The Windsor Stars are your 2022 Sr. AAA Men's Elimination Champions after they defeated the Sarnia Brigade in the final game by a score of 10-5. The Stars who were undefeated heading into the final Monday afternoon were pushed to the brink by the Brigade as they won the first game against the Stars that afternoon by a score of 16-8. 

The Stars won a pair of games on the opening day of the tournament as they defeated the Erindale Cardinals by a score of 8-1 (WP - Jack Zimmerman) and followed that up with a win over the Ilderton River Hawks by a score of 3-2 (WP - Kimani Bailey). On Saturday, Windsor only had one game as they took on the Burlington Brants and were able to take this on by a score of 13-0 in five innings (WP - Seth Chauvin).

On Sunday, the Stars then took on the Etobicoke Rangers after getting a bye thoruhg the Sunday morning set of games. They took this one by a score of 13-3 (WP - Josh Shepley ). Now sitting at 4-0, Windsor entered the Final 5 and had a date with the Newmarket Hawks of the GTBL. This was a very exciting game that went back and forth through the evening but the Stars prevailed with a 5-4 win scoring a run late in this one to take it home. (WP - Jake Rajsigl)

This put Windsor into Monday at the Elims and with a 5-0 record they got the bye directly to the championship game. After the Sarnia Brigade beat the Etobicoke Rangers 6-0 (WP - Mike Damchuk; 2nd SO of the weekend), this set up the final between Windsor and Sarnia with the Stars needing to be defeated twice. Game 1 was a tight affair for the first few innings but the Brigade got to starter Jack Zimmerman and continued to poor on the offense against Dane Little and Chris Renaud out of the pen as they took this game by a score of 16-8 (WP - Greg Ross, SV - Derek Masse, LP - Jack Zimmerman)

This set up a winner take all final between the two clubs. With a packed house at Cullen Field The Brigade sent veteran Wade Babula to the mound while the Stars countered with Kimani Bailey for his second start of the tournament. Sarnia took a quick 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning but the Stars got the bats going early in this one as they were able to plate 6 runs in the second inning to take a quick 6-1 lead and chase Babula from the game early. Nick Baljeu followed him to the mound and while the Stars were able to get a few more runs off him, he did a good job of silencing the Windsor bats for a bit as Sarnia was able to eat away at the Stars lead and make it 8-4.

Windsor was able to add a pair of runs late to take a 10-4 lead. Seth Chauvin entered the game in the 6th and had a clean inning to set up the 7th inning for the Stars. The Brigade didn't go down quietly though as they were able to push a run across and had a pair of runners on base. Chauvin was able to re-group himself and get the last out of the game on strike making the final score 10-5 (WP - Kimani Bailey; LP - Wade Babula).

This will be the first trip to the Canadians for Windsor since they won five years in a row from 2008 - 2012. They hosted hpsted the Canadians in 2013 at the Mic Mac Sports Complex winning the gold medal that year. Congratulations to the whole Windsor Stars orgainzations including long time Head Coach Ron Smith. This year's edition of the Sr AAA Men's Canadian Championship will take place August 25th - 28th in beautiful Sydney, Nova Scotia with the Sydney Sooners acting as the hosts this season.