The Southeast Twins U18 AAA baseball team picked up their first win of the season with a 10-1 rout over the Regina Athletics Sunday afternoon in Regina.
The Twins scored five times in the sixth inning to break open a close 3-1 game, and then added two more in the top of the seventh.
Kieran Stewart hit a double and a triple, and brought in four runs to pace the Twins attack. Jayke Smolinski scored three times in the victory, and Rylan Erb had three hits and two runs.
Kaiden Lyons allowed four hits and one unearned run in six innings of work. He also struck out 11. Rylan Erb pitched a scoreless seventh inning in relief.
The victory was the first half of a double header against the A’s. The second half saw Regina edge the Twins 4-3.
The Athletics scored three times in the bottom of the first, but the Twins fought back with one in the third and two in the sixth. The A’s notched the winning run in the bottom of the sixth.
Lyons had two hits and two runs batted in during the defeat. Rylan Erb also had two hits.
Mason Fichter was on the mound for all six innings. He allowed six hits and four runs, but three runs were unearned. He also struck out three.
The Twins dropped a pair of games against the Regina Wolfpack on July 18, 8-4 and 9-6. The Wolfpack scored three times in each of the first and third innings to lead 6-2 after the third inning of the first game. After the Twins pulled to within two in the sixth, the Wolfpack added two more to put the game away.
Stewart had two RBI for the Twins, while Kaiden Lyons had two hits in the loss.
Smolinski allowed six runs, three of them unearned, in the loss. He also struck out four. Levi Cooley allowed two runs in one inning of relief.
The Twins had leads of 4-0 in the second inning and 5-3 in the third in the second game against the Wolfpack, but the Regina team fought back with three-run innings in the fifth and sixth.
Nikolejsin had two hits and two RBIs for the Twins. He also started on the mound, surrendering six runs, four earned, in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out three.
Dallen Oxelgren gave up three runs in 1 1/3 innings of relief.
The Twins next games are a double-header at Lynn Prime Park on July 25 against the Parkland Expos. Game times are 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. They will also host the Wolfpack on July 26 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
