Clare Osborne was a star with the Oshawa Legionaires, Kingston Ponies, Ottawa-Nepean Canadians, Little Britain, Whitby and a few other cities before moving on to coaching. Now his son J.D. OSborne is catching for the Tampa Spartans.
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The NJCAA recently released a pair of lists for the top returning pitchers and the top incoming freshman for all three of its divisions. Both lists were littered with Canadians.
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Billy Germaine and the Southern Arkansas Muleriders rallied to beat the Central Missouri Mules. Matt Betts makes the round checking in on college players.
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It's NCAA preview time and to mention a few ... these few were mentioned: Prospects like: RHP Cal Quantrill (Port Hope, Ont.) of the Stanford Cardinal, SS Daniel Pinero (Toronto, Ont.) with the defending champ Cavs, RHP Zack Pop (Brampton, Ont.) of the Kentucky Wildcats, 3B Tanner Kirwer (Sherwood Park, Alta.) of the Niagara Purple Eagles, 2B Jake Lumley (Windsor, Ont.), LHP J.P. Stevenson (Hunter River, PEI) and RP Ian Remillard (Valleyfield, Que.) who play for coach Mike McRae (Niagara Falls, Ont.) of the Canisius Golden Griffs; OF Toby Handley (Whitby, Ont.) Stony Brook Sea Wolves; Griffin Andreychuk (Nanaimo, BC) of the Seattle Redhawks and Jevon Jacobs (Ajax, Ont.) Jackson State Tigers.
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RHP Alex Webb (Surrey, BC) and RHP Curtis Taylor (Coquitlam, BC) are two reasons big things are expected from the UBC Thunderbirds. Some like Taylor best, others prefer Webb.
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UBC T-Birds with their new coach Chris Pritchett are off to California led by strong arms of Tyler Gillies (London, Ont.), Alex Webb (Surrey, BC) and Curtis Taylor (Coquitlam, BC).
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Daniel Pinero (Toronto, Ont.) of the Virginia Cavaliers heads the list of six Canucks on the pre-season Perfect Game USA top 40 NCAA Division I. The others: LF Phillippe Craig-St.Louis (Gatineau, Que.) of Oregon, INF Robert Grilli (Mississauga, Ont.) of Houston, OF Jacob Robson (Windsor, Ont.) of Mississippi State, RHP Zachary Pop (Brampton, Ont.) of Kentucky and Austin Guzzo (Brooklin, Ont.) of Iowa.
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Matt Betts has his second installment of the Big Men On Campus checkin in on Tyler Enns, Garrett Ferguson, Mitch Holgate, J.D. Osborne, Jordan Schulz, Cyrus Senior and Bruce Yari among others
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RHP Cal Quantrill (Port Hope, Ont.) of the Stanford Cardinal earned Third Team All-American honors from Baseball America.
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Our Matt Betts kicks off our Canadian in College coverage with his first installment of our Big Man on Campus series ... which leads all the way to Omaha.
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David Marcus was ranked 19th of the top 40 prospects in the NCAA Division II according to Perfect Game USA, while 12 Canucks are ranked on rosters of the top 25 teams.
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Perfect Game has two Canucks in its top ranked 100 seniors Iannick Remillard of the (Valleyfield, Que.) of the Canisius College Griffins and RHP Alex Webb (Surrey, BC) of the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.
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SS Matt Lloyd (Calgary, Alta.) must have worked awfully hard re-habbing from Tommy John surgery. He and OF Tristan Cllarke (Brampton, Ont.) rank among Perfect Game USA's top 150 JUCO prospects for June.
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OFs Max Wood (Vancouver, BC) of the San Jacinto Gators, and Charles Acosta-Tapia (Laval, Que.) of the Western Oklahoma State Pioneers, are two of 23 Canadians on the rosters of the top 50 teams Perfect Game USA.
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LHP Graeme Cherry and INF JT Patterson, both of Northeastern Junior College, and Doug Clapperton from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, will return to Seaman Stadium to play for the Dawgs.
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RHP Brayden Bouchey (White Rock, BC) earned the nickname The Waterboy with the Langley Blaze as a high schooler. The same will likely be true when he starts Game 3 of the Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks season against the Southeastern Louisiana Lions.
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OF Zac Wilson (New Lowell, Ont.) and C Zack Sardellitti (Maple, Ont.) of the No. 7 ranked Davenport Panthers along with RP Bobby St, Pierre (Windsor, Ont.) and RHP Adam Prashad (Mississauga, Ont.) of the No. 21 ranked Madonna Crusaders are some of the 34 Canucks on Perfect Game's top 25 ranked pre-season teams.
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OF Noah Renaud (Amherstburg, Ont.) went from the Windsor Selects to Tournament 12 to a strong fall ball season with Indians Hills for Hall of Fame coach Cam Walker (Wnnipeg, Man.)
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A year after sharing the Jimmy Henderson award, twins Drake and Garrett Kirkwood, along with lefty Nick Vickers, will play with the Okotoks Dawgs team this summer.
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