Wheatbelt Baseball League

Championship Final
Game 1 - Peace River beat Grande Prairie 5-4
Game 2 - Peace River beat Grande Prairie 10-8
Game 3 - Grande Prairie beat Peace River 3-2 in 8 innings
Game 4 - Grande Prairie beat Peace River 3-2 (Series is tied at 2 games each)
Game 5 - Peace River beat Grande Prairie 7-3 to win the championship

Semi-Finals
Game 1 - Rycroft beat Grande Prairie 4-1, Peace River beat Grimshaw 8-6
Game 2 - Grande Prairie beat Rycroft 3-2 (8 innings), Peace River beat Grimshaw 6-4
Game 3 - Grande Prairie beat Rycroft 2-1, Peace River beat Grimshaw 6-5 (9 innings)

Team / Wins / Losses / Ties / Points

Peace River Stampeders / 12 / 1 / 1 / 25
Rycroft Rage / 11 / 4 / 1 / 23
Grande Prairie Brewers / 6 / 6 / 0 / 12
Grimshaw Huskies / 3 / 13 / 0 / 6
Fort St. John Black Sox / 3 / 11 / 0 / 6

What a beautiful day on Sunday. Team East beat Team West 12 - 6. Winning pitcher was Byryn Murphy from the Grande Prairie Brewers. In the Skills Contest, Elliot Holthe of the Rycroft Rage defended his running title winning all three heats from home to 1st, home to 2nd and home to 3rd. Kyle Smith of the Grimshaw Huskies won the pitching contest which included both speed and accuracy. Kyle was the only pitcher to put 2 of 5 pitches through the target. And in the hitting contest, Jay Tighe of the Fort St. John Black Sox scored 7 points to take home the prize.

The Skills Contest is at 1:00 PM on Sunday, June 23. The All-Star Game follows at 3:00 PM. This years event is sponsored by OT Sports Excellence in Peace River. The Skills Contest has 3 events. In the "Hitting Contest" players will have 9 attempts to hit the ball to a live field, hitters will have runners running for them and each ball is played live, total bases collected after 9 attempts wins, and home runs wil be 4 total bases plus a free attempt.

This is a picture of the 1961 Peace River Stampeders (including Al "Boomer" Adair, Joe Weremy, Frank Brown, and Fred Windjack) at Twelve Foot Davis Ball Park.

Please send any photos, articles, and stories about senior baseball in the Peace Country to larsen@telusplanet.net or Box 933 Grimshaw T0H-1W0.