Coquitlam A's win B.C. Senior Little League championship
Coquitlam A’s pitcher Benny Maeda prepares to let fly while a West Van. runner takes off from first base Saturday during the B.C. Sr. Little League finals at Blue Mountain Park.
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Updated: July 21, 2009 9:39 PM
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Coquitlam A's are the best in B.C.
The host A's rallied from a 4-2 deficit in their final at-bats Tuesday to beat the North Vancouver Red Sox 6-4 in the B.C. Senior (14-16) Little League championships at Blue Mountain Park.
The victory allowed the A's to become the first Coquitlam Little League team to ever win the Senior provincials and advanced them to the Canadian national finals Aug. 8-15 in New Brunswick.
It also marked their third win in as many tries in the four-team double-knockout tournament, allowing them to avoid a prospective second "final" game Wednesday night with the Red Sox having entered the contest already having lost once.
"We didn't want to get down to a one-game situation, where anything can happen," said A's manager Bruce Michael. "We were hitting the ball hard but we were just hitting it at people. You can't get frustrated when that happens... you just keep rolling, keep the faith and eventually good things happen."
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