Beauregard a beaut for Canada: 7 scoreless in win over Italy
LHP Vincent Beauregard (Laval, Que.) helped Canada gain some revenge for their WBC loss to Italy with seven scoreless innings in a 10-0 win over Italy at the 18U World Cup.
U-18: Canada blanks Italy, Cuba up next
Aug. 30th, 2015
By Adam Morissette
Baseball Canada
OSASKA, Japan - Vincent Beauregard (Laval, Que.) pitched seven scoreless innings, while the Canadian offence took advantage of five Italian errors and eight walks to come away with a 10-0 mercy-rule win.
The win improves Canada’s record to 2-1 with two games remaining in Group B action at the WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup. The top three teams in Group B will advance to the second round.
“I’m happy that we were able to take care of business today and do what we needed to do to pull out a win,” said Canadian manager Greg Hamilton. “Vincent gave us seven solid innings (on the mound) which allowed us to rest some guys in our bullpen.”
Canada now faces an important match-up tomorrow against Cuba (3:30pm JST/2:30am EDT) that will put the victorious team in a good position to advance to the second round.”
“Cuba is Cuba and I know we’ll be in tough tomorrow,” explained Hamilton of facing the longtime international baseball power. “As a group, we’re looking forward to the challenge and competing against them.”
Canada wasted little time getting on the scoreboard as they struck for two runs in the bottom of the first. Royce Ando (Mississauga, Ont.) led off with a double to left and moved to third when Kobe Hyland (Spruce Grove, Alta.) walked and Adam Hall (London, Ont.) reached to load the bases after being hit by a pitch. Josh Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.) then stepped to the plate and made it safely to first on a ball that was misplayed by the Italian first baseman, which brought in Ando. Tristan Pompey (Mississauga, Ont.) followed by grounding into a double play that brought in Hyland.
Beauregard looked good early as he worked a scoreless first inning before striking out the side in the second inning after a pair of singles. In the fourth, a lead off double made it to third only to be left on base after Ando made a nice diving catch on a line drive at second to end the inning. In seven innings of work, Beauregard had eight strikeouts and allowed just four hits.
“I felt pretty good tonight,” he said. “Even when I got into a bit of trouble I was able to trust my stuff, pitch my game and get out of it.”
Canada got some help in the fifth as they took advantage of three Italian errors and two walks, while Naylor came up with an RBI single as part of a four-run inning. He would go on to add a single in the eighth to improve his tournament average to .583 (7-for-12).
RJ Freure (Burlington, Ont.) took over for Beauregard in the eighth and worked a perfect inning with one strikeout before Canada added three runs in the bottom of the inning to walk-off with the win via the mercy-rule.
Hyland had a two-run single, while Tristan Pompey’s hit to left scored him to end the game.
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The game against Cuba tomorrow is scheduled for 3:30pm JST/2:30am EDT at Nanko Chuo Stadium ... RHP Michael Brettell (Fonthill, Ont.) is expected to start on the mound for Canada,
U-18 Baseball World Cup 2015
CANADA 10 (2-1), ITALY 0 (0-3)
at OSAKA (Toyonaka Rose)
ITALY
ab r h rbi 2b 3b hr bb sb cs hp sh sf so ibb kl gdp po a e
GASPARINI ss 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 2 2
ADORNI lf/cf 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0
SELLAROLI 2b 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
OREFICE 1b 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 2 2
FRIGGERI 3b 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0
STARC rf 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
TEALDI lf 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0
MONELLO dh/c 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0
AZZALI cf/rf 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 1
ASTORRI c 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0
ALDEGHERI p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
ANDRETTA p 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0
Totals 27 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 9 0 1 0 21 11 5
CANADA
ab r h rbi 2b 3b hr bb sb cs hp sh sf so ibb kl gdp po a e
ANDO 2b 4 3 3 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1
HYLAND ss 4 3 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0
HALL 3b 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0
NAYLOR 1b 3 2 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 0
POMPEY lf 4 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
YERZY c 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 10 2 1
ORIMOLOYE rf 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 0
VAN RYCHEGHE dh 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
DAVIS cf 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
DEVEAUX ph 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
BEAUREGARD p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
FREURE p 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 10 11 5 2 0 0 8 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 0 2 24 7 2
ITALY
ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np
ALDEGHERI Mattia L,0-1 4.0 1 3 1 5 0 1 0 1 0 13 19 5 6 76
ANDRETTA Maurizio 3.0 10 7 4 3 3 1 0 0 0 19 22 2 2 71
CANADA
ip h r er bb so wp bk hbp ibb ab bf fo go np
BEAUREGARD Vincent W,1-0 7.0 4 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 0 24 26 6 6 87
FREURE Richard (RJ) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 3 2 0 10
Umpires - HP: PARK W J (KOR) 1B: THOMAS T (AUS) 2B: MINO M (JPN) 3B: TAKEDA M. (JPN)
Start: 16:00 Time: 2:32 Attendance: 300
Weather: cloudy Game notes: Scorers - WINKLER S (GER) GOTOH M (JPN) IWASAKI M (JPN) TC - KITTA M (JPN) ASO K (JPN)
ALDEGHERI faced 1 batter in the 5th.
ANDRETTA faced 6 batters in the 8th.
Group A
Pos Team GP WO LO AVG GB
1 Australia 2 2 0 1000 0.0
2 Japan 2 2 0 1000 0.0
3 United States 3 2 1 667 0.5
4 Brazil 3 1 2 333 1.5
5 Mexico 3 1 2 333 1.5
6 Czech Republic 3 0 3 0 2.5
Group B
Pos Team GP WO LO AVG GB
1 South Korea 3 3 0 1000 0.0
2 Canada 3 2 1 667 1.0
3 Chinese Taipei 3 2 1 667 1.0
4 Cuba 3 2 1 667 1.0
5 Italy 3 0 3 0 3.0
6 South Africa 3 0 3 0 3.0