Sunday 2nd March 2008

Gold Coast, Australia - Palm Meadows

Canada earns their second win in Exhibition Series

Canada’s offence once again came up big as they would break a 5-5 tie in the eighth inning to beat Australia in the fourth Exhibition Game of the series by a score of 9-5

The Canadians would score four runs on five straight hits in the eighth inning before the Aussies could register an out
Emmanuel Garcia (Montreal, QC) started things off with a leadoff double and would score on Mike Saunders’ (Victoria, BC) RBI triple
Ryan Radmanovich (Calgary, AB) would then drive in his second run of the game with a single to score Saunders
Matt Rogelstad (New Westminster, BC) would move Radmanovich up to third base with a double and Emerson Frostad (Calgary, AB) would cash in Radmanovich with a single
David Corrente (Chatham, ON) would drive in Rogelstad to complete the scoring

“Manny Garcia had a wonderful night, Saunders was fabulous and Radmanovich had some big RBIs
It’s coming together for us” says Manager Terry Puhl

It was a good start to the ballgame for Canada as they would open the scoring in the first inning when Radmanovich would drive in Stubby Clapp (Windsor, ON) for the first run of the game
“I’m feeling good about my swing right now
It was nice to get a couple big hits in key situations which is the thing we’re going to have to do in the Qualifier to win” says Radmanovich, who was 2-for-3 with the two RBI

From there, James Avery (Moose Jaw, SK) shut things down, allowing only two walks with three strikeouts in three innings of work to start the game
“I’m feeling pretty good
I’m building up every time we go
I threw pretty well tonight, a couple of walks were disappointing, but other than that I thought I threw pretty well” says Avery

But the Aussies would comeback and score four runs in the fourth inning off Brooks McNiven (Vancouver, BC) to take a 4-1 lead
Two doubles, two singles and an error were the cause for the Australian runs in the inning

The Canadians would tie thing up however in their half of the fourth inning on two sacrifice flies from Rogelstad and Nick Weglarz (Stevensville, ON) and a wild pitch that would score Saunders who reached on a single

Canada would then take the lead in the sixth inning when Garcia, who tripled to lead off the inning, would score on a ground out by Rogelstad

Once again though, Australia would comeback to tie the ballgame when Daniel Berg hit an RBI single to score Mitch Dening to tie things up at 5-5

But the Canadians would score four in the eighth and T.J. Burton (Ottawa, ON) would pitch a one, two, three ninth inning to preserve the win for Canada

The Canadians will play their final exhibition game against Australia on Monday, March 3rd at 2.00pm

Score by Innings                    R  H  E
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Australia........... 000 400 100 -  5  8  2
Canada.............. 100 301 04X -  9 12  3
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