Tournament 12 down to four teams

TORONTO — After three full days of games, only four teams remain in contention to win the fourth annual Tournament 12 at Rogers Centre. After five games on Sunday, Monday’s semifinal matchups will feature BC Orange against Atlantic Maroon and Ontario Black against Quebec Blue to determine the final. Winners will meet Monday night in the championship game.

The five-day showcase, hosted by the Blue Jays, welcomed more than 160 on the county’s top high school baseball players and allowed them to compete on a big league stage in front of about 60 professional scouts and college recruiters.

Ontario Black 10, Quebec Blue 3 Sunday’s opener featured an offensive outburst from Ontario Black, which held Quebec Blue to two hits and used a six-run seventh inning to secure their spot in the semifinal. Left fielder Tyrell Hebert led the hitters, going 2-for-4 with a walk, stolen base, and two RBIs, and right fielder Antonio Cruz and first baseman Kyle Bryan each drove in two runs.

Quebec left fielder Paul Labelle got both Blue runs with a fourth-inning double. Hayden Malenfant got the start for Black and allowed three runs (two earned) on two hits with three walks and four strikeouts. Reliever Cameron Dyck shut out Quebec for three frames.

“Our team is an exciting team to watch,” said Black coach Adam Stern. “It’s a very athletic team, a very dynamic team, guys can really run. It changes how you pitch to our guys because you know they’re looking to play an aggressive game.

Alberta Red 6, Atlantic Maroon 1 The only two home runs of the tournament came in a span of five minutes, when Alberta centre fielder Greg Student ended his team’s offensive drought. Three outs later Atlantic Maroon third baseman Brett Platts sent his team’s lone run over the fence.

Heading into its final game of the Blue Jays-hosted event, the Red squad had totaled only two hits in its three games, being on the wrong end of two no-nos on Saturday, and without a run scored in the tournament. Their first hit was a first-inning …

continue reading in source mlb.mlb.com