Another week without victories for the Expos
The Sherbrooke Expos played three games in as many evenings over the weekend and suffered defeats against the Big Bill in Coaticook, the Blue Sox in Thetford Mines and the Beavers. Acton Vale in Sherbrooke.
Friday night was the team’s first game following the resignation of manager Daniel Bélisle. The Big Bill in Coaticook took home the win with a score of 10-1.
Maxime Lavoie was ruthless against his former teammates by getting three hits and producing four points for the winners.
The mark was 5-1 in the fifth inning when the Coaticook team doubled their points. They got 13 hits against Sherbrooke’s four.
Nelson Ercia JR produced the only point for the Expos in the third inning with a single that drove Douglas Toro home.
Expos previous coach Daniel Bélisle, who announced his resignation recently, had spoken publically about his health problems a few days before he made the announcement.
He was absent from Saturday's game at the Amédée-roy stadium against the Montreal Brewers.
On Saturday night, the Expos were doubled 10-5 by the Blue Sox at Thetford Mines.
The Sherbrooke team came out swinging, taking the lead 1-0 and 2-1 in the first two innings. Luis Argumedes, the second batter of the match, sent a shot from starting pitcher Jonathan Paquet into net out in left field.
Devan O'bryan followed suit in the fourth inning as the Expos scored three points, including two on Douglas Toro's double.
While the Expos played hard, the Blues scored four points in the third inning and four in the fourth inning to take a commanding lead.
In the third inning, Alex Clavet, Dany Girard and François Tanguay hit singles, and Alexandre Morinville hit a sacrifice balloon to produce the fourth point of the inning.
That was followed by Marc-andré Charbonneau, who hit a solo circuit followed by singles by Dany Girard, François Tanguay and Manuel Bouffard.
François Tanguay's hit caused a major during the game among the players of the two teams, the officials and the 272 spectators present at the match. Tanguay’s hit struck the Expos pitcher, Sam Greene, in the abdomen. He crashed down heavily while the game was still going on. Douglas Toro relieved the injured pitcher, who was warmly greeted by the spectators when he got up. Fortunately, he was not seriously injured.
Sunday night, the defending champions of the Major League Baseball League of Quebec, the Beavers of Acton Vale, were the visitors at the Amédée-roy stadium and they left with a 9-6 victory, to the dismay of most of the 286 spectators.
Martin Bérubé hurt the Expos early in the game with a double of two points in the first inning and a single of a point in the third inning. He hit three hits in four times at bat.
After seeing the Beavers score three points in the opening set, Eddie Lantigua reduced the gap to one point with a two-run homer.
The visitors led 9-2 when Sherbrooke scored four points at the end of the sixth inning. Bruno Laurin hit a ball towards the shortstop player, Gabriel Thibodeau, and that ball made its way to right field. The last two points of the Expos in the match were scored on that hit followed, by an error.
Fernando Fernandez started match and earned four runs on eight hits to lift his record to four wins and one loss. Claudio Ortiz was charged with a fourth defeat in five decisions. He pitched five innings and allowed twelve hits.
The Expos will host the Big Bill from Coaticook this Friday at 8 p.m. at the Amédée-roy stadium, and will then head to Shawiniganto face the Cascades this Sunday at 7 p.m.