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The Complete Concrete Athletics secured the second jewel of a potential softball triple crown last weekend.

The Yukon co-ed team crushed the Whitehorse Dental Donkeys 16-4 in Sunday鈥檚 Co-ed A Dustball final to win their second straight tournament this season.

In May, the Athletics won the first softball event of the season 鈥� the Whitehorse Co-Ed Slo-Pitch League鈥檚 Div. 1 opening tournament.

A closing tournament victory next month would complete the trifecta, a possibility that had team captain Brett Green feeling excited Sunday.

鈥淚t鈥檚 great,鈥� he told the Star. 鈥淒ustball is the tournament and we鈥檝e been trying for years to field our team in this tournament. We were rolling and once we started going, it was just go, go, go.鈥�

Green鈥檚 mom, Val Boxall, pitched a complete-game gem, holding the Donkeys to four runs.

鈥淭hat was huge,鈥� said Green. 鈥淪he had a hell of a tourney. All of our guys were huge on defence. Gibson Pearson was picking up everything that came to him the last two games at third.鈥�

鈥淚鈥檓 pretty nervous all the time,鈥� Boxall admitted. 鈥淏ut I鈥坘ept my head in the game and just went inning by inning and didn鈥檛 get ahead of myself.

鈥淚t鈥檚 great to win with the team you play with all the time,鈥� she added.

鈥淓very year, I say I鈥檓 retiring, but somehow I鈥檓 always back out there. This win feels great.鈥�

The Athletics won via the 12-run fifth-inning mercy rule, capping a tournament in which they did not lose.

Traditionally slow starters, the Athletics jumped all over the Donkeys in the first, taking a 4-1 lead.

鈥淭hat was unexpected,鈥濃�圙reen said of the lopsided win. 鈥淲e thought for sure they were going to come out swinging.鈥�

In the semifinals, the two teams played a much-closer contest and were tied 4-4 after four innings, before Complete Concrete鈥檚 offence came alive en route to a 13-4 win.

The team also put up five-run mercy scores in both the second and fourth.

Matt Kremer swatted a three-run homer in the second for one of his three runs, while Chad Curlew, Teresa Tanasichuk, Kary Donald, Joe Vigneau, Heidi Harry and Pearson each crossed the plate twice.

Vigneau nearly had a three-run shot of his own in the fourth, but his moonshot bounced off the top of the chainlink of the centre-field fence and back onto the field.

Regardless, subsequent hits by Harry, Pearson, Crystal Beaudry and Curlew eventually saw five runs cross the plate in the inning.

The final was the second time the Donkeys lost to the Athletics in Dustball, said Whitehorse Dental third baseman Robin Smith.

鈥淲e were hoping to win this one,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e all expect to win whenever we take the field.

鈥淲e just couldn鈥檛 hit today. Everyone hit well all tournament, except against these guys.鈥�

Dave鈥檚 Cleaning Crew finished third in the Co-ed A division. In total, 40 co-ed teams participated in four divisions this year.