Late Rally Allows Berries to Avoid First Home Loss, Out-last Miller-Express in Extra Innings

It was the closest to a home diamond loss this season, except the Saskatoon Berries were able to rally for an 8-7 victory in 10 innings over the Moose Jaw Miller Express Wednesday night at Cairns Field.

Saskatoon trailed 7-5 going into the bottom of the ninth, but tied the game on a walk, a single, a stolen base plus throwing error and a pair of sacrifice flies to force extra frames. Then, after Saskatoon product Colin Plain stranded Moose Jaw’s courtesy runner on third base in the top of the 10th inning, right fielder Evan Janner (pictured) lined the second pitch he saw from Miller-Express losing pitcher Nathan Pisio into left field to drive in courtesy runner Mason Roell from second base with the winning run. The Berries are now 15-0 for the season at Cairns Field, have won a season-high nine straight games and have won all three head-to-head meetings with Moose Jaw as their overall record improved to 24-3. Saskatoon got off to a good start in front of 1,593 fans, jumping out to a 5-1 lead after four innings. But, the 12-16 Miller-Express put up five runs in the fifth inning to take a lead they held until the Berries’ desperate ninth inning comeback. Saskatoon is back in action Thursday night when they welcome the Weyburn Beavers to Cairns Field at 7 o’clock. Following are Les Lazaruk’s post-game interviews with Berries’ head coach Joe Carnahan, Janner and Plain plus the official box score courtesy the W-C-B-L website…..

Game Date: 07/02/2025
Moose Jaw Miller Express  7 AT Saskatoon Berries  8 (EXTRA INNINGS)

                                 YTD                                   YTD
Moose Jaw          AB  R  H BI   AVG  Saskatoon          AB  R  H BI   AVG
Soto, T SS          5  1  0  0  .301  Beck, C CF          4  0  0  0  .351
Edwards, W CF       4  1  1  0  .360  Menard, E 1B        4  2  2  0  .429
Gurney, A 1B        4  2  3  1  .412  Medina, A 2B        4  0  1  0  .408
Saenz, E 3B         5  0  1  1  .244   Prieto, N PR       0  1  0  0  .207
Yeager, J DH        5  0  1  0  .236   Wesslund, C 2B     0  0  0  0  .271
DeGrazia, T RF      5  0  0  0  .283  Sorensen, B C       3  1  2  1  .291
Soto, G C           3  2  1  0  .238  Houston, N SS       3  0  1  1  .344
 Martin, J PH       1  0  0  0  .200  Roell, M 3B         5  1  0  1  .316
 Deringer, E C      0  0  0  0  .229  Janner, E RF        4  1  2  1  .302
Phillips, P LF      5  0  2  0  .500  Murdoch, E DH       2  1  1  0  .279
Waliczek, B 2B      3  1  0  0  .292  Freeman, J LF       3  1  2  1  .278
                   40  7  9  2                           32  8 11  5

Moose Jaw            0 0 0   1 5 0   0 1 0   0 -  7  9  4
Saskatoon            0 1 1   3 0 0   0 0 2   1 -  8 11  3
2B--Saenz, E 3B (3), Sorensen, B C (11), Murdoch, E DH (5), Freeman, J LF
(4). RBI--Gurney, A 1B (32), Saenz, E 3B (13), TOTALS  2 (0), Sorensen, B C
(14), Houston, N SS (20), Roell, M 3B (12), Janner, E RF (11), Freeman, J
LF (12), TOTALS  5 (0). HP--Soto, G C (4), Sorensen, B C (5), Murdoch, E DH
(5). SF--Sorensen, B C (1), Houston, N SS (5). SB--Edwards, W CF (11),
Waliczek, B 2B 2 (16), Prieto, N PR (4), Murdoch, E DH (9), Freeman, J LF
(8). CS--Beck, C CF (2), Menard, E 1B (1), Janner, E RF 2 (2). E--Soto, T
SS (6), Soto, G C (4), Guardiola, R P 2 (2), Houston, N SS (14), Roell, M
3B (5), Janner, E RF (3). 
LOB--Moose Jaw 10, Saskatoon 9. DP--T. Soto(SS) - A. Gurney(1B), M.
Roell(3B) - A. Medina(2B), A. Gurney(1B) - T. Soto(SS) - R. Guardiola(P),
T. Soto(SS) - A. Gurney(1B). 
                                                                YTD
                                 IP   H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR     ERA
 Moose Jaw
Guardiola, R                    5.0   7   5   4   4   2   0    4.86
Glazener, J                     1.0   1   0   0   1   0   0    0.00
Garcia, C                       1.1   1   0   0   0   1   0    3.71
Pisio, N (L,3-1)                1.2   2   3   2   1   1   0    1.98
                                9    11   8   6   6   4   0
 Saskatoon
Sall, M                         4.1   5   6   5   3   6   0    3.50
Kopp, C                         2.2   3   0   0   0   1   0    1.29
Zdunich, T                      2.0   1   1   0   1   0   0    9.00
Plain, C (W,1-0)                1.0   0   0   0   1   1   0    2.45
                               10     9   7   5   5   8   0
WP--Sall, M (1). PB--Sorensen, B. HB--Guardiola, R (11), Garcia, C (4),
Zdunich, T (3). SO--Saenz, E, Yeager, J 2, DeGrazia, T, Soto, G, Martin, J,
Phillips, P, Waliczek, B, Menard, E, Medina, A, Roell, M, Janner, E.
BB--Soto, T, Edwards, W, Gurney, A, Waliczek, B 2, Menard, E, Medina, A,
Houston, N, Janner, E, Murdoch, E, Freeman, J. BF--Guardiola, R 24 (154),
Glazener, J 5 (14), Garcia, C 6 (74), Pisio, N 8 (49), Sall, M 21 (75),
Kopp, C 11 (31), Zdunich, T 10 (23), Plain, C 5 (17). P-S--Guardiola, R
78-42, Glazener, J 15-9, Garcia, C 21-14, Pisio, N 25-14, Sall, M 87-54,
Kopp, C 34-29, Zdunich, T 38-24, Plain, C 19-12. 
T--3:15.  A--1593

Weather: 29C; sunny; wind gusts to 38km/
Plate Umpire - Mark Clarke, Field Umpire #1 - Blake Thille, Field Umpire #2 - Aaron Roberts