Roadrunners fall in Heisler B Final

The Camrose Roadrunners made the trek out to one of Alberta’s finest rural baseball mecas in Heisler on Saturday and Sunday and picked up a win and two losses despite a resoundingly quiet offensive output.

Game one saw the perennial Battle River League contender Rosalind Athletics lay a stomping on the Roadrunners with a huge 11-run second inning. Camrose couldn’t manage a hit against a Rosalind junkballer who disposed of 17 batters in five innings of work.

Sunday morning rolled around, and it was time to hand the ball over to Pam MacTavish who was celebrating the one-year anniversary of her dusting of the Maidstone, Saskatchewan team in the very same game last year after giving birth just six weeks prior.

It looked like a very similar outing for MacTavish who struck out five and scattered a handful of Lougheed hits to keep the game within reach at 4-3 heading to the sixth. The Roadrunners, whose offence was finding a hard time clicking, finally got some off the shnide with an Alex Roth double and Sheldon Petryshen bunted his way on before scoring to make it 5-4.

MacTavish then worked the seventh and got two outs, with runners on first and second. All was ready for a showdown with a Lougheed lefty when the runner on second broke, and MacTavish seemingly picked him off running for third. However, after the team celebrated, the umpires (Heisler Cardinal players) rightly ruled it was balk and all the Roadrunners returned to the field only to see MacTavish mow down the final batter for the win.

Camrose then squared off against Spring Lake in the B Final and the offence went back to sleep. Josh Banack kept the Lakers at bay for the most of the day, but 4 unearned runs ended up making it 7-0 after five and that’s all she wrote.

The Roadrunners now have a rematch of hotly contested game a couple weeks ago against the Leduc Milleteers. They also play Beaumont on Thursday before hosting a tournament in Round Hill/Holden/Armena this weekend.