Winless opening day
P.E.I. goes 0-2 Thursday at national 15-under championship
Second baseman Noah Dow, centre, flips the ball to shortstop Tobias Hood Thursday for the force out on British Columbia’s Lucas Yang. Hood’s relay to first baseman Tyler Taylor was in time for an inning-ending double play in the bottom of the first. British Columbia won the round-robin game at the Ray Carter Cup 7-3. Baseball Canada’s national 15-under championship continues at Queen Elizabeth Park in Summerside until Sunday evening.
Team P.E.I. is off to a 0-2 start at the Ray Carter Cup.
The lone Island entry in Baseball Canada’s national 15-under championship opened roundrobin play at Queen Elizabeth Park on Thursday against British Columbia and New Brunswick.
A five-run second inning proved to be the difference in British Columbia’s 7-3 afternoon win. New Brunswick counted four runs in the top of the first inning and never looked back en route to a 14-3 victory in six innings in an evening contest.
P.E.I. is back in action against Ontario (0-1) today at 6:30 p.m.
British Columbia 7 P.E.I. 3
P.E.I. turned a well-executed double-play to escape a firstinning jam. Second baseman Noah Dow fielded a hard-hit grounder, flipped the ball to shortstop Tobias Hood, whose relay throw to first base was dug out of the dirt by first baseman Tyler Taylor to keep the game scoreless.
P.E.I., which committed six
errors that led to five unearned runs, took a 2-0 lead in the top of the second inning. Starting pitcher Matt Power led off with a double to centre field, and Jack MacKenzie reached on a fielder’s choice. Dow’s grounder to pitcher Liam Bates scored Power, and MacKenzie later
scored from third on an errant throw into left field on a pickoff attempt.
British Columbia answered back with five runs in the bottom half of the inning, keyed by a two-out, three-run blast that cleared the fence in left-centre field by Kyle Sands.
British Columbia added an unearned run in the fourth to go up 6-2, and P.E.I. got one run back in the fifth as Landon Clow’s single plated Hood.
B.C. closed out the scoring with a single run in the fifth.
N.B. 14 P.E.I. 3
New Brunswick held a 5-2 lead after three innings and scored six runs in the fourth inning to put the game out of reach.
Max Grant and Connor Hill each went 3-for-4 and drove in three runs to spark New Brunswick’s 16-hit attack.
Clow (2-for-3, two runs scored, RBI), Carter MacNeil (1for-1, two walks, RBI) and Tobias Hood (1-for-3, run scored) were P.E.I.’s top offensive performers.
Errors again proved costly for P.E.I., which committed six fielding miscues that led to eight unearned runs.