With the calendar flipping to 2024, it’s time to turn our attention to the upcoming college season. With first pitch just over a month away and 147 Canadians playing Division I ball, Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts takes a look at five must-watch series featuring those hailing from north of the border.
Read MoreAlberta Dugout Stories shares their 2023 All-WCBL Team that includes a 26-man roster of standout players.
Read MoreAlberta Dugout Stories has unveiled their 2023 All-College Team.
Read MoreNine UBC Thunderbirds get nod for work in class room.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts takes a look at five Canadians playing in the Division 1 college ranks to watch out for in 2024.
Read MoreJunior National Team alum Carson Latimer (North Delta, B.C.) will pitch for the Sacramento State Hornets in 2025.
Read MoreElliott: Former players came to praise Gary Wilson
Read MoreFive Okotoks Dawgs players have been selected to the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2023 All-Canadian College teams.
Read MoreAfter an outstanding season with the Parkland Cobras, Terriers’ alum Austin Gomm (Mississauga, Ont.) has voted to the Canadian Baseball Network’s 2023 All-Canadian First Team.
Read More“The University of British Columbia is the only school in Canada playing NAIA competition.
And as the saying goes “they play well.”
The Thunderbirds have made the NAIA National championship opening rounds the past four seasons (2018, 2019, 2022, 2023), making the final in 2022 before losing to Lewis-Clark State. Due to COVID, there was not a tournament in 2020 and border restrictions made it difficult to visit their Cascade Collegiate Conference opponents.”
Read MoreAfter a monster year with the Connors State Cowboys, Brady Cerkownyk (Etobicoke, Ont.) has been voted the Canadian Baseball Network’s College Player of the Year.
Read MoreUniversity of Michigan left-hander and Terriers alum Connor O’Halloran (Mississauga, Ont.) has been voted to the Canadian Baseball Network’s All-Canadian Second Team.
Read MoreElliott, CBN All-Canadian college Second Team: Jones, Carcini, Mendham, McGarry-Doyle, O’Halloran, Carr, Manias
Read MoreThe Canadian Baseball Network reveals its 2023 All-Canadian college Third Team.
Read MoreHere is a list of all of the former CBN all-Canadian Team members — 222 in all — who have reached the next level, or are on their way to proceeding further down the road than most before retiring. It has been updated to include how they performed in 2023 (if they are still active).
Read MorePhilip Cheong commits to Stanford
Read MoreSix Canucks impressed at the recent Perfect Game Jayhawk Junior College Showcase at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kan.
Read MoreFormer Prairie Baseball Academy Dawg RHP Aidan Newton (Calgary, Alta.) is one of many new players headed to the Northwestern State Demons.
Read MoreToronto Mets alum Caden Shapiro, who is the son of Toronto Blue Jays president and CEO, Mark Shapiro, is carving out his own path in baseball. He is getting ready for his junior season with the Princeton Tigers. Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts recently spoke with the younger Shapiro.
Read More“There are 159 sunny days a year, on average, in the town of Corvallis, Oregon. That, of course, is a minority.
The average high/low temperatures in March are 58 and 40 (14.4 and 4.4, Celsius). In April it zooms up to 64 and 42 (18 and 5.5). Corvallis gets 51 inches of rain per year, mostly during the time Oregon State University is in session.
Baseball would not seem to be a naturally-occurring commodity at Oregon State, in other words. Until 2005, the Beavers had been to one College World Series, in 1952, and the players were stunned at how hot it was in Omaha, although they were spared further discomfort by losing twice and going home.
So what Oregon State has done since then is one of the great improbabilities in American collegiate sport.
Now the Beavers’ dam (cq) good run has been endangered not by its richer, sunnier Pac-12 rivals, but by the utter incompetence and greed of those who have just now been barred from treating players in all sports like unpaid servants.”
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