The 2018 SBA Twilite Maxi Baseball Tournament opened up with a pair of games at Ross Wells Park on Thursday night.

Moose Jaw's Chad Topp hit a home run to lift the South East River Rats past the Moose Jaw Cardinals, 8-7, in the opening game of the tournament.

The second game had the Mossbank Athletics scoring a 10-7 win over the Assiniboia Aces.

The tournament has 30 teams from around the province in Moose Jaw for four days of action. The games pick back up on Friday morning at 7 a.m. and run throughout the day at Ross Wells Park, Montgomery Field, and Blackwell and Swarbrick Diamonds.

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