Last Thursday the North Battleford Beavers saw their five-game winning streak to start the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League season end with a thud.
They lost to Border City Blue Jays in Lloydminster 8-0. Border City got all their runs early — three in the first, four in the second and one in the third for the victory. Border City also pounded out 16 hits to four for North Battleford. Each team had one error. Jason Fector went seven innings pitching for the Blue Jays and struck out the Beavers 10 times in the contest. He also had two RBIs. Ryan Shepherd pitched three innings and Jared Inkster pitched 1.2 innings for North Battleford.
The 5-1 Beavers then played host to a first-place showdown Monday night at Beaver Lions Stadium versus the 8-1 Meadow Lake Sox at Beaver Lions Stadium. The Sox had come into North Battleford fresh off two wins at home Sunday, defeating the Wilkie Brewers 15-7 and then beating Unity in the evening contest 13-1.
The Sox took an early 1-0 lead in the first inning Monday, but a three-run fifth inning led the Beavers to victory. North Battleford also pounded out seven hits to the Sox’s four. Kyle Palmer went seven innings for the win and recorded six strikeouts. Bryce Gatzke and Brennan Lampitt each recorded RBIs.
Over on the other diamond at Centennial Park, the Battlefords Trappers, coming off a 14-11 loss Thursday to the Mervin Flyers, again ended up on the losing end of a 4-1 final score to the Macklin Lakers.
Tuesday night action saw Standard Hill beat the Trappers 4-2. That home defeat dropped the Trappers to 1-9 on the season.
Meanwhile the Beavers fell 13-10 on the road in St. Walburg against the Reds. St. Walburg built leads of 6-0 and 11-1 en route to the victory.
The next home game for the Beavers is tonight (Thursday) at Beaver Lions Stadium against the Lloydminster Twins. They play the Mervin Flyers in Mervin Monday night. The Trappers are in Lloydminster Thursday to take on the Border City Blue Jays.
Other scores from around the league:
Action June 13 saw the Wilkie Brewers beat the Standard Hill Lakers 10 to 8.
Thursday night saw Lloydminster Twins beat St. Walburg 14-6 and the Unity Cardinals beat Edam 6-5.
Monday night action saw St. Walburg beat Edam 8-5.
Tuesday scores saw Border City beat Edam 14-3, Unity lost at the Twins 5-4 and Macklin beat Mervin 11-8.
