Perfect record
Marauders take home provincial slopitch crown
A perfect weekend for the Memorial Marauders earned the team a provincial banner.
Memorial finished 5-0 to capture the Nova Scotia School Athletic Federation Division 1 boys slopitch title in Wolfville.
Coach Paul MacDonald said his squad was “on cloud nine” after winning the school’s first provincial boys slopitch championship.
“The defence was exceptional the whole weekend,” MacDonald said. Half the Marauders roster will graduate this year, including Trent Reardon and Jacob Keagan, who have played on the team for three years.
“Usually, you have three or four guys ripping the ball, but it was a total team effort from top to bottom.”
The Marauders claimed the banner with an 11-7 triumph over the Amherst Vikings in the championship game on Saturday.
Jacob Buis posted the win on the mound, while Reardon hit three singles and a double. Mike MacGillivary launched a home run and added two hits, Lucas Hancock slapped two singles and a double and Keagan rounded out the offence with a double and a single.
In the semifinal round, the Marauders bested the Yarmouth Mariners, 13-3, with Buis getting it done on the mound and at the plate. He pitched the win, and helped his cause with a triple and two singles. Keagan swatted a home run, double and a triple, Lyndon Murrin hit a homer and a single, and MacGillivary also cracked a home run.
Memorial capped off the round robin with an 8-7 comeback win over the Vikings, as Eldon Snow launched a tworun homer in the seventh for the walkoff victory after a triple from P.J. MacDonald.
The Marauders also posted wins of 9-5 over Central Kings and 14-4 over Horton.