Tsawwassen Athletics crowned U13AA provincial champs

IAN JACQUES ijacques@delta-optimist com

The U13AA Tsawwassen Athletics are provincial champions after an impressive spring/summer season

The A’s went 3-1 in the round robin portion of the championship tournament putting them in first place in their pool

In the semi-final, Tsawwassen faced Cloverdale in a close battle

Sully Todhunter tied it up for the A’s in the bottom of the seventh with a hit into the centre field gap tying the game 2-2

After two scoreless extra innings, in the third extra inning (10th inning), runners were placed on first and second. Cloverdale scored one in the top of the 10th to take a 3-2 lead, but in the bottom half of the inning, Linden Savage played the hero with a walk-off threerun home run on the first pitch to seal the 5-3 win.

In the championship final, the A’s faced North Delta.

Tsawwassen had 13 hits including four home runs from Van Rasmussen, Sully Todhunter, Aidan Hope and Tyler Losse in the 15-5 win

The team was coached by Brian Losse (head coach) with assistant coaches Danny Savage, Tiffany Rasmussen and Matt Warhurst

The team included: Aidan Hope, Charlie WeyJohnston, Cairo Raguero, Holden Ross, Jake Warhurst, Jesse Vance, Linden Savage, Ryder Giles, Sully Todhunter, Tyler Losse, Van Rasmussen, Zac Prokop and bat boy Owen Warhurst.