The Southeast Legacy Twins got a taste of elite regional competition on the weekend.
The team's runner-up finish at the midget AAA baseball provincials last month earned them a berth at the Western Canadian championship in Winnipeg.
Head coach Dave Odgers told The Mercury after the surprising provincials showing that his team had no expectation of winning Westerns, and that proved accurate as the Twins lost all five of their games over the four-day tournament.
The southeast Saskatchewan club began on Thursday night with a 7-3 loss to a team from Cloverdale, B.C.
The next morning, they faced a club comprised of players from St. Boniface and St. Vital, Man., and it was a closer affair, as they lost 5-3.
Later in the day, the Twins suffered their worst loss of the tournament, being blanked 7-0 by the Winnipeg South Chiefs.
On Saturday afternoon, the Twins were involved in another tight game, falling 2-0 to a familiar league foe in the Regina Athletics. The Athletics had beaten them 2-1 in a round-robin game at provincials.
In their final game on Sunday morning, the Twins were dealt their fifth defeat in a 7-5 decision against the St. Albert Cardinals.
St. Albert would go on to win the Western championship, defeating Cloverdale 5-0 in the final on Sunday.
The Twins advanced to the tournament by pulling off an unexpected run to the provincial final in Regina last month, where they lost 8-4 to the Regina Wolfpack.
The club posted a 13-16 record in the Saskatchewan Premier Baseball League regular season, tying for sixth place among nine teams.
