FREDERICTON, NB --
Sasha Lagarde of Pierrefonds, Que., had three hits, including a home run as McGill outlasted the University of New Brunswick 8-6 at Royals Field, Saturday, to close out round-robin play in the Canadian Collegiate Baseball Association national championship tournament.
The result extend McGill's win streak to 26 consecutive games in CCBA regular season and playoffs, dating back to their final three games last year. The Redmen improved to 3-0 at the CCBA tourney and advanced to Saturday's sudden-death national semifinal against Acadia (1-2), a team that they walloped 15-0 on Friday.
McGill rallied from an early 2-0 lead to go ahead 8-2 with three runs in the first inning, another three in the second and two more in the third. But UNB chipped away, scoring a pair of runs in the fourth and two more in the sixth.
Lagarde, an education sophomore who earned player-of-the-game honours, batted leadoff and was 3-for-4 at the plate, with two RBIs, a stolen base and a pair of runs scored. The six-foot, 220-pound centrefielder doubled and scored in the first, then smacked a two-run homer to right to put McGill up 5-2 in the second. He also singled in the third, reached base on an error in the fifth (and stole second),
McGill outhit UNB 11-7 with Lagarde, being joined in the multi-hit department by shortstop
Troy Shepherd (2.3, 2R, BB), second baseman
Domenic Defelice (2/3, 2R) and leftfielder
Jonathan Duforest (2/3, HBP, 2 RBI, R).
McGill starter
David Juechter, a political science sophomore from Nyack, N.Y., was the winning pitcher. The six-foot, 185-pound right-hander went three innings, allowing no runs on two hits, walked four and struck out two.
He was relieved by
Bobby Finnie, who lasted three innings but gave up three hits, four unearned runs, walked one and hit one batsman, while striking out two. Reliever
Sam Greene, a sophomore from Philadelphia, recorded the last three outs to earn the save..
Max Hartling took the loss for UNB. He surrendered six runs on seven hits over 1.3 innings, walking none and sriking out none.
Ian Horne led UNB with two hits (and a pair of RBIs) in four at bats.
The top-seeded Redmen (3-0) will meet fourth-seeded Acadia (1-2) in a sudden-death semifinal on Sunday at 10 a.m. (Eastern). With a victory there, McGill would advance to the gold medal game on Sunday at 5 p.m. against the winner of the the other semifinal, between Dalhousie (1-2) and Carleton (2-1).
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2017 CCBA CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS (after round-robin play)
| Group A |
Group B |
| McGill (3-0) |
UNB (1-2) |
| Carleton (2-1) |
Acadia (1-2) |
| Dalhousie (1-2) |
Concordia (1-2) |
2017 CCBA CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE & RESULTS
(in Fredericton, NB)
| Date |
Team 1 |
Team 2 |
Time |
Field |
| Thursday Oct 19 |
McGill - 8 |
Concordia - 6 |
12:00 PM |
Royals Field |
| Thursday Oct 19 |
Carleton - 10 |
Acadia -1 |
3:00 PM |
Royals Field |
| Thursday Oct 19 |
Dalhousie -9 |
UNB - 6 |
6:30 PM |
Royals Field |
| Friday Oct 20 |
McGill - 15 |
Acadia - 0 |
10:00 AM |
Royals Field |
| Friday Oct 20 |
Carleton -1 |
Concordia - 0 |
1:00 PM |
Royals Field |
| Friday Oct 20 |
Dalhousie - 4 |
Acadia - 8 |
4:00 PM |
Royals Field |
| Friday Oct 20 |
Carleton - 10 |
UNB - 11 |
7:00 PM |
Royals Field |
| Saturday Oct 21 |
Dalhousie - 5 |
Concordia - 6 |
10:00 AM |
Royals Field |
| Saturday Oct 21 |
McGill - 8 |
UNB - 6 |
1:00 PM |
Royals Field |
| Saturday Oct 21 |
Acadia - 1 |
Concordia - 0 |
4:00 PM |
Tie Breaker 1 |
| Saturday Oct 21 |
Dalhousie - 3 |
UNB - 2 |
7:00 PM |
Tie Breaker 2 |
| Sunday Oct 22 |
Acadia |
McGill |
11:00 AM |
4 vs. 1 semi |
| Sunday Oct 22 |
Dalhousie |
Carleton |
2:00 PM |
2 vs. 3 semi |
| Sunday Oct 22 |
Finals |
|
6:00 PM |
Royals Field |
