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Mitch Stack part of select group

June 3, 2016

St. John's, NL - Mitch Stack part of select group

Shortstop from Petty Harbour attending camp that will produce national team for junior softball worlds; four others from province at national senior development gathering

 

ORIGINAL STORY by Telegram Sports

Shortstop from Petty Harbour attending camp that will produce national team for junior softball worlds; four others from province at national senior development gathering

Mitch Stack of Petty Harbour will be representing the province at the selection camp for the Canadian junior men's softball team being held this weekend in Kitchener, Ont.

Mitch Stack

Stack, a shortstop, is the only player from Newfoundland and Labrador and just one of two from the Atlantic region among the 25 taking part in the camp at Conestoga College.

Stack, who was named Softball Newfoundland and Labrador's junior player of the year for 2015 and is a 2016 recipient of the Premier's Athletic Award, is no stranger to the national junior team program, having competed at a similar identification camp in Fredericton, N.B., last year last year. However, in that case, no national team was selected since world junior championships are held every two years and there was no competition in 2015.

This year's world junior championship is in Midland, Mich., July 24-30. Canada will be represented in Michigan by a 17-man team that will be named at the end of this weekend's camp. That group will re-assemble in Kitchener in mid-July and compete in a tune-up tournament in preparation for the worlds.

Canada finished seventh at the last junior worlds held in Whitehorse in 2014.

Stack, who came up through the Goulds minor system, was an all-star with the Newfoundland Selects at last year's national under-18 championships, but despite his youth, was competing in the St. John's senior league with the Junior Canadians as far back as 2013.

There will be far more Newfoundlanders at a national senior men's development camp being held concurrently with the junior gathering in Kitchener this weekend.

Brothers Ryan and Shane Boland of Goulds, Jeremy O'Reilly of Placentia and Colin Walsh of Petty Harbour are among that camp's 22 players, many of whom are on the national-team long list but did not compete for Canada last year.

In addition, John Hill of St. John's and Les Howey of C.B.S., are assistant coaches on head coach John Stuart's staff.

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