Layritz's Ashton Hummel and Devon Simonovic celebrate their win against Lakehill. (7-4) Photo by Gord Rufh ISN Sports
2019 District 7 Champions Layritz celebrate their win over Lakehill 7-4. Photo by Gord Rufh ISN Sports
2019 District 7 Champions Layritz celebrate their win over Lakehill 7-4. Photo by Gord Rufh ISN Sports

City rivals, Layritz and Lakehill met Sunday in the final match of the District 7 Championship. The winner to advance to the 2019 9/10 BC Provincial Championship being held in Vancouver, July 13-21.

Layritz's Devon Simonovic on the mound for Layritz. Photo by Gord Rufh ISN Sports
Layritz’s Devon Simonovic on the mound for Layritz. Photo by Gord Rufh ISN Sports

Layritz opened up the scoring in the bottom of the second bringing in two runs. The score stayed that way until the top of the fifth inning when Lakehill mounted a come back to make it 3-2.

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Lakehill’s Brady Mackinlay safe at first. Photo by

In the bottom of the fifth inning Layritz regained the lead to make it 7-3.

Lakehill's Michael Rufh (4) hits a single out into right field during the sixth inning. Photo by Gord Rufh ISN Sports
Lakehill’s Michael Rufh (4) hits a single out into right field during the sixth inning. Photo by Gord Rufh ISN Sports

Lakehill manged to score one more run in the sitxh inning to make it 7-4. Layritz wins with a perfect record of 7-0 for the tournamnet.

Devon Simonovic of Layritz beats the ball of Lakehill's first baseman Ben Smith. Photo by Gord Rufh ISN Sports
Devon Simonovic (3) of Layritz beats the ball of Lakehill’s first baseman Ben Smith (20). Photo by Gord Rufh ISN Sports