U18 Expos open season in big way

By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer

It would be hard to script a better opening weekend for the Yorkton U18 Expos.

The team hosted the North Battleford Beavers for a doubleheader at Jubilee Park and the home team plated 23 runs over two games.

In one game the Expos scored eight third inning runs on their way to a 15-2 victory. The big inning came via three walks, three singles, a defensive error and a ground out.

The other contest was also a lopsided affair as Yorkton won 8-1.

A singe by Brandon Spilchen in the first inning scored an Expos run, and the rout was on, including a four-run sixth.

Ty Ulmer was on the mound for the win, surrendering only the one run, while scattering five hits and striking out 10 over seven innings.

the board – a highlight of an amazingly detailed board and offering.

The pollen is represented by wooden cylinders that are nice aesthetically to collect. Players store the pollen on individual boards which have recesses for the cylinders – so the component quality is about as good as it gets, which if you have played Azul you recognize it is sort of a Next Moves Games signature.

Beez initially is a bit harder to grasp than say Azul, or Reef, but once you get the movement of the bee pieces down, it plays quick with easy to understand goals –the card variety means slightly different objectives game to game.

In the end this one looks nice, but won’t become a classic like Azul. Still, on bee day it’s a perfect fit.

And to wrap up back to the website for five World Bee Day facts you won’t “bee-lieve!”

Bees are the most important pollinator in the world and have been for centuries. But here are some interesting facts you may not know about these winged creatures:

* The average honey bee will only make around 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in its entire lifetime.

* A single bee visits 50 to 100 flowers on each pollination trip.

* Almost 75 per cent of the crops grown in the world rely on honey bee pollination.

* Bees have four wings!

* There are over 25,000 different species of bees - and many of them can’t even sting!