrison to shut down Sydenham for the victory.
FINAL SCORE: Kingston Cowboys 9 Sydenham Amey's Drilling 6
WP: Adam Garrison (relief) 1IP 0H 4BB 2K 0ER 1UER 0HBP
       Jon Swaine (Starter & relief) 6IP 5H 4BB 3K 2ER 3UER 0HBP
LP: Blake Orr (relief) 4IP 4H 7BB 6K 7ER 0UER 0HBP
       Mike Halligan (Starter) 2IP 3H 1BB 2K 2ER 0UER 0HBP

North Fred Kings @ Sunbury
North Fred continued on their strong offensive push defeating Sunbury 8-0. Jamie Thompson picked up the pitching win while Craig Hollingsworth, Dave Hannah and Jeff Garrett shared the pitching duties for Sunbury. Aaron Sheils Cory Brooks and Jon Peters all homered for the second consecutive game. Brandon Burtch hit his first of the season for North Fred.
FINAL SCORE: North Fred Kings 8 Sunbury 0

Battersea Merchants @ Enterprise Mortgage Professionals
Chris Switzer picked up the pitching victory as Battersea scored 12 runs in the last two innings to win 13-6. Dale Dowdell, Lyle Brown and B McGinness all through for Enterprise.
FINAL SCORE: Battersea Merchants 13 Enterprise Mortgage Professionals 6