Elliott: Tigers lead PG Underclass 1st Team All-Region - Leclair, Maude, Stanley, Thomas

Mississauga Tigers RHP Kaleb Thomas (Hagersville, Ont.), who is headed Missouri State, earned a First Team berth on the Perfect Game All-Region honours for Canada/Puerto Rico region.

March 18, 2022

By Bob Elliott

Canadian Baseball Network

The Mississauga Tigers are one of the Central Ontario Baseball Association’s oldest organizations.

However, the Tigers are new to competing against elite level teams at 16U and 18U.

And in the opinion of Perfect Game, Sean Travers, Greg Byron, Damon Topolie and Ryan Asis have done an excellent job recruiting in this their second season.

The Tigers had four players named to PG’s Canada/Puerto Rico Region All School Team Underclass First Team. That’s No. 1 of the 20 different teams who placed players on the First and Second Teams.

The Tigers edged the Langley Blaze with four First Teamers: INF Cole Leclair (Toronto, Ont.), C Lachlan Maude (Etobicoke, Ont.), C David Stanley (Toronto, Ont.) and RHP Kaleb Thomas (Hagersville, Ont.).

The Blaze had three players named to the First Team in C Keegan Drinkle (Maple Ridge, BC), LHP Reece Usselman (Langley, BC) and RHP Jacob Zibin (Langley, BC).

In all the Academic Baseball Canada had seven named to the First (C Deiten Lachance Sherbrooke, Que. and LHP Jeremy Pilon, Salaberry-De-Valleyfield, Que.) and Second Teams (LHP Jacob Beaudoin St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Que., RHP Ian-Olivier Beaulieu Laval, Que. LHP Elliot Cadieux Lanoue Saint-Pie, Que., LHP Jimmy Dionne St-Augustin, Que. and RHP Jacob Wallace Pincourt, Que.).

The Tigers were second with a total of six: C Anderson Fenwick (Mississauga, Ont.) and RHP Ryan Marton (Toronto, Ont.), plus First Teamers Leclair, Maude, Stanley and Thomas.

The Ontario Blue Jays were next with four overall with one First Teamer (INF Myles Naylor, Mississauga, Ont.) plus Second Teamers (INF Matthew Sargeant Ancaster, Ont. INF Isaiah Scott Mississauga, Ont. and OF Jorge Valdes, Milton, Ont.).

Next in overall representation were the Okotoks Dawgs, Ontario Astros and Langley (three each). The Ontario Nationals had two reps.

And teams with one apiece were the Académie les Estacades. Bulletproof Prospects, Coquitlam Reds, FieldHouse Pirates, Great Lake Canadians, Northshore Twins, Ontario Terriers, Peterborough Tigers, Toronto Mets, Vauxhall Academy Jets, Victoria Mariners, Watson: Elite, West Toronto.

Canada/PuertoRico Region All School Team Underclass 1st Team

Name Position Hometown HS Summer Commitment

David Alvarez OF Woodbridge, Ont. Atlanta Blue Jays Great Lake Canadians

Cameron Chee-Aloy OF Toronto, Ont. Burn Atlantic Ontario Terriers Illinois

Ty Doucette 1B Okotoks, Alta. Okotoks Dawgs Oregon State

Keegan Drinkle C Maple Ridge, BC Langley Blaze

Angelo Franco 3B Port Moody, BC Coquitlam Reds

Loic Guillemette OF St-Boniface, Que. Académie les Estacades TNXL Academy

Ty Hamilton OF Ottawa, Ont. Watson Elite

Will Hancock RHP Oakville, Ont. Fieldhouse Pirates

Deiten Lachance C Sherbrooke, Que. Academy Baseball Quebec

Cole Leclair SS Toronto, Ont. Mississauga Tigers

Jack Lines SS Okotoks, Alta. Okotoks Dawgs Tennessee

Lachlan Maude C Etobicoke, Ont. Mississauga Tigers

Myles Naylor SS Mississauga, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays Texas Tech

Jeremy Pilon LHP Salaberry-De-Valleyfield, Que., ABC

Sam Shaw SS Victoria, BC Lambrick Park Academy VIctoria Mariners Xavier

David Stanley C Toronto, Ont. Mississauga Tigers

Kaleb Thomas RHP Hagersville, Ont. Mississauga Tigers Missouri State

Reece Usselman LHP Langley, BC Langley Blaze Oregon

Jacob Zibin RHP Langley, BC Langley Blaze Kentucky

Canada/PuertoRico Region Honorable Mention

Name Position Hometown HS Summer Commitment

Jacob Beaudoin LHP St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Que. ABC

Ian-Olivier Beaulieu RHP Laval, Que. ABC

Elliot Cadieux Lanoue LHP Saint-Pie, Que. ABC

Frank-Anthony Caietta RHP Bradford, Ont. Team Ontario Astros

Makaio Cisneros RHP Whitby, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays

Cardel Dick C Abbotsford, BC Vauxhall Academy

Alexandre Dionne RHP Ancienne-Lorette, Que. Okotoks Dawgs 18U

Jimmy Dionne LHP St-Augustin, Que. ABC

Anderson Fenwick C Mississauga, Ont. Mississauga Tigers

Jack Ferguson RHP Otonabee, Ont. Peterborough Tigers

Asher Herbert C Burnaby, BC Northshore Twins

Andrew Johnston C Toronto, Ont. IMG Academy Palm Beach Select

Alex Kean 1B Woodstock, Ont. Ontario Nationals

Sam Maclaughlin LHP Toronto, Ont. West Toronto

Matthew Marsh LHP Havelock, Ont. Team Ontario Astros

Ryan Marton RHP Toronto, Ont. Mississauga Tigers

Eli Press RHP Toronto, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays

Sebastian Salazar RHP Waterloo, Ont. Ontario Nationals

Matthew Sargeant SS Ancaster, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays

Isaiah Scott 3B Mississauga, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays

Nigel Sebastianelli SS St. Catharines, Ont. Bulletproof Prospects

Christos Tassopoulos 3B Stouffville, Ont. Team Ontario Astros

Jorge Valdes OF Milton, Ont. Ontario Blue Jays

Jacob Wallace RHP Pincourt, Que. ABC

Calvin Warrillow OF Toronto, Ont. Toronto Mets William & Mary