YORKTON - The Carlyle Cardinals have won the Saskatchewan Baseball Senior AA Tier 2 provincial championship.
The Cardinals defeated the Standard Hill Lakers 5-3 Sunday in Yorkton in the final.
Carlyle dropped its opening game of the tournament, 4-2, to the host Yorkton Marlins on Saturday. They recovered to defeat the North Battleford Beavers 7-5 later in the day.
Carlyle rattled off three straight wins on Sunday. Up first was an 11-6 win over the Saskatoon Rockies. Then they crushed Standard Hill 18-1 in a game the Cardinals needed to win to keep their season alive.
The victory put them in the final against Standard Hill, which the Cardinals won.
Earlier this summer, the Cardinals captured their fourth straight Saskota Baseball League championship by winning the Jack Harbourne Memorial Trophy.
Two other teams were at provincials this weekend. The Redvers A's competed at the Senior AA Tier 3 tournament in Gull Lake. They finished tied for first in the round robin with a 3-1 record with the Unity Cardinals and the North East Red Sox, but the A's missed out on the final on a tie-breaker.
Redvers defeated the Gull Lake Greyhounds 19-10, the Red Sox 4-3 and the Cabri River Rats 11-2, but lost 9-7 to Unity.
The Arcola Threshers were at the Tier 4 tournament in Regina, where they went 1-3. They won 22-18 over the Rosetown Angels, but lost 6-4 to the Pasqua Angels, 14-1 to the Macklin Lakers and 19-8 to the Regina Red Dogs.
This week's edition of the Observer will have more on this story.
