Day 1 Results: 2010 Junior Men’s Nationals

2010 Junior Men’s Canadian Fastpitch Championships

Location: St. Croix, NS
Dates: August 2nd to August 8th

Kelly’s Pub Canadians have gotten off to a rough start at the Canadian Jr. Men’s Softball Championships in St. Croix, NS with three losses.

Game #1: Owen Sound (ON1) 10 vs. Kelly’s Pub Junior Canadians (NL) 8

Kelly’s fell behind 8-0 in this game and bounced back with 6 runs in the fourth to make a game of it.

Defence and timely hitting were the major weaknesses in this game as starting pitcher Mike Noftall was not at his best.

The team had runners on first and second base with a chance to tie or win the game in the 7th with one out but the rally was cut short as the next 2 batters struck out.

Kelly’s Pub Junior Canadians Pitching Stats:
LP: Mike Noftall 3.2IP, 8R, 7H, 1HBP, 1BB, 5K
Liam Myers (Relief) 3.1IP, 2R, 1H, 1BB, 1HBP

Kelly’s Pub Junior Canadians Top Batters:
Johnny O’Reilly 2-4, 2R HR
Brad Ezekiel 1-4, 2R, HR

Game #2 Kelly’s Pub Junior Canadians (NL) 0 vs. Sooke, BC 12 (5-Innings)

Kelly’s Pub Jr. Canadians bombed by Sooke, BC 12 -0 in a complete lastluster effort by the team. As all aspects of the game defence, hitting and pitching poorly executed.

Kelly’s Pub Junior Canadians Pitching Stats:
LP: Liam Myers 3IP, 2R, 5H, 1BB
Johnny O’Rielly 1.1IP, 6R, 6H, 1BB, 1K
Wayne Bruce 0.2IP, 4R, 4H, 1BB, 0K

Kelly’s Pub Junior Canadians Top Batters:
Johnny O’Reilly 1-2
Craig Edmunds 1-2

Game #3: Nova Scotia 11 vs. Kelly’s Pub Jr. Canadians NL 3

Kelly’s Pub Jr. Canadians can certainly call day one of the Canadian Jr. Men’s Championships a bad day as they suffered their third loss of the day. Kelly’s once again got behind early and were down 4-0 after three innings and it seems every misplayed ball ends up leading to a big inning. In the third and trailing 1-0 a misplayed ball would have been the third out of the inning but the next batter hit a 3 run homer to make it 4-0 and it was downhill from that point. Nova Scotia added 2 more in the 4th and 5 more runs in the top of the seventh. Kelly’s Pub scored one run in the 4th, 6th and 7th. innings.

Kelly’s Pub Junior Canadians Pitching Stats:
LP: Mike Noftall 4IP, 6R, 9H, 1BB, 6K
Wayne Bruce 2IP, 5R, 7H, 1BB, 1K
Johnny O’Rielly 1IP, 0R, 0H, 0BB

Kelly’s Pub Junior Canadians Top Batters:
Liam Myers 1-2, R, HR
Brad Ezekiel 1-2, 2R

Next Game: Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 at 11:00am against Napanee, Ontario.