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By Chris Kemlo
Ontario Scouting Director

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Ontario Insider: Tournament 12 - Futures Team vs Prairies

Rogers Centre: The first look at the young Futures team came yesterday as they took on the Prairies in their opening game at Tournament 12. Big right-hander and uncommitted 2018 grad Eric Cerantola was on the mound to start. The 6-foot-5, 192-pounder worked three scoreless innings, allowing two hits while walking three and striking out six. Cerantola was poised and collective on the mound as he worked out of a bases loaded, one out jam in the second inning with a strikeout and broken bat 4-3 putout. Showed really good feel for his curveball, keeping hitters off balanced and using it as his strikeout pitch.

After Cerantola, left-hander and uncommitted 2018 grad Carter Seabrooke came in and went another three innings, keeping the Prairies off the board. Seabrooke, listed at 6-foot, 150-pounds, didn’t allow a hit over his three frames while walking 2, hitting one batter and striking out five. Just like Cerantola, Seabrooke was able to work out of a one out bases loaded jam in the sixth, striking out the two with the bases juiced on good curveballs in the dirt.

Offensively, Futures didn’t muster much offence as the didn’t collect their first until one out in the seventh by first baseman Blake Buckle. Outfielder Denzel Clarke was hit by a pitch and walked in his first two at-bats and added up three stolen bases but was left stranded both times.

The one game changing play was when Futures had two out and runner on second in bottom of the 6th when 4th ranked prospect in the 2018 class Ryan Faragher came to the plate. He laced a fastball in left-centre gap which looked to be their first hit and run of the game. What happened was Faraghers’ knee was twisted in the box, and collapsed at the plate, therefore the run did not score and it became a 7-4-3 putout in the book. Faragher was able to walk-off under his own power and it seems to be nothing serious to come of the incident.

A clean first game for the young Futures team, getting their feet wet and maybe some pre-tournament jitters out of the way.

In their second game of the day they will take on Quebec who always has a strong team with lots of chemistry with one another.

Boxscore

Prairies  000 000 0 - 0 2 0
Futures  000 000 0 - 0 1 1

Top Performers

• Eric Cerantola - 3 IP, 2 H, 3 BB, 6 K
• Carter Seabrooke - 3 IP, 0 H, 2 BB, 5 K
• Blake Buckle - 1-2 with a 1B and BB
• Denzel Clarke - 0-1, 3 SB