Both games scheduled for the Intercounty Baseball League were called off Wednesday afternoon due to rain.

             The Barrie Baycats were scheduled to play the Toronto Maple Leafs at Christie Pits and the Brantford Red Sox were slated to host the Hamilton Thunderbirds. No make-up date was immediately announced for the Barrie/Toronto game and the Hamilton/Brantford game will be played Tuesday, June 30 at 8 p.m. in Brantford.

             Meanwhile on Wednesday the IBL announced that pitcher Pierre Miville-Deschenes of the London Majors is the winner of this week’s Lick’s Homeburgers Hero of the Week Award.

             Each week the IBL honours a player that turns in an outstanding individual performance and is a hero to his team, and this week’s recipient certainly did that last Sunday in a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs at Christie Pits.

             Pitching in Game 1 of a doubleheader, Miville-Deschenes carried a no-hitter into the seventh and final inning, before allowing back-to-back singles. He then settled down to get the next two outs to finish with a brilliant two-hit shutout in the Majors 2-0 win over the Leafs in the opener.

             Miville-Deschenes wound up striking out five and walking two and pitched out of a two on, one out jam in the seventh to finish up.

             The London pitcher receives a gift basket compliments of Lick’s Homeburgers for being the Lick’s Homeburgers Hero of the Week for the week ending June 14.

 LICK'S HOMEBURGERS HERO OF THE WEEK

May 24 – Rob Gillis, Toronto Maple Leafs
May 31 – Todd Betts, Barrie Baycats
June 7 – Jordan Lundberg, Barrie Baycats

June 14 – Pierre Miville-Deschenes, London Majors

            For more information on the IBL, visit the official site of the league at www.theibl.ca.

STANDINGS

            W      L     GB

Barrie                 11      3      -

Brantford                  11      5      1 

Toronto                10      5      1 1/2  

Guelph                 10      7      2 1/2

London                  8      8      4  

Oshawa                  8      9      4 1/2

Kitchener               7      8      4 1/2   

Mississauga             5     11      7

Hamilton                1     15     11

            There are two games in the IBL on Thursday. The Hamilton Thunderbirds are in Kitchener to meet the Panthers and the Toronto Maple Leafs visit the Barrie Baycats, with both games starting at 7:30 p.m.

ROGER LAJOIE

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