The Pepsi Jets (Seniors) are back where they belong and its players are savoring every moment.

On Monday, the squad played its first game in the Whitehorse Co-Ed Slo-Pitch League's Division Three.

The move was requested after Pepsi spent the first half of the season in Division Four. The Jets were the only Division Four team to move up.

League schedule-makers didn't make it easy on the Jets this week, pitting them up against top Division Three team the Catalyst "Fireballs" in a game played on Diamond Three.

Despite a valiant Seniors effort that saw the team maintain a lead for the majority of the contest, Catalyst improved its record to 8-1-2, winning 17-13.

Regardless of the loss, Jets players were glad about making a return to Division Three.

"We're happy to be back, it will take a little bit more playing to get back into the groove," said Pepsi's Leo Chasse. "Our batting wasn't too bad, but I think errors probably did it and they (Catalyst) had some batting and some good defensive plays too."

Tim Turner-Davis helped the Jets draw first blood, hitting an in-the-park home run to give his team a quick 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning.

After Catalyst got out of the inning without surrendering any more runs, it went on an offensive assault of its own. The opening inning production was thanks to one swing from Rick Staley.

Staley hit a fence-clearing two-run shot over left field that tied the contest up at 2-2.

After trailing by three runs, Catalyst once again was able to tie it up in the bottom-half of the second inning.

The third inning was Pepsi's most productive. The group doubled its run total, which began with one out and runners on second and third.

Howard Frotten singled in one of the runs and with two outs the team padded its lead, scoring four more.

Chasse kept the inning alive, taking a walk, before Bill Watson doubled in a couple more runs.

"We got a few," one of the Pepsi Jets remarked as he got ready to take the field.

The "Fireballs" weren't daunted by the five-run deficit and for a second straight time Staley drove the ball over the fence. His second homer was a solo shot and the score at the end of the third was 10-8.

What could have very easily become another dominate inning for Pepsi was cut short thanks to a couple of defensive gems. The first was made by catcher Chantelle Barry, who made a spectacular catch, scoping the ball after it hit the ground to stop the Jets from scoring an additional run. Barry's play was the second out of the inning.

Fireballs pitcher Joe MacLellan flashed the leather to record the final out, grabbing down a line drive.

With the score 12-8, Catalyst began chipping away and tied it up for the third straight time by the end of the fourth inning.

Persistence paid off for the "Fireballs", which despite having two outs, scored five straight runs in the fifth inning, before limiting the Jets to just one run in the top of the sixth.

Time expired before the seventh inning could be played.

"They always beat us," remembered MacLellan about Pepsi last season. "This is the first time we got them."

MacLellan added his team doesn't place a lot of importance in its record.

"It's all for fun," he said. "Win, lose or draw, our team is here for the fun."

MacLellan said he's glad about the Jets returning to Division Three.

"They are the best ones to play against," he said. "We have good times."