The Yorkton Yankees did not have the greatest season opener recently when they played against the Canora Supers.
The opening game of the 2011 South East Senior Baseball League's season was supposed to have gotten underway on May 10.
For starters it did not get started on time (it was postponed two days-May 10 to May 12). The Yankees were to have met the Melville Bison on Thursday but that game was postponed until May 18, said Yankee manager Wade Karcha.
When they finally got to play a little of America's favourite game, the Yankees did not quite do that, Karcha suggested.
"The Yankees managed only three hits against Canora coming out on the short end of a 10 - 0 score."
On May 18, the pinstripes needed to regain a little confidence and the numbers on the scoreboard suggest that they did that.
Says Karcha: "The Yankees shook off their loss to Canora and a couple of shaky innings against the Bison to record a 14-8 win over Melville."
Derek Marshall started pitching for the Yankees and recorded three strikeouts, says Karcha. Marshall's other numbers included allowing three walks and a pair of hits.
It finished nicely but it didn't start out that way, Karcha noted. "A couple of untimely errors led to an early 6-0 Melville lead."
Tom Cook relieved Marshall, Karcha said, and pitched for three innings, with four strikeouts and allowing one walk and a pair of hits and got the win, adds Karcha.
Chris Wyatt made his 2011 Yankees debut, as well, and saw some time on the mound during the final two innings of the game. Wyatt allowed two runs on three hits and walked one while taking down two by strikeouts. Offensively, Karcha notes, newcomer to Yankee threads, Jeremy Johnson went an amazing 4-4 at the plate.
Johnson cranked out two singles to go along with three RBIs, explains Karcha. Along with Johnson's output, other Yankee runs to cross the plate were Chris Morrison and Kurt Karcha, each scoring twice for Yorkton. Mackenzie Unyi had three, Derek Kohut, Tom Cook, Garrett Karcha, Mitchell Datema and Kurtis Chupa rounded out the pinstripe scoring with one run each, says manager Karcha.
NEXT ACTION
Next action for the Yankees is (Thursday) May 26 in a rematch against the Canora Supers in Canora at 6:15 p.m.
