Ryan Anderson pitched well early on in the contest throwing lots of strikes and was pretty sharp for his first outing of the year in Spring Training.  Ryan threw 5-1/3 innings and was very effective inducing ground balls and striking out four Cloverdale Bantam AAA batters.  Markus Blair came in relief and pitched out of a jam in the 6th inning striking out both the batters he faced.  In the 7th inning the first base runner reached on an error after a lead off strike out, a walk was awarded to the next batter and the game winning run was surrendered on a double that was hit in the right center gap.  The defense was a little rusty in the early part of the game and some errors put the academy down 5-0 in the third inning.  The offense bounced back in the fourth inning when Russell Rockwell and Reid Marcichiw started the inning with walks.  The 4 runs that scored in the inning were batted in on hits from Garrett Perlette, Matthew Courneya and Nathan Wedgewood.  The Baseball Academy also had a four run 6th inning that included runs being scored by Jonas Coyes, Garrett Perlette, Matthew Courneya and Ashton Martin as a pinch runner.  Cole Schneider knocked in what would have been the game winning run in the top of the 7th inning on a single that scored Jonas Coyes.  Game #2 was cancelled after 1 inning of play due to rain.  The Baseball Academy is back on the field tomorrow with games against Burnaby (Note game times have changed with Game #1 starting at 3:00pm and game #2 starting 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first game) 

Game #1

FX (9) vs Cloverdale Bantam AAA (10)

Hitting

Derek Shedden 1-4 (1 triple)/2 RBI

Russell Rockwell 0-2

Reid Marcichiw 0-3

Jonas Coyes 2-4 (2 singles)/2 RBI

Garrett Perlette 3-4 (2 singles/1 double)/3 RBI

Matthew Courneya 1-3 (1 single/1-SB)

Nathan Wedgewood 1-3 (1 single)/1 RBI

Cole Schneider 1-4/1 RBI

Craig Bitensky 0-2

Brett Semeniuk 0-1

Pitching

Ryan Anderson  5-1/3 innings/4-SO/8-R/3-ER/1-BB

Markus Blair 1 inning/2-SO/2-R/1-ER/1-BB

Game #2

Played 1 inning of Baseball before the game was called due to rain!