The Southeast Performance Pump Twins may be able to take some solace in the fact that although they didn’t have a good end to the season in the Saskatchewan Premier Baseball League in midget AAA, they were able to find some success in the midget AA provincials.
The Twins lost 4-1 to the Northwest Prairie Pirates in Unity Sunday in a match for the Midget AA Tier I provincial title. The silver medal marks the bittersweet end to the season for the Twins.
The Twins started out the tournament with an 11-4 loss to the Weyburn Beavers Friday, effectively making the rest of their games must-wins to stay alive. They did just that through the rest of the round robin Saturday, beating the Regina Blue Jays 13-5 and demolishing the Parkland Expos 19-0 to go 2-1 in the round robin.
With three teams tied at 2-1, the Twins escaped the tiebreaker due to run differential and skated through to the semifinal Sunday, where they defeated the Lumsden Cubs 17-2.
That set up a match with the Pirates, who were the other midget AAA team that had dropped down to the AA provincial tournament and had been undefeated going into the gold medal game.
Earlier in the regular season, the Twins had swept the Pirates in two games at Lynn Prime Field by scores of 14-2 and 8-6.
