Former Great Lake Canadians SS Core Jackson (Wyoming, Ont.) of the Utah Utes.

October 19, 2025

By Bob Elliott

Canadian Baseball Network

Good news -- real good news -- and bad news continues as we now move on to our 26th annual Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian college Second Team.

The good news is that another 12 players have been recognized. The bad news is for all but 24 of the 1,185 Canadians playing the majority of their schedule south of the border is that they all that remains are our Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian college First Team and Honourable Mentions.

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Most first-place votes on our Second Team _ SS Core Jackson (Wyoming, Ont.) Utah Utes (20), OF Jonny McGill (Richmond, BC) British Columbia Thunderbirds (17), OF Carter Beck (Carnduff, Sask.) Indiana State Sycamores (14), 1B Brendan Lawson (Toronto, Ont.) Florida Gators (12), LHP Haden Dow (St. John, NB) Southeast Missouri State Redbirds (11), 2B Yosuke Fujie (Misson BC) Campbellsville Tigers (11), OF Noel McGarry-Doyle (Maple, Ont.) Mid-America Christian Evangels (11) and RHP Tyler Bremner (San Diego, Calif.) Santa Barbara Gauchos (10).

Second team by province: Ontario 5, British Columbia 3, Alberta 2, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan 1 each.

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Second team by graduating organizations: Great Lake Canadians 2, Okotoks Dawgs 2, Abbotsford Cardinals 1, Langley Blaze 1, North Shore Twins 1, Ontario Blue Jays 1, Prospects Academy 1, Southeast A’s 1, Toronto Mets 1 and Vauxhall Jets 1.

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Second and Third teams by province: Ontario 7, British Columbia 6, Alberta 4, Quebec 3, Saskatchewan 2, New Brunswick 1, Nova Scotia 1.

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Second and Third teams by graduating organizations: Okotoks Dawgs 5, Great Lake Canadians 2, Langley Blaze 3, Academie Baseball Canada 3, Ontario Blue Jays 2, Abbotsford Cardinals 1, Bulletproof Prospects 1, Fraser Valley Cascades 1, Muenster Red Sox 1, North Shore Twins 1, Prospects Academy 1, Southeast A’s 1, Toronto Mets 1 and Whalley Chiefs 1.

And for the fifth straight year we are going to build towards our final announcements.

Batting lead-off ... the Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian Third Team.

At bat... the Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian Second Team.

On deck ... the 25th annual Canadian Baseball Network Player of the Year.

In the hole ... the 25th Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian First Team and players named to our Honorable Mention list.

And finally …. our stats package.

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Voting electorate: Our 49 voters consisted of 17 coaches, from elite programs to colleges on both sides of the border; 17 writers (including nine Canadian Baseball Network scribes), seven scouts, five executives and two players.

Hats off: Ryan Isaac, who runs the business side of this operation -- and as Bob McCown used to say “there is nothing like a smooth-running operation.” He greenlit the idea to send Canadian Baseball Network hats to members of the 2024 all-Canadian college First team.

So we trundled off to the post-office and sent hats to the likes of RHP Tyler Boudreau (Middle Sackville, N.S.) of the Midland Chaparrals, RP L.P. Langevin (Quebec, Que.) Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns, C Connor Caskenette (Duncan, BC) Purdue Boilermakers, 1B Colin Cymbalista (Pickering, Ont.) Hutchinson Blue Dragons, 2B Emilien Pitre (Repentigny, Que.) Kentucky Wildcats, 3B Jakob Poturnak (Vancouver, BC) Cloud County T-Birds, SS Core Jackson (Wyoming, Ont.) Utah Utes, OFs Tyler Wilson (Chandler, Az.) Grand Canyon Antelopes; Francesco Barbieri (Brampton, Ont.) Ave Maria Gyrenes and Payton McHarg (Saskatoon, Sask.) Washburn Ichabods, DH Jake Wrubleski (Okotoks, Alta.) Chandler-Gilbert Coyotes and 2024 Canadian College Player of the Year LHP Jackson Soucie (Cambridge, Ont.) Wabash Valley Warriors.

We invited everyone to send a selfie which we would post ... to date only Wilson has sent in a picture. But we heard that there was a mail strike. Maybe business and picture taking will increase.

