Millar, Pote shut down Grey squad at JNT camp

Field House Pirates RHP Owen Millar (Burlington, Ont.) started and tossed 4 2/3 scoreless innings to lead the Red squad to a 2-0 win over the Grey team at Junior National Team training camp on Wednesday. Photo: Perfect Game (file photo)

August 25, 2021

Baseball Canada

AJAX, Ontario – After nearly 18 months of inactivity because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Junior National Team program has resumed in-person baseball activities with a Training Camp at the Ajax Sportsplex, site of the 2015 Pan Am Games.

Thirty-eight athletes are in camp with fourteen inter-squad games scheduled from August 19-September 1 at 1:30PM each day.

Following camp, a roster will be selected from training camp participants to play in a seven-game friendship series against the United States’ 18U squad in Florida.

August 25 – CANADA RED 2, CANADA GREY 0 (BOX SCORE)

Owen Millar (Burlington, Ont.) spun 4 2/3 innings of scoreless ball and fanned six batters while Conor Pote (Sherwood Park, Alta.) added a scoreless inning of relief to lead Canada Red to a 2-0 shutout win over Canada Grey.

The game was scoreless until the fifth when a two-out error allowed Colin Cymbalista (Pickering, Ont.) to scamper home from third with the game’s first run. Sam White (Aurora, Ont.) lifted a sac-fly to centre in the sixth to add an insurance marker.

For Canada Grey, Chase Marshall (Surrey, BC) tossed 3 2/3 scoreless innings while Parker Burgess (Douro-Dummer, Ont.) allowed one earned run over 2 1/3 innings of work with two strikeouts.

Jacob Miller (Oshawa, Ont.) had a pair of doubles in the loss.