Medicine Hat Mavericks drop three of four games over the weekend, head to Weyburn on Tuesday

In game two, the Cactus Rats won again over the Mavs, this time by a 9-4 score.

Energy City struck first during the top of the first to make it 1-0, before the Mavs got three of their own in the bottom of the second to take a 3-1 lead.

The Cactus Rats would score single runs in the third and fourth innings to tie things up, before taking a 5-3 lead after the fifth, and extending that to 8-3 after the sixth.

The teams would exchange runs in the seventh and final inning of the doubleheader.

Saturday in Swift Current against the 57s, the Mavs’ offence woke up in a big way with a 20-6 win.

The contest wasn’t looking great early for the Mavs, as the 57s jumped out to a 5-1 lead after two innings.

A scoreless third inning was followed by four Mavs runs in the fourth, and a single run for the 57s to cut the Mavs’ deficit to 6-5.

An eight-run top of the fifth inning for the Mavs continued their momentum, followed by five in the sixth and two in the seventh to extend the lead to 20-6.

The game was called after eight innings.

On Sunday, the Mavericks travelled to Okotoks to face the Dawgs for the first time this season.

It’s a contest the Dawgs won in the extra 10th inning, 9-6.

After a scoreless first, the Mavs would get on the board with a single run in the top of the second, the Dawgs struck back with three of their own in the bottom of the inning to make it 3-1 Dawgs.

The third inning went scoreless before the Mavs narrowed the deficit to 3-2 with a run in the fourth.

Again, scoreless in the fifth, the Mavs scored four in the top of the sixth inning to take a 6-3 lead.

The Dawgs would get a run in the bottom of the sixth, and two more in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game at six.

The next runs wouldn’t come until Ayden Crouse hit a three-run walk-off home run for the Dawgs in the bottom of the 10th.

With a day off on Monday, the Mavs head to Weyburn to take on the Beavers on Tuesday and Wednesday before returning home to host the Fort McMurray Giants for a pair of games on Thursday and Friday.

The Mavs sit fifth out of six teams in the East Division, just a half-game behind the Beavers and Regina Red Sox, who both sit at 5-7.

The last-place Swift Current 57s are two and a half games back of the Mavericks at 2-10.

by Jesse Gill

Medicine Hat Mavericks drop three of four games over the weekend, head to Weyburn on Tuesday

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