“The journey to Division 1 Baseball is a road that only a select group of Canadian players find themselves on.
Hundreds if not thousands of high school players compete across Canada each year, but just 213 Canucks are playing D1 baseball in 2025.
Caleb Clark (Orillia, Ont.) is one of the 213, and the road to get to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was full of twists and turns.”
Read MoreOkotoks Dawgs Academy alum Ayden Makarus (Okotoks, Alta.) belted four home runs last week for Bellevue University. For his efforts, he has been named Canadian Baseball Network college Player of the Week.
Read MoreWith their 9-2 win over Lewis-Clark State on Sunday, UBC are CCC regular season champions for the first time since 2010.
Read MoreCanadians Tate Carey (Windsor, Ont.) and Keegan O'Hearn (Oshawa, Ont.) help lead the Michigan Wolverines to a 6-5 win over Michigan State on Sunday.
Read MoreUBC catcher Russell Young (Surrey, B.C.) homered twice in his team’s 15-7 loss to Lewis-Clark State on Saturday.
Read MoreUBC split a doubleheader with Lewis-Clark State on Friday.
Read More“Roughly an hour and a half north of Toronto, Orillia is home to many things, including the Ontario Provincial Police headquarters, former Ontario Premier Leslie Frost, and singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who passed in 2023.
The city is central to a few surrounding communities, such as Oro-Medonte, Severn, Rama, and Washago. Teens come into the city to go to school, participate in sports, or other activities that the smaller communities don’t host.
Known as the “Sunshine City,” Orillia, with its population of a little over 33,000, lives up to this name during the summer months when the local ball diamonds are full from the afternoon until the lights get shut off near midnight. “
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts shares how some Terriers grads performed in the U.S. college ranks during the past week.
Read MoreUBC catcher/outfielder Kyle Yip (Calgary, Alta.) has been named CCC Player of the Week.
Read MoreUBC routed Eastern Oregon twice in a doubleheader on Saturday to move into first place in the CCC standings.
Read MoreToronto Mets alum and Florida Atlantic University infielder Brando Leroux (Markham, Ont.) has been named to the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List, which was released by the College Baseball Foundation. This award recognizes the most outstanding shortstop in Division I baseball.
Read MoreGreat Lake Canadians alum and University of Utah senior Core Jackson was named to the Brooks Wallace Award Watch List on Friday, as released by the College Baseball Foundation. The award recognizes the most outstanding shortstop in Division I baseball.
Read MoreOkotoks Dawgs slugger Nash Crowell (Yarmouth, N.S.) recently belted his 56th career home run for Reinhart University to break the program record. Joe McFarland, of Alberta Dugout Stories, recently spoke to Crowell about the accomplishment.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts summarizes the top performances by Terriers grads in the U.S. college ranks from the past week.
Read MoreUBC’s Ryan Beitel (Surrey, B.C.) and Jonny McGill (Richmond, B.C.) have been named CCC pitcher and player of the week respectively.
Read MoreGreat Lake Canadians alum Tate Carey (Windsor, Ont.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network’s college Player of the Week after he tossed a no-hitter in his first college start for the University of Michigan.
Read MoreOn a day with plenty to celebrate, the UBC Thunderbirds made it a series sweep over the Bushnell Beacons, notching two more victories with massive ramifications on the battle for playoff positioning.
Read MoreThe UBC Thunderbirds earned a critically important Saturday doubleheader sweep over the Bushnell University Beacons Saturday afternoon at Tourmaline West Stadium, kicking off a four-game weekend series.
Read More“It almost didn’t feel real to Logan Grant.
Up to bat in the bottom of the seventh inning against Dickinson State University on April 6, the Bellevue University utilityman got a hold of a Patrick Dietz offering.
He thought he had driven it to the gap to potentially tie the game 5-5.
However, the ball kept on sailing and, when it landed over the fence, Grant’s 14th home run of the season set the Bruins’ career mark at 45.
“There was a rush of emotions that hit me,” he told Alberta Dugout Stories: The Podcast.”
Read More“The stakes were high for a young Shaye McTavish growing up in the McTavish family household.
Give it his all outside in an intense game of backyard baseball or inside at a Christmas family card game — or risk losing to his siblings in his hometown of Lethbridge Alta,
That’s where Shaye McTavish, who ranks second among Canadians in strikeouts in the NAIA this season, got his first taste of competition, and his first desire for victory.”
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