Saturday鈥檚 doubleheader was a walk in the park for the Jasper Bears in Pee Wee ball action. The host club downed the Spruce Grove White Sox 20-4 and 24-11 at Centennial Park, Sept. 17.
Kelan Polard pitched game one, giving up four runs on one hit. The right-hander struck out six Spruce Grove batters and walked eight in four innings. Cole Borrow pitched the final inning and did not allow a run or a hit.
Everett Pelz and Polard led the Bears鈥� attack with three hits a piece, while Elvis Gorontzy-Slack chalked up two hits. Dylan Dekker, Baden Koss, Duncan McLeod and Borrow added one hit each in the victory.
Polard was outstanding at the plate in game two, slamming a pair of home runs over the left field wall. He also picked up a double and a single in four plate appearances. Eric MacMahon blasted a homer over the right field fence and the speedy Gorontzy-Slack hit an inside the park homer that sailed into deep centre field. Gorontzy-Slack also contributed three singles for a perfect 4-for-4 afternoon. Dekker added a pair of hits while Tristan Erb-Beauchamp, Jesse Kertesz-Knight, Koss and Pelz picked up one hit each.
Borrow, Erb-Beauchamp and Koss shared the pitching duties for Jasper in game two.
In other baseball action, the Jasper Mosquito squad hosted the Sherwood Park Athletics. The home team lost 13-2 and 17-13. Several Bears had the opportunity to try new positions for the first time in a game situation and rose to the challenge.
Keaton Schaefer and Thomas Leclerc each scored a run for the home team in game one. Pitchers Dexter Fawcett, Callum Campbell, Leclerc and Jake Kertesz-Knight shared the mound for Jasper.
Donovan Fawcett led the Bears at the plate with three runs in game two. Leclerc and Kertesz-Knight chipped in with two hits each. Callum Campbell, Nash Hilworth, Henri Leclerc, Morgan Thomas, Gage Leblanc and Schaefer each scored one run. Fawcett, Leblanc, Hilworth and Kertesz-Knight pitched for Jasper in game two. Rowan Koss, Mac Carmichael, Matthieu Marchand and Wyatt Bell also played for the Bears in the doubleheader.
Both Jasper teams will be on the road Sept. 24. The Pee Wee Bears will travel to St. Albert to face the Cardinals, while the mosquito squad will face the White Sox in Spruce Grove.
Steve Kushneryk special to the fitzhugh
