Jason Oatman allowed two runs in five-and-two-thirds innings and Brennan Peterson scored three times as the Swift Current Indians defeated the Red Sox 7-2 to sweep Regina in the 2010 Western Major Baseball League championship series and win their first title since 2006.

Peterson, the Indians’ centre fielder, got a key rally going in the top of the third inning with a walk. Regina pitcher Shawn Wilyman then gave up an RBI single to Kyle Albright after loading the bases to give Swift Current a 2-1 lead. Aaron Dunsmore drove in two more runs on the next pitch to give the Indians control of the game.

Peterson added a solo home run in the top of the fourth to give Swift Current a 5-1 lead and he came around to score again in the ninth inning when Regina pitcher Jesus Del Rosario hit Albright with the bases loaded. Brady Hohl scored two batters later when Ryan Dunn was hit by a pitch.

Albright opened the scoring when he scored from second off a Dunn single in the second inning.

Oatman gave up two runs on seven hits while striking out one in the win. Joey Evans closed out the season by allowing just two hits while striking out to in three-and-one-third innings of work.

The championship series was initially supposed to be a best-of-five series but modified to a best-of-three series after Game 2 was rained out twice in Swift Current.