Our 26th annual All-Canadian College Second Team ...

Prospects Academy grad LHP Hayden Dow (St. John, NB)

Left-handed starter _ Haden Dow (St. John, NB) Southeast Missouri State Redbirds.

He was 5-4 with a 3.33 ERA, striking out 67 in 78 1/3 innings, making 14 starts.

Dow registered wins over Northern Illinois (five innings, one unearned run, one walk, eight strikeouts), Purdue-Ft. Wayne (complete game shutout, giving up three hits and fanning nine), Indiana State (six innings, allowing four runs on four hits and a walk, striking out six), Lindenwood (7 1/3 innings, allowing one run on four hits and three walks, as he whiffed seven) and Little Rock (worked five innings, allowing four runs -- three earned -- on four hits, as he struck out three).

Dow was voted the Ohio Valley Conference Pitcher of the Week, after tossing a complete game shutout against the Purdue-Ft. Wayne Mastodons. In that game, Dow struck out nine batters and threw 115 pitches, both season-highs. He narrowly missed his career-high of 10 strikeouts set in the 2023 season against Butler.

After playing for the Prospects Academy for coaches Taylor Burns, Ethan Elias and Conner Burns, as well as the Spruce Grove Cardinals and coach Sean Erikson, he headed to Cloud County for 2021 and 2022 seasons. Dow earned a berth on the Canadian Baseball Network Third Team in 2024. He earned Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian Second Team honours in 2024.

The son of Ontario parents, RHP Tyler Bremner, of the Santa Barbara Gauchos, went No. 2 in North America in the 2025 MLB draft.

Right-handed starter _ Tyler Bremner (San Diego, Calif.) Santa Barbara Gauchos.

His father is from Mississauga and his late mother was from near Newmarket so he remains eligible to play for Canada in the World Baseball Classic. He went 5-4 with a 3.49 ERA striking out 111 in 88 1/3 innings over 14 starts. He went second overall in the draft to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Bremner set a Santa Barbara career strikeouts record with the 275th of his career, breaking Dan Yokubaitis’ 42-year-old mark and increased his career strikeout total to 295 by the end of the season.

His 111 strikeouts in 2025 are tied with Dillon Tate for the ninth-most in a single season in program history. Bremner also held opponents to .215 batting average and he ranked 10th nationally in strikeouts per nine innings, with 12.92, and 13th in strikeouts. He also finished 16th nationally in strikeout-to-walk ratio, at 5.06, and tied a career-high 13 strikeouts in seven innings against Cal State Bakersfield.

He was named to the Perfect Game All-America Second Team, the ABCA/Rawlings All-West Region First Team, the All-Big West First Team and was a NCBWA Dick Howser Trophy semifinalist, besides being Big West Pitcher of the Week twice.

Ex-Great Lake Canadians RP Tate Carey (Tecumseh, Ont.) of the Michigan Wolverines.

Reliever _ Tate Carey (Tecumseh, Ont.) Michigan Wolverines.

Carey appeared in 18 games -- making seven starts -- going 9-0 with a 3.63 ERA. He fanned 51 in 57 innings. He led the staff in ERA.

Carey pitched a complete game, seven-inning no-hitter, and combined for another shutout. He picked up his ninth win of the season with two scoreless innings in relief against Indiana. He also threw six scoreless innings with two strikeouts in a win over Nebraska, worked 6 1/3 innings and struck out eight, allowing three runs, in a win over Ohio State and fanned seven batters over five innings and allowed one run in a win over Michigan State. He also pitched 4 2/3 innings and struck out eight batters against Iowa and registered a win over Akron, facing the minimum 21 batters. He then tossed five scoreless innings and fanned seven against Mount St. Mary’s. In his collegiate debut, he struck out three in two scoreless innings against Villanova.

Carey, who pitched for the Great Lake Canadians and coaches Jamie Romak, Chris Robinson and Adam Stern, earned NCBWA National Pitcher of the Week honours and Big Ten Pitcher and Freshman of the Week after 12 scoreless innings with two wins over Akron and Mount St. Mary’s

Former Vauxhall Jet and Okotoks Dawg C Logan Grant (Chestermere, Alta.)

Catcher _ Logan Grant (Chestermere, Alta.) Bellevue Bruins.

