The Parry Island Hawks traveled to Niagara Falls in hopes of securing a berth to the 2012 ISC Mens World Championships. The Hawks are the First ever team from Northern Ontario to attempt to play in the premier Fastpitch Tournament on the planet. In game one vs the 18th ranked Niagara Snappers the boys from the north loaded the bases in the top of the 1st inning but timely Pitching by young Ian Wallwork of the Snappers stopped the Hawks from scoring the games first run. Stranding base runners plagued the squad throughout the contest final score Niagara 8 Hawks 3
Niagara Snappers - 8R 11H 1E
Perry Island Hawks - 3R 10H 2E
Niagara - Ian Wallwork - 7IP 3R 1ER 10H 6K 2BB
Perry Island - Frank Cox - 5IP 8R 2ER 10H 3K 2BB
Cory Stolar (In Relief) - 1IP 0R 1H 1BB
Niagara - Adam Dearborn, Trevor Falk and Brian Crawford all with HR's and 2 RBI
Perry Island - Brett Hall HR
GAME #2 HAWKS 2 WYVALE TRIBE 1
Solid defense and timely Hitting allowed The Hawks to stay alive in the double knock out event. The Tribes Jason Giffen's steady dose of hard rise balls kept the Islanders off the score sheet until the 6th inning when the Hawks scored a pair to erase an early Stef Walma Home run to take the lead 2-1 and hold it to make the final Hawks 2 Tribe 1
Perry Island Hawks 2
Wyevale Tribe 1
WP Frank Cox 7 ip 3 hits 9 Ks 1 BB
LP Jason Giffen 7 ip 4 hits 10 Ks 4 BB
Perry Island Brett Hall 1-2 2BB; Craig Brown 1-2 game winning run
Wyevale Steffan Walma home run
GAME #3 HAWKS 3 WATERDOWN HAMMER 2
A strong pitching performance by Frank Cox coupled with a never quit attitude allowed the hawks to score 2 runs in the top of the 7th inning to beat a very tough team in the veteran club from Waterdown 3-2
WP Frank Cox 7 ip 2 runs 0 earned 5 hits 10Ks 3BB
LP Tim Neill 7 ip 3 runs 1 earned 3 hits 8Ks 4BB
Hawks Craig Brown 2-3 RBI
Hammer Will Lake 2-3 run scored
GAME #4 HAWKS 2 ELMIRA EXPOS 9
The winner of this game receives an automatic berth to the big dance in August and the Expo bats showed early they wanted that berth in a big way scoring 3 runs in the bottom half of the first inning. Young lefty Dan Martin kept the Hawk Bats at bay until the 5th inning when Hawks utility Player Joel Belanger hit a solo Home run to put Parry island on the board, Veteran Pitcher Cory Stolar added another solo shot for the hawks in the 6th Inning but it was not enough as the Expos out scored the hawks by a final score of 9 -2.
The Parry Island Hawks would like to thank Blair Setford and his staff for a great weekend of ball , also a big thanks to the Niagara Fury for having cold Beverages throughout the weekend.
the Hawks wish the 4 qualifying teams the best of Luck at the World Tournament.
* On a side note with the canceling of the Wyvale Tournament the Hawks are exploring the idea of hosting a couple of teams in Parry Island on the Canada day weekend if interested please contact Derek Pinkerton at dpink72@hotmail.com
