Baseball winning streak halted

The WolfPack baseball team’s 11-0 winning streak was halted Saturday in a game against the Kwantlen Polytechnic Eagles at NorBrock Stadium.
The team came into the weekend on a high after their success against Kelowna on Wednesday; the 9-5 win brought the total wins this exhibition season to 10.
The team started out their first game Saturday afternoon with promise, but by the end of the fifth inning were losing 3-0 to Kwantlen. The sixth inning was the turning point, and as Head Coach Ray Chadwick pointed out “we battled back and won.” The team’s first run was scored by number one Scott Nevison followed closely by an impressive four more runs in the sixth inning bringing the score to 5-3, and their winning streak to eleven. Number 21 Adam Halland, number two Kyle Dhanani, number 55 Ben Bradford, and number 49 Robert Morrison are credited with the remaining runs in the first game.
The team’s first defeat of the season came in game number 12 as once again they found themselves losing 3-0 at the end of the fifth inning. This time the WolfPack was not able to pull off another miracle in the sixth, though a strange sense of déjà vu arose as number one Scott Nevison ran into home scoring the first run of the game for the WolfPack once again. Number 16 Matt Walker scored a run in the seventh inning, and number two Kyle Dhanani finished up the scoring in the eighth.
Unfortunately Kwantlen achieved two more runs between the sixth and ninth innings, with the final score being 3-5 in favour of Kwantlen.
Coach Chadwick credits the loss to a number of mental mistakes and the fact the team did not make plays behind the pitcher finally caught up to them.
This loss is especially disappointing to the team as Kwantlen is a “team we should beat every time,” said player Adam Halland. “We didn’t really hit very well and we could have hit better,” Halland stated.
Though the loss ends the teams winning streak it definitely does not end the exhibition season, the team shows great promise for what is to come, with 16 new players out this year, there is still plenty of baseball to catch.
The team’s next home game is October 4, at 2 p.m. against Kelowna at NorBrock Stadium.