He had 13 doubles, 19 homers and 62 RBIs, while batting .349. He finished with a 1.105 OPS in 55 games.

He managed three-hit games facing MidAmerica Nazarene (two homers, seven RBIs), Peru State (double, homer, three RBIs), York (homer, five RBIs), Dakota State (double), Jamestown (homer, five RBIs), Simpson (RBI) and Dickinson State (RBI, double).

Grant had two-hit games against Oklahoma City (RBI), Science & Arts, Warner (triple), MidAmerica Nazarene (solo homer), Peru State (solo homer), Peru State (double, homer, three RBIs), Morningside (two RBIs), Dickinson State (homer, three RBIs), Mayville State (solo homer), Mayville State (double, homer, three RBIs), Dakota State (double, homer, four RBIs), Jamestown (double, RBI) and Grand View (triple). He also homered against Hastings (solo), Briar Cliff (two RBIs), Science & Arts, Valley City State, Dickinson State and again Dickinson State.

Grant earned first team all-NSAA, an NSAA Gold Glove and Daktronics-NAIA and NSAA Scholar-Athlete honours after playing for the Okotoks Dawgs, coached by Jeff Duda, Tyler Hollick and Val Helldobler. He started off with the Vauxhall Jets and coach Les McTavish and was named to the Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian Second Team in 2024 and 2023.

Former Ontario Blue Jays INF Brendan Lawson (Toronto, Ont.) a Florida Gator.

First base _ Brendan Lawson (Toronto, Ont.) Florida Gators.

He managed 14 doubles, a triple, 10 homers and 61 RBIs as a freshman. Lawson had a .939 OPS in 60 games. He started at first (36 games), second base (12), third base (11) and DH (one).

He led the Gators with 33 walks, ranking second on the team with 61 RBIs and 15 multi-RBI performances, tied for second with 23 multi-hit games and had three grand slams. He had his first-career hit with an infield single to second in the fourth inning, finishing 2-for-3 with one double, one RBI against Air Force. He became the first Gator to hit a grand slam for his first-career home run since Santino Miozzi in 2019 while finishing with five RBIs facing Dayton. He delivered his first-career, three-hit game with a 3-for-5 showing and two runs playing North Florida and was 2-for-3 with one homer and two RBIs against Miami.

Was 2-for-3 with an opposite-field home run at Central Florida, drove in four runs going 2-for-4 with one home run against Harvard, knocked in five runs going 3-for-4 with a homer and double against Jacksonville, was 2-for-4 with a grand slam and five RBIs at Ole Miss, homered and doubled with four RBIs playing Florida State on April 8

As well, he collected multiple hits in five-straight games at Mississippi State and Arkansas, tied a season-high five RBIs with a home run, was 2-for-5 with two RBIs in the SEC Tournament win over South Carolina and he became the third Gator to record a five-hit game in the NCAA Tournament, going 5-for-7 with one double, three RBIs against Fairfield.

Lawson, who played for the Ontario Blue Jays and coach Corey Eckstein, was a Baseball America First Team Freshman All-American, was a second Team Freshman All-American (D1Baseball, Perfect Game), a SEC All-Freshman Team honoree and two-time SEC Freshman of the Week.

Former Abbotsford Cardinals 2B Yosuke Fujie (Mission, BC) of the Campbellsville Tigers.

Second base _ Yosuke Fujie (Mission BC) Campbellsville Tigers.

Fujie played in 54 games and started 53 of them this season, accumulating 56 hits, with 11 doubles, four triples and a team-high 15 home runs. He hit .304, scored a team-high 52 runs in 54 games and drove in a team-high 52 runs, while going a perfect 14-for-14 stealing bases.

Fujie also topped the Tigers in slugging percentage (.663), OPS (1.086), walks (30) and total bases (120).

The former Abbotsford Cardinals coached by Corey Eckstein and Shawn Besse, earned Second Team All-Conference honors.

North Shore Twins 3B Jakob Poturnak (Vancouver, BC) of the Sacramento State Hornets

Third base _ Jakob Poturnak (Vancouver, BC) Sacramento State Hornets.

He hit .309 with 13 doubles, a triple, 13 homers and 52 RBIs. He owned an OPS of .898 in 58 games (57 starts). He led the team in slugging (.541), was second in hits (72), tied for third in doubles, and shared the team lead in RBIs. He ranked ninth in the conference in hits, tied for eighth in RBIs, tied for sixth in home runs, and eighth in total bases.

