August 18, 2023

COBA Major League Week XI POWs

By Dan Estey

COBA Major

The best of Week XI in COBA Major League ...

COBA Major Player of the Week - Mike Foster

The COBA Major Zero K Bats Player of the Week is Foster of the Etobicoke Rangers. This is the second weekly award for Foster this season. For his week, he played one games batting .400 (2-for-5) with a pair of home runs and a walk. He scored two runs while collecting three RBIs to round out his line.

Honourable Mention

Dan Franceschetti (Etobicoke): 1G, 3-for-5 (.800), HR, 2 Doubles, 2 Runs, RBI

Brad Crone (Etobicoke): 1G, 2-for-4 (.500), HR, Run, 3 RBI

Ryan Panas (Etobicoke): 1G, 2-for-5 (.400), HR, Run, 2 RBI

COBA Major Pitcher of the Week - Kyle Clark

The COBA Major Sam Bat Pitcher of the week is Clark of the Milton Red Sox. This is the first weekly award for the Milton hurler this season. In his only appearance this week, he collected a win as he tossed three scoreless innings allowing one hit. He walked none while striking out six.

Honourable Mention

Eric Balawejder (Etobicoke): 1G, W, 2 Inn, 0 R, 0 ER, 2 H, 1 BB, 1 K, 0.00 ERA

Aiden Cowper (Brampton): 1G, ND, 3 Inn, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 H, 0 BB, 2 K, 0.00 ERA

Chris Cloes (Milton): 1G, ND, 4 Inn, 1 R, 0 ER, 5 H, 2 BB, 3 K, 0.00 ERA

COBA Major Team of the Week - Etobicoke Rangers

The COBA Major Hard Bat Company Team of the Week for Week XI of the season are the Rangers. The Rangers had one game this week as they went 1-0 for the week. They won their only game of the week 11-5 over the Burlington Brants at Nelson Park. They now sit with an overall record of 16-3 and sit first overall in the COBA Major League.

Honourable Mention

Oakville A’s: 1-0 (W 12-9 @ Erindale)

Milton Red Sox: 1-0 (W 6-3 @ Brampton)

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In a very light week of COBA Major League play (only three games) the Milton Red Sox were victorious in their only league outing of the week as they traveled to Teramoto Yellow Field to take on the Brampton Royals.

The Royals struck first in this one as they scored a run in the home half of the 2nd inning for an early 1-0 lead. The Red Sox erased this lead in the fourth inning when they plated a pair of runs to take a 2-1 lead. The teams would trade runs in the fifth as Milton took a 3-2 lead into the second half of the game.

Brampton would knot this game up 3-3 in the seventh inning as they were able to push a run across. Both teams would go scoreless the next couple of innings as this game would need extra innings. In the extra frame, Milton would push across three to take a 6-3 lead. The Red Sox defence would make that stand as they took this game by that 6-3 score.

Nick Feren led the way offensively for Milton going 2-for-5 with a double, a run and an RBI. Brandon Job was 2-for-4 with an RBI while Liam Buckley was 2-for-6 with a run scored. Luke Crowley was 2-for-5 with a walk while Matt Fusco was 1-for-4 with a double, a walk, a run and a pair of RBIs.

Mike MacKillop was 1-for-3 with a walk while Illias Sahebzada was 1-for-1 with a double, a run and two RBIs. Eric Beharri was 1-for-6 with a run while Michael Ong rounded put the offense with a walk and a run. Sam Lebel led the Brampton offense going 2-for-5 with a pair of doubles while Aidan Murphy was 2-for-3 with a double and a pair of runs.

Chris Cloes drew the start this game for Milton and he went four innings allowing one unearned run on five hits. He walked two batters and struck out three. Dylan Clark was next in and he went three innings allowing two runs on six hits while walking one and striking out five.

COBA Major Pitcher of the Week Kyle Clark was next into the game and collected the win going three scoreless allowing one hit and striking out six. Arman Lakhani took the hard luck loss for Brampton working an inning allowing three runs -- two earned -- on three hits while walking one and striking out one.

The results from Week XI of the regular season:

Monday, July 17th

Erindale Cardinals 9, Oakville A’s 12

WP - Nick Edwards; LP - Eric Alcaraz

Tuesday

Milton Red Sox 6, Brampton Royals 3

WP - Kyle Clark; LP - Arman Lakhani

Wednesday

Etobicoke Rangers - 11, Burlington Brants - 5

WP - Eric Balawejder; LP - Michael Westlake

HR - Mike Foster 2, Brad Crone, Ryan Panas, Dan Franceschetti (Etob); Max Von Gemmingen (Burl).

COBA Major's best: Clark, Etobicoke Rangers, Foster