While the home run kings in the Major League Baseball Home Run Derby strutted their stuff, the Saskota Baseball League's stars continued their feats for their home sides, scoring tons of runs in their games over the past week.
There's only a few weeks left in the season but the teams gearing up for provincials are hitting their strides early.
The Oxbow Chiefs came to Mets Field last Tuesday and knocked off the Southeast Fireballs 22-12, part of four games that day. Thursday, the Fireballs travelled to Arcola and lost to the Threshers 18-5. Also on Thursday, the Estevan Tower Wolves defeated the Carnduff Astros 15-5.
On Saturday, the Windthorst Pirates hosted the Fireballs in a doubleheader with the final scores being 8-1 Windthorst and a 4-4 tie.
Then on Monday, Windthorst again hosted an Estevan-based team with the Tower Wolves dominating 16-2.
The Tower Wolves tower atop the league standings in first place with a 15-2-1 record, ahead of Carlyle in second place at 11-3-3. The Fireballs are in last place at 0-14-2. The teams wrap up their regular seasons this week, with the Tower Wolves in Redvers Thursday to take on the As and the Fireballs going to Wawota Monday to play the Pats.
The league playoffs start July 28 with the start of the Harbourne Memorial Tournament. That continues until July 29-30 when the eight qualifying teams battle at Kenosee Lake to determine a league champion.
The Senior Tier II provincials will take place in Yorkton Aug. 11-13. Taking part in that tournament from the Saskota League will be Carlyle, the Tower Wolves and Oxbow. Carnduff will travel to Unity that weekend for the Tier III provincials, and Kenosee and Arcola will go to Standard Hill for the Tier IV provincials.
Windthorst is hosting Tier V provincials this year, with Redvers also taking part.