He finished with a team-best 14-game hitting streak and reached base safely in 18 consecutive games. He drove in a season-high four runs in three different games at San Francisco, at Grand Canyon, and against the ‘Lopes in the WAC Tournament. He collected his first hits as a Hornet against San Francisco, going 3-for-4 with two home runs and four RBIs.

He had a multi-home run game with two in the second game of the series against South Dakota State. He also narrowly missed hitting for the cycle against Ball State and at Grand Canyon, falling a triple shy in the former and a double in the latter.

Poturnak, who earned All-Western Athletic Conference Second Team and Western Athletic Conference All-Academic Team this spring, played for the North Shore Twins and coach Brooks McNiven. He was an Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian college First Teamer in 2024.

Great Lake Canadians’ Core Jackson (Wyoming, Ont.) of the Utah Utes

Shortstop _ Core Jackson (Wyoming, Ont.) Utah Utes.

He batted .364 with 19 doubles, a triple, 12 homers and 44 RBIs. In 48 games he had a 1.086 OPS. He concluded his Utah career on the program career leaderboards for average (9th, .363), OBP (10th, .455) and stolen bases (T-10th, 37).

He was atop the club in runs scored (61 -- the most in a season by a Utah player during the Power Conference era), hits (75), RBIs, doubles, home runs, total bases (132) and stolen bases (20). He hit .363 in his two seasons with the Utes, tallying 34 doubles, four triples, 16 home runs, 85 RBIs and 112 runs scored.

Jackson racked up 25 multi-hit performances and 10 games with multiple RBIs and hit .333 in 30 conference games. He scored five times in a win at Arizona, including a straight steal of home. In that contest, he went 2-for-2 with a pair of home runs, four RBIs and four walks. He was 4-for-5 with five RBIs in the Baylor opener, completing the contest a triple short of the cycle. He also had three doubles against California Baptist, part of a 4-for-5 night with five RBIs and two runs.

He was voted first-team All-Conference in both of his seasons at Utah (2024-25), was a Brooks Wallace Award Semifinalist and earned All-Big 12 First Team. He was named Brooks Wallace Player of the Week (March 4).

Jackson, who played for the Great Lake Canadians and coaches Chris Robinson, Jamie Romak and Adam Stern, was a 2024 Canadian Baseball Network All-Canadian College First teamer.

Outfielders _ Jonny McGill (Richmond, BC) British Columbia Thunderbirds, Noel McGarry-Doyle (Maple, Ont.) Mid-America Christian Evangels and Carter Beck (Carnduff, Sask.) Indiana State Sycamores.

Former Langley Blaze OF Jonny McGill (Richmond, BC) of UBC Thunderbirds.

How good is our Second Team? McGill finished with a .408 average and he made the Second Team. He also had 20 doubles, three triples, 18 homers and 56 RBIs. He sported a 1.265 OPS in 56 games.

He was Mr. 4-by-4 against College of Idaho with a homer and four RBIs, as well as against Eastern Oregon (two homers, a double, four RBIs), He also enjoyed afternoons going 4-for-5 against Seattle with three doubles and four RBIs and 4-for-5 against with two doubles, a triple, a homer and five runs knocked in facing Bushnell.

McGill managed three-hit afternoons facing Eastern Oregon (double, solo homer), Eastern Oregon (two doubles, RBI), Lewis-Clark State (double, solo homer), Lewis-Clark State (two doubles, homer, four RBIs), Idaho (RBI double), Bushnell (double, solo homer) and Eastern Oregon (homer, three RBIs).

He had two hits games against Southeastern (solo homer), Idaho (two RBIs), Oregon Tech, Corban (triple), Corban, Corban, Warner Pacific (triple), Warner Pacific (double, solo homer), Idaho, Bushnell (RBI triple), Lewis-Clark State (double, three RBIs), Idaho (double, two RBIs), Oklahoma Wesleyan (double, RBI), Indiana Southeast (two RBIs), Georgia Gwinnett (triple) and Loyola (double, homer, two RBIs).

