Posts in Canadians in College
UBC keeps postseason going with runner-up finish at conference championship

“It was a beautiful day at Tourmaline West Stadium, the sunshine providing the backdrop to a pair of exciting Cascade Collegiate Conference Championship baseball games.

When the dust settled, it was the Lewis-Clark State Warriors who prevailed as CCC champions, defeating the UBC Thunderbirds in the final game. That came after the T-Birds had beaten the Oregon Tech Owls earlier in the day, securing their spot in the upcoming NAIA Baseball Championship Opening Round.”

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McFarland: Resilient Makarus stars at Bellevue after reviving college career

“Ayden Makarus thought he was done with baseball.

More than two years after quitting the game to get on with his post-baseball life, the Dawgs Academy alum has returned with a vengeance at Bellevue University.

He was named the North Star Athletic Association Player of the Week on April 14, when he hit .429 with four home runs, 10 runs batted in and eight runs scored in four games.

The utilityman did it again two weeks later, posting a line of .375 with four more roundtrippers while driving in seven and scoring seven en route to also being named the Canadian Baseball Network’s College Player of the Week.”

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Shushkewich: Canadian Cornhusker Clark aims to stay consistent ahead of MLB draft

“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.”

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Shushkewich: Orillia producing its share of sandlot talent headed to school

“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. “

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