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WCBL Cardinals drop three in Edmonton

The Yorkton Cardinals are on a swing through Alberta to wrap up their Western Canadian Baseball League season. The road swing started in Edmonton Thursday where the host Prospects doubled up the visitors 12-6.
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The Yorkton Cardinals are on a swing through Alberta to wrap up their Western Canadian Baseball League season.

The road swing started in Edmonton Thursday where the host Prospects doubled up the visitors 12-6.

Edmonton was up 3-0 after two innings, but Yorkton tied it with a three-run third.

The Prospects were up 8-3 when the Cardinals again scored three in the seventh.

Edmonton would add four for the 12-6 win.

Travis Hint had a home run for Edmonton to go with four runs batted in.

Haden Dow had the win for Edmonton, based on three innings of relief work.

Grady Hawkins took the loss for Yorkton, based on 2.1 innings in relief.

The teams went at it again Friday, but in the second inning the rain came necessitating the game be completed Saturday.

A one-run lead after the first inning for the Cardinals quickly evaporated as the Prospects scored four in the second, three in the third and four more in the fourth on their way to an 11-2 win.

Tanner Roundy was the winning pitcher, going none innings over two days, allowing none hots and two earened runs while striking out no one.

Clayton Keyes was tagged with the loss for Yorkton, based on 1.2 innings allowing seven earned runs.

The teams then went at it again Saturday in a third straight game, this one a seven inning affair.

Yorkton were out to a 4-0 lead in this on by the third inning, but the Prospects cut that in half with two runs in the home half of the third.

The teams then traded three run efforts in their respective halves of the fifth.

In the sixth the Prospects again chopped the Cardinal lead in half with one.

Yorkton got that run back in the top of the seventh to lead 8-6.

But in the home half of the seven Edmonton scored three for a walk-off win.

David Wylie was the winning pitcher, on 0.2 innings of relief, allowing one hit and no runs.

Payton Harris took the loss, on two innings of relief in which he scattered six hits, and walked four, while surrendering four earned runs.

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