The Ancaster Cardinals are one win away from the Canadian Little League Championships final.
The Cardinals pounded out 18 hits in a 19-4 win over Notre Dame de Grace of Quebec to clinch second place at the six team tournament.
Ancaster, 3-2, won the tiebreaker by virtue of a superior runs for and against ratio, ahead of the Praries and Ontario who were also 3-2.
Ancaster will play Prairies representative Calgary Rocky Mountain in semi-final action today at 6 p.m.
Ancaster beat Calgary 7-3 in their round robin match-up on Wednesday.
Justin Mignardi hit a grand slam and Brandon Chong also homered for the hometown Cardinals in Thursday’s win. Starting pitcher Ben Miller got the win. Ancaster sealed the win with a 13-run second inning. The Cardinals sent 19 players to the batter’s box and hit for the cycle in the inning. Brandon Chong started it off with his solo home run, the first of 10 hits in the inning. The Cardinals had three singles, four doubles, one triple and two homers to chase the Quebec starting pitcher out of the game.
Four teams now remain in the hunt for the 2010 championship.
In the early game on Thursday, B.C. representative Little Mountain beat Atlantic’s Glace Bay 18-6. Little Mountain is the overwhelming favourite to win the tournament, posting a 5-0 round robin record and outscoring its opposition 69-11. B.C. actually trailed Glace Bay 5-2 after one inning before storming back to win.
Ontario representative the Windsor South Canadians take on B.C. today at 3 p.m. in the other semi-final game.
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