LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida – The Junior National Team opened their extended spring training schedule today at ESPN Wide World of Sports and played to a 2-2 draw against a prospects squad from the Atlanta Braves organization. The juniors opened the scoring with a pair of runs in the top of the first before the Braves pulled even with a run in each of the fourth and fifth innings.
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OTTAWA- Baseball Canada announced today the names of 31 players invited to the Junior National Team’s Extended Spring Training camp in Lake Buena Vista, Florida at ESPN Wide World of Sports from April 15-23.
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Friday, April 1st, 2016 - MONTRÉAL – On Friday, Baseball Canada in partnership with Baseball British Columbia, Baseball Alberta, Baseball Sask, Baseball Manitoba, Baseball Ontario, Baseball Québec, Baseball New Brunswick, Baseball Nova Scotia, Baseball P.E.I. and Baseball Newfoundland & Labrador launched Summer’s Perfect Game – a concept to promote baseball as the summer sport of choice for Canadians.
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – Andrew Yerzy (Toronto, ON) hit the Junior National Team’s first home run of spring training and drove in three runs but it wasn’t enough as the juniors fell to a prospects squad from the Detroit Tigers organization, 9-4.
Box Score - Blue Jays 12 Canada 0
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – One season removed from being a member of the Junior National Team, Calgary native Michael Soroka faced his former mates and tossed two scoreless innings registering a pair of strikeouts as his Braves went on to a 7-0 win over Team Canada at the Walter Fuller Baseball Complex. Last June, the Braves made Soroka the 28th overall selection in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Soroka faced the minimum amount of batters as Cooper Davis (Mississauga, ON) reached on error to lead off the bottom of the first only to see Soroka pick him off at first base.
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – A Canadian heavy prospects squad from the Toronto Blue Jays organization defeated the Canadian Junior National Team 4-2 as spring training continued this afternoon. In total, eight Canadians played in the game for the Jays
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – The Canadian Junior National Team dropped their first game of spring training earlier today dropping a 6-2 decision to a group of minor league prospects from the Philadelphia Phillies organization.
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida – The Canadian Junior National Team banged out 11 hits, while four pitchers combined to limit Puerto Rico to just one run on five hits as the juniors cruised to an 11-1 win.
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