It isn't happening overnight, but the Â鶹´«Ã½AVeast Legacy Twins are slowly making progress.
The midget club lost three of four games at the annual midget selects ID tournament in Moose Jaw over the weekend, but showed glimpses of potential.
Baseball Saskatchewan scouts use the tournament to help pick the Saskatchewan selects team, which will compete at this year's Canada Cup in Moncton.
Scouts also get a look at younger players who could play on the team in the future.
Twins head coach Tom Copeland believes first-year pitcher/shortstop Austin Orsted may be one of them.
"I think Orsted's on their radar screen, probably not for this year, but maybe for the 16-year-old selects team," he said.
Pitchers Mackenzie Lamontagne and Nate Koszman could also get attention from scouts in the future, according to Copeland.
"He throws hard enough, probably, to pitch at that level," he said of Lamontagne.
The Twins opened the tournament Friday night against the Okotoks Dawgs' red team, losing 8-1.
Lamontagne took the loss, but Copeland said he did a fine job and that poor fielding was once again the culprit.
"We had too many errors, and we can't allow that many errors in a game and expect to get away with it."
The game was called due to darkness after five or six innings, Copeland said.
The second game, on Saturday, came against the Regina Wolfpack. Justin Chuckry got the start in a 6-1 loss.
"We tightened up a bit defensively," Copeland said. "They're probably one of the better hitting teams in the province."
The team's only win came Sunday morning with a 2-1 triumph over the Sherwood Park Athletics.
"We hit the ball reasonably well against those guys," Copeland said. "We started to get more aggressive on first pitch strikes, so we're not working from behind all the time.
"We didn't make an error that game, so that's good, that's what we've been working on."
Trenton Kauf got the start and Nolan Axten earned the save.
The final game on Sunday was against the Saskatoon Cubs, a squad the Twins have already faced this season in Saskatchewan Premier Baseball League play.
Saskatoon won 5-3 in a contest that saw errors haunt the Twins again. All five runs allowed were unearned.
"That was a really good game. It was back and forth all game," Copeland said. "Really good performance from Koszman."
The coach said he was happy to get most of his pitchers some action on the weekend and saw some improvement.
The Twins will spend the next two months working on the finer points of the game in preparation for provincials in late July.
"We're going to start digging into the specifics of the game one by one and hopefully knock them all down," Copeland said. "It's going be baseball clinics 101 for the next two months."
The Twins' next SPBL game is tomorrow against the Wolfpack in Regina. The two teams will then go head-to-head in Estevan next Tuesday in the Twins' home opener. Game time is 7 p.m.
