The Okotoks Dawgs Academy 18U Black are headed to the Morneau Cup championship game after defeating the Mississauga Tigers HPP 14-4 in Sunday\u2019s semifinal at Seaman Stadium.<\/p>\n
Okotoks took control early, with Rhys Whitford, Cam Gerla and Nash Pearce each delivering RBI singles to give the Dawgs a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Kadyn Armitage then broke the game open with a three-run home run, extending the lead to 6-0.<\/p>\n
The Dawgs eventually built a 9-0 advantage before Mississauga responded with four runs.<\/p>\n
Okotoks answered immediately in the bottom of the second. Nash Pearce hit a three-run home run to make it 12-4 before Armitage followed with his second homer of the game.<\/p>\n
Armitage finished with two home runs and four RBIs.<\/p>\n
Pryor Woollett stole third before scoring the Dawgs\u2019 final run in the bottom of the fourth, giving Okotoks a 14-4 lead.<\/p>\n
The game was called after five innings, sending the Dawgs into Sunday\u2019s Morneau Cup championship game.<\/p>\n
The Dawgs will face the Sylvan Lake Gulls 19U, the prep team of their WCBL division rivals, in the Morneau Cup final at 4 p.m. this Sunday at Seaman Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Okotoks Dawgs Academy 18U Black are headed to the Morneau Cup championship game after defeating the Mississauga…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":["post-813138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mississauga","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mississauga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}