The Coquitlam Jr. Redlegs lost ground in the B.C. Jr. Premier Baseball League last weekend.
The team, which is currently 10-16, dropped both games of a doubleheader against the North Shore Jr. Twins on Saturday and split a second doubleheader on Sunday against the White Rock Jr. Tritons. The Redlegs managed to hold the lead in the first game against the Twins on Saturday at Mundy Park, going up 4-0 heading into the third.
But North Shore was undeterred, putting up a run in the third and scoring three more in the fifth to take charge of the game. Single runs in the sixth and seventh by the visitors sealed the game for the Reds, who fell 8-4. Cole Tatham took the loss on the mound.
The Twins kept rolling into the second game of the day, putting up four runs in the third, a single in the fourth and three more in the fifth.
Coquitlam started to rally at the bottom of the six when Aaron Gardner, Jack Hemsworth, Ben Grant and Brenden Henits all managed to touch home plate.
But it was not enough for the Reds to even the score and a runless seventh inning meant another loss for the Reds, this time by a score of 9-5. Coquitlam came out flat in the third game of the weekend on Sunday morning against White Rock.
The 13-11 Tritons quickly put up five runs in the first four innings and held Coquitlam off the scoreboard for the entire first game. At the end of the game the Reds were down 5-0.
But in the second match of the day, the Redlegs turned the tide.
With Luke Petreny on the mound, the team was able to shutdown White Rock’s batters in the first four innings while putting up some runs of their own.
Riley Engleson was the first to touch home plate for the Redlegs before hitting a double in the next inning that sent home Hemsworth and Henits. Engleson scored a second run of the game, while Cole Walter also made it home to make it 6-0 going into the fifth.
The Tritons managed to close the gap with a three-run inning in the fifth and scored one more in the sixth, but could not catch Coquitlam, who won 6-4.
The Redlegs also fell 3-0 to the Jr. Twins on Monday night and will not play again until July 4.
SR. REDS
Meanwhile, the Coquitlam Reds were on the road last weekend, splitting a doubleheader against the Abbotsford Cardinals at Delair Park Saturday afternoon.
The Reds held a 1-0 lead into the final inning, but the Cardinals managed a bottom-of-the-seventh comeback, tying the game and scoring the go-ahead run before Coquitlam could shut them down.
The visitors left nothing to chance in the second game of the doubleheader, despite the Cards going up 1-0 in the first inning.
Coquitlam batted in Nick Panozzo, Austen Butler and Riley Leoppky to take the lead in the fourth, before Matthew Clay and Leoppky scored in the fifth.
A sixth run from Zac Comeault in the seventh added an unnecessary insurance run, with Coquitlam winning 6-1.
The Reds play next against the Okanagan Athletics on July 4 and July 5 on the road.
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