McGill played for the Langley Blaze and coaches Jamie Bodaly and Doug Mathieson. He was a Canadian Baseball Network Honourable Mention in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Former Toronto Mets OF Noel McGarry-Doyle (Maple, Ont.) of Mid-American Christian.

McGarry-Doyle batted .404 with nine doubles, a triple, 14 homers and 72 RBIs. He owned a 1.217 OPS in 55 games.

He had three hits facing Central Methodist, Park, College of the Ozark (two doubles, homer, four RBIs), Oklahoma Panhandle State (double, seven RBIs), Texas Wesleyan (homer, three RBIs), Nelson (two doubles, three RBIs), Southern (two homers, three RBIs), Ottawa (triple, homer, four RBIs) and Johnson (two homers, six RBIs).

He managed two-hit outings against LSU Alexandria (RBI), York (homer, two RBIs), Ozarks (RBI), Central Christian (double, homer, four RBIs), Central Christian, Friends (RBI), Randall (double, homer, four RBIs), Oklahoma Panhandle (RBI), Science and Arts (homer, three RBIs), Friends (RBI), McPherson (homer, three RBIs), Texas Wesleyan, Nelson (RBI), McPherson (double, three RBIs), Oklahoma City and Science and Arts.

McGarry-Doyle played for the Toronto Mets under coaches Rich Leitch and Ryan McBride. He was a Canadian Baseball Network Honorable Mention in 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Former Southeast A’sOF Carter Beck (Carnduff, Sask.) of the Indiana State Syamores.

Beck batted .355 (10th in the conference) with 15 doubles, two triples, 11 homers and 56 RBIs. He had a .981 OPS starting all 55 games. He was tied for seventh in the MVC in hits (76), was tied for fifth in the MVC in RBIs (56), third in hits in MVC games (42) and fourth in RBIs in MVC games (33) and 10th in doubles in MVC games (eight). He posted a .417 on-base percentage and a .564 slugging percentage. He was second on the team with 11 stolen bases in 14 attempts.

Beck led the Sycamores with 24 multi-hit games and 17 multi-RBI contests as well as a team-high and season-best 17-game hitting streak. He homered against Wagner, Florida Gulf Coast, Indiana, Pacific (twice), Illinois, Valparaiso, Chicago, Evansville, Missouri State and Illinois State. His best games included a 2-for-3 with a home run, three RBIs against Wagner, 3-for-4 with three RBIs facing Wagner, 1-for-3 with a home run, four RBIs playing Valparaiso and 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs against Southern Illinois. He was also 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI against Indiana, 3-for-5 with a double, three RBIs, facing Murray State, 3-for-5 with a double, a home run and two RBIs versus Missouri State and 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs against Illinois State.

He earned MVC First Team All-Conference and was an MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team and played for the Southeast A’s and coach Blair Beck, his father. Beck was also a member of Team Sask in 2022 that won a bronze at the Canada Games in Niagara Falls and a bronze medal at the Canada Cup in 2023 in Regina. Beck played with the Saskatoon Berries in 2024 and 2025 and was a crowd favourite. In the summer, this kid works construction and comes to the ballpark in his steel tipped boots and coveralls and then promptly goes 3-for-4 with a double and three RBIs. He was a Canadian Baseball Network Honourable Mention in 2024.

Designated hitter _ Ayden Makarus (Okotoks, Alta.) Bellevue Bruins.

He batted .324 with eight doubles, two triples, 17 homers and 47 RBIs. He had a 1.172 OPS in 43 games.

He totaled 27 extra-base hits and was 5-for-6 attempting to steal bases. He ranked second on the team with a .759 slugging percentage and hit .333 with a team-high 12 RBIs in postseason play, finishing the year on a 10-game hitting streak during which he smashed six home runs and drove in 19. He belted a pair of home runs and doubled in a 3-for-3 effort against Jamestown, drove in four runs on four occasions and totaled nine multi-hit games, including a trio of three-hit games. He had a two-home run game against Jamestown.

Makarus, who earned NSAA Newcomer of the Year, plus First team All-NSAA, NSAA Scholar-Athlete and Player of the Week (twice) honours, wore an Okotoks Dawgs uniform under coaches Jeff Duda, Tyler Hollick and Val Helldobler.

Elliott: 26th All-Canadian college 2nd Team: Jackson, McGill, Beck, Lawson, Dow, Fujie