Times Advocate, 1999-09-15, Page 2301,01*
Wednesday, September 15, 1999
Exeter Times—Advocate
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Bantams bring home the gold for Dashwood
The road to success..,
The Dashwood Bantams captured
the all -Ontario Baseball 'E' champi-
onship at Beaver Valley on Labour
Day weekend.
Dashwood slipped by Flesherton 5-
4 in game one on Friday. Mark Laye
Jr. pitched three innings and struck
out three; Jonathan Brand pitched
four innings and struck out one.
Justin Hayter, Laye and Jake
Romphf hit singles while Brand,
Cam Becker and Jesse Schroeder hit
doubles.
Dashwood was narrowly beat by
Beaver Valley 16-15 in game two on
Saturday. Schroeder pitched one
inning and struck out one; Tim
Meidinger pitched two innings and
struck out one; Romphf pitched four
innings and struck out five; Laye
pitched two innings and struck out
one. Singles were hit by Brand (2),
Hayter (2), Becker, Schroeder; Laye,
Romphf, Meidinger, Kevin Regier
and Matt Anstett (2); Becker hit a
double.
Dashwood edged Flesherton again
in game three, this time 4-3.
Schroeder pitched three innings and
struck out five; Brand went three
innings and struck out four; Laye
finished the last inning and struck
out one. Meidinger, Anstett and
Regier had singles while Becker,
Schroeder (2) and Anstett doubled.
Dashwood had to win the next two
games versus Beaver Valley for the
title. Dashwood mercied their oppo-
nents 14,3 and 15-4. Schroeder
pitched the entire five innings in
game four, striking out four.
Schroeder helped out his own cause
by notching three singles. Other sin-
gles were hit by Becker (2),
Meidinger (2), Regier (2), Brand,
Hayter and Romphf. Meidinger also
had two doubles. Schroeder pitched
the first inning of game five then
Brand finished the last four innings
and struck out two. Hayter,
Schroeder, Laye, Romphf, Meidinger
and Anstett had singles while Brand
(2) and Meidinger swatted doubles.
The other two teams in the tourna-
ment, Brigden and Acton, had to
earn the right to play in the OBA
`tournament by qualifying in their
regions.
'The Dashwood coaches said their
team showed depth and character
fighting off near elimination in game
three and coming back from an
eight run deficit in game two.
Going into Sunday, Dashwood had
to beat Beaver Valley twice to take
the OBA .title. This seemed a tall
order since Beaver Valley had beat-
en Dashwood in a marathon game
on Saturday 16-15 and two weeks
earlier Beaver Valley clobbered
Dashwood 9-1 in.the WOBA tourna-
ment.
Dashwood had experienced sever-
al years of being close to an OBA
championship but were always
unable to win the final game.
But this time the team was
focussed and ready to win. On
Sunday the team displayed excel-
lence in pitching, hitting, base run-
ning but the biggest factor was the
defence. Numerous defensive plays
made, especially on Sunday,would
rival any major league level. Well
done boys! All those years of prac-
tice finally paid off.
Kevin
Regier
Dean
Van Raay
Jesse
Schroeder
Matt
Anstett
Justin
Hayter
Tim Mark
Meidinger -' Laye Jr.
Cameron
Becker
All -Ontario champs.The Dashwood Bantams hardball team recently won the Ontario Baseball Association 'E'
championship at Beaver Valley. Front left: Dean VanRaay, Cameron Becker,Tim Meidinger, Kevin Regier, Mark
Laye jr.; back left: coach Marty Becker, coach Mark Laye Sr., Matt Anstett, Justin Hayter, Jake Romphf, Jonathan
Brand, Jesse Schroeder and coach Tom Hayter.
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