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Okanagan College Coyotes aim for berth in college baseball final today

UPDATE: Today's semifinal has been delayed to 11 a.m. due to field conditions.​

With an opportunity to avenge last year’s loss to the defending-champion Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs in the Canadian College Baseball Conference title game, the Okanagan College Coyotes will play a 2017 semifinal today at Elks Stadium.

The host ’Yotes take on the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack of Kamloops beginning at 11 a.m. for the right to meet the Dawgs in the CCBC championship game at 1:30 p.m. at Elks.

<who>Photo Credit: Lorne White/KelownaNow </who>Bo Meiklejohn of the OC Coyotes delivers to a U of C Dino in Saturday's final round-robin game at the CCBC championship tournament. Meiklejohn was the winning pitcher, scattering four hits over six innings.OC earned a berth in the semi by finishing second behind PBA in the round-robin portion of the six-team tournament. The Coyotes finished with 3-1 record, their final preliminary win being a 11-1 decision over the winless University of Calgary Dinos on Saturday.

Thompson Rivers downed the Vancouver Island University Mariners 7-2 on Saturday to finish at 3-1 and nail down third place. The Coyotes and WolfPack didn’t meet in round-robin play this week, but during the regular season, OC won six of eight games.

<who>Photo Credit: Lorne White/KelownaNow </who>OC shortstop Erik Junnola prepares to scoop up a ground ball in the second inning of their final round-robin game against the U of C Dinos. Junnola collected two hits in an 11-1 win.Meanwhile, the PBA Dawgs, aiming for their seventh straight CCBC crown, punched their ticket to this year’s final by downing the University of the Fraser Valley Cascades 6-0 in semifinal play Saturday night at Elks.

The Dawgs also went 3-1 in round-robin play, their only loss (6-3) coming at the hands of Okanagan College on Friday.

<who>Photo Credit: Lorne White/KelownaNow </who>Liam Wyatt of the OC Coyotes dives back to first base on an attempted pick-off during their 11-1 win over the U of C on Saturday.In their lopsided win over the U of C on Saturday, the top of the batting order led the Coyotes as Davis Todosichuk and Erik Junnola both contributed a pair of hits and scored five runs between them. For Todosichuk, a Kelowna minor baseball product, his two hits (single and double) were his eighth and ninth hits in 18 at-bats in the championship tournament.

Bo Meiklejohn of Edmonton was the winning pitcher, going six innings, scattering four hits and striking out four Dinos. Sam Stellnick and Chase Harris combined to hold U of C scoreless in the final two innings.

Complete boxscores and standings here.

<who>Photo Credit: Lorne White/KelownaNow </who>Davis Todosichuk of the OC Coyotes hit a single and a double and scored three times on Saturday while raising his CCBC championship tournament batting average to .500 (9-for-18).



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