Deciding Game Against Bells Tonight!

2023-06-29

The evening rubber match has the Hawk’s chance at the first home series win!

By Cody F. Schmidt

It was a rousing victory for the Edmonton Riverhawks last night, as they bounced back to win 5-4 over the Bellingham Bells. Strong relief pitching and a team effort at the plate helped the Hawks split the first two games of the series. Now as they enter the rubber match this evening, the Hawks will try to widen the crack they made in the Bells’ defence last night.

It won’t just be yesterday’s win being celebrated on the field, tonight the Riverhawks shine a light on Special Olympians, welcoming hundreds of athletes from Special Olympics Edmonton. RE/MAX Field will be packed with some of the brightest and most inspiring athletes in the city!

A key player for the Hawks is tonight’s starter #3 Dallin Harrison. Dallin’s last start came in Victoria where he had a solid first five innings, but ran into trouble in the 6th giving up a quartet of runs before being taken out. Harrison will instead try to replicate his previous appearance against the Bells where he went 3.0 innings in relief without surrendering a single run.

1- #15 Daniel Calabrese CF

2- #9 Skyler Chang 3B

3- #42 Tom Poole DH

4- #10 Jonny McGill LF

5- #28 Mark Ossanna 1B

6- #14 Tommy Takayoshi C

7- #30 Noah Boughton 2B

8- #2 Jack Wheatley SS

9- #6 Brett Ott RF

P- #3 Dallin Harrison RHP

The bats have stayed hot for the Hawks since they’ve returned home, led by WCL Player of the Week #10 Jonny McGill. After last night’s game McGill had this to say regarding his experiences with the Riverhawks so far in 2023:

“Getting Player of the Week was a tremendous honour. It’s come from hard work I’ve put in with my coaches and my teammates. It’s great to see the returns. … It’s been cool to travel around with the pacific northwest [with the Hawks], getting to travel to a ton of new places has been really cool.”

See Jonny and the rest of the Edmonton Riverhawks all weekend at RE/MAX Field. Pick up your tickets to a ton of fun promotions. Not only Thirsty Thursday with the Special Olympians, but plenty more like Friday’s Girls Rock Taylor Swift Dance Party, and Saturday’s Canada Day Extravaganza with CHED and ArrKann Camping. Get your spot at tickets.gohawks.ca.

Tonight’s first pitch is at 7:05, and you can follow along at home if you can’t make it to the park. @RiverhawksGames has all the play-by-play action, and you can watch the game on our YouTube Channel, and on WCL Live.