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By: Marcus Seifert
The Junior Jays baseball team completed the trifecta this weekend after winning the Cashion Tournament on Saturday, pushing their record to 16-1 for the season including an 11-0 tournament record this summer.
A weekend that many expected Big Brown to win the Triple Crown of horse racing saw the Jays take on Edmond North in the first game, with Landry Chappell toeing the mound.
Bryan Dutton and John Clark provided the offense by going 3-3 and 3-5 respectfully. With Chappell throwing strikes and a strong defense behind him, the Jays posted a 9-2 victory.
The offense kept clicking in the nightcap, posting a, 10-0, five inning run rule win over the host team Cashion. Dutton collected the win on the mound.
In the Championship game, Hayden Seifert got the call as the starting pitcher from head coach Casey Porter. After the three complete innings, Guthrie found themselves down 3-1 to a very talented Yukon team, but the Jays went to work.
Clark put the quarter in “merry-go-round” by tagging up on a foul ball that was caught by the catcher and advanced to second. After a single by Casey Gates, Levi Betchan hit an RBI single to score Clark.
Dutton would then hit a double to the wall scoring Gates and Betchan and the Jays never looked back. Guthrie appeared to get a spark in the middle of the fourth inning from Coach Porter, and it was obvious the Jays came out with a different attitude. Guthrie tacked on runs in the sixth with an RBI single from Seifert scoring Luke Davis, and in seventh when Evan Plagg scoring on a single by Hunter Adams.
After getting out of the first two innings with bases loaded jams, without allowing a run to score, Seifert was touch for three runs in the third, but didn’t allow another runner past second for the rest of the game. With the 7-3 win, the Jays claimed their third tournament title in three tries.
Guthrie will compete in one more regular season tournament when they travel to the Moore Tournament June 19-21.
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