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HALIFAX -- Jonathan Drouin scored three times as the Halifax Mooseheads edged the host Charlottetown Islanders 4-3 on Friday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. The 19-year-old has been hot for Halifax as hes registered nine goals and 19 points in his last six outings and his performance extended his point streak to 10 games. Timo Meier also scored for the Mooseheads (18-8-0), who extended their win streak to six games. Jack Nevins scored twice for the Islanders (12-9-3) while Alexis Pepin had a goal and an assist. Halifaxs Zachary Fucale made 31 saves for his 15th victory of the season. Charlottetowns Antoine Bibeau turned away 30-of-34 shots. The Mooseheads went 2 for 6 on the power play while the Islanders scored once on three chances with the man advantage. --- TITAN 2 WILDCATS 0 BATHURST, N.B. -- Jacob Brennan turned aside 29 shots as the Titan blanked Moncton for their third win in a row. Patrick Walsh and Scott Oke scored for Acadie-Bathurst (10-12-2) while Alexandros Soumakis assisted on both. Alex Dubeau made 26 saves for the Wildcats (11-15-1). Monctons Mark Simpson led all centres by winning 20-of-28 faceoffs. --- OCEANIC 3 SCREAMING EAGLES 0 SYDNEY, N.S. -- Anthony DeLuca scored twice and set up one more as Rimouski shutout Cape Breton. Michael Joly had a goal and an assist for the Oceanic (14-7-4) while Zachary Fortin stopped 27 shots for his third-career shutout. Chase Marchand made 28 saves for the Screaming Eagles (11-10-3), who lost in regulation for the first time in six contests. Cape Breton went 0 for 5 on the power play while Rimouski never had an opportunity with the man advantage. --- REMPARTS 4 CATARACTES 0 QUEBEC CITY -- Francois Brassard turned back 29 shots as the Remparts defeated Shawinigan. Anthony Duclair scored twice for Quebec (12-8-5), which has won three of its last four games, while Cody Donaghey and Nick Sorensen had the others. Zachary Taylor was a team-worst minus-3 for the Cataractes (3-18-2), who sit last in the QMJHL standings. Marvin Cupper stopped 31-of-34 shots in defeat. --- PHOENIX 6 SEA DOGS 3 SHERBOROOKE, Que. -- Jean-Francois Plante scored two goals and Tim Wieser had three assists as the Phoenix doubled up Saint John. Jason Houde and Simon Desbiens each had a goal and an assist for Sherbrooke (9-12-2) while William Couture and Daniel Audette added a goal apiece. Matthew Highmore scored twice for the Sea Dogs (6-15-2), who are winless in five contests, and Olivier LeBlanc had a goal and an assist. Phoenix goaltender Gabriel Parent made 24 saves for the win as Sebastien Auger turned back 27 shots for Saint John. --- ARMADA 3 TIGRES 2 (SO) VICTORIAVILLE, Que. -- Marcus Hinds scored the winner in the sixth round of the shootout as Blainville-Boisbriand edged the Tigres. Danick Martel scored the Armadas (17-3-2) opening goal and then set up Nikita Jevpalovs in the third period to force overtime. Philippe Hudon and Tommy Veilleux scored less than two minutes apart early in the third period for Victoriaville (10-12-1). Etienne Marcoux made 31 saves for Blainville-Boisbriand. Brandon Whitney stopped 41-of-43 shots for the Tigres. --- FOREURS 5 DRAKKAR 4 (OT) BAIE-COMEAU, Que. -- Guillaume Gelinas scored 2:04 into overtime as Val-dOr came from behind to beat the Drakkar and extend its win streak to five games. Samuel Henley had two goals and an assist for the Foreurs (15-9-0), who trailed 4-2 after 40 minutes. Anthony Mantha scored once and assisted on two others. Anthony Richard added a single goal for Val-dOr. Frederic Gamein had a goal and an assist for Baie-Comeau (15-5-4) while Nicholas Halagian, Alexandre Ranger and Denis Gorbunov also scored. Francois Tremblay made 25 saves for the Foreurs as Philippe Cadorette allowed five goals on 28 shots for the Drakkar. --- OLYMPIQUES 2 HUSKIES 1 GATINEAU, Que. -- Taylor Burke scored the winner 24 seconds into the third period as the Olympiques handed Rouyn-Noranda its third straight defeat. Marc Beckstead scored on the power play 57 seconds into the second period to give Gatineau (17-8-0) a 1-0 lead. Huskies (12-8-2) forward Jean-Sebastien Dea responded with a shorthanded goal late in the second. Anthony Brodeur made 19 saves for the Olympiques while Alexandre Belanger kicked out 17 shots for Rouyn-Noranda. 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The above paragraph could be rewritten, verbatim, with Marcus Stromans name in place of Romeros. After both men had disastrous outings in Tuesdays 18-4 mauling at the hands of the Tigers, its clear that neither is the best option to begin the season in Toronto. Whats also clear is that it isnt clear who the best option is to join R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle, Brandon Morrow and, presumably, Drew Hutchison in a rotation that last season posted baseballs second-worst starting staff ERA (4.81.) Romero and Stroman were outsiders at best to break camp with the big league club and for different reasons. There had been cautious optimism surrounding Romero, the reclamation project, who had been showing some signs of emerging from his two-year funk. Stroman, meanwhile, is a projected future star and rotation cornerstone who, along with Drew Hutchison and Aaron Sanchez, has the coaching staff salivating. Given the mediocre-to-subpar performances of J.A. Happ, Esmil Rogers and Todd Redmond this spring, theres been some consideration, however small, given to handing Stroman a rotation spot. After all, how much lesser of an option is he than any of the others? Romero, scheduled to go four or five innings on Tuesday depending on pitch count, instead went two-and-two-thirds, allowing three runs on three hits, a home run, five walks, a hit batter and two wild pitches. It could have been worse. Romero picked off two of his walks and another was caught stealing. Only 23 of Romeros 57 pitches were strikes. He acknowledged falling behind in counts and not