SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — The P.E.I. Youth Selects split their first two games at the Canada Cup Canadian under-17 baseball championship in Regina, Sask.
After losing 11-1 in five innings to New Brunswick on Wednesday evening, P.E.I. bounced back to score 13 runs in the first two innings en route to a 16-9 victory over Newfoundland and Labrador on Thursday. P.E.I. faced Manitoba on Thursday evening and will take on Alberta on Friday afternoon.
P.E.I. 16 N.L. 9
The Island squad jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the top of the first inning, scored eight more times in its second at-bat and led 13-4 at the end of two innings.
Ben MacDougall (3-4, three runs scored, three runs batted in) and Tanner MacLean (3-5, two runs scored, two RBI) led the Youth Selects offensively. Noah Dow, Carter MacNeill, Ty Arsenault, Duncan Picketts and Chase Gaudette all contributed two hits.
Tyler Jones worked five innings of relief to pick up the pitching win. He allowed three runs (one earned), four hits, one walk and struck out one.
N.B. 11 P.E.I. 1
Max Grant, who has family connections to Summerside, went 3-for-4 at the plate and drove in a pair of runs to lead New Brunswick, which clinched the mercy-rule victory with a six-run fifth inning.
Tyler Taylor (1-2, run scored) had P.E.I.’s lone hit.
MacLean, Jack MacKenzie and Ben Tsai pitched for the Youth Selects.
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