Two of B.C.’s baseball teams came away second-best at age group national championships this week.
The midget Premier Baseball League champion North Shore Twins, including Burnaby’s Nicholas Carusi, Nicholas Favaro and Steven Moretto, were beaten 6-1 by Quebec in the gold-medal final at the 18-and-under Baseball Canada championships at Magog, Que. on Sunday.
Carusi batted in B.C.’s only run in the top of the seventh inning.
The Notre Dame Regional School left fielder led the squad with a .438 batting average at the nationals.
B.C. advanced to the final following a 10-0 five-inning blowout over Manitoba earlier in the day.
Favaro, a St. Thomas More Collegiate catcher, led B.C. with three RBI on two hits. He also scored a run.
Third baseman Moretto also scored a run in the mercy-rule win, while Carusi had three hits, a RBI and a run scored.
Burnaby Minor also settled for a silver medal at the13-and-under National Western Championships in Coquitlam.
The provincial runners-up, including Jack Yaremko, Mathieu Laroche, Jarrett Watson, Carter Findlay, Brendan Wang, Justin Podnar, Massimo Luongo and Kyle Anderson, lost to host Coquitlam-Moody 2-0 in the gold-medal final at Town Centre field on Sunday.
Burnaby earned a spot in the finals following a 10-0 win over eventual bronze medallists South Jasper Place, Alta.
Anderson led the team with two hits and two runs scored.
Yaremko, Laroche and Wang all had one hit, one RBI and one run scored for B.C.
B.C. also had a big 11-3 win over Sherwood Park, Alta.
Yaremko, Laroche and Wang equally shared in six of B.C’s nine hits in the two-hitter.
