FORMER ROYAL LEADS BROCK U. IN VICTORY OVER ROYALS

The Royals 18U team played their first game of the 2010-2011 season this afternoon in Guelph at the Laurier Invitational Tournament against Brock University, one of the top rated university baseball teams in the country.
For Brock this was their fifth game of their pre-season after defeating the EPCL champs, Bullit Proof 18U team by scores of 11-1 and 6-5 and beating MacMaster University 21-1 and 7-0.
After not being able to play the game in Kitchner as scheduled due to rain the teams travelled to Guelph's Pearson Park where the game finally took place under unrelenting cold winds.
Seventeen year old right handed pitcher Arsene Pinguelo got the first starting assignment of the new season and pitched well leaving the game with a 2-1 lead after 2 2/3 innings when he reached the team imposed 50 pitch limit. Pinguelo allowed one earned run on one hit, two walks and two strike outs. Matt Lahn, a right handed pitcher from the Royals 17U team came in to relieve Pinguelo and got a grounder to 3rd base for the final out of the inning.
The Royals had taken a 2-1 lead in the top of the third inning when short stop Daryl Taube hit a 2 rbi single that scored Andrew Bolton and Jeff Slasor. In the top of the 4th inning the Royals made it 3-1 when catcher Matthew McCue, who had singled to lead off the inning, moved to second on a passed ball and to third on a single by Logan Karse, scored when second baseman, Andrew Bolton got his first rbi of the new season. The Royals came out swinging in the top of the fifth inning hitting five singles and scoring two more runs to take a 5-1 lead. The runs were scored by Daryl Taube and first baseman, Joshua Lee-Him on rbi singles by designated hitter Justin Zealand and and catcher Matthew McCue.
After keeping Brock U. off the score sheet in the fourth inning, Lahn allowed 5 runs on 5 hits before being relieved by Joe Brown with only one out in the 5th inning. Brown got the final two outs of the inning but not before Brock scored one more run to take a 7-5 lead. The Royals scored their sixth run in the top of the 6th inning when center fielder, Daniel Campos drove in Andrew Bolton with his second single of the game.
In the bottom of the sixth inning, former Royal Daniel Forte, hit a 3 run home run to left field that made the score 10-6 still with no outs in the inning. After the home run, Alex Mann was brought in to relieve Joe Brown and allowed only one hit in his first inning as a Royal.
In the top of the 7th the Royals managed just one hit by catcher, Andrew Forester leaving the final score at 10-6 for Brock University. Former Royal Daniel Forte was Brock's star of the game with a single, a double and a home run. Another former Royal, Peter Benvenuto hit lead off for Brock and had a single.
The game vs Waterloo University was cancelled due to the heavy rain that hit Guelph later in the afternoon.
The Royals are scheduled to play MacMaster University and Waterloo University tomorrow at Pearson Park in Guelph.