following through in his delivery but also took a shot at Mother Nature. "It was a weird weather day, too," said Romero. "The balls were a little slick and it just kept coming out of my hand and whatnot, but I tried to battle." The game time temperature was 20-celcius. It was a sunny day. There was a breeze, but nothing out of the ordinary. Romero also admitted to being too amped up. "I was a little excited," he said. "I think just getting a start and whatnot, that was the first start Ive had since the Triple-A season ended last year. It was a little different, just trying to get used to it again." "Not enough strikes," said manager John Gibbons. "Today, all the way around, it was just a bad day in every phase of the game. Let that one go. Ive got nothing to say. Its tough for me to analyze that. You were watching what I was watching. You analyze it." While theres no doubt the Blue Jays would enjoy getting some kind of return on the $15.6-million still owed Romero through the end of next season, his name started coming up as a rotation option only after general manager Alex Anthopoulos failed to sign Ervin Santana, a non-move which seems to become more glaring by the day. Gibbons wouldnt commit to whether Romero would get another start. "This ones over," said Gibbons. "It was a bad day all the way around." Stroman was supposed to follow Romero and pitch four or five innings. He recorded only one out before being pulled in the fifth, giving up seven runs on five hits with a walk and a strikeout. "Not enough strikes," said Gibbons. Its pretty simple." Toronto pitchers combined to walk 11 on the afternoon. The Blue Jays need someone to step up, pitch well and take the final rotation spot. Time is running out before the job is awarded to someone by default. Its J.A. Happs turn next. He starts on Wednesday, in Dunedin, against the Phillies. MORROW vs. BUEHRLE IN INTRASQUAD GAME Brandon Morrow, whos being strongly considered to pitch the home opener on April 4 against the Yankees, making him the "fifth" starter, squared off against Mark Buehrle in an intrasquad game in Dunedin on Tuesday. Morrow, who missed the final fouur months of last season with an entrapped radial nerve in his right forearm, has struggled with fastball command this spring.dddddddddddd In three-and-two-thirds innings, he allowed two runs on four hits, walking two and striking out two. Morrow threw 63 pitches; his fastball ranged in the low-to-mid 90s. "I was getting ahead, throwing it where I wanted to," said Morrow. "I think I had a couple looking strikeouts on it. All in all, it was a good day. I felt really good with my curveball. Slider and split couldve been better, but I made some good pitches with those too." Buehrle threw four-and-third innings, allowing three runs, two earned, on five hits (including home runs by Erik Kratz and Kenny Wilson) and two walks. He struck out three and threw 81 pitches. JANSSEN THROWS LIVE BATTING PRACTICE Casey Janssen faced live hitters for the first time since late February. He threw live batting practice on Tuesday morning in Dunedin. "Another step in the right direction," said Janssen. "Got the heart pumping a little bit, which was nice. Im sure Fridays going to be more of the same, hopefully a little bit more in the velocity department, just because therell be defenders behind me." Barring the unforeseen, Janssen is scheduled to appear in his first Grapefruit League game on Friday when the Blue Jays visit the Rays in Port Charlotte. On Tuesday, Janssen threw his fastball, curveball, slider and changeup. He didnt throw his cut fastball. Janssen has been kept out of spring games due to soreness in the back of his right shoulder. The pain is unrelated to his offseason shoulder surgery of a year ago and the discomfort it caused last year. DETERMINING LINDS ROLE Adam Lind got the start against Tigers left-hander Drew Smyly on Tuesday as the club works toward determining whether hell be a strict platoon player this season. "I always can hit lefties; I just cant hit the Cy Young lefties," said Lind. "I cant tell you how many people probably hit David Price well or Jon Lester well or CC (Sabathia) well but unfortunately all those guys are in the same division. Its the beauty of playing in this division. You know where youre at as a baseball player." Linds career splits dont lie. Hes hit right-handers at a .286 BA/.850 OPS clip and hits a home run about once in every 20 at-bats. Against left-handers, the number dwindles to .219BA/.603 OPS with a home run in 2.6-percent of his at-bats. Right-handed hitting Moises Sierra, whos out of options, is the top candidate at the moment to take those at-bats against lefties. The Jays are still trying to figure out the plan. "Hes been swinging it pretty good against some pretty good lefties this spring," said manager John Gibbons. "Well just see where it goes from there. It all stacks up right now, and Sierras that guy, he would face some of the lefties. But, I think, Lindy and (hitting coach Kevin) Seitzer have been working on an approach to face those lefties and lets see where that takes us." Lind succeeded in his goal of staying off the disabled list last season. Hed missed time with a bad back in each of the previous two years. Last offseason, Lind turned to yoga. He enjoyed it and felt that it helped so he took it up a notch this past winter. "I went personal yoga instructor this year," said Lind. "It was nice. She got to know my body and we got a little more specific instead of just having a class with 20 people in it. She would correct me if I was in the wrong positions and things like that. It was nice to have someone to be there just for me." The Blue Jays will employ a yoga instructor to conduct a session on a weekly basis in an effort to curb the number of muscle-related injuries. Lind likes the benefits. "I loved it," he said. "Ill continue to do it even when Im done playing. 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