Cody Anthony invited to national camp

SHUBENACADIE: Cody Anthony has dreamt of wearing the Maple Leaf for Team Canada—now he’s one step closer.
The multi-sport athlete—who just helped the East Hants Junior Penguins to a league title and a silver medal finish at the Don Johnson Cup—is the only Nova Scotian invited among 27 players from across Canada to attend the Canadian Junior Men’s national team selection camp.
The camp is scheduled for Aug. 13-17 in Cambridge, Ont., and 17 players will be picked to represent Canada at the International Softball Federation’s (ISF) Junior Men’s World Championships, set to run Nov. 1-10 in Parana, Argentina.
Anthony said upon being informed about the invite a couple weeks before the list came out, he knew he has some work ahead of him.
“The first thing I need to do is get into shape because I have a team to make,” he said. “Ever since I knew it existed, I was aiming to get the invite to play for them,” he said, recalling four years ago when two team-mates, Patrick Avery and Aaron Long, were named to the team. “It means everything. Softball is big in Shubenacadie, East Hants, my father played it, and all my brothers have played it. It’s always been one of the bigger sports we played around here. I love it more than hockey, that’s just who I am.
“It means everything to me to get the invite.”
In past years there have been East Hants representation invited with Enfield’s Adam Day being the last one when he wore the Maple Leaf in 2007. He made the national team.
Anthony, who just turned 18, said he got the interest to be a pitcher in his second year in the Squirt...