The Estevan Minor Baseball Association is getting ready to welcome some talented young athletes to the community.
The association will host the provincial U13 AA tournament from July 23-25 at Cactus Park. The Estevan Brewers, which will boast players from Estevan’s U13 house league teams, will be entered as the host team.
Games will start at 2 p.m. on July 23. Opening ceremonies will be at 5:30 p.m. that afternoon, and a skills competition will occur at 6 p.m.
Games are slated to happen throughout the day on July 24.
Estevan will face the Melfort Selects at 2 p.m. on July 23. The Brewers games on July 24 will be versus the Saskatoon Blue Jay Mud Dawgz at noon and the North Battleford Beavers at 6 p.m.
Also entered will be the Saskatoon Cardinals, Maidstone Lakers, Nipawin Giants and Kindersley Royals.
Teams will be in two pools of four, and will play a round robin against the other teams from their pool. The top two teams from each division will advance to the semifinal rounds; if necessary, there will be tie-breakers.
Tie-breakers, semifinals and the provincial final will be on July 25. If a tie-breaker is needed, the final will be at 3 p.m.; if there isn’t a tie-breaker, the final will be at 1 p.m.
This will be the first of three provincial youth baseball championships to be in Estevan this summer. The other two will be Aug. 14-16, with the U11 AA and the U15 AA championships to be contested.
