Disappointing End to Promising Season for Vegreville Blue Jays

Disappointing End to Promising Season for Vegreville Blue Jays

Michelle Pinon - News Advertiser

“Another disappointing end to a promising season.” That was part of a tweet put out by the Vegreville Blue Jays following a 10-4 loss to the Armena Royals in Armena on August 3. It was the best of three final series and the Blue Jays had lost the previous game on home turf, being edging out the Royals by a score of 8-7 on July 29.

“We were off to another promising start after going 8-0 in the regular season and winning the semi-finals against Rosalind in two games,” stated Player-Manager Stephen Hrabec.

Members of the 2021 Vegreville Blue Jays. Back row left to right: Grayson Soprovich, Craig Weder, Zak Lang, Mike Henry, Kyle Muzechka, and Randall Ziegler. Front row left to right: Stephen Hrabec, Kyle Brisebois, Colten Ziegler, and Alan Ziegler.

(Michelle Pinon/Photo)

He pointed out that, “Over the past two regular seasons, we had a 22-1-1 record. Overall, we are extremely disappointed with our performance in the Powerline Baseball League, (PBL) Championship after losing 8-7 and 10-4 to Armena.

While we were very successful until then, obviously our ultimate goal is to win the PBL Championship and we will not be satisfied until we complete this task.

We expect to have much of the same roster for next season; so once again our expectations will be high.”