SouthWest ousted by Ontario

A little bit of late offence wasn’t enough to keep Lethbridge SouthWest Little League’s run Canadian Little League Baseball Championships going.

The Alberta representatives were edged 7-6 by Ontario as they attempted to force a tiebreaker Thursday inMirabel, Que.

SouthWest Little League trailed 4-1 after five innings, but pounded out five runs in the top of the sixth to take a 6-4 lead.

But Ontario responded with some late bats of their own, putting up three runs in their half of the sixth to earn the win and advance to the semfinals, while Lethbridge wraps up the week at 1-4.

OnThursday, SouthWest outhit Ontario 10-7 as Daillon Kryzanowski led the way, batting 3-for-4 with one run scored.

BrennanMcTavish was 2-for3withone run scored and Carter Capton was 2-for-4.

Joseph Seo took the loss for SouthWest, throwing two and one-third innings, allowing four runs on four hits, walking two and striking out two.

Capton got the start for Lethbridge, going three innings and surrendering three runs on three hits, walking five and striking out five.

Agroup of young hockey players raced up and down the ice Thursday afternoon at the Taber Arena, taking part in a scrimmage at theVer-Set Skills Camp and proudly brandishing their camp jerseys.

But on those green and gold sweaters were two numbers and initials close to everyone’s heart.

This year, theVer-Set Skills Camp— owned and operated by Lethbridge’s KrisVersteeg, Taber’s Devin Setoguchi and RichWiest— is paying tribute to Lethbridge’s Logan Boulet, one of 16 people killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash April 6, and former University of Lethbridge Pronghorns captain Brock Hirsche, who lost his battle to cancer two days later.

As the players took the ice this week at the camp that started Sunday and will wrap up Saturday, they do so in the colours honouring the Broncos with Boulet’s number 27 and