The P&M Recycling Guns enjoy playing ball on Sundays.

It's been the best indicator that the club is firing on all cylinders.

The Whitehorse team won the Men's A division of the Dustball International Slo-Pitch Tournament held at the Pepsi Softball Centre from July 7-10 by beating the Southeast Mine Supply from Juneau, Alaska, 23-22 on Sunday.

There were 61 teams registered in 10 divisions for this year's tournament.

Guns' shortstop Craig Claggett caught the final out off a drive from a Mine Supply bat in a three up-three-down seventh inning in the Men's A finals.

"You don't get a whole bunch of three up, three downs in slo-pitch, especially against a team that hit us so well the day before,” Guns first baseman Mike Tuton said.

Tuton called Claggett a leader on a team of leaders.

"He's one of the best short stops that we've ever had on this team,” Tuton said after the game.

"The one thing this team doesn't lack is leadership. All year long we're together and everybody knows what's asked of them.

"It was probably our strongest team we've had in a long time, from the 10 guys on the field to the five guys on the bench. When you have the strong bench that can come in and help change the game, I think that really gave us the advantage.”

Tuton cited Juneau's homerun trouble down the stretch.

The tournament rules stated that a team can't lead by more than two homeruns. Mine Supply couldn't stop hitting homeruns, forcing out after out.

"They ran themselves into trouble with the home runs. I think we managed that part of the game a lot better than they did,” Tuton said. "We're a little more disciplined like that.

"It's a different part of the game; you really got to manage your homeruns well, because everybody in this league can hit a homerun, so it's all about the homerun management, and I think today we did a much better job than they did.”

The Guns went undefeated throughout the tournament before losing to Mine Supply Saturday.

The nature of this tournament pits the top two teams against each other in the finals on Sunday, Tuton said.

"It's a funny game, slo-pitch, it's all about who shows up and who's ready to hit the stick.

"That's the team that we wanted to see in the finals. The thing with this team is it doesn't take us too much to get up for a game on Sunday.

"We don't have men's slo-pitch here – we got to wait another year to do this again – so getting up for a Sunday game is really not a problem for us.”

The Guns' win was a tournament repeat.

The Guns won last year's Dustball 14-13 over the Skagway Chico's Bail Bonds.

"It was pretty much the same; we went to the bottom of the seventh with a one-run lead and we ended it on a pretty interesting play there too,” Tuton said, adding of his club's most recent win.

"We were hoping to get a little more than a one-run lead during an open inning where we could score as many runs, but we didn't, and we went out and shut them down.”

Results from each division are as follows:

Men's A

1st P&M Recycling

2nd Southeast Mine Supply

3rd Chico's Bail Bonds

Men's B

1st Creephawks

2nd Salad Dodgers

3rd Air Excursions

Men's C

1st Rounders

2nd Dawson City Dingbats

3rd Black Sox

Men's D

1st Klukwan

2nd Roudhouse Pirates

3rd Scared Hitless

Women's A

1st Yukon Gold

2nd YKAK

3rd White Pass

Women's B

1st Nuway Ball Crushers

2nd Double D's

3rd Pillagettes

Women's C

1st Team Ginny

2nd Double D's

3rd Pink Ribbons

Co-ed A

1st Whitehorse Dental Donkeys

2nd Lynden Co-ed

3rd Frank's Auto Detail

Co-ed B

1st Allocoballics

2nd Thibodeau Valley Liquor

3rd High Calibre Contracting

Co-ed C

1st Sportslife Ravens

2nd Coyote Entertainment

3rd Bounty Hunters