The Orangeville Royal Bank Peewee Select Bengals came up dry in Barrie but captured a bronze in Georgetown.

They travelled to Barrie the weekend of August 19 for a 10-team tournament and found themselves up againt tough opposition from Barrie, Toronto and Thornhill, without several key players who were attending hockey tryouts, were unable to come away with a victory. They fell 13-7 to Barrie, 16-7 to Toronto and 11-4 to Thornhill.

The coaches thanked Joshua Chua and Luke McAree, who came up from the Mosquito team to play as well as Dakoda Bruce who played in his first tournament.

The boys played hard all weekend, but most of their big bats were silent against some very tough pitching.

They saved their best performance for last, at Georgetown, the following weekend.

The Selects managed to win two out of three games to capture the Bronze medal.

In the first game Orangeville managed to hang on and beat Georgetown 3-2 in a fierce pitchers duel.

Brenden Whiffen, Evan Marshall and Jonathan McEwan were brilliant on the mound, holding Georgetown to two runs on two hits.

Bengal runs came from Evan Marshall, Tyler Goertzen and David

The game came down to the final out. With a runner on third and two out the Georgetown batter hit a deep fly ball to centre field. Josh Hickey managed to track it down and made a nice catch to save the game for Orangeville. In the second game, Orangeville faced a tough team from Aurora and came out on the losing end of a 12-4 score.

The Orangeville pitching staff of Tyler Goertzen, Jonathan McEwan and Mitchell Pike pitched well for three of the four innings but a bad third inning, where Aurora scored eight runs, was hard to overcome.

Evan Marshall with two triples, Tyler Goertzen with a double and Jonathan McEwan with two singles provided the key hits. David Humphrey, Jacob McAree and Josh Hickey hit singles.

In the Bronze medal game the Bengals came up against Aurora again, hoping to prove that the first game was a fluke.

Aurora scored 5 runs in the top of the first, but Orangeville then exploded for 9. Tyler Goertzen led off with a triple. Josh Gadomski followed with a single, Evan Marshall with a double, Josh Hickey with a single, Brenden Whiffen with a single and Jacob McAree with a single. Mitchell Pike added a triple in the fourth inning to close out a 14-7 victory for Orangeville.On the mound, Brenden Whiffen, Evan Marshall and Mitchell Pike provided solid pitching.

The team showed continuous improvement this season, and is looking forward to next year when Orangeville returns 11 of 12 kids to the Peewee division.

The team thanks the Royal Bank for its sponsorship.

Coaches Don Goertzen and James McEwan thanked all team members for an excellent season.

Team members were Josh Gadomski, Tyler Goertzen, Josh Hickey, David Humphrey, Joshua Huot, Frank Leone, Evan Marshall, Jacob McAree, Jonathan McEwan, Mitchell Pike, Ty Wright and Brenden Whiffen.