The Southeast Legacy midget AAA Twins recently went 1-3 during a four-game home stand over the weekend.
The Twins played a double header against the Swift Current Indians on May 23 and lost both games 14-4 and 8-4. The following day, they split the double header against the Saskatoon Cubs; losing the first game 9-4 and winning the second game 15-5.
In the first game against Swift Current, the Twins fell behind 8-0 after the first inning. They didn’t score a run until the fourth inning, when they managed to score three.
The game was called after the fifth inning, since the Indians were up by 10 runs.
Despite getting mercied, the Twins only had four fewer hits than Swift Current. Kirkland Chalus led the Twins offence, hitting a double and a triple, while going two-for-three at the plate.
Throughout the game, coach Blaine Kovach noticed the team wasn’t playing their best.
“We were just flat,” he said. “Nothing was going right and the routine plays weren’t getting done.”
During the second game, Kovach was happy with the pitching, but again it was the fielding and the hitting that cost them the game.
In the first inning, the Twins first two batters reached base and scored and they had a 2-0 lead.
After the Twins surrendered eight runs in the third and fourth innings, Swift Current was held scoreless in the final two innings
“It was just one bad inning. It was going well there for a little bit again the hitting wasn’t quite there,” Kovach said.
The Twins suffered their third loss of the weekend against the Cubs on May 24. They were able to take a 1-0 lead after the first but Saskatoon scored all of their runs in the middle innings to win the game.
In the fifth inning, the Cubs scored five runs which was the turning point in the game, as the Twins only trailed 4-1 up to that point.
“We’ve been having that one bad inning a game and it seems when we have that one bad inning everything snowballs, ” Kovach said.
In the Twins final game of the weekend they mercied the Cubs 15-5 in six innings. The Twins took a 2-0 lead after the first inning, but by the top of the fourth , they trailed 5-3.
In the bottom of the fourth the Twins bats came alive and scored four runs each in the final three innings.
“All of a sudden the boys started to see the ball and they just started launching it,” Kovach said. “The boys started hitting everything they were throwing.”
The Twins are back in action on Thursday against the Regina Expos and the game time is 7 p.m. at Lynn Prime Park.
They also play a doubleheader against the Northwest Prairie Pirates on May 30 at Lynn Prime Park, with the games starting at 4 p.m.
Also the Twins are in action on May 31 as they take on the Saskatoon Diamondbacks at Lynn Prime Park. The game starts at 2 p.m.
