East York Captures First Vaughan Title in Extra Innings
By Dan Estey
Canadian Baseball Network
The revamped East York Bulldogs wrapped up a very impressive weekend with a 13-12 extra-inning victory over the Etobicoke Rangers to capture their first Vaughan tournament title in their existence.

The Bulldogs got off to a bit of a slow start as Marc Walton of the Oakville A’s was able to keep the bats at bay in a 6-2 loss. After that East York was able to start to put it together. Saturday morning they defeated the Erindale Cardinals 11-1 behind the great pitching of Dave Anderson and that afternoon defeated league mates the Pickering Red Sox 6-5 with Mark Sirkorski picking up the win on the hill.

At 2-1, the Bulldogs finished second in Pool B setting up a semi-final matchup with the host Vaughan Vikings squad. Mark Gibbs grabbed the start and shut down the Viking bats in a 4-0 victory. In the semi-final, East York locked horns with the Brampton Royals who put together a very nice run this year. This was a very well played and entertaining game that ended with a 7-5 victory in favour of the Bulldogs.

In the final, East York jumped out to a big lead on Etobicoke building a 12-3 lead after three innings. The Rangers, winners of eight straight heading into this game, kept chipping away and tied the game 12-12 in the seventh. In extras, Quinn Cumming for East York and Bryan Vardzel for Etobicoke traded scoreless innings. It wasn’t until the 12th inning when Kyle Moloney hit a walk-off single for the margin of victory.

Three out of the four semi-finalists were COBA Major Teams (Brampton, Oakville, and Etobicoke)  while Burlington also advanced to the quarter-finals before being bounced by Oakville 4-2 in an extra inning.

Vaughan Invitational Tournament

Friday, June 19th
Etobicoke Rangers 2 vs Leaside Leafs 2
HR – Etobicoke: Jeff Altpeter

Brampton Royals 6 vs Bolton Brewers 5
WP – Joey Nonis. LP – Trent Barwick

East York Bulldogs 2 vs Oakville A’s 6
WP – Marc Walton. LP – Jake Gallo

Erindale Cardinals 5 vs Pickering Red Sox 2
WP – Dan Estey. LP – Brad Binns
HR – Erindale: Geoff Cullen, Jay Woodford

Strathroy Royals 2 vs Niagara Metros 6
WP – Jordan Bray. LP – Tyler Annett
SV – Dan Proctor

Newmarket Hawks 1 vs Burlington Brants 12
WP – Cam McKnight. LP – Brent Heaslip

Vaughan Vikings 12 vs Kingston Ponies 2
WP – Daniel Pelley,

Saturday
Erindale Cardinals 1 vs East York Bulldogs 11
WP – Dave Anderson. LP – Ian Bala

Pickering Red Sox 2 vs Oakville A’s 6
WP – Mike Vanderlaan, LP – Peter Nash

Leaside Leafs 6 vs Brampton Royals 3
WP – Chris Goodale. LP – Ryan Thompson
HR – Leaside: Tyler Hughes

Bolton Brewers 5 vs Etobicoke Rangers 11
WP – Bryan Vardzel, LP – Brandon Hurst

Strathroy Royals 2 vs Vaughan Vikings 4
WP – Chris Boatto

Kingston Ponies 4 vs Burlington Brants 9
WP – Trevor Woodjetts

Niagara Metros 4 vs Newmarket Hawks 1
WP – Geoff Strong. LP – Brad Crone

Leaside Leafs 11 vs Bolton Brewers 0
WP – Jorge Frugoni. LP – Nick Boyd

Etobicoke Rangers 2 vs Brampton Royals 2

Erindale Cardinals 1 vs Oakville A’s 3
WP – Alex Hawley. LP – Brendan Fox

East York Bulldogs 6 vs Pickering Red Sox 5
WP – Mike Sirkoski. LP – Steve Horsley

Niagara Metros 0 vs Kingston Ponies 5
WP – Derek Howe, LP – Brendan Ellingham

Strathroy Royals 7 vs Burlington Brants 1
WP – Matt Cook, LP – Mike Westlake

Vaughan Vikings 13 vs Newmarket Hawks 3
WP – Joseph Prescutti, LP – Christian Davies

Quarter finals
East York Bulldogs 4 vs Vaughan Vikings 0 
WP – Jeff Gibbs, LP – Peter Westlake

Etobicoke Rangers 5 vs Niagara Metros 2 
WP – Andrew Hyde, LP – Alex Tufts
SV – Adam McBride

Leaside Leafs 6 vs Brampton Royals 11 
WP – Brandon Habibi, LP – Mark Blachard
HR – Leaside: Quinn Ellerbeck; Brampton: Joe Ferreira

Oakville A’s 4 vs Burlington Brants 2 (8 Inn.) 
WP – Matt Reagan, LP – Jordan Rienzo

Sunday 
Semi-finals
East York Bulldogs 7 vs Brampton Royals 5 
WP – Quinn Cumming, LP – Brad McLaughlin
HR – East York: Drew Roberts

Etobicoke Rangers 12 vs Oakville A’s 2 
WP – Andrew Perryman, LP – Marc Walton

Final
East York Bulldogs 13 vs Etobicoke Rangers 12 (12 Innings)  
WP – Quinn Cumming, LP – Bryan Vardzel