The Under-11 Howe Sound Hawks A baseball team made a valiant effort at the Provincial Championships this past weekend in Mission.
The Howe Sound Minor Ball team lost the semi-finals 3-4 against last year's provincial winners from White Rock.
The local team played for bronze against North Delta 1, with a final score of 10-9, for North Delta, a team Howe Sound beat twice before.
"It just wasn't our game," said Donn Oberg, the team's manager, in an email to The Squamish Chief.
But the team achieved a lot just making it that far, he noted.
"Second year ever for 11U Howe Sound to have a summer ball team and [we] made it to the provincials.," he said.
"We are very proud of these boys.
The team qualified by placing in the Top 4 of the 11UA West Division, which included eight teams from the Lower Mainland.
The Hawks went undefeated in the regular season, which ran the month of July.
*Please note that this story has been updated since it was first posted to reflect how the team did at the Provincials.
