Black Sox three-oeat as GLBL champions

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The Cambrian Nissan Midget Black Sox captured their third consecutive Great Lakes League championship this past weekend in Traverse City.

The Black Sox were on the road for their final 4 games of the GLBL season with a doubleheader against the Traverse City Rockets on Saturday followed by a Sunday doubleheader in Mancelona against the Orange Crush.

The Traverse City Rockets were the only team with a chance of overtaking the Soo Black Sox. The Black Sox entered the weekend with a record of 10 - 2 while Traverse City was 8-4.

The league championship was won in convincing fashion as the Black Sox took both games against Traverse City by scores of 10-5 and 3-1. Kyle Sayers picked up the victory in the opening game going four innings allowing four hits, striking out four and walking three. Jake Yukich came on to pitch the final three innings. The Sox scored once in the first, twice in the second and four times in the third and cruised to the 10-5 victory. Nick Moon had a double and a single, Kyle Diotte had a RBI triple and Kyle Sayers had a double with 2 RBI’s.

Game two saw Tyler Binkley go the distance to pick up the victory. Binkley scaterred three singles with all of them coming in the fifth inning when the rockets scored their only run. He finished with 13 strikeouts while only walking two. The Black Sox scored all three runs in the first inning. Tyler Wilson singled with one out and came home when Kyle Sayers tripled with two out. J.J. Bergamin then doubled Sayers home and Ryan McDonald followed with an RBI single for the third run of the inning.

Sayers finished the game with a triple and a single. He was the only player with more than one hit.

Sunday the Black Sox went into Mancelona to take on the Orange Crush with the league championship wrapped up. The Black Sox took both games by scores of 6-5 and 22-12. The Black Sox trailed 5-2 entering the top of the 7th inning and rallied to score four runs to pull out the victory. Kory Lafreniere led off with a single, Wyatt Curry walked and J.J. Bergamin forced Curry at second leaving runners at first and third with one out. Kyle Diotte then doubled, scoring Lafreniere, leaving runners at second and third. Kyle Sayers followed with a single scoring both runners and tying the game at five. Dalton Thibodeau struck out for the second out but Ryan McDonald came through with a clutch two out single to score Sayers with the go ahead run.

J.J. Bergamin came on to pitch a scoreless seventh to save the win for Tyler Wilson who had taken over for the starter Andrew Toni. Wilson pitched two solid innings not allowing a hit while striking out one and walking one. Offensively, Kyle Diotte had a double, single and two RBI's. Kory Lafreniere chipped in with a pair of singles as the black sox collected 8 hits in the game. The second game was an ugly affair with the Black Sox coming out on top 22-12 in a game that took almost three hours to play.

Chris Buonomo started and went the first three innings allowing one unearned run. Things went downhill from there as Nick Moon gave up three runs in 2/3 of an inning. Then Jake Lake came on to pitch one inning giving up 8 earned runs. J.J. Bergamin was summoned again to pitch the last 2 1/3 innings to secure the win.

Tyler Wilson led the offence for the Black Sox with three singles and a double and four runs batted in. Joey Lesage had two singles and a double with three RBI's and J.J. Bergamin had three singles with three RBI's to pace a 21-hit attack.

The Cambrian Nissan Black Sox finished the great lakes baseball league with a record of 14-2 and are now 35-11 overall