Leafs win game one

September 8, 2014

The North Dufferin Baseball League championship series is underway as the Aurora Jays and Ivy Leafs compete for the Strother Cup. Ivy won the first contest 2-1 on Sunday afternoon.

Game one of the best of seven series was postponed Saturday afternoon due to wet field conditions at Aurora. A make-up game is scheduled at Aurora Thursday night.

On Sunday, the teams continued with the schedule and played at the Ivy park, with the home team winning 2-1 in a 10 inning bout.

The Leafs plated a run early in the second inning which held until the Jays pushed across a run in the fifth frame to tie the game.

Both teams battled through five more innings of play including three extra innings. Ivy pressured in the each of the extra innings until the Leafs finally scored in the bottom of the tenth to win the game and take a series lead.

On the mound for the Leafs was pitching ace Brad Grieveson. Grieveson pitched all ten innings allowing one run, five hits, while striking out ten Aurora batters.

Aurora started Brad Crosby who gave up one run on seven hits, two walks, two hit batsmen, and had a pair of strikeouts.

Zach Wiseman came in relief at the tenth inning for the Jays, taking the loss on one run, one hit and one walk.

Recording hits for Aurora were Chris Bloom, Jake Pinnegar, Ted Beadle and Crosby who doubled and singled.

Ivy had hits from Todd Gowan, who singled three times, Dave Reid, Brett Elliott, Kevin Dumond, David White, and Craig Speers.

The next game of the series will be played at Aurora on Tuesday followed by the rescheduled game on Thursday also at Aurora. Both games start at 7:30 p.m.