News from the Scarborough Stingers Baseball club http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/stingersrss.xml Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:45:00 EST en-us For more information on the Scarborough Stingers Teams for 2009, visit the teams web page and select the team by player's year of birth. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 9 Sep 2008 11:45:00 EST The Scarborough Stingers Minor Bantams won the city AAA baseball championship Sunday at North York's Bond Park with a 7-2 win over the Etobicoke Titans. "In the final game we came out swinging and got out to an early lead," said coach Larry Hardwick. The team never relinquished that lead, thanks to great starting pitching from Jack Dennis who went five and two-thirds of an inning, sitting down 13 batters. The win was especially sweet for the Stingers after losing their opening-round match to the Titans, 9-7, and being one game away from elimination for the remainder of the tournament. A 10-2 win over the West Toronto Wildcats set up their next match against arch rival and six-time city champs, the North York Blues. With the outstanding pitching of Derek Chiu and great team defence, Scarborough beat the Blues, 9-5, setting up a three-team tie entering the final two rounds. Scarborough won the draw for the bye into the final, while the Blues and Titans had to fight it out. The Titans eliminated the Blues, 12-9, in a hard-fought game. The Stingers will now compete in the Ontario Baseball Association playoff tournament being held in Etobicoke on Labour Day weekend. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/Stingers94s/index.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:35:00 EST Four Scarborough Stingers players helped the Toronto Baseball Association's entry in the 9th annual CNE All Star weekend tournament to victory on the weekend. Stingers Trevor Whitaker, Sean Ratcliff, David Rahikka and Luc Ainsworth-Wiebe were among the 15 players chosen to represent the TBA by Stingers Peewees head coach Frank Gallo and Etobicoke's John Cameron. For more complete results, visit the Stingers Peewees Web site. The Stingers Peewees qualified for the OBAs, despite losing the city final to Etobicoke, 4-1, last Wednesday. Their first game is Friday against the Mississauga Twins in Vaughan. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:35:00 EST The Stingers' Mosquitoes earned their place at the Ontario Baseball Association's AAA provincial tournament with a thrilling 4-3 extra-innings win over the Etobicoke Titans Sunday at East Toronto Athletic Field. The win gave the Stingers, who hosted the city finals this year, the third and final berth for the championship, being held in Windsor on Labour Day weekend. The team will face the Riverside Royals in their first game at Windsor's Riverside Park. The Stingers lost to the Royals, 9-5, in a tournament game in Newmarket in August. Pitcher Austin Tanfield held the Titans off the scoreboard for almost five innings before he hit his maxium pitch count and had to leave the mound. With Scarborough leading 1-0, Etobicoke scored twice on an error in the sixth. The Stingers came back to tie it in the seventh inning and scored twice more in the eighth to take a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the inning. Etobicoke mounted a comeback, scoring once and putting men on base but their hopes of a place at the OBAs ended with a two-out fly ball to right fielder Scott Moore that ended the game. Scarborough lost 13-7 to the North Toronto As in the semi-final and then watched as the undefeated North York Blues lost a 2-1 shocker to the As, forcing a final sudden-death game three days later, which the Blues won 9-0. Earlier in the competition, Scarborough eliminated East York, 13-2, after losing their opening round game to North Toronto, 11-1. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:35:00 EST The Stingers Minor Mosquitos will be in the OBA tournament this weekend in Mississauga. The team's first game will be aginst Guelph. The team finished 1-2 at the TBA championships Aug. 15-17, losing to Etobicoke, 8-2, and North York, 13-2. The team's one win came at the expense of East York, who they put out of the tournament with a 19-6 win. The Stingers played their last regular-season game against North York at Neilson Park Aug. 24 and held them to a 6-6 tieafter losing, 29-19, to Whitby in the semi-final of the suspended Ajax Minor Mosquito Tournament on Saturday. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:35:00 EST The Stingers Bantams were eliminated from the TBA championships held at East York's Stan Wadlow Park Aug. 21-24. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:35:00 EST The Scarborough Stingers will host the TBA Mosquito playoffs Aug. 15-17 at Ted Reeve Park. The five teams in the Toronto loop will battle for three spots in the OBA playoffs being held this year in Windsor. The double-knockout competition begins Friday night with the host Stingers facing North Toronto and East York playing North York. Games continue Saturday and Sunday. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST Four Scarborough Stingers players have been selected to play for the Toronto Baseball Association's entry in the 9th annual CNE All Star weekend tournament, which begins Saturday, Aug. 16, at 10am. Stingers Trevor Whitaker, Sean Ratcliff, David Rahikka and Lucas Wiebe are among the 15 players chosen to represent the TBA by Stingers Peewees head coach Frank Gallo and Etobicoke's John Cameron. The other representative teams in the double-knockout exhibition are the Hamilton District Baseball Association, New York's Lackawana BOYS Baseball Association and the Eastern Ontario Baseball Association. Team TBA begins the tournament Saturday at noon. For more information and a schedule, visit the Stingers Peewees Web site. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:00:00 EST The Stingers Peewees (12-9) final game of the season with Markham was cancelled, so it's off to the CNE all-star event this weekend for four members of the squad (see above). The team completed a game of the suspended Hamilton tournament by beating the Mississauga Twins, 8-7, on Aug. 6, before heading into the TBA championships on the weekend. The team started with an 8-2 win over East York Thursday but lost to Etobicoke, 5-3, on the Saturday. The team bounced back on Sunday to beat East York again, this time 4-3, and will face Etobicoke on Wednesday in the final of the double-knockout tournament. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST The Stingers Mosquitos couldn't dodge the rain at all last week as two rescheduled games, one with Markham and another with Etobicoke, were rained out again. The game with Etobicoke on Sunday was rained with the Titans leading 8-3 in the fourth. The team will enter this weekend's TBA playoffs with a three in five chance of making the OBAs in Windsor. The 6-10-1 squad starts the weekend against North Toronto, Friday, at 7pm at Ted Reeve Park. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST The Stingers Minor Bantams (8-8-1) lost to Newmarket, 5-2, Sunday at Highview in one of their final regular-season games of the year. The team is set to face Weston Tuesday at Highview. The minor bantam TBA playoffs will be held at Bond Park and Scarborough has received the bye in the opening round. They play their first game Saturday at 2pm. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST The Stingers Minor Peewees (1-10) lost 7-4 to East York Friday but will try once more for a win against Etobicoke at Neilson Park on Aug. 12. The team plays in the TBA championships this weekend at North York's Bond Park. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST The Stingers Bantams were up 8-0 on West Toronto Tuesday when the rains came again and washed them out in the fourth inning last week. The team now has five games to make-up thanks to Mother Nature. The squad played its last regular-schedule game against Barrie Wednesday at Neilson Park and will now try to schedule their make-up games. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST The Stingers Minor Mosquitos (5-13) were edged 6-5 by North York Thursday in their next-to-last game of the regular season. The youngest Stingers squad will face the Blues again at Neilson Park on Aug. 24, after their TBA championships this weekend. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST The Stingers Minor Midgets (2-20) lost the first of three rescheduled games at Neilson Aug. 7, dropping a 12-1 decision to East York. The team will play a doubleheader with High Park Aug. 11 at Neilson. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST The 7 and 15 Stingers Midgets lost a close game, 5-4, to High Park on Aug. 1 at Christie Pits. Their game with North Toronto at Neilson the night before was cancelled. The team's regular season schedule is now complete and they will spend the next week gearing up for the TBA playoffs being played at Keelesdale and Christie Pits, Aug. 12-17. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST The Stingers Juniors season ended on July 26. The team finished with a record of 1-20 and missed the playoffs along with Etobicoke, Leaside and Aurora. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EST Coming off an exhausting tournament in Guelph on the July 18-20 weekend, the Minor Peewees strung together their second league win in a row July 21 against the Etobicoke Titans. The lead changed hands three times before Jonathan Hudgin hit the winning run in with a bloop single to right in the bottom half of the sixth to for a 7-6 win. Sam Salemi started on the mound for the Stingers and held Etobicoke to just three hits over three innings. Johnny Tang struck out six in his three innings on the hill while the Stingers offence put 10 hits on the board, the most impressive being Robby Roycroft's RBI double. The squad is took some much needed R'n'R before hosting Aurora July 28. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST The Stingers Bantams made the most of their road trip to Barrie last week, connecting for 13 runs in a 13-2 win over the Red Sox, who are tied for last place in the league. After going 2-1 and finishing a respectable 12th at the New Era tournament in Buffalo, the team now faces a tough test with four games in four nights begining with Markham (3-9-3) Tuesday at Milliken Mills. Wednesday things get tougher as the team faces second-place Newmarket (11-3-3) at home before heading to Bond Park on Thursday for a game with the first-place North York Blues (13-2-1). The team finishes its end-of-season grind with another road game against the Aurora Jays on Friday. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST The second-place Stingers Minor Bantams were undefeated in their last two games going into action Monday against first-place Vaughan at Concord. The team tied fifth-ranked Markham, 2-2, on July 15 at home after beating the North York Blues 6-4 and 9-5 in a doubleheader at Highview on July 12. The Stingers (8-3-1) play host to North York again Tuesday night and end the week with a doubleheader against Etobicoke's Titans (5-9-2) at Richview Park on July 26. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST The fifth-place Stingers Peewees (11-9) dropped an 11-3 game to the lowly Newmarket Hawks (3-11) at Neilson Park on July 15 before heading into a tournament in Hamilton on the weekend. The squad will try for a win against the North York Blues' Minor Peewees in their final regularly scheduled league game of the season on July 22. The team will then practice and play exhibitions in preparation for their eliminations tournament in Whitby. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST The Stingers Mosquitos (5-8-1) dropped the ball early and often last week, losing to the Newmarket Hawks at Neilson on Wednesday after falling 13-4 in Markham the night before. The team faces Thornhill at Neilson on Wednesday and is scheduled to make the long road trip to Barrie Thursday for a game with the 9-6 Red Sox. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST The Stingers Minor Mosquitos must wait until next month to complete their run at the Ajax tournament, which was suspended by rain on the weekend. The team finished 2-1 in its division and made it to the semi-finals before the rains came. Their league game Monday was rescheduled. The 5-11 team's next league action comes Thursday in a doubleheader against North York (8-3-1)at Bond Park. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST The Stingers Minor Midgets split their home-and-home series with Newmarket last week, losing 17-3 at home on July 14 but rebounding for a 5-3 win the following night at Whipper Watson Park, their first of the season. The squad's game against High Park Sunday was postponed due to rain. Next up is the 4-15 Markham Mariners, followed by a make-up doublheader with East York (12-6) on July 27 at Stan Wadlow. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST The seventh-place Stingers Midgets played four out of five scheduled games last week, and went 2-2 with a rain out to start the string on July 14. The team beat last-place Markham, 9-6, at Milliken Mills the following night but lost by a 10-0 shutout two nights later at home to Etobicoke. They finished the week with a 10-6 win over York at Keelesdale and returned home to open this week's games at Neilson Park only to drop a 4-3 loss to North York. The squad's next league game is July 31 at Neilson. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST After winning their first game of the season against Leaside July 13, the Stingers Juniors found it hard to get into the win column again, losing four of five scheduled games last week. The fifth was postponed due to rain. The team started last week with a 14-5 loss to the Toronto Mets and dropped both ends of a doubleheader to Newmarket 8-10 and 10-0. Things were looking brighter in the team's doubleheader on Sunday as they were edged by High Park 6-5 on Sunday until rain washed out the second game. The team plays Whitby at Neilson Park on Tuesday and travels to Thornhill on Tuesday before closing out the season July 26 on the road against Whitby. http://www.scarboroughstingers.com/news.htm Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:30:00 EST