The Burnaby Bulldogs are this year's Baseball Canada's senior men's champions.

Burnaby chucker Steve McCrea spoiled the host team's party, winning a pitcher's duel against Dartmouth starter Merek Deska to give the Bulldogs a 1-0 victory in the championship final Sunday.

McCrea gave up just three hits, while striking out six Nova Scotia batters.

Deska fanned 10 Burnaby batters in his three-hit effort over six innings.

The winning run came off the bat of Kevin Atkinson, who crushed his third home run of the competition, a solo shot in the bottom of the fourth inning.

The title-winning run was Atkinson's ninth RBI at the championship.

McCrea was near perfect the rest of the way, allowing just one Dartmouth runner on base in the final three innings.

In the semifinals, the Bulldogs avenged an earlier loss to New Brunswick in the tournament with a 6-2 victory to advance to the Sunday gold-medal final.

Rob Harynuk threw a complete game, giving up just six hits, while Jeff Sheppard of Burnaby got the Bulldogs started with a two-run double in the bottom of the second inning. He later scored on a run-scoring single by Mike Elias.

In the third inning, Atkinson connected on his second home run of the competition, bringing home Brian Briscoe from second base.

On the opening day of play, the B.C. respresentatives were blanked 8-0 by New Brunswick.

Burnaby came back the following day with an 8-4 win over Alberta champion Red Deer.

Tim Fehr got the win, going seven innings while giving up 11 hits.

The Bulldogs did most of the damage in a six-run top of the fifth.

Atkinson began the onslaught with a three-run dinger. Later in the inning, Cory Stang clubbed a second home run that brought home another three base-runners.

B.C. blanked Ilderton, Ont. 6-0 later in the day.

Scott Rhynold got the win on the mound for Burnaby, allowing just two hits, while striking out five.

Sean Hotzak, Sheppard and Stang, with his second dinger on the day, cranked home runs in the win.

On Saturday, Burnaby won its third straight match, blowing out host Nova Scotia 13-5.

Burnaby's Trevor Murray got the win for the Bulldogs, coming on in relief of starter Andrew Brock of Burnaby, who went four and one-third innings.

The Bulldogs went ahead 5-0 in the opening inning, scoring all their runs on five errors.

Devon Franklin batted in the eventual winning run in the second inning with a one-out single.