Tigers, Bangers shut out of annual Brussels Tigers Tournament

BY SHAWN LOUGHLIN

Over a beautiful, hot weekend, the Brussels Tigers hosted their 52nd annual tournament in the village. Unfortunately, neither the Brussels Tigers nor Bangers were around to play for a championship on Sunday, falling in semifinal rounds.

 

Play began on Friday night with a game between the host Brussels Tigers and the Walton Brewers, and the Tigers took the win in the opening game by a score of 8-1.

 

Also that night, the Chatsworth Longhorns beat the Fullarton A’s by a score of 3-0, the Monkton Muskrats beat the Townsend Tide by a score of 6-5, the Simcoe Rostock Braves beat the Rockwood Rush by a score of 2-0 and the Brussels Bangers edged out the Milverton Millwrights by a score of 11-10.

 

On Saturday morning, the Harwood Corners beat the Delaware Highlanders by a score of 7-0 before the playoff rounds began.
In the D bracket, Rockwood beat Walton in the semifinal, setting up a game between Rockwood and Delaware, which had a bye, in the D final, which Rockwood won by a score of 12-3.

 

In the C bracket, the Townsend Tide prevailed, first beating the Fullarton A’s and then Milverton in the finals, who had defeated Kitchener to punch their ticket to the finals, by a score of 6-5 to win the championship.

 

The Brussels Tigers and Bangers were both in the B bracket, but lost to Monkton (7-6) and Wiarton (10-3), respectively, in the semifinal round, before Wiarton beat Monkton by a score of 12-5 to win the B championship.

 

Rostock was the big winner in the A bracket, defeating Harwood by a score of 7-2 in the A championship. This came after Harwood beat Tavistock by a score of 4-0 and Rostock beat Chatsworth by a score of 7-3 in the semifinals to earn their spots in the finals.