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Junior Blaze wrap up regular season title

Five wins in six games ensures 91Ô­´´ U16 baseball team top spot heading into provincial championships in Victoria
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91Ô­´´ Junior Blaze's Jaron Jeske turns a double play against Matthew Clay and the Coquitlam Redlegs on Sunday afternoon at McLeod Athletic Park.

The 91Ô­´´ Junior Blaze wrapped up the B.C. Junior Premier Baseball League title with five straight victories.

The Blaze boast an impressive mark of 37-5, 7.5 games ahead of the second place North Shore Junior Twins (27-10) who still have five games to play. 91Ô­´´ has just two games to play.

The Blaze U16 baseball team went 5-1 from July 26 to 28, with their lone blemish being a 4-3 loss to the North Delta Junior Blue Jays on the first day.

The Blaze recovered, winning game two 8-5 and then sweeping both ends of doubleheaders on Sunday and Monday.

They beat the Coquitlam Redlegs 6-3 and 13-3 on Sunday and beat the Vancouver Junior Cannons 8-0 and 7-3 on Monday.

The first two games were at Mackie Park while the final four were at McLeod Park.

Blue Jays 4 Blaze 3

North Delta scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning after 91Ô­´´ had scored two to tie things up.

Markus Gregson and Jaron Jeske had the 91Ô­´´ RBIs while Parker Logan was tagged with the loss.

Logan came on in relief in the sixth inning of starting pitcher Yi-An Pan, who allowed three runs in five innings.

Blaze 8 Blue Jays 5

Jesse Unger had a pair of doubles and four RBIs as the 91Ô­´´ offence got back on track. Dominic Baptista also had a pair of RBIs and a double.

Aiden Mordecai earned the win, allowing three runs over the final three innings with five strikeouts. Matthew Poirier also struck out five in four innings of work.

Blaze 6 Redlegs 3

Unger and Baptista again each drove in a pair of runs while Jake Polancic struck out six over 4.1 innings for the win.

Blaze 13 Redlegs 3

After falling behind 3-0 in the top half of the first inning, the Blaze scored 13 unanswered runs.

Quintin Nakamura (three RBIs) and Yi-Fan Pan (two RBIs) led the offence.

Gregson pitched a complete game three-hitter.

Blaze 8 Cannons 0

Yi-Fan Pan pitched a complete game shutout, scattering eight hits over seven innings.

Broden Bydeweg and Gregson drove in a pair of runs apiece.

Blaze 7 Cannons 3

91Ô­´´ scored four times in the fourth inning to break open a 3-0 lead.

Poirier led the way with a pair of runs and a pair of RBIs.

Logan picked up the win on the mound, allowing just three runs over 5.2 innings.

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The Blaze close the regular season with a pair of road games, July 30 at the White Rock Junior Tritons and Aug. 2 against the Victoria Junior Mariners.

91Ô­´´ enters the eight-team provincial championships as the top seed.

The tournament runs Aug. 8 to 10 in Victoria.



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