Hindmarsh, Frers, Pineau pitch Team Red to win at JNT camp

Okotoks Dawgs LHP Carson Hindmarsh (Saskatoon, Sask.), shown here with Dawgs teammate with Jack Lines, started and allowed just two hits and one unearned run, while striking out five, in 4 2/3 innings for Canada Red at the Junior National Team training camp in Ajax, Ont., on Tuesday. Photo: Brent Calver, Okotoks Today

August 31, 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 31 – CANADA RED 3, CANADA GREY 2 (BOX SCORE)

Canada Red rode the arms of Carson Hindmarsh (Saskatoon, Sask.), Nick Frers (North Vancouver, BC) and Jack Pineau (Thunder Bay, Ont.) and mustered enough offence to come up with a 3-2 win over Canada Grey in the final intrasquad contest of training camp.

Hindmarsh fanned five batters over 4 2/3 innings of work without allowing an earned run while Frers and Pineau worked two innings apiece with one and two strikeouts respectively.

Red struck for two runs in the second inning to overcome a 1-0 deficit with Lachlan Maude (Toronto, Ont.) coming up with an RBI double while Tyrus Hall (Victoria, BC) scored on a wild pitch.

Nate Ochoa (Burlington, Ont.) had given Grey a 1-0 lead in the first on a double that went off the fence in left-centre while Alexis Gravel (Repentigny, Que.) doubled in Grey’s second run of the game in the seventh.

Jérémy Pilon (Valleyfield, Que.) worked three scoreless innings for Grey giving up just one hit and striking out five.