Men’s Baseball Split OUA Exhibition with Laurier

Waterloo, ON – The St. Clair College Men's Baseball team travelled to Waterloo on Friday and came away with an exhibition split against the OUA's Wilfrid Laurier University winning 9-5 before losing 6-2. 

In the opening contest the Saints went ahead 2-0 in the 3^rd inning but fell behind 5-2 in the 4^th.  Seven unanswered runs for St. Clair in the 6^th inning completed the scoring which awarded reliever Jonas Le Clair (Windsor, ON/Holy Names) the win who worked two scoreless innings.  Rookie infielder Evan Schweyer (Lakeshore, ON/St. Anne) led the Saints offensively recording two singles and a walk with an RBI to go with a pair of runs scored.  Fellow first year player Ryan Querbach (Belle River, ON/St. Anne) drove in a pair of runs with a single and a walk adding a run scored.  Owen Levesque (Windsor, ON/St. Joseph's) scored twice with a hit and an RBI for St. Clair.  Kanaan Gale (Leamington, ON/Cardinal Carter) also plated a runner with a hit as did Erick Arosemena (Panama City, Panama) who also walked twice and scored once. 

The Saints only managed two hits as a team in the second game which came from Querbach and Levesque.  St. Clair led 2-0 in the 5^th inning but gave up two in the bottom half and four more in the 6^th.  Starter Michael Grondin (Windsor, ON/Riverside) and Tyler Brown-Amlin (Windsor, ON/Sandwich) combined to throw the first four scoreless innings for the Saints. 

St. Clair will begin their OCAA regular season on the road against Sheridan College (Brampton) at Quenippenon Meadows Community Park in Mississauga on Saturday with doubleheader game times of 1:00pm and 3:30pm.  The Saints will host Lambton College (Sarnia) in their home opener at Lacasse Park on Wed, Sep. 10^th at 7:00pm. 

St. Clair will play host to the Provincial Championship tournament Oct. 16-18 looking to equal their record of five consecutive OCAA Baseball titles.