ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. - They came from far away to wear the red and black of the Canadian Junior National Team.
From Lower Sackville, N.S., (Jaden Griffin) to Roberts Creek, B.C., (Tim Walters).
And on Monday afternoon they faced Toronto Blue Jays minor leaguers who came from far away places like Ladner, B.C., (Tom Robson), Drayton Valley, Alta., (Shane Dawson) and Toronto (Connor Panas) at the Walter Fuller Complex.
No one travelled farther than Christie Keyes, who came from Calgary to Florida with her daughter Vanessa.
Christie was an athlete when she arrived in Canada as a teenager playing soccer “but back home” she ran track.