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By the time this one ended, Thunder Bay Chill striker Brandon Swartzendruber had nothing left to give.

Rowan Wick has ensured Team Canada will play for a medal at the World Junior Baseball Championships.

The Cubans ran the American’s blockade to a World Junior Baseball Championship on Friday, taking down the United States with some ninth-inning heroics.

Lesson learned for Team Canada. Needing a win over the winless Czech Republic on Wednesday to clinch the Pool B round-robin title, it took a two-run Dalton Pompey double in the bottom of the ninth to eke out an 8-7 win and avoid a third-place finish.

Barry Caland was bullied a lot on the playground as a youngster. But it didn’t make him run and hide. In fact, it just made him that much more competitive.

The Border Cats only managed five hits on Thursday night, but it was enough to double the Brainerd Lakes Lunkers 4-2.

The Thunder Bay Border Cats split a double-header in St. Cloud on Wednesday night, scoring a 4-3 win in the opener over the St. Cloud River Bats, but falling 3-2 on a sixth-inning error by SS Ryan Court in the nightcap. P.K.

The third time’s the charm. In the sixth inning, Canada’s Dalton Pompey came to the plate with the bases loaded. He struck out looking. In the seventh inning he came to the plate with the bases loaded and he lined sharply to first.

The Netherlands have pulled off the near impossible.

Wilson Neto has been here before.