The Wilkie Brewers are back on top of the mountain when it comes to Senior AA baseball in Saskatchewan.
For the second straight year the Brewers have won a provincial title after they defeated the Unity Cardinals 10-3 in the Senior AA Tier 3 championship final in Rosetown Sunday.
“It’s always something that you are proud of and to beat one of our rivals in Unity makes it even more exciting,” Trent Cey said.
“When you start a season the goal is to play for a championship and everything was able to come together for us to go back to back at the provincials. It’s a big deal for us to get our names back on the trophy again after we had a dry spell there for a few years.”
After falling behind 3-1 to the Cardinals in the title tilt, the Brewers roared back with a vengeance as they scored nine runs in the sixth inning to take a lead that they would never give up.
“We did what we have done all year long,” Cey said. “We capitalized on another team’s mistakes and we were able to put some runs on the board to put the game out of reach at that point.
“They were out of pitchers at that point of the tournament and when we batted around that put them in some trouble.”
The Brewers finished the round-robin with a 3-0 record with wins over the Cardinals, Bruno Bisons and Oxbow Chiefs.
They advance to the final with a 9-3 triumph over the Estevan Wolfs Sunday afternoon.
“I think this year’s team might have been even deeper offensively compared to what we had last season,” Cey said. “You could have put anyone from the lineup out there in a situation and they would come through with the big hit or a big defensive play.
“We also had a lot of confidence in one another. We were in some pretty tight games this weekend and we had that belief that no matter what the score was we would be able to score five, six or even nine runs in an inning.”
With the provincial title clinched, the Brewers will now look to win their first North Saskatchewan River Baseball League title since 2008 when they go up against the Standard Hill Lakers.
The best-of-three series will begin in Wilkie at 6 p.m. Tuesday night.
The Lakers will host the second game on Wednesday while a third game, if needed, will be held in Wilkie on Aug. 23.
