The Langley Junior Blaze fell short of pulling off a double-double.
The U16 baseball team captured the B.C. Junior Premier Baseball League title with a 27-9 record.
But over the weekend at North Vancouver’s Parkgate Park, site of the provincial championships, the Blaze went 2-1 in the round robin and then lost 9-8 to the North Shore Junior Twins in the semifinal round.
Langley trailed 7-1 after one inning in that contest and chipped away to tie the score at eight heading into the bottom of the sixth. But the Twins plated the decisive run in their half of the inning and the Blaze could not muster another comeback in the top of the seventh.
Brendan Winning paced the offence with three RBIs while Jayden Knight drove in a pair.
In the team’s other games, they hammered the Victoria Junior Mariners 12-2, blanked the Victoria Junior Eagles 9-0 and lost to the Whalley Junior Chiefs 6-4 in the final round robin game.
The first game saw Adam Reston drive in three runs while Wesley Moore allowed just two hits in five innings.
Game two was another two-hitter, this time from Jaron Jeske while Reston had two more RBIs.
Whalley jumped ahead 5-0 after the top of the second and then hung on as Langley scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth before losing 6-4.
Rhys Cratty drove in a pair of runs in the losing effort.
Whalley defeated North Shore 8-6 for the provincial title.
