It was a light week for the Milton Red Sox in COBA Major league action as the club only had one game on the docket this week. They hosted the Oakville A's at the Milton Sports Complex for the first time this season. 

 

The Sox got on the board first in this game as they plated single runs in both the first and fourth innings to take a 2-0 lead. The A's would storm back though as they scored a run in both the fifth and sixth innings to tie the game at 2-2. That lead would be short lived though as Milton pushed three runs across in the bottom half to take a 5-2 lead after six innings.

 

The Sox would add another pair of runs in the eighth inning to take a commanding 7-2 lead to the final frame. Oakville wasn't going to go quietly into the night though as tgey touched up three Milton pitchers for six runs and had an 8-7 lead going to the home half of the ninth. The Red Sox would get to the A's closer thought for a pair of runs and escape with a 9-8 victory in the game. 

 

Zero K Bats Player of the Week Brandon Chong led the 8-hit attack for Milton going 3-for-4 with double, a run and six RBIs. Liam Butchereit was 2-for-4 with an HBP and three runs scored while Sean Alp was 1-for-1 with three walks, an HBP, a run and an RBI. Nick Tiensovan was 1-for-4 with a run and an RBI while Kevin Greer was 0-for-3 with two walks, two runs and an RBI.

 

Liam Buckley was 1-for-5  this game while Jason Schneider and Matthew Correira rounded out the offense each scoring a run. Vic Christensen had a pair of hits, a walk and a run while Danny Roderick also had two hits scored a run and collected an RBI to lead Oakville at the plate.

 

On the hill, Chris Cloes started for Milton and gave them a quailty start in picking up the no decision. He went seven innings allowing two runs (one earned) on six hits. He walked one batter while striking out nine. MacKenzie Storey followed him to the mound a toss a clean inning of relief allowing no runs and no hits while walking one and striking out one. 

 

Liam Carey started the ninth inning throwing 2/3 of an inning allowing four runs (all earned) on two hits while walking one. Rhys Tapper followed him to the mound and couldn't record an out allowing four runs (two earned) on one hit. He hit a batter and walked two.

 

Tiensovan came in after him recording the final out of the game to earn the win. Paul McKenna started for Oakville going five innings allowing two runs (both earned) on four hits. He hit two batters, walked five and struck out three. Matt Chismore, the third of three A's arm, took the hard luck loss. 

 

Here is the rest of the action from Week V in the COBA Major Baseball League:

 

Monday, June 6th

Burlington Brants vs Erindale Cardinals

PPD - Rain

 

Wednesday, June 8th

Brampton Royals - 6

Burlington Brants - 8

WP - Evan Krychowski; LP - RJ Page

HR - Joe Ferreira (Bram); Tim Sogan (Burl)

 

Oakville A's - 8

Milton Red Sox - 9

WP - Nick Tiensovan; LP - Matt Chisamore

 

Thursday, June 9th

Etobicoke Rangers vs Brampton Royals 

PPD - Rain

 

Friday, June 10th

Erindale Cardinals - 5

Etobicoke Rangers - 6

WP - Corey Vandergraaf; LP - Eric Alcaraz

HR - Chris Novia (Erin)

 

Burlington Brants - 11

Oakville's A's - 7

WP - Jordan Rienzo; LP - Jacob Schuurman