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North Dufferin Baseball League present awards
September 12, 2011
The North Dufferin Baseball League hosted their annual awards ceremony Saturday, Sept. 10 at the Ross Houston Memorial Park in Lisle in connection with game three of the championship series. President Sean Hayward conducted the ceremony with fellow executive members presenting awards. Awards were presented to the first place finishers in the regular season; the Bolton Braves in the junior division, receiving the Sunnydale Service and Variety trophy, the Bolton Brewers in the senior East division receiving the North Dufferin Baseball League trophy and Creemore Braves in the senior West division receiving the Ross Houston Memorial trophy. Individual player awards were handed out for the senior league with Brett Chater of the Bolton Brewers taking home most of the hardware. Chater received the Creemore Star trophy as best batter with a .545 average, the Bob Doner Memorial trophy for best on base percentage at .670, the Evan Jamieson Memorial trophy for most runs scored with 40, and the Bruce Jenkins Memorial trophy as the league's most valuable player. Brad Grieveson of the Creemore Braves won the best pitcher category receiving the Lloyd Patton and Bill Gowan Memorial trophy. A three-way tie for home runs included Brad Caldwell of the Mansfield Cubs, Bryan Post of Creemore and Eric Cirone of Bolton, who each hit four home runs. The best catcher as voted by the league teams was Justin Tamane of the Aurora Jays while Scott Anderson of the Lisle Astros was the recipient of the Past President's trophy as the league's most sportsmanlike player. In the junior division, the Reg Westbrooke Memorial trophy was awarded to Daniel Morningstar of the Barrie Red Sox for batting .447 during the season. His teammate, Mitchell Davidson was chosen as the most sportsmanlike player and received the Vice President's trophy. Midland Twins' Mike Kazienko had the best on base percentage at .651 while teammate Craig Speers and Blair Stiver from Bolton Braves scored the most runs with 16 each. Speers also tied with Josh Svensson of Bolton as most valuable player receiving the Statistician's trophy. In the home run department, Speers along with Brett Robinson and Corey Halbert of Barrie, and Ben McNabb of Midland tied with one home run each. The best pitcher was Luke Ratcliffe of Bolton. |