The Prince Albert AA 18U Royals came about as close as possible to winning a provincial tournament without reaching the final.

The Royals lost two games all weekend at the 18U Baseball Provincials in Estevan, both to the eventual champion Weyburn Beavers, the last of which was a tiebreaker game to get into the playoffs.

Head coach Troy Semenchuk said he was proud of how the squad played.

“The past couple of years, the 18U team out of Prince Albert hasn’t really done anything at provincials and we wanted to change that,” Semenchuk said. “We knew it was going to be tough.

“No one expected anything out of us based on the last couple of years and where we’d been. We surprised a lot of people that weekend.”

The Royals entered the tournament in a pool with Weyburn, Moose Jaw, and the host E

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