The Southeast Legacy midget AAA Twins took a trip out of the country to play a tournament in Williston North Dakota from June 11-14 and went 1-4.
The Twins started the tournament with a five game round-robin.
In their first game, they dropped an 8-4 decision to Miles City. Brett MacMurchy pitched all seven innings for the Twins.
“We played all right, we did very well for the first innings but we just couldn’t get the runs early on in the game, and that ended up being our down fall,” said coach Blaine Kovach.
The Twins earned a 12-3 victory against a team from Sidney, Montana, in their second game.
Kovach said the hitting was there for the Sluggers, which led to the victory. Pitcher Kirkland Chalus earned the win as he pitched a complete game.
Kovach also mentioned, both Colton Gingras and Ryan Gaab hit well throughout the game.
“It seemed that everyone that went up to the plate got a hit and they just were moving them around (the runners), but everyone … got on base and they scored a lot of runs which was good,” he said.
In the third game, the Twins fell 10-8 to the team from Wahpeton, North Dakota. The Twins were up 8-1 at one point of the game, but Wahpeton battled back to take the win.
Once the Wahpeton batters figured out the Twins pitching, there was no stopping them offensively, Kovach said.
“Once they got their bats rolling they just didn’t stop. It was around the fourth inning they started getting the hits and just kept going from there.”
In the Twins final game of the round-robin they lost 10-3 to the Saskatoon Giants.
“They just came out swinging … our starting pitcher had a little bit of struggles in the beginning of the game and … they ended scoring the majority of their runs in the first three innings,” said Kovach.
After allowing those runs in the beginning of the game, the Giants offence cooled off but Kovach said the Twins just couldn’t battle back.
The Twins finished fourth in their pool and they were matched up against the fourth place team in the other pool, Swift Current Indians, for their final game.
Swift Current came out on top, winning 2-1. Kovach said the game could have went either way.
Kovach said his team pitched well but the offence couldn’t find the holes in the Indians’ defence.
“It seemed that everyone that hit the ball, it was right to someone … and we just couldn’t get that extra run when we had runners on,” he said
Despite only winning one game, Kovach said the team played well.
“Overall, we played well. We limited our errors in each game, which was nice, we had some hitting here and there, which was good to see,” he said.
The Twins play next on June 20 in Muenster against the Red Sox and the Saskatoon Cubs.
