Semifinals ahead for undefeated Team Sask. at 19U Women’s Baseball Nationals

Saskatchewan finally got their bats going in the bottom of the third inning, as they tied up the score at 2-2 with a Braidy Birdsall line drive to centre field which brought in a pair of runners for the home side.

Following a Newfoundland and Labrador throwing error which allowed Birdsall to score, Camden Suchan singled to right field to score Birdsall’s sister Brenna for the 4-2 lead.

Both Birdsall sisters stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the fourth inning and delivered RBIs to stretch Saskatchewan’s lead to 6-2, before the hosts broke the game wide open in the bottom of the sixth.

Cassandra Bishop kicked off the inning with an RBI single to make it 7-2, which was followed by a pair of walks with the bases loaded by Newfoundland and Labrador to extend Team Saskatchewan’s lead to seven runs.

A throwing error by Newfoundland and Labrador and a double-play ball which scored Kayla Kinar from third got Saskatchewan their final two runs of the afternoon, which Paetyn Lenius closed out the game with a perfect final two innings on the mound with zero hits allowed.

Suchan, who started the game for Saskatchewan, earned the win with five innings thrown with one earned run on six hits given up, along with a pair of strikeouts.

For the third game in a row, Team Saskatchewan’s star at the plate was Braidy Birdsall, who was 2-for-3 on the day with three runs, while picking up three RBIs to add to her nine from the previous two games.

Saskatchewan (3-0) will now face Ontario (2-2) in Sunday’s semifinal at noon, with the winner advancing to play either Quebec (4-0) or Alberta (2-1) in the gold medal game at 7 p.m.

Bronze medallists will be determined in the third-place game at 4 p.m. at Cairns Field on Sunday.

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by Scott Roblin/650 CKOM

Semifinals ahead for undefeated Team Sask. at 19U Women’s Baseball Nationals

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