Local sports briefs

by Evan Mathias

St. Clair Mens baseball

The Saint Clair College men’s baseball team brought home some hardware from the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association Championship Banquet.

The team was awarded a regular season pennant after their 14-2 record.

Saints pitcher Kyle Breitner took three awards including the OCAA Top Pitcher Award, OCAA League All-Star and Player of the Year honours.

Breitner’s teammate Crannel Jerald won the Rookie of the Year award after a .408 batting average.

Catcher Jeff Watkin was also named as a league all-star after a season where he hit .455 with three home runs.

Women’s Fastball

The women’s fastball team swept the awards and also claimed a regular season pennant with a 14-1 record.

Pitcher Alexa Georgiou earned the Player of the Year award after a perfect 11-0 record. She had an earned run average of less than one and added 91 strikeouts.

Skyler Patteson was honoured as the OCAA’s top batter after batting .508 while adding 23 RBI’s.

Catcher Amelia Maniuk won the Rookie of the Year award. She had a batting average of .481 while scoring 22 runs for the Saints.

LaSalle Vipers

The LaSalle Vipers extended their winning streak to eight games Oct. 16 after a 5-2 win over the Sarnia Legionnaires.

LaSalle now has 13 wins on the season with only one loss coming in a shootout against the Legionnaires.

The Vipers goals were scored by five different players including Brendan McCann, Nathan Savage, Ben Hanus, Rio Anzolin and Dylan Denomme.

Denomme now has nine points in four games after returning to the Vipers.