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Mississauga Southwest Hurricanes win the Canadian National Jamboree

On Wednesday, August 17th the MSW Hurricanes coached by Wayne Gray-Baker and Dave Clark ventured off to Vaughan, Ontario to compete in the Canadian National Jamboree representing Ontario as #3 seed. After their tremendous come back at the Ontario Provincial Grand Championships, the team took on the task at hand.

Wednesday to Friday comprised of 6 round robin games with the 9th place team to get knocked out. The Hurricanes started off a bit shaky with a 2-2 record for both Wednesday and Thursday losing to both BC’s Delta Heat and Guelph Gators. The team regrouped late Thursday in the round robin and didn’t look back after that. On Saturday, the Hurricanes managed to seed 4th in the elimination round with a record of 4 wins and 2 losses giving them a 2 life advantage over the bottom 4. Saturday’s challenge was against the #1 seed BC’s Delta Heat. Heat scored 2 runs in the 1st inning with the Hurricanes managing to catch up with 1 run in the 4th and 1 in the 5th causing the game to go into an International Tie Breaker. The Hurricanes focused and determined, beat the Heat with a win of 3-2. The winner now guaranteed to win a medal.

Sunday’s challenge was against the #2 team, BC’s White Rock Renegade who had home team advantage. A well rounded, well coached, hard hitting team and solid defense. The Hurricanes pumped and ready to go came out firing in
the 1st with 5 runs to rattle the Renegades as the winner of this game would proceed to the Gold medal game. The Hurricanes solid pitching and defense held off the Renegades with only allowing one run to score. The Hurricanes came
back with two more runs for a final 7-1 win.

The Renegades went on to lose out in the Semi finals to the Ontario Provincial Champions the Guelph Gators which too ended in an International Tie Breaker. With long delays due to weather, and spending 14 – 15 hours per day at the park
the Hurricanes again stepped out for their final challenger the Guelph Gators. The team knew that their last 3 games against the Gators resulted in a loss to them. Still determined and with home team advantage the Hurricanes prevailed.
Hurricanes tremendous pitching managed to shut down the first 3 Gator batters in the 1st and allow their team to step up and come out one more time with fire and “Rock’m like a HURRICANE” to take a commanding 5‐0 lead in the first
inning. The Hurricanes managed to hold off the Gators up until the 5th when the Gators 3rd baseman caught a high, inside pitch and sent one screaming over the fence to score 1. The Gators only managed to score one more run to make the final score of 7-2 and the Hurricanes to clinch the Canadian National title.

Front row left to right: MacKenzie Philpott, Rachel Bridges
Second row left to right: Alana Cress, Alex Jackson, Elise Cassar, Samantha Harltey, Tiffany Snell, Taylor Kangas, Alicia Pelizzoni
Back row left to right: Anne Lewicki, Quinn DeVoe, Torriya Gray‐Baker, Sarah Lagler‐Clark, Charly Keracher, Alex Nawrot, Amanda Nadeau