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Elliott: Majors steal home and 15U title against Peterborough

“The Mississauga Majors stole the Baseball Ontario 15U title at Clarkson Park.

Literally.

And it’s not like the Majors did the thievery during the dark of night, but rather in broad daylight.

The Majors entered the seventh inning of the gold medal championship game down 4-2 to the Peterborough Tigers heading into the bottom of the seventh. With a run in and two out, first Nicholas Segaric stole home for the tie and four pitches later Evan Gaudry stole home with the game winner.

The Majors didn’t walk it off. They ran it off.”

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Victoria HarbourCats beat Riverhawks to take North Division

Victoria HarbourCats Player of the Year Tyler Davis had a clutch two-out RBI in the top of the eighth, and Jack Johnson had an RBI double in the top of the ninth, to give the HarbourCats all they runs they needed, in an eventual 3-0 win over the Edmonton Riverhawks Sunday afternoon in the final game of the West Coast League regular season at Re-Max Field in Edmonton.

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Glew: Late-blooming Boucher happy to be a Brave

“Pier-Olivier Boucher is a late bloomer.

That’s how Lance Rhodes, his former coach at Southern Illinois University, describes the Quebec-born outfielder who was selected in the 10th round of this year’s MLB draft by the Atlanta Braves.

And the description seems apt when you consider that Boucher didn’t start playing baseball until he was 12, didn’t make his first elite competitive team until he was 16 and didn’t have a single offer to play college ball after high school.

None of this, however, deterred Boucher from pursuing his dream of playing professional baseball.”

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