Richmond City Baseball Association’s U18 Fall Ball team defeated Ridge Meadows 4-3 to win BC Baseball’s year-end Fall Ball tournament at Latrace field this past weekend.
For the second year in a row RCBA played host to BC Baseball’s U18 year-end Fall Ball Tournament. Nine teams from around the province travelled to Richmond with games being played at Blundell North and Latrace field.
RCBA’s U18 team came out of round robin pool play undefeated claiming victories over Cloverdale Spurs, Kelowna, Tri-Cities and Vancouver Community.
Ridge Meadows came out as the top seed of the other round robin pool play with a 3-1 record.
The final was a tight, closely contested game throughout. The game went to extra innings, which eventually saw Richmond City take the lead 4-3 in the top of the ninth inning. Outstanding team defense held on, turning a game-ending double play to solidify the win.
The RCBA coaches did an outstanding job managing the player lineup of 18 players through the weekend and making sure all participated in the final game. With RCBA recently having applied to their organizing body BC Baseball to be promoted to the College Prep level this should help their vision of offering a high performance program and keeping players in Richmond.
Coaches: Raul Verde Rios (head coach), Cory Carpenter, David Van Ostrand and Matt Winograd.
Players: Nate Antiporda, Blake Browne, Brayden Carpenter, Carter Castle, Ethan Hong, Duke Howells, Cameron Lewis, James Linden, Taiki Matsunuma, Kanato Misumi, Jordan Moffat, Josh Moscovitz, Jonathan Nakhleh, Matthew O’Krafka, Davis Poon, Ben Pulis, Hiroki Sato, Ryan Shoji, Aiden Sutcliffe and Will Thiessen.
