WEYBURN — The Weyburn Beavers hosted the Brooks Bombers for a pair of weekend games, and both were high-scoring losses, before hitting the road and starting their Alberta road trip in Edmonton on Tuesday night.
Weyburn was downed 7-4 by the Edmonton Prospects, with the Beavers scoring single runs in the first, third, fourth and fifth innings. The Prospects’ bats came alive then, and they scored six of their runs in the sixth inning.
Ian Heck of the Beavers had a home run and two RBIs on the night, with Ryan Muizelaar and Dallas Cummins also getting single RBIs.
Owen McConnell was the losing pitcher, and was on the mound for five and a third innings, allowing six hits and four runs, and getting two strike-outs.
Tanner Coddington came on for the balance of the next inning, allowing three hits and three runs, getting one strike-out; and Logan Wortman pitched the last two innings, allowing no hits or runs, and getting two strike-outs.
In Saturday’s game, with Brooks winning 12-7, the two teams traded home runs and kept pace with the score 5-5 at the end of three innings, then Brooks scored four runs in the fifth, and added another three runs in the seventh inning.
Home runs were hit by Ian Heck, Halen Otte and Carter Schellsmidt, providing most of the runs batted in, along with River Smith.
Ryan Meyer took the loss on the mound, and was on the mound for six innings, allowing nine hits and nine runs, and getting four strike-outs.
Mathieu Rocheleau came on in relief for an inning, allowing two hits and three runs, getting one strike-out; McConnell threw for an inning, getting two strike-outs; and Wortman pitched for the last inning, getting three strike-outs, allowing two hits and no runs.
In Sunday’s game, which Brooks won 20-12, both teams were scoring runs inning by inning, with the score 8-6 at the end of the fifth inning, before Brooks brought in six runs in the sixth inning, three more in the seventh and two in the eighth, while Weyburn added three in the seventh as well.
Otte had three RBIs, Heck had two, Nick Teng had three and Ryan Webster added one.
Ethan Webster took the loss on the mound for Weyburn, pitching for five innings and allowing 12 hits and eight runs, and getting three strike-outs.
Joe Hart came on briefly, allowing three hits and six runs; Angel Fragozo pitched for one and two-thirds innings, allowing four hits and three runs; and Jordan Bauer pitched for the final two innings, allowing two hits and two runs.
The Beavers are now on their Alberta road trip, as they headed up to Fort McMurray to play on June 26-27, then they will be back in Edmonton on June 28, and down to Sylvan Lake for games on June 29 and 30.
On Canada Day, they will be playing in Medicine Hat before coming back to Weyburn on July 3.
