battalion100x108The North Bay Battalion have signed defenceman Cam Dineen to a contract.

Dineen, who took part  at the teams orientation camp last month, will be 17 next week and was an 11th-round choice in the 2014 OHL Priority selection.

Dineen, a six-foot, 176-pound product from Toms River, N.J., played 39 games last season with the New Jersey Rockets’ Eastern Hockey League entry, scoring 11 goals and earning 30 assists for 41 points with eight penalty minutes.

He also played three games with the United States Hockey League’s Tri-City Storm, based in Kearney, Nebraska, without registering a point.