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Ancaster caps perfect season to earn HWIAC Baseball title

2018-19 HWIAC Baseball Champions: Ancaster Royals
ANCASTER, Ont. (October 19, 2018) – The Ancaster Royals put an exclamation mark on their 2018-19 baseball season cruising to a 15-1 win over the Westmount Wildcats in the HWIAC Championship on Friday at Ancaster Community Park.

The Royals juggernaut offence was powered on Friday by Matt Sargeant and Colin Muir. Both players went three for four at the plate. Sargeant scored four runs and knocked in two RBI’s while Muir scored three times and had three RBI’s. Tyler Wilson was also a top contributor, scoring a run and batting in two more.

Ancaster starter Shane Jeffrey was solid in his three innings of work striking out five Westmount batters and allowing no hits.

Westmount showed life in the fourth inning when Dylan Wardell scored on a Sawyer Smith RBI double. That would be all that the Wildcats would get as the Royals shut the door.

The Royals finished with a perfect 8-0 record, earning six wins in the regular season and then posting a 8-2 semifinal win over the Sherwood Saints before exploding in the final against Westmount.

Ancaster was unchallenged all season long winning five of their six regular season games by 10 runs or more. The only team that kept it close against the Royals was the Waterdown Warriors who held Ancaster’s offence to just two runs in their game back on October 4. Defensively, Ancaster was just as sharp, allowing nine runs during their entire campaign.

This is the first title for the Royals since the 2015-16 season after finishing runner up the previous two seasons. They avenged their 2016-17 championship loss against Westmount which was a 1-0 extra inning heartbreaker.

Overall the Royals have claimed five HWIAC baseball titles appearing in 10 of the last 12 championships. They are the winningest program with Waterdown the next closest team with three titles.

In the Spring, Ancaster will represent the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (Zone 1) at the SOSSA championship. The event is tentatively set for May 30th and will be hosted by St. Michael’s CHS in Niagara Falls, Ont.

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Updated on Sunday, October 21, 2018.
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