The Jasper Bears Under-12 baseball team hosted the second round of provincial playoffs at Centennial Park last weekend, attracting teams from Slave Lake, Barrhead and Drayton Valley.
The Bears won one of their three games, with a score of 18鈥�4 against the Barrhead Yankees on Saturday evening. The other two match-ups were against the undefeated Drayton Valley Giants, who came out on top with scores of 15鈥�11 and 12鈥�2. In the first game, the Bears battled hard coming back from behind. But in the end, there weren鈥檛 enough innings to get those last four runs.
This is the first year for the Bears, as youth baseball was just resurrected in Jasper in May of this year.
The results from the weekend will be tallied along with results from around the province by Baseball Alberta to place teams in tiers for the provincial championships.
Following the Bears鈥� games in Jasper and their games in the first round in Slave Lake, the team鈥檚 coach, Kathleen Buffel, suspects the Bears will be in the second tier.
The championships will be held at Rundle Park in Edmonton July 19-21.
Nicole Veerman
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