The Australian U18 National Team used a five run fourth inning to break a 2-2 tie and they held on to defeat the Canadian U18 Junior National Team, 7-2 in the opening game of an eight game series between the two nations.
Both teams will use the series to determine their 20 player rosters that will compete in the WBSC U-18 Baseball World Cup in Osaka, Japan from August 28th – September 6th.
GAME INFORMATION
Score: Australia (U18) 7 Canada (U18) 2 - Box Score
Location: Surfers Paradise Baseball Field – Gold Coast, Australia
Weather: 23C, partly cloudy
Canada U18 Starting Lineup:
1. Adam Hall – 3B
2. Kobe Hyland - SS
3. Demi Orimoloye – RF
4. Luke Van Rycheghem – C
5. Tristan Pompey - DH
6. Royce Ando – 2B
7. Peter Hutzal - DH
8. JF Garon – LF
9. Cooper Davis - CF
10. Brad Aldred – 1B
Starting Pitcher: RHP Josh Burgmann
HOW IT HAPPENED
-Canada opened the scoring in the top of the first scoring a run when Luke Van Rycheghem (Kent Bridge, ON) singled up the middle to bring in Demi Orimoloye (Orleans, ON) from second base. Orimoloye had reached on a fielder’s choice that saw Adam Hall (London, ON) thrown out at home plate trying to score from third base on a chopper to the third baseman. Hall had led off with a single up the middle before moving to third on a wild pitch and ground out.
-Hall picked up his second hit of the game in the second when he lined a single to centre that scored JF Garon (Terrebonne, QC) before Cooper Davis (Mississauga, ON) was thrown out at home while trying to score on the play.
-The Aussies answered back in the home half of the second as they scored two runs off Canadian starter Josh Burgmann (Nanaimo, BC). They used three consecutive singles to score one run while the other scored on a sacrifice fly.
-Burgmann bounced back with a scoreless inning in the third but the Aussies got to him in the fourth as they chased him from the game scoring five runs on five hits. Five wild pitches and a pair of passed balls also played a hand in the inning that saw Australia take a five run lead.
JNT HIGHLIGHTS
-Burgmann was solid on the mound for two innings and he tossed scoreless frames in the first and third. He registered a pair of strikeouts in each frame for his game high of four.
-Mathieu Deneault-Gauthier (Candiac, QC) took over for Burgmann in the fourth with nobody out and got a strikeout and double play after allowing a single. In total he worked three scoreless innings, scattered four hits and a walk, while fanning three batters.
-Both William Sierra (Montréal, QC) and Matteo Vincelli (Burnaby, BC) made their debuts with the Junior National Team and each worked a scoreless inning. Sierra threw the seventh and issued one walk and also struck out one batter, while Vincelli had two strikeouts and got a fly-out in a perfect eighth inning.
-OF Cooper Davis also made his JNT debut and went 1-for-3 at the plate and played the entire game in centre field.
-Canada had eight hits with Adam Hall and JF Garon collecting two apiece. Hall drove in one run with Garon scoring on the play in the second inning.
-Brad Aldred (Whitby, ON) had Canada’s only extra base hit as he led off the fifth with a double to right-centre.
TEAM LEADERS
Hits: 2, Hall (2/4), Garon (2/3); 1 Hyland (1/4), Davis (1/3), Van Rycheghem (1/3), Aldred (1/4)
Runs: 1, Garon, Orimoloye
Doubles: 1, Aldred
RBIs: 1, Hall, Van Rycheghem
Strikeouts: 4, Burgmann; 3, Deneault-Gauthier; 2, Vincelli; 1, Sierra
UP NEXT
Canada and Australia will play game two of the eight game series tomorrow at Surfers Paradise Baseball Field at 1pm GMT/11pm ET (0817)…RHP Nick Virdo (Brampton, ON) is expected to start on the mound for Canada.
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Statistics: www.livestats.baseball.com.au/2015/U18Series/confstat.htm
Results: www.livestats.baseball.com.au/2015/U18Series/lgsumm.htm
Live Scoring: www.livestats.baseball.com.au/2015/U18Series/xlive.htm
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