SR. AA Baseball Club

Essex County Senior League (ECSL)

2025

 

2025 Season Schedule Now POSTED!

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SR. AA Baseball Club

Essex County Senior League (ECSL)

2024

League Champions!

5 Wins - 0 Losses

3-PEAT LEAGUE CHAMPIONS!

2022 / 2023 / 2024

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2024

 

A brand new stadium with awesome new facilities welcomes us to a new season! 

 

We'd like to extend a heartfelt thank you and sad goodbye to Assistant Coach Dennis Ouelette, who's input and experience will be missed by everyone.  Congratulations on your retirement and enjoy your spare time!

 

We'd also like to welcome a few new faces to the team:

 

Dante Di Ponio

Julian Fields

Mike McDonald

Austin Rajsigl

Kelly Wasylyk

 

We're excited to add these guys to our roster, and wish them success in our 2024 campaign.

 

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2023

 

Another beautiful baseball season is upon us!  Thunder Sr. AA would like to welcome Matt Spargalo, Mac Johnson, and Cody Palomba to the team!

 

We have a full 22 game season ahead of us, plus the return of the Port Lambton Tournament (taking place the weekend of June 16, 17, 18). 

 

 

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CHAMPIONS!

 

The Thunder Sr. A team capped off an amazing 25-5 season, which saw them capture the Essex County Senior League Championship and ECSL Playoff Championship, with a stunning come back win over Wyomming in the bottom of the 7th inning to win the 2022 Rep Sr. A Provincial Championship!  

 

The Thunder will now have to compete at the AA level for 2023, which will pit them against their toughest out of town competition yet.  The championship tournament is tentatively scheduled to take place in Vaughn on Labour Day Weekend.

 

2022 

 

We're finally back to a full season, restriction free!

 

The Thunder Sr. A team is pleased to welcome new players:

 

Nick Price

Brady Lavack

Mac Ouelette

Jeff Walker

Zack O'Donnell

 

And welcome back to:

Anthony Peticca 

Bill Gillen

 

And new Assistant Coach, Dennis Ouelette, who brings years of experience as Head Coach of the Amherstburg Cardinals.

 

They have already made a major impact on the team, as the Thunder has started the season hot with an 11-0 record. 

 

Congratulations to Matt Granger on being called up to the AAA team for the rest of the season!

 

 

 

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Retirements & New faces for the 2019 Thunder Sr. A Team

 

The Tecumseh Thunder Senior A team would like to welcome many new faces to the team for the 2019 season and would like to extend a warm thank you to those members who've retired. 

 

Thanks and best wishes go out to:

 

Michael Ferrato

JP Karam

Adam McIntyre

Chris Morand

Ryan Sellon

Scott VanHende

Nathan Wills

 

We'd like to welcome the following players to the squad!

 

Alex Bastable

Corey Docherty

Ryan Drouillard

Shane Munro

Webber Snow

 

 

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Retirements & New faces for the 2018 Thunder Sr. A Team

 

The Tecumseh Thunder Senior A team would like to welcome many new faces to the team for the 2018 season and would like to extend a warm thank you to those members who've retired. 

 

Thanks and best wishes go out to:

 

Jason Horvat

Anthony Peticca

Rob Blunck

John Germanese

Kyle Connelly

 

We'd like to welcome the following players to the squad!

 

Mike Ferrato

Jeremy Giesbrecht

Matt Larocque

Rob Lewicki

Lucas McDermot

Ryan Sellon

Matt Rustulka

 

 

 

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 Tecumseh Thunder

Senior A Baseball Team

2017

Baseball Information

 

 

THUNDER WIN ECSL PLAYOFFS CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!

 

 

 

 

The Tecumseh Thunder have won the Essex County League Playoffs for the 2nd time in 3 years.  After entering the playoffs on a 1-5-1 record, the Thunder turned up their game and went on to sweep the Essex Yellowjackets in the 4/5 game, and continued their dominance in sweeping the League Champion Woodslee Orioles in the semi-finals before walking right through the Harrow Blues in the Championship series capped off by a convincing mercy-rule victory to secure not only the championship but also their 3rd straight playoff series sweep.

 

 

ECSL PLAYOFFS - FINALS:

 

 

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Thunder win ECSL Championship. The Thunder secured their 2nd playoff title in 3 years by easily taking care of the Harrow Blue's in a 2-game sweep.  

 

The Thunder would like to thank all the family and friends who supporter us along the way this year.

 

Game 1: THUNDER 5  Harrow 1  (Thunder lead series 1-0)

Game 2: THUNDER 16 Harrow 5 (Thunder win series 2-0)

 

 

 

 

ECSL Playoffs - Semi-Finals:

 

 

 

Bye Bye Birdie!!! Thunder sweep Woodslee Orioles to advance to the ECSL Finals. The Thunder move on to the ECSL Finals where they will play the Harrow Blues.

 

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(2-0)                (0-2)

 

Game 1:  THUNDER 12  Woodslee 9  (Thunder lead series 1-0)

Game 2:  THUNDER 10  Woodslee  5  (Thunder win series 2-0)

 

 

 

 

 

ECSL Playoffs - QuarterFinals:

 

The Thunder capped off a series sweep of the Yellowjackets with a 7-6 victory in Essex on Friday night.  With the win, the Thunder will move onto the semi-finals and will take on either the Woodslee Orioles, or the Amherstburg Cardinals.  

 

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       (2-0)             (0-2)

 

Game 1:  THUNDER 8 Essex 7  (Thunder lead series 1-0)

Game 2: THUNDER 7  Essex 6 (Thunder win series 2-0)

 

 

OBA Senior A Championships - Sept. 1-3 (Courtright/Corunna Ontario)

 

The Senior A OBA Championships are being jointly held by Courtright and Cournna during Labour Day Weekend.  There are 8 teams in this years tournament, with the Tecumseh Thunder opening up against the Ivy Rangers.  

 

  Tecumseh Thunder (13-12-1). Essex County Senior League. (advanced to league playoff semi-finals to be played after OBA)

  Ivy Rangers (6-22). North Dufferin Baseball League.

 Creemore Braves (15-13). North Dufferin Baseball League.

 Fort Erie Cannons (20-7). Niagara District Senior Men's Baseball League. (advanced to league playoff semi-finals to be played after OBA)

 Merritton Alliance (9-17). Niagara District Senior Men's Baseball League. (advanced to league playoff semi-finals to be played after OBA)

 Oakridge Reds (7-13). Southwestern Senior Baseball League.

 Corunna Giants (24-9-1). Western Counties Senior Baseball League. League Playoff Champions.

 Courtright Cardinals (13-12). Western Counties Senior Baseball League.

 

Friday, Sept. 1st:

 

Game 1: Corunna vs Oakridge 6:00pm @Courtright

Game 2: Merritton vs Fort Erie 3:00pm @ Courtright

Game 3: Creemore vs Courtright. 9:00pm @ Courtright 

Game 4: Ivy vs Tecumseh 5:00pm @Duggan

 

Saturday, Sept. 2nd:

 

Game 5:  Corunna vs Fort Erie 9:00am @ Duggan  (Corunna is eliminated)

Game 6: Creemore vs Ivy  12:00pm @ Duggan (Creemore is eliminated)

Game 7: Oakridge vs Merriton  9:00am @ Courtright

Game 8: Courtright vs Tecumseh 12:00pm @ Courtright 

Game 9: Merriton vs Courtright  3:00pm @ Courtright (Courtright is eliminated)

Game 10: Fort Erie vs Ivy 6:00pm @ Courtright (Ivy is eliminated)

Game 11: Oakridge vs Tecumseh  9:00pm @ Courtright 

 

Sunday, Sept. 3rd: (4 teams remaining, 1 undefeated)

Game 12: Merritton vs Tecumseh 9:00am @ Courtright (Tecumseh is eliminated) 

Game 13: Fort Erie  vs Oakridge 12:00pm @ Courtright (Fort Erie is eliminated)

Game 14:  Oakridge vs Merritton 3:00pm @ Courtright 

OAKRIDGE WINS SENIOR A CHAMPIONSHIP

 

OBA Recap:

 

Game 1 vs Ivy Rangers:  THUNDER walk away with a 8-2 win on the back of JP Karam who went 2-2 with a double and grand slam. Craig Towe with the win.

 

Game 2 vs Courtright Cardinals: Thunder win a tight game 5-2 behind a masterful pitcher performance by Geoff Rankin.  Cale Zanutinni had a double and triple.

 

Game 3 vs Oakridge Reds: Thunder lost a tough game, 8-3, in which the score did not relax the tightness of the game.  Chris Morand suffered the tough loss.

 

Game 4 vs Merritton Alliance: Thunder lose 9-4 and their OBA season has come to an end.

 

TOP PERFORMERS:

Kyle Trudell: 7-12 (.583), 3 runs, 2 2B, HR, 6 rbi's

Jason Horvat: 5-12 (.417), run, 2 2B, 3 rbi's

JP Karam: 2-3 (.667), run, 2b, HR, 5 rbi's, 3 bb

Geoff Rankin: Win, 8 ip, 2 runs, 1.75 era

 

 

Port Lambton Tournament Schedule

 

Saturday June 3:

Game 1:  Thunder vs Wyoming 10:00am @ VanDamme Field (Port Lambton) L 5-2

Game 2:  Thunder vs London Tecumsehs 1:00pm @ VanDamme Field (Port Lambton) W 8-6

Game 3:  Thunder vs Oakridge 7:30pm @ Wyoming   L 9-1