The U15 B team at provincials. (Screengrab From Supplied Video)

By Chris Brown

U15B Thunder win provincial softball gold

Jul 20, 2023 | 11:46 AM

MEDICINE HAT, AB – The Medicine Hat U15B Thunder are Alberta softball champions.

The team won gold at provincials in Camrose last weekend.

Finishing first in their pool they dropped the first game of championship play to Camrose but took the long way back to the final.

There they got revenge on Camrose, mercying them 13-5.

Also last weekend the U19 Thunder team won bronze at B provincials.

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The Thunder battled the other teams and wildfire smoke that forced them to move games about 125 kilometres from Irma to Castor and play three back-to-back seven-inning games.

Three other Medicine Hat Minor Softball Association teams played their Softball Alberta Provincial Championships earlier this month.

The U13 Thunder Black played their way to a solid 3-1 record at the D championship in Grande Prairie July 7-9. Several other teams had the same record and the Medicine Hat squad missed out on the championship games by three runs in the runs for and against tiebreaker.

On the July long weekend, a pair of U11 teams played in provincials in Calgary.

The Thunder Black team went 3-1 in the round-robin before losing in the bronze medal game.

The Thunder Red team went 1-3, failing to make the playoff round