Senior Baseball Finals Set

Okay, it’s been too long. I get it. I admittedly took a summer hiatus, but I can of no better reason to get back on the blog than with the Nova Scotia Senior League Finals about to get underway.

The first round of the Senior League finished up with the Dartmouth Moosehead Dry sweeping the Halifax Pelham Canadians 3-0 in the best-of-five series while the Kentville Wildcats dispatched the Sydney Sooners 3-1 in the other series.

The Dry and Wildcats will kick-off the finals in Kentville Friday, September 14th @ 7:30 with Game 2 back in Dartmouth Saturday evening at 7:00. Kentville took the regular season series 5-2 over Dartmouth, but that could be decpetive. Five of the seven games were decided by only one run.

Also the NSSBL gave out some hardware

Playoff Picture Set in the NSSBL

The Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League released the schedule for the first round of the playoffs on Monday afternoon.

The Halifax Pelham Molson Canadians finished second in the regular season schedule and will face the Kentville Wildcats. The two will open the playoffs Wednesday night at 7:30 pm at the Halifax Mainland Common.

The Sydney Sooners, who squeaked into the playoffs with a weekend victory over the Truro Bearcats, are rewarded by facing the regular season champion Dartmouth Moosehead Dry. Their series will get underway Saturday afternoon at Beazley Field on Dartmouth.

Here is the full first round schedule:

SERIES A – DARTMOUTH MOOSEHEAD DRY vs. SYDNEY SOONERS

Game 1- Sat., Sept. 17, 3:00 pm
Sydney at Dartmouth, Beazley Field

Game 2- Sat., Sept. 17, 7:00 pm
Sydney at Dartmouth, Beazley Field

Game 3- Sat., Sept. 24, 3:00 pm
Dartmouth at Sydney, Susan McEachern Memorial Ball Park

Game 4 – Sat., Sept. 24, 7:00 pm
Dartmouth at Sydney, Susan McEachern Memorial Ball Park (if necessary)

Game 5 – Sun., Sept. 25, 1:00 pm
Dartmouth at Sydney, Susan McEcahern Memorial Ball Park (if necessary)

Series B – HALIFAX PELHAM MOLSON CANADIANS vs. KENTVILLE WILDCATS

Game 1 – Wed., Sept. 14, 7:30 pm
Kentville at Halifax, Mainland Common

Game 2 – Sat., Sept. 17, 7:00 pm
Halifax at Kentville, Memorial Park

Game 3- Mon., Sept. 19, 7:30 pm
Kentville at Halifax, Mainland Common

Game 4 – Wed., Sept. 21, 7:30pm
Halifax at Kentville, Memorial Park (if necessary)

Game 5 – TO BE DETERMINED (if necessary)

Haverstock NSSBL Player of the Week

Veteran right-hander Mark Haverstock has been chosen as the Cleve’s Source for Sports Player of the Week in the NSSBL.

Haverstock was the main reason for the Halifax Pelham Molson Canadians picking up two victories in their 3-game series with the Sydney Sooners this past weekend in Sydney. He threw a complete game, 5-hit shutout on Friday evening and then quieted the Sooners’ bats after an eight-run outburst in the seventh inning of the second game, pitching the last two innings. Halifax scored two runs in the nineth to claim a 15-14 win and give Haversotck two dubs in as many days.

With the two victories Haverstock joins Dartmouth Moosehead Dry’s Craig Langille atop the wins column in the league with seven.

Others considered for the award were the Sooners’ Cory Christie and Justin Brewer, the Canadians’ Mark Pelham, Kentville’s Kevin Matheson, and Truro’s Darson Murphy.

Shrider is NSSBL Player of the Week

Dartmouth native Codey Shrider has made quite an impression in his first season in the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League and is this week’s winner of the Cleve’s Source for Sports Player of the Week Award. Shrider, who will be returning to Allan Hancock Community College in Santa Maria, CA, for his sophomore year, played a big role in the Kentville Wildcats’ three-game sweep of the Sydney Sooners.

Shrider came on in relief in the eighth inning of the first game of the series to get a save in the Wildcats’ 11-10 win. He then scattered nine hits in a complete game victory on Saturday in a 6-5 victory. He also had a double and a single in the game to help his own cause.

Other players considered for the award were the Sooners’ Derrick Aucoin, Halifax’s Adam Lucas, and the Dry’s Chris Head.

Colin Johnson is the NSSBL Player of the Week

Colin Johnson of the Dartmouth Moosehead Dry had an offensive week to remember in the Nova Scotia Senior Baseball League and has earned the Cleve’s Source for Sports Player of the Week Award for his power display.

Johnson went seven for 17, an impressive .412 clip, but his slugging percentage of 1.058 was even more impressive. Johnson had two homeruns, a two-run dinger and a towering three-run blast. Sprinkle in a triple, three doubles, a single to and three sacrifice flies and you have a pretty good week.

Johnson drove in an incredible 15 runs, with seven in one game and five in another against the Sydney Sooners. He more than doubled his season’s RBI production from 13 to 28, taking over the league lead in that department.

Other players who had outstanding performances during the week were Halifax’s Mark Haverstock and Steve Ivey, the Sooners’ Paul Doucette, Truro’s Joe MacPherson, Kentville’s Kevin Nichols, and Johnson’s teammates, Joel Irvine and Craig Langille