By Nathan Kanter

Northwest Prairie Pirates win gold at Western Canada Championships

Aug 21, 2017 | 12:00 PM

Lloydminster’s Jaydon Gartner won a lot this summer.

At the Canada Summer Games, he was a member of Team Saskatchewan’s first baseball gold medal ever at the multi-sport event.

A week ago, he helped the Standard Hill Lakers win tier four provincial gold on home soil.

And this past weekend, he helped the Northwest Prairie Pirates go undefeated at the midget AA Western Canadian Baseball Championships in Kamloops, B.C., just weeks after the Prairie Pirates won AA provincial gold in Swift Current.

The 17-year-old Gartner pitched a complete game in the finals, a 4-1 win over the Prince George Knights.

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In the round robin, the Prairie Pirates defeated the Black Gold Giants from Alberta 7-2, the Kamloops River Dogs 9-8, the Knights 14-5, and the Portage Pirates 5-2. The club allowed just 18 runs in the five games at the tournament, and scored 39.

The Pirates play in the Saskatchewan Premier Baseball League AAA division and are based out of Lloydminster but they have plenty of locals on the team.

Paul Cubbon is from North Battleford, Cooper Olson and Mickenzie Sondergaard are from Maidstone, while Dylan Bosch, Tanner Huber, Damian Lantz, Skyler Mackie, Dillion Poschenrieder, and Ethan Scherr are all from Unity.

Other Saskatchewan teams that medalled at Westerns were the Saskatoon Blue Jays bantam AAA team that won gold and the Lloydminster Twins peewee AA team that won silver.

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