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Brussels players participate in national championships
Four young ballplayers from
Brussels, three PeeWee and one
Midget, will be travelling to Eastern
Canada next month to compete in
national championships.
The three PeeWee players are
Bennett Newell, Jack Pipe and
Logan Kellington, who will be
playing for Chepstow. Brody TenPas
is the Midget player and he will be
playing for the Teeswater Otters.
TenPas was a member of the
Teeswater Bantams that lost out in
the championship final last year at
the Eastern Canadians.
Since he played for Teeswater last
year, he said they invited him to play
for the Midget team this year.
The Canadian Midget boys
championship will be played in
Quebec, Aug. 5-11.
The team has been quite
successful this year. The Teeswater
Midgets were finalists in the
Mitchell tournament, won the
tournament in Kitchener and they
won the elimination tournament.
“We will be Team OntarioI at the
Canadian championships,” said
TenPas.
The provincial championships are
being played in Teeswater this
weekend.
“I am looking forward to the
Canadian championships,” the right
fielder said. “We are looking to do
well at the provincials.”
Jack Pipe is a utility player on the
PeeWee team. He played last year in
Walkerton and is looking forward to
playing with Chepstow this year.
He said the team lost out in the
final of the Ontario Amateur Softball
Association (OASA) tournament
earlier this year so will be the second
representative from Ontario at the
Eastern Canadians.
Logan Kellington is entering his
third season with Chesptow and is
the shortstop on the team. The
Eastern Canadians are being played
in Fredericton, New Brunswick on
Aug. 22-25.
Kellington pointed out that the
team won a tournament in Stratford.
“We should do okay at the Eastern
Canadians,” he said.
So far this season, he has hit one
home run, has added three triples
and was batting .425 at the OASA
championships.
Bennett Newell is the team’s
catcher. “I think we’ll do pretty good
at the Eastern Canadians,” he said.
He said he got invited to play on
the Chepstow team through Gary
Pipe,who is a coach for the Brussels
PeeWees. “I’m a decent hitter,” he
said.
The Chepstow PeeWees are
having a fundraiser on Aug. 15 at the
Mildmay Recreation Complex.
There will be a barbecue and corn
roast from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.,
with supper being by donation.
There will then be an Elvis tribute
show at 7:30 p.m., starring Peter
Irwin. Advance tickets for the show
are $20 for adults and $10 for youth
18 years or under. Tickets at the door
are $25 and $15.
Tickets are available from
Liesemer’s Home Hardware in
Mildmay, Boomer’s Cosy
Restaurant in Teeswater, Holst
Office Supplies in Walkerton and
Cinnamon Jim’s in Brussels.
There will be a car wash and
barbecue in Brussels on Saturday,
Aug. 3.
By Jim Brown
Special to The Citizen
Taking Brussels ability to the championships
Several players from Brussels are showing the country what they’re capable of during
upcoming baseball championships. Show are, from left, Ty Sebastian who recently returned
from the U21 Men’s Fast Pitch International Championship in Saskatoon and who is
competing at the national championships in August, Bennett Newell, Jack Pipe and Logan
Kellington who are heading for the PeeWee championship with Chepstow and Brody TenPas
who plays for the Midget Teeswater Otters. (Photo submitted)
International win ‘didn’t sink in’ right away; Sebastian
Ty Sebastian of Brussels had a lot
of reasons to be smiling when he got
home from the U21 Men’s Fast Pitch
International Championship in
Saskatoon earlier this month.
While each of his six home runs
and 17 runs batted in, and his .529
average in the round-robin and and
.545 average in the playoffs likely
factored in, nothing could compare
with leading his team to victory at
the event as the captain, even if it
took him a little while to realize that.
“It really didn’t sink in until I was
on the plane home after the game,”
he said. “We were up 9-3 going into
the last inning and I knew, we just
needed three outs and then we had
this, this was really going to
happen.”
Sebastian said after they won the
game and he was happy, but he
didn’t really start to feel the
excitement until he was on the plane.
Even then it was slightly subdued.
“It wasn’t until the next day that I
woke up and realized, yeah, that
really happened,” Sebastian said.
The team was taking on
competitors from across the country
and around the world and the latter
was a really great opportunity
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
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Knocking the stitches off
During the recent U21 Men’s Fast Pitch International Championship in Saskatoon, Team
Ontario Captain and Brussels resident Ty Sebastian held nothing back, knocking six home
runs out of the park and driving in 17 runs over six games. (Michelle Berg, The StarPhoenix)
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