By Voice staff
Several local high school teams competed at the provincial baseball and softball championships over the weekend.
Brielle Thiessen connects with the ball in her teams’ 5-1 loss to the Stonewall Rams in the MHSAA softball provincials bronze medal game
On the boys side, both the Morden Collegiate Thunder and the Garden Valley Collegiate Zodiacs were 2-0 in the round robin to finish first in their respective pools.
Morden then got knocked out of the running in the playoffs by falling 13-7 to the Steinbach Sabres. GVC, meanwhile, then downed the Neepawa Tigers 20-1 before coming up short against the Sabres 4-3 in the semi-finals. Steinbach went on to lose the gold to the Garden City Gophers 13-1.
On the girls side, the Northlands Parkway Collegiate Nighthawks finished first in round robin action with a 2-0 record while the Morden Thunder came in third at 0-2.
The Thunder then fell to Churchill 4-2 in the first round of playoffs, while the Nighthawks went on to down the Olympiens 4-2 to earn a seat at the semi-finals against St-Joachim/Réal-Bérard. They lost that match 12-2 (the co-op team went on to win gold) and then fell 5-1 to the Stonewall Rams in the third-place game.
