The Ontario Blue Jays 16U coached by Sean Travers beat the Georgia Jackets 9-0 to win the 24-team CABA 16U Metal Bat World Series at Marietta, Ga.

By Bob Elliott
Canadian Baseball Network
It’s hot and humid in Georgia each July.

Pet owners are advised to keep their dogs inside for fear of heat stroke.

Hall of Famer Duke Snider, the Montreal Expos broadcaster, used to say it got so humid in “Hot-lanta that mosquitoes grew so big you could put saddles on them.”

Despite the heat and humidity the Ontario Blue Jays 16U Travers team blanked the Georgia Jackets 9-0 to win the 24-team CABA 16U Metal Bat World Series at Marietta, Ga.

The tourney win ranks behind the Ontario Blue Jays winning the 2013 Mickey Mantle World Series and the 2015 Perfect Game 18u BCS in the history of the organization which dates back to Gene Bartolozzi and Gary Wilson starting the organization.

Not that it was hot, but the azaleas were sweating in 92-degree weather.

Not that it was hot but a lawyer from Macon told us that chickens were laying fried eggs!

The Ontario Blue Jays, coached by Sean Travers Pat Visca and Richard Clemons, scored seven times in the third inning as Harley Gollert (Toronto) was in command against the Jackets in the five-inning shut out in the final. Gollert allowed five hits, while striking out seven.

Lead-off man Cooper Davis (Mississauga) had a perfect day going 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles and an RBI. Ryan Johnston also doubled in a run, while Blake Buckle (Mississauga) and Malik Williams (Toronto) each drove in a pair of runs each.

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A four-run fourth broke up a 2-2 tie as the Ontario Blue Jays rallied to beat the East Cobb Rangers 7-4 in the semi final.

Blake Buckle (Mississauga) -- hit by a pitch -- and Austin Wilkie (Mississauga) -- single -- were on base with two out when Tyler Small (Mississauga) singled in a run and Noah Naylor (Mississauga) doubled to left for the 6-2 lead.

Small had two hits and two RBIs along with Naylor, while Ryan Johnston (Oakville) and Wilkie each had a pair of hits.

Dimitri Stamatopoulos (Scarborough) pitched four innings for the win allowing two runs on three hits and a walk, while fanning three.

Lukas Barry (Mississauga) gained the save pitching three innings allowing two runs on five hits and a walk.

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Three runs in the first inning were enough as Ethan Hammond (Mississauga) and Noah Naylor (Mississauga) made the lead stand up for a 3-2 win against the East Cobb Rangers. Hammond worked six innings allowing two unearned runs on four hits and one walk. Hammond threw 66 pitches -- 44 for strikes. Naylor closed it out with a 1-2-3 seventh (ground ball, ground ball and pop up).

The Ontario Blue Jays went up in the first as Cooper Davis hit a 1-1 pitch to centre field for a triple and scored on a Tyler Small (Mississauga) single. Naylor followed with a single to right. Blair Buckle (Mississauga) bounced out to score Small and Ryan Johnston (Oakville) singled past second for a 3-0 lead.

Naylor tripled, singled and stole a base.

Ethan Hammond was named the pitcher of the tournament.

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Adam Hill (Mississauga) tossed a no-hitter as the Ontario Blue Jays thumped the East Cobb Steel 17-2. He allowed two walks. He retired 10 outs on ground ball, four on fly balls, three on pop ups and one on a line out.

The Steel scored twice in the third inning on a pair of errors a hit batter, a wild pitch and a ground ball out.

The Blue Jays scored in five of six innings, including eight in the final at-bat.

Noah Naylor (Mississauga) had three hits, including a pair of double and knocked in five runs. Kyle Stevenson (Oshawa) went 3-for-4, including a double, knocking in four runs. Ryan Johnston (Oakville) had three hits and knocked in three runs, while Austin Wilkie also had three.

Tyler Small (Mississauga) and Alex Seelman (Georgetown) each had two hits, with Seelman driving in a pair. Cooper Davis (Mississauga) doubled knocked in two runs.

An RBI single by Blake Buckle (Mississauga) and a two-run single by Stevenson in the first and an RBI single by Naylor and a two-run single by Johnston during the second inning supplied the early offence.

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Six extra-base hits, plus the strong arms of Ethan Hammond (Mississauga) and Kyle Stevenson (Oshawa) powered the Ontario Blue Jays to a 12-4 win over the Neilson Baseball School.

Hammond allowed two runs on four hits and a walk, while Stevenson gave up two runs on four hits and a walk, while fanning one.

As for the track meet ... Cooper Davis (Mississauga) tripled and knocked in a pair ... Tyler Small (Mississauga) was 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI, Noah Naylor (Mississauga) doubled in his only official at-bat ... Blake Buckle (Mississauga) had a pair of hits and an RBI as well as a double ... Robbie Costa (Oakville) was 3-for-3 with a double ... Stevenson doubled in a pair of runs.

Alex Jones (Bowmanville) had two hits to plate a pair while Hammond also knocked in two runs.

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The Georgia Jackets handed the Ontario Blue Jays their sole loss by a 7-2 decision to fall to 2-1.

Kennedy Strong (Mississauga) took the loss allowing seven runs -- four earned -- on nine hits and two walks. He struck out a pair in his 103-pitch outing. Georgia scored four times in the third to take a 4-1 lead.

Tyler Small (Mississauga) singled and knocked in a run while Alex Jones (Bowmanville), Noah Naylor (Mississauga), Blake Buckle (Mississauga), Austin Wilkie (Mississauga) and Ethan Hammond (Mississauga) each singled.

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Dimitri Stamatopoulos (Scarborough) recorded the first of his two wins as the Ontario Blue Jays thumped the 9Star Saints 11-0 to move to 2-0. Stamatopoulos allowed five base runners in his four innings of work: two hits and three walks.

Blake Buckle (Mississauga) doubled, singled and knocked in three runs, while Ethan Hammond (Mississauga) doubled in a pair to pace the Jays at the plate.

Cooper Davis (Mississauga) had two hits and knocked in a run, as Kyle Stevenson (Oshawa) and Cooper Davis (Mississauga) each singled and drove in a run.

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Harley Gollert (Toronto) allowed only one hit as the Ontario Blue Jays opened with an 8-0 win against Barrett Baseball, coached by former Montreal Expos and Toronto Blue Jays catcher Michael Barrett.

Gollert allowed a single while fanning nine.

Noah Naylor (Mississauga) tripled and drove in a pair of runs, while Kyle Stevenson (Oshawa) had a pair of doubles. MacKenzie Strong (Mississauga) and Alex Jones (Bowmanville) had two hits including a double and drove in a run. Tyler Small (Mississauga) doubled in two runs, while Ryan Johnston (Oakville) had a pair of knocks and an RBI.

Ontario Blue Jays win CABA 16U WS in Georgia