Clarion staff
The Fertile Valley Baseball League’s (FVBL) regular season is drawing to a close and the undefeated Kindersley Stallions are poised atop the league and their division.
The Stallions are 11-0 with two games remaining, although if one of the games is not made up, the team only has one game left to play on the schedule. The Stallions are away in Elrose tomorrow night for a game against the Aces starting at 7 p.m. The Aces are tied for first in the East division with a record of 6-3.
In the Stallions’ last three games, the team earned wins of 8-0 over the Kindersley Royals on June 22, 5-4 over the Rosetown Angels on June 23 and a 17-3 drumming of the Eatonia Wheat Kings in Kindersley on June 29.
Ryan Adams of the Eatonia Wheat Kings takes an outside pitch for a ball from Kindersley Raiders starting pitcher Byron Ismond on July 3. The Raiders won the game 11-2
The Kindersley Raiders are second in the West division behind the Stallions with a record of 8-2. The Raiders earned a convincing win over the Wheat Kings in their game on Monday by a final score of 11-2. Byron Ismond pitched well to earn the win, a win that included a six-run fourth inning for the Raiders.
The Raiders only have one game remaining on their schedule, a game tomorrow night against the rival Angels in Rosetown starting at 7 p.m. The Raiders and Angels have played in the FVBL final three years in a row with the Angels winning the title in two of those years.
At the opposite end of the West division standings are the Kindersley Klippers, Kindersley Royals and the Wheat Kings. The Klippers at 2-6 on the season were scheduled to play the Kyle Yellow Jackets last night in Kyle.
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The Klippers have games to make up, but they only have one more game on the schedule against the Wheat Kings tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m. The Klippers have not played since they lost to the Raiders by a score of 8-2 on June 26, but they did not play games against the Aces and Eston Ramblers since.
The schedule has been thrown into a state of flux as it appears the Ramblers have folded the team in the middle of the season. The Ramblers have only played five games, with a record of 1-4, so far from the 13 games needed to finish the season.
The Royals sit in fourth in the West division with a record of 3-10. The Royals have played all 13 of their games and a three-win season is the team’s best result since the midget team joined the FVBL three seasons ago. The Royals lost 8-1 against the Angels on June 26, the team’s final game of the season, and it came after an 8-1 loss to the Stallions on June 21.
As for the Wheat Kings, the team is sitting at 2-9 after 11 games with one game remaining on the schedule against the Klippers tomorrow night. The FVBL regular season raps up tomorrow night and the playoffs are around the corner.
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