Aug 18, 2025 | TH | 24 views
New Lowell 13U SSMBA B Pool Champions
The New Lowell Minor Baseball 13U House League Team completed their playoff journey on 17 Aug 2025 in Wasaga Beach during the Playoff Tournament format with a 11-10 walk off win in the Pool B Championship in a spirited highly contested game versus TNT Gold.
The journey started in Bradford with a come from behind victory over Bradford 2 by a score of 15-9. Then on Saturday 16 Aug the 13U Knights continued with their playoff journey against Midland 1. After being down 5-1 after two innings, the Knights rallied back to tie the game 5-5. The team secured the win with four different pitchers demonstrating stellar performances during a very hot day to squeak out a win 8-7 over a very tough opponent in Midland 1.
The Knights then faced a red hot Ivy 13U Team on 17 Aug that owned a record of 2-0 wins/losses that had defeated TNT Gold and Midland 1. The Knights were in a back and forth affair with Ivy and was down 12-10 going into the bottom of the last inning and the 13U team utilized 6 pitchers, they inked out a walk-off win against a very formable opponent in Ivy 13-12 on an infield hit scoring the runner from 3rd. With this win, this meant the Knights Team was off to the finals to face the winner of TNT Gold versus Ivy with their 3-0 playoff record.
With their perfect playoff record heading into the finals, the Knights were facing another hot team in the TNT Gold. The score was even the entire game until the last inning. At the beginning of the last inning the score was 9-9, TNT Gold went up 10-9. The Knights scored 2 runs in their half of the inning that led to their second straight walk-off win, winning 11-10 in a fascinating, well attended game to become Pool B Champions.
Over the playoff tournament the Knights spread out the pitching duties, using 10 different pitchers to secure the victories.
Recap of Playoffs:
New Lowell 15 vs Bradford #2 - 9 (11 Aug 2025 in Bradford)
New Lowell 8 vs Midland #1 - 7 (16 Aug 2025 in Wasaga Beach)
Ivy 12 vs New Lowell 13 (17 Aug 2025 in Wasaga Beach)
TNT Gold 10 vs New Lowell 11 (17 Aug 2025 in Wasaga Beach)
Recap of Standings:
Regular season: 4 wins 9 Losses 1 Tie = 9 points
Playoffs: 4 wins 0 losses = 8 points - RF 47 RA 38
The coach would like to thank the Assistant Coaches, Corey Cox, Colin Penwarden, Derek and Jenny Nash for their efforts and time. Would also like to thank the parents who score kept and pitch counted. To the players, thank you for your dedication and effort as you showed vast improvement over the season. It was a great season.