A late homerun by Dustin Thiele lifted the Canadians to an 8-7 win over the Giants Thursday night at Memorial Field to win the Rambler Park Men’s Fastball League championship in a slugfest. 

Thiele hit the homer in the top of the seventh inning to give the Canadian the go-ahead run, and the defense kept the Giants off the scoresheet in the bottom of the inning. 

After a scoreless first inning, the Giants would get on the board first in the second inning with a two-run homer from Brad Flanagan. 

The Canadians would reply right back in the top of the third with Brad Reaney and Thiele each hitting a pair of two-run homers. The Giants would match that in the bottom half of the winnings with two-run homeruns from Joe McDonald and Kurtis Brown to make it 7-4 for the Giants after three innings. 

Cue the comeback. 

Bryce Crosby would hit a solo homerun in the top of the fourth, while Thiele hit his second and third homeruns in the fifth and seventh innings. 

In total, the two teams combined eight homeruns in the championship final.