“When opposition batters head to the plate to face Reece Helland, they are entering the danger zone.
Not only are they facing MidAmerica Nazarene’s top bullpen gun, who is an intense presence on the bump, but he also enters the game with a formidable tune.
You guessed it: the Kenny Loggins classic “Danger Zone” from the movie Top Gun.
Over his four years with the Pioneers, Helland has accumulated a 13-6 record and a 4.47 earned-run average in 84 games, with one start, and 16 saves.”
Read MoreOntario Nationals grad Blake Gillespie (Arva, Ont.) has fanned 105 hitters for the Charlotte 49ers this spring, which makes him just one of 11 Canuck hurlers to exceed 100 strikeouts in an NCAA Div. I season.
Read More“Tanner Smith (Ripley, Ont.) has an awful lot of kilometres to cover for entering the same sacred space Larry Walker occupied as one of Canada’s most-decorated sandlot stars.
The teenager from the small municipality of Ripley near the shores of Lake Huron in southwestern Ontario has higher credentials than the National Hall of Fame and Canadian Hall of Fame outfielder, however, when it comes to the art of stopping pucks.
Smith, who is off to Bryant and Stratton College in Akron, Ohio this summer to pitch and play the outfield for the NJCAA Division 2 Bobcats, put a rather tidy bow on his minor hockey career in late March by backstopping the Huron-Bruce Blizzard to the