Adamson, Burgess, Usselman, Pote shine at JNT Fall Instructional Camp
Photo: Baseball Canada
October 17, 2021
Baseball Canada
The Junior National Team program is in Dunedin, Florida at TD Ballpark (the spring training home of the Toronto Blue Jays) from October 14 to October 23 for the annual Fall Instructional Camp
Thirty-four athletes will be participating in daily practices and intrasquad games with a doubleheader also scheduled against Stetson University on October 19.
OCT. 16 | Canada RED 5, Canada Grey 1
Reece Usselman (Langley, B.C.) fired five scoreless innings while Conor Pote (Sherwood Park, Alta.) followed with four strong innings to lead Canada Red to a 5-1 victory over Canada Grey.
Usselman surrendered just two hits and struck out eight batters and Pote tossed three scoreless innings before allowing a walk and two hits in the bottom of the ninth as Grey erased the shutout bid on a Max Hartman (St. Albert, Alta.) RBI single.
Red opened the scoring in the top of the first as Hugh Pinkney (Toronto, Ont.) connected on a RBI single to centre before Josh Jones (Blainville, Que.) lifted a sac fly to centre that brought in a tagging Sam Shaw (Victoria, B.C.).
After Matt Evans (Tillsonburg, Ont.) drove in a run on a sac fly in the fourth, Red struck for two more runs in the fifth with Shaw singling home Max Hartman before a double steal saw Ty Hall (Victoria, B.C.) score from third.
Jack Pineau (Thunder Bay, Ont.) suffered the loss for Red working 4 2/3 innings before giving way to Elliot Cadieux-Lanoue (St-Pie, Que.) who didn’t allow a hit over four scoreless innings.
OCT. 15 | Canada GREY 4, Canada RED 2
Liam Adamson (London, Ont.) struck out seven batters and allowed just one run over five innings of work to propel Canada Grey to a 4-2 win over Canada Red.
Sam White’s (Aurora, Ont.) triple in the fourth inning gave Grey a 2-1 lead and they went on to add a run in the fifth on a Keegan O’Hearn (Oshawa, Ont.) sac fly before Jack Wheatley (Calgary, Alta.) knocked in a run in the eighth on a single to left field.
Nick Frers (North Vancouver, B.C.) tossed 3 2/3 innings for Grey allowing one run on one hit and three walks.
Red had opened the scoring in the third when Ty Hall (Victoria, B.C.) smacked a two-out double to left to score Max Hartman (St. Albert, Alta.) while Josh Jones (Blainville, Que.) drove in Hall in the sixth on a sac fly to centre.
Chase Marshall (White Rock, B.C.) and Parker Burgess (Douro-Dummer, Ont.) shared pitching duties for Red with Marshall working 4 1/3 innings with six strikeouts while Burgess allowed one run and fanned four over 3 1/3 innings of work.