The Okotoks Dawgs’ drive for history hit a speed bump Sunday.

In pushing for a Western Canadian Baseball League-record fourth-straight championship, the team got sidetracked 7-3 to the Sylvan Lake Gulls in the first game of the West Division semifinal series at Seaman Stadium.

That puts the Dawgs in a do-or-die spot heading into Monday’s game of the best-of-three series at Gulls Stadium in Sylvan Lake (7:05 p.m.).

In Game 1, the Dawgs scored two runs in the fourth inning and one in the sixth, but it wasn’t enough to answer the early strength by the Gulls, who tallied two runs in each of the first and second frames, and the four-run barrage in the sixth.

A late insurance run by the Gulls in the ninth sealed the outcome.

Offensively, the Dawgs collected eight hits, with Zane Skansi (Cam

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