SAINTS HALL OF FAME DAY SATURDAY

            The Manistee Saints annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony is set for Saturday, August 11, at 2pm at Rietz Park in Manistee; Induction will be at 2 p.m. with a lunch to follow.

                 This year’s inductees are catcher/first baseman Jim Virden and long-time Saints photographer Ron Muszynski. Tickets will be available at the park and the public is invited to attend.

SAINTS SEASON ENDS WITH LOSS TO MUSKEGON

      The Manistee Saints 2018 baseball season ended at the National Amateur Baseball

Federation Regional Tournament on Friday when they were defeated by the Muskegon Blue Jays

11-0. The Blue Jays dominated the game allowing the Saints just one base hit. 

       Earlier in the day, in the completion of a rain suspended game from Thursday, the Saints

offense came alive, scoring 8 runs in the final 2 innings to defeat the Michigan Area Braves 13-7.

Nick Brzezinski paced a 14 hit Saints attack going 4 for 5 with a home run.           

      The Saints finished a very successful season winning 22 games and finishing in 2^nd place

in the Great Lakes UBL, runners-up to the Oil City Stags, who went on to win the Collegiate

Division of the N.A.B.F. World Series.

SAINTS LOSE TO FLINT; FIGHT THE WEATHER

            The Manistee Saints (21-11) dropped their first game in the National Amateur Baseball

  Federation Major Division Regional Tournament at Saginaw on Thursday, losing to Flint Bullpen

  by a 4-2 score. The Saints scored 2 first inning runs on a single by Trenton Smiley but were held

  scoreless the rest of the way. Robin Van Orden was charged with just his 2^nd loss of the season.

                  In their 2^nd game of the day, the Saints scored 5 early runs and were leading The

  Michigan Area Braves 5-3 in the bottom of the 5^th inning when an hour and a half rain &

  lightning delay postponed the game to be re-started at 9:30 Friday morning.

SAINTS PREPARE FOR N.A.B.F. REGIONAL

The Manistee Saints (21-10) final regular season game at Saginaw on Sunday has been

 cancelled as the fields at Saginaw are being prepared for the National Amateur Baseball

 Federation Regional Tournament. The Saints will work out at Rietz Park on Sunday in

 preparation for the tournament.

          The Saints open play in the nine (9) team field on Thursday, August 2, at 10 a.m. at the

 Saginaw Valley Lutheran diamond against Flint Bullpen. The Saints will send their ace, Robin

 VanOrden (5-1) to the mound in the first game and win or lose, will play again at 4:30 p.m. on

 Thursday in the double elimination event.

            Last years Regional champ, Troy Jet Box, will again be a tournament favorite with the

Regional winner moving on to the National Amateur Baseball Federation World Series in Battle

Creek the following week.

                                                                 2018 GREAT LAKES UBL Final Standings

                                                                                                               W           L              Pct.        GB

                                                Oil City Stags                                        22           6            .786        ----

                                                 Manistee Saints                                  20           8            .714        2.0

                                                 South Central 517                              15            9            .625        5.0

                                                 Mi Area Collegiate Braves                11           15           .423      10.0

                                                 Mi Area Senior Braves                        8           14            .364      11.0

                                                 Midland Tribe                                      4            16            .200      14.0

                                                 Michigan Sports Academy                 6            20            .231      15.0