The Tribune

By RENALDO DORSETT

Sports Reporter

rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

Freedom Farm Baseball Park turned into “Comet Country” as the Queen’s College Comets dominated the junior division last night, sending two teams soaring into the finals.

The Comets took down the St Anne’s Blue Waves in both matchups – the junior boys advanced first with a 9-7 win followed by the junior girls who won 16-14.

The boys will advance to face the St Augustine’s Big Red Machine who reached the finals with a 20-19 win over the CW Saunders Cougars.

The girls will face the St Andrew’s Hurricanes who edged SAC in an 18-17 semifinal win.

It was a staunch defensive effort in the top of the fifth inning which sealed the win for the Comets junior boys and held off a late charge from the Blue Waves looking to keep their season alive.

Comets ace Bertram Murray delivered one of his game high five strikeouts, and after surrendering four runs in the inning, Comet’s first baseman James Cadman outran Tori Ingraham to the bag for the third out, sending his team to the championship series.

Murray was also a force offensively at the plate, finishing 1-3 with two RBI and two runs scored, Jyles Romer finished 2-2 with two runs scored, Cadman was 1-2 with one RBI and one run, Peron Butler was 2-3 with one RBI and one run scored.

For the Blue Waves, leadoff-man Brent Johnson was 2-2 with two runs scored, Joel Armstrong was 2-3 with one RBI and two runs scored, and Ingraham was 1-3 with one run scored.

The Blue Waves reached the scoreboard first in the top half of the first inning when Armstrong scored on an RBI single from Ritchie.

Blue Waves’ ace Dentry Mortimer started the game efficiently from the mound retiring three of the four hitters he faced.

The Comets’ offense went ahead for good in the second inning when they plated five runs.

Faced with loaded bases, Cadman drove in a single to plate Brasil Cumerbatch and begin the rally for the Comets.

The Blue Waves added a pair of runs in the third inning to pull within two, 5-3, only to have the Comets widen the margin with four runs of their own in the bottom half.

After Mortimer began the inning with a strikeout, he walked the next two hitters of the inning, and Murray delivered a momentum shifting double to plate Lernox Williams and Cumerbatch.

Trailing 9-3 headed into the top half of the fifth, the Blue Waves mounted a rally that came up two runs short.

With one out and the bases loaded, Murray struckout Sean Brennen and again swung the momentum in the Comets’ favour as their defense sealed the win and the championship series berth.

Game one of the championship series is set to begin November 16 and game two follows on November 19. If necessary, game three is slated for November 20.