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Baseball Cascades lose more games to rain

UFV is running out of time to make up 13 home dates lost to a soggy field at Fairfield Island.
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DJZ PHOTO Nick Laflamme (in green) and his University of the Fraser Valley Cascades travel to Alberta to take on the Prairie Baseball Academy this weekend.

The University of the Fraser Valley Cascades had two more home games washed out on Sunday.

The Cascades were due to host the Okanagan College Coyotes in a double-header at Fairfield Island, but weather scuttled their plans again.

The first-year Canadian College Baseball Conference team has only been able to play four home games out of a scheduled 17.

UFV is in tough to make up those home dates, with the regular season schedule wrapping up this weekend.

They’ll try to squeeze some in this week, but it looks like they’ll fall well short of playing a full slate.

The Cascades did get a couple road games in on Friday, traveling to Kelowna to split a pair with the Okanagan College Coyotes.

UFV rode a four-run seventh inning to a 6-4 win in the opener. Dylan Emmons went the distance on the mound, giving up eight hits and two walks over nine innings while fanning five.

Emmons cruised until the ninth inning when the Yotes got to him for a pair.

Big bopper Brennan Hegel provided the big blow offensively with a three-run moon-shot that traveled 420-plus feet over the fence. Trevor Brammer went two-for-four at the plate.

Brammer produced another three hits in the back half of the double-header, but this time the Coyotes escaped with an 8-4 win.

OCC got to UFV starter Dan Rogers in the third inning, squeaking out a pair of weak infield hits followed by a three-run homerun.

Rogers allowed five earned runs over six innings while striking out eight.

Cascade bats banged out 10 hits including a double by Colin Kellington.

Brammer, Hegel and Riley Jepson had RBIs, but UFV stranded 11 runners on base.

“These were both good games for us, with fewer errors, so a good step in right direction,” said Cascade coach Shawn Corness. “This puts us at 14-7 overall and 7-5 in conference play.”

And that leaves Corness’s crew second in the six-team Canadian Colleges Baseball Conference standings based on win percentage.

The Cascades are in Nanaimo Wednesday for a double header versus the Vancouver Island Mariners and travel to Lethbridge this weekend to take on the Prairie Baseball Academy.



Eric Welsh

About the Author: Eric Welsh

I joined the Chilliwack Progress in 2007, originally hired as a sports reporter.
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