By Bob Elliott

Canadian Baseball Network

It was not a hummingbird’s beak, but the it was still a pretty narrow margin of victory.

Toronto-born RHP Braden Halladay pitched 1 1/3 hitless, scoreless innings as the Florida Burn Platinum edged Canes National 2-0 in final of 88-team, 20th annual Perfect Game WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla.

Originally we had 58 Canucks on the posted rosters. However, we discovered a bunch more -- some who played in exhibition games -- to bring the total to 71 in all, counting Halladay.

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Final, final game: An eight-run second inning powered the Braves Scout Team/Team Elite to an 11-4 win over the Ontario Blue Jays in consolation round play.

Ryan Kush (Guelph, Ont.) had a scoreless outing pitching two innings allowing one hit and striking out a pair. He only needed 22 pitches (72% strikes) hitting 83 mph.

Grayden Stauffer (Oshawa, Ont.) and Jason Zhang (Ottawa, Ont.) each worked a scoreless inning. Stauffer allowed two hits and fanned one in 18-pitches (55% strikes), clocked at 80 mph. Zhang threw 12 pitches (50% strikes), walking one and fanning one as his fastball clicked 86mph.

Christian Leone (Nobleton, Ont.) singled in a run and Nick Digennaro (Oakville, Ont.) had the other base hit.

Will Potter (Kincardine, Ont.) started giving up eight runs on seven hits and two walks throwing 42 pitches (54% strikes), as he averaged 80 mph. Justin Bradt (Burlington, Ont.) pitched 1 1/3 innings allowing two runs on one walk and two hits as he threw 26 pitches (57% strikes), hitting 82 mph with his fastball.

Counting exhibition play, the Ontario Blue Jays went 2-5.

Name AVG GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SLG BB SO OBP OPS

Dasan Brown .400 7 25 1 10 2 0 0 5 .480 1 3 .444 .924

Robert Lindsay .333 4 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 .333 3 3 .600 .933

Ej Martinez .333 3 6 1 2 0 0 0 0 .333 0 1 .500 .833

Tj Schofield-Sam .263 7 19 2 5 1 0 0 1 .316 3 3 .481 .797

Joshua Cipolla .222 4 9 2 2 0 0 0 0 .222 3 3 .462 .684

David McCabe .217 7 23 4 5 2 0 0 3 .304 1 4 .269 .573

Jaden Brown .190 7 21 3 4 0 0 0 2 .190 5 8 .370 .560

Blake Buckle .190 7 21 2 4 0 0 0 3 .190 4 3 .346 .536

Christian Leone .188 5 16 1 3 1 0 0 1 .250 3 6 .316 .566

Khalid Collymore .182 6 11 3 2 1 0 0 2 .273 4 2 .412 .685

Joel McKnight .158 6 19 4 3 1 0 0 1 .211 1 4 .238 .449

Dionysius Chialtas .154 4 13 0 2 0 0 0 3 .154 0 3 .154 .308

Josh Golden .143 5 7 1 1 0 0 0 1 .143 4 1 .538 .681

Sean Pettener .125 3 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 .125 1 2 .300 .425

Arthur Kowara .118 5 17 1 2 1 0 0 3 .176 0 1 .118 .294

David Coleman .111 7 18 2 2 0 0 0 3 .111 5 3 .333 .444

Nick Digennaro .111 4 9 3 1 0 0 0 1 .111 2 5 .273 .384

Ashton Feijo .100 8 20 3 2 0 0 0 3 .100 5 4 .280 .380

Darius Armorer .000 4 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 2 4 .250 .250

Jason Chiu .000 4 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 .000 3 2 .300 .300

Darcy Darichuk .000 4 12 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 1 8 .077 .077

Pitching

Name W-L ERA GP GS SV IP H R ER BB SO AVG

Chris Bowles 0 0 10.50 1 0 0 0.2 0 1 1 0 1 .000

Lukas Barry 0 0 1.11 3 2 0 12.2 3 2 2 4 14 .067

Evan Chenier 1 0 1.40 1 1 0 5.0 3 1 1 0 6 .167

Grayden Stauffer 0 1 0.00 3 0 0 3.1 2 0 0 0 2 .182

Nico Saldias 0 0 0.00 3 0 1 7.2 2 1 0 3 11 .069

Diego Dominguez 0 0 1.75 1 0 0 4.0 1 1 0 2 4 .071

Lukas Touma 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 3.0 2 0 0 1 5 .200

Jacob Kush 1 0 0.00 1 1 0 5.2 1 0 0 6 7 .045

Ryan Kush 0 1 1.00 3 1 0 7.0 7 1 1 2 8 .233

Stephen Kinal 1 0 4.50 1 0 0 4.2 6 3 3 0 6 .316

Adam Hill 0 1 4.10 3 3 0 13.2 14 10 8 4 13 .219

Lucas Storm 0 0 2.33 2 0 0 3.0 2 1 1 2 2 .167

Caden Griffin 0 1 1.91 3 1 0 7.1 6 2 2 4 10 .200

Justin Bradt 0 0 3.23 2 0 0 4.1 3 3 2 3 5 .176

Dalton Brownlee 0 2 2.86 2 2 0 7.1 8 3 3 3 7 .276

Brandon Deans 1 0 6.30 1 1 0 3.1 3 3 3 2 4 .231

Mason Robertson 0 1 2.63 2 0 0 2.2 1 1 1 3 3 .083

Nick Fraser 0 1 2.80 2 2 0 5.0 8 4 2 1 7 .308

Dimitri Stamatopoulos 0 1 2.63 1 1 0 2.2 3 3 1 2 2 .231

Mathew Barta 0 0 7.00 1 0 0 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 .400

Colton Tyler 0 0 7.00 1 1 0 2.0 3 2 2 1 1 .300

Julian Parson 0 0 7.00 2 0 0 4.0 6 5 4 3 5 .273

Jason Zhang 0 0 5.25 3 0 0 4.0 5 3 3 4 5 .238

Will Potter 0 0 12.92 3 1 0 4.1 11 8 8 3 1 .440

Alex Coles 0 0 10.50 1 1 0 2.0 7 3 3 0 2 .583

Jacob Corby 0 0 8.40 2 0 0 1.2 2 3 2 4 2 .200 3.60

Nicolas Castonguay 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 1.1 2 2 0 4 2 .200

Jared Evans 0 1 21.00 1 0 0 0.1 3 1 1 0 0 .750

Kyle Lev 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 0.0 0 3 1 5 0 .000

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Pool winning Blaze: DBacks Langley Blaze went 3-0 in pool play, won the first two games of the playoffs, before losing and split a pair of exhibition games, beating the rival Ontario Blue Jays to go 6-2. The Blaze had help from players from Ohio, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, California and Washington.

Here is where we missed players four from the Langley Blaze: Tate Dearing (Surrey, BC), Zachery McQuaid (Oshawa, Ont.) and Colby Ring (Langley, BC), Joshua Marchese (Burnaby, BC).

Plus two each from the Abbotsford Cardinals: Travis McDougall (Abbotsford, BC), Brett Jackson (Abbotsford, BC); the Parksville Royals: Josh Laukkanen (Nanaimo, BC), Brayden Baker (Courtenay, BC) and the Victoria Mariners: Jared Anderson (Victoria, BC).

And one each from the Toronto Mets: Ryan Capuano (Scarborough, Ont.) and the Windsor Selects Shane Laforest (Belle River, Ont.).

Also on the roster was Wyatt Wendell, of Larkspur, Col. who pitched two scoreless, walking one and striking out three. He’s the son of former major leaguer Turk Wendell.

Batting

Name AVG GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SLG BB SO OBP OPS

Holdem Cumiskey .500 7 12 2 6 0 0 0 1 .500 3 2 .625 1.125

Ryan Beitel .467 6 15 2 7 1 0 0 0 .533 1 2 .500 1.033

Ryan Leitch .357 6 14 1 5 0 0 0 3 .357 1 5 .438 .795

Daniel Martin .091 6 11 2 1 0 0 0 3 .091 1 0 .154 .245

Pitching

Name W L ERA GP GS SV IP H R ER BB SO AVG

Taisei Yahiro 1 0 0.50 4 3 0 14.0 4 1 1 5 25 .083

Tate Dearing 0 0 0.00 3 1 0 6.0 2 0 0 2 8 .095

Zachery McQuaid 0 0 0.00 2 0 0 3.0 2 0 0 0 1 .182

Travis McDougall 0 0 1.75 3 0 0 4.0 2 1 1 1 6 .125

Ryan Capuano 0 0 1.40 2 1 0 5.0 3 1 1 1 5 .167

Josh Laukkanen 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 2.1 1 0 0 1 2 .111

Neftaly Severino Cronier 0 1 1.75 1 1 0 4.0 4 1 1 1 4 .235

Brayden Baker 0 1 0.00 1 1 0 3.0 1 0 0 3 2 .091

Theo Millas 1 0 2.33 1 1 0 3.0 2 2 1 2 1 .154

Colby Ring 0 0 0.00 3 0 0 3.0 3 0 0 1 2 .273

Justin Thorsteinson 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 3.0 2 0 0 2 6 .154

Ryan Scott 1 0 1.83 2 1 0 7.2 6 3 2 7 4 .176

Brett Jackson 0 0 2.63 1 0 0 2.2 2 3 1 3 5 .154

Jared Anderson 0 0 11.31 4 0 0 4.1 10 8 7 1 5 .455

Hayden Pilmer 0 0 5.73 4 0 0 3.2 5 7 3 5 4 .217

Shane Laforest 0 0 21.00 2 0 0 1.0 2 3 3 1 1 .333

Joshua Marchese 0 0 0.00 1 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 3 0 .000

Ryan Beitel 0 0 10.50 1 0 0 0.2 2 1 1 0 0 1.000

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Two had almost half the hit total: Okotoks Dawgs’ INF Cesar Valero (Calgary, Alta.) and Great Lake Canadian C Owen Diodati (Niagara Falls, Ont.) combined for seven of the 15 hits that the Toronto Blue Jays Scout Team managed.

Diodati had four hits with a homer and four RBIs, while Valero had three hits.

The Toronto Blue Jays Scout Team went 1-3 during the week.

Batting AVG GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SLG BB SO OBP OPS

Owen Diodati .444 4 9 2 4 1 0 1 4 .889 2 2 .545 1.434

Cesar Valero .300 4 10 4 3 1 0 0 .400 1 4 .364 .764

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The weather was nice: Team Elite Nation was winless in four games

Batting

Name AVG GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SLG BB SO OPS

Nathan Primeau .250 4 8 0 2 0 0 0 0 .250 1 5 .333 .583

Will Perrin .167 4 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 .167 3 3 .444 .611

Emilien Pitre .167 4 6 0 1 0 0 0 0 .167 0 2 .167 .334

Robin Gervais .000 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 2 .000 .000

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Not much actionn: Baseball Northwest National went 2-3 in its five games.

Batting

Name AVG GP AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SLG BB SO OBP OPS

Micah McDowell .333 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 .333 0 1 .333 .666