The U13AA Tsawwassen Athletics are provincial champions after an impressive spring/summer season.
The A’s went 3-1 in the round robin portion of the championship tournament putting them in first place in their pool.
In the semi-final, Tsawwassen faced Cloverdale in a close battle.
Sully Todhunter tied it up for the A’s in the bottom of the seventh with a hit into the centre field gap tying the game 2-2.
After two scoreless extra innings, in the third extra inning (10th inning), runners were placed on first and second. Cloverdale scored one in the top of the 10th to take a 3-2 lead, but in the bottom half of the inning, Linden Savage played the hero with a walk-off three-run home run on the first pitch to seal the 5-3 win.
In the championship final, the A’s faced North Delta.
Tsawwassen had 13 hits including four home runs from Van Rasmussen, Sully Todhunter, Aidan Hope and Tyler Losse in the 15-5 win.
In the full spring/summer season Tsawwassen had an incredible 48-2 record with 738 runs for and only 141 against.
The pitching staff struck out 485 batters and allowed only 73 home runs.
During the summer season, the A’s went 14-0 scoring 233 runs and only giving up 19.
They also won a pair of tournament titles including the Best of the West and the Kyle Losse Memorial.
The team was coached by Brian Losse (head coach) with assistant coaches Danny Savage, Tiffany Rasmussen and Matt Warhurst. The team included: Aidan Hope, Charlie Wey-Johnston, Cairo Raguero, Holden Ross, Jake Warhurst, Jesse Vance, Linden Savage, Ryder Giles, Sully Todhunter, Tyler Losse, Van Rasmussen, Zac Prokop and bat boy Owen Warhurst.
