ESTEVAN - The Estevan U18 AA Brewers went 3-1 on the weekend.
Estevan started with a pair of close wins against the Assiniboia Aces, 5-3 and 10-9, on Saturday at Lynn Prime Park.
The Brewers scored twice in the first and once in the second and never looked back in the first game against Assiniboia. Hayden Terrett went 3-for-4, scored once and knocked in one against the Aces. Jacob Mayer went the distance on the mound for Estevan, allowing 13 hits in seven innings, but surrendering just three runs.
Estevan was down 9-7 entering the bottom of the seventh in the second game, but Lincoln Spencer hit a three-run double for Estevan for the win. Spencer had three hits, a run and four runs batted in (RBIs), while Mayer went 4-for-4 with a run and an RBI.
Estevan went 1-1 against the Regina Buffalos on Sunday, winning 13-3 but then losing 6-2 to snap the Brewers' eight-game winning streak.
Estevan belted out 15 hits in the first game, with Jayden Kuchinka getting three of them to go with three runs and an RBI. Axton Martin gave up three runs in five innings.
Spencer and Sutter Baily each had two hits in the second game. Both of Estevan's runs came in the fifth inning. Matty Fornwald pitched two innings of shutout relief.
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The Southeast U18 AAA Twins finished third at a tournament held in Williston, N.D., from June 6-9.
Estevan opened with a 7-4 win over their league rivals, the Regina Athletics. They improved to 2-0 with an 11-3 win over a team from Middle River, Minn. Their lone defeat was a 10-7 loss to a host team from Williston, but the Twins responded with a 13-1 win over a Bottineau, N.D., club.
The Twins finished second in their pool and played a team from Myles City, Mont., in the third-place game, winning 8-1.
The Twins will have league games at home against the Moose Jaw Canucks on June 12 at 6 p.m., and the following day against the Regina White Sox at 6:30 p.m.
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The Estevan U15 AA Brewers improved their record to 12-0 on Saturday by defeating the Swift Current 57s 16-0 and 28-2 on Saturday. The mercy rule was invoked in both games.
In the first game, Quintin Sliva didn't allow a hit in five innings of work, and he also recorded 10 strikeouts while walking one.
Chayse Zohner slugged a two-run home run for Estevan, while Sliva and Kyson Dangstorp each had three RBIs.
In the second game, Cort Barker hit two home runs and a double, and drove in seven. Estevan scored several runs in each inning.
Dangstorp allowed one hit and two runs over five innings, striking out seven.
The Brewers will host the Regina Blue Jays at Mel Murray Cactus Park on June 15, with games at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., and then they will visit the Moose Jaw Canucks on June 16.
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The Estevan U13 AAA Brewers went 0-3 in their recent games, losing 15-5 at Moose Jaw on Friday, and 12-1 against the Regina Wolfpack and 6-0 to the Regina White Sox on Saturday.
Up next will be a game at Weyburn on June 12, and two games at Yorkton on June 16.
