This time, head coach Dan Braddick missed the Gatorade shower.

The emptying of the Gatorade cooler was bestowed upon Braddick's right-handed starting pitcher Micah Davyduke, after he got the final Manitoba batter to fly out to right fielder Charlie Black to give the Vernon Canadians a 4-3 win over the team called Midwest – made up of players from the western part of Manitoba – in the Western Canadian U18 AA Baseball Championship final Sunday, Aug. 17, in St. Albert, Alta.

The win gives Vernon Baseball Association its first-ever Western Canadian minor baseball championship.

The provincial champion Cs handed the Manitoba champions their only loss of the tournament, avenging a 3-1 defeat in the opening game of the tournament for both teams.

"After the last out, there was a dog pile on the

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