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Jason Ottley (4) of the Dirty Farmers sails into second with a stand-up double during a Farmers’ rally in the semi final game against The Dawgs.
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The Dirty Farmers pose for a team photo, complete with the next generation of baseball players included. SUN photos
Farmers win their first Southpoint Lobball title WHEATLEY — It took 16 years, but the Dirty Farmers finally won the championship of the Southpoint Men’s Lobball League. In the wind-up tournament this past weekend, the Farmers took the long way home as they came from the loser’s side of the bracket to beat the Car Barn twice in the final. The Farmers — who finished first in the regular season — beat the Bangerz in their first game, then lost to the Car Barn in game two. Car Barn had just upset The Dawgs in earlier action and by virtue of their two wins, got a bye into the final on Sunday.
The Farmers met up with the Dawgs Sunday morning and edged them to reach the final. The tall task at-hand was to beat the Car Barn twice in the double-knockout format. They did that handily as the bats got going in game one with a 16-7 victory, which deflated the upstart Car Barn squad. In game two, the Farmers jumped out to a 6-3 lead and never looked back, exploding for five more runs on route to a 14-4 victory and the championship. Team members included Scott Dresser, Jordyn Drummond, Cody Cabral, Craig Howe, Wes
Wright, Adam Howe, Dylan Montague, Aaron
Hutchinson, Tyler Dominato, Jason Ottley, Steve
Wenzler, Josh Brett Cobby,
Coulter, Trevor
Grieve, Derek Couto and Evan Tofflemire.
——Harness Round-up—— By Nathan Bain Records were made to be broken and this past Sunday, September 19 at Leamington Raceway, some exciting milestones were achieved. This 10-race card was full of competitive races and talented athletes providing non-stop excitement for the fans. Once again, the total handle exceeded $41,000 from both fans on track and online wagering sites, showing that this small-town track can
punch above its weight. The first milestone of the day came in Race 4 with the winner (#5) Mister X, who captured his 50th lifetime win. Mister X made the front at the start and didn’t look back once, dominating the field. The 10-year-old son of Mister Big is owned by Blue Shoe Investments, trained by Tyler Nostadt and was driven by Tyler Borth, the track’s 2nd leading driver. The second milestone
came in Race 8, the featured event of the day, and this was by far the best looking race of the card. The favourite, Sports Icon, made the lead and put up blistering fractions the entire way to win the race and even fought off a late push from Dreaming Out Loud, with a time of 1:56.2. That mile was a track record for aged pacing mares at Leamington Raceway, breaking a fairly recent record
set by Lady Natasha a few weeks back. Sports Icon was driven by leading driver Garrett Rooney, and is owned and trained by Marc LePage of Leamington. Fans and horsepeople will be following to see where Sports Icon goes next. Live racing returns Sunday September 26 with a 1 pm post. For those who cannot attend you can watch and wager on hpibet.com.
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