Royals lose in 5 games

The Royals took on the Stallions in the league final this past week. Games one and two were played on Monday with the Royals taking game one by a score of 7-3. Mathew Strueby tossed a complete game for the win. The next game saw the Stallions defeat the Royals by a 6-3 score. Nick Anderson threw four innings and Carter Freriche pitched the final two for the Royals. The next day saw the Royals back in action as they lost game three by a 9-5 score. Carter Frerichs threw four innings and Paul Strueby three for the Royals. This game featured a lengthy rain delay so only one game was played on this night. The very next day saw the Royals in Saskatoon again to play game four and five. The first game saw the Royals win by a 5-2 score. Our midget pickups Brody Frerichs and Logan Hofmann did the pitching. Logan threw four innings of no hit ball to get the win. This moved the series to game five. Colin Bauml started on the mound for the Royals throwing 4 1/3. Thomas Lessmeister (another midget pickup) came in and threw 3 and thw thirds in relief while Mathew Strueby was again on the hill pitching the ninth inning. Yes the game went nine innings. The boys were down four runs in the sixth, two runs in the seventh, two runs in the eighth and each time the Royals came back to tie it up forcing anoher innings. The Stallions, however, pushed four across in the ninth and the Royals could not come back after that. It was an amazing effort seeing as the team got home at 2am on Monday, 1am on Tuesday, had to go to work both days and leave work early both days. Oh yeah and we had nine players on Monday and ten on Tuesday. Great effort men. Congrats to the Stallions on their series and league win!