Men’s Baseball Top Centennial Twice in Scarborough

Scarborough, ON – The St. Clair College Men's Baseball team stayed atop the OCAA standings with two wins over Centennial College at Scarborough's Neilson Park notching wins of 4-2 and 9-5.  The Saints now hold a perfect 10-0 record with just over half the league schedule complete. 

The teams traded single runs in the 1^st inning of game one before St. Clair scored a pair in the 3^rd and another in the 4^th.  Centennial threatened in the 7^th inning with a run and another aboard, but the Saints were able to close the window.  Kanaan Gale (Leamington, ON/Cardinal Carter), Andrew Sleiman (Leamington, ON/Cardinal Carter) and Adrian Harrison (Cottam, ON/Essex) all had two hits and an RBI to pace St. Clair offensively.  Michael Grondin (Windsor, ON/Riverside) pitched five innings as the starter for the Saints giving up a hit and two walks with no earned runs against but struck out three for his first win of the season.  Cameron Beale (LaSalle, ON/Sandwich) picked up a save in two innings of work giving up a hit, a run and a walk but struck out three Centennial batters. 

St. Clair took a 1-0 lead in the 2^nd inning of game two and Centennial answered with a run in the 3^rd.  The Saints blew the game open with a 5-run 5^th inning followed by a 3-run 6^th.  The home team didn't give up and scored 4 runs in the final frame before the game concluded.  Sleiman had three hits including a double and scored twice to lead St. Clair offensively.  Andrew Langlois (LaSalle, ON/St. Thomas of Villanova) had two hits with three RBI and Tyler Brown-Amlin (Windsor, ON/Sandwich) also collected two hits with an RBI for the Saints.  Henry Real (Panama City, Panama) made his one blast count with a 3-run homer in the 6^th inning who has reached base with a hit in each game this season for St. Clair. 

The Saints come home Thursday for a doubleheader at Lacasse Park against Fanshawe College (London) starting at 5:00pm.