The Parkland Pirates season in the 麻豆传媒AV East Saskatchewan Baseball League came to an end Thursday evening.
While not good news for the Yorkton-based team, it did leave the Langenburg Legends smiling.
The two teams met in Langenburg last night in the deciding game of a best-of-three semi-final playoff. The Pirates had won game one 9-6 Tuesday in Langenburg, then the Legends tied it with an 8-6 win in Yorkton Wednesday.
The Pirates had thought they had things lined up well for the deciding game, until a semi train accident got in the way, explained Parkland coach Brad Haberman. He said the Pirates planned starting pitcher is a firefighter who was called to the accident and as a result could not make the game.
So the Pirates started an AAA Midget pitcher who gave up six runs in the first inning.
Logan Calanchie came into the game in relieve in the second and held the line, but the Pirates couldn鈥檛 get back into the game.
鈥淗e shut the door but we couldn鈥檛 get rolling,鈥� said Haberman. 鈥�... We got one in the second so it looked a little better, I thought if we could get one or two an inning, but the bats weren鈥檛 going.鈥�
With the win Langenburg moves on to the league final against Canora starting next week.
The Pirates now await the Senior AA Tier 2 provincial tournament to be held in Lloydminster Aug, 9-11.
Haberman said the Pirates will head to provincials with a bolstered line-up, picking up four players from Langenburg, and four from Canora for the tournament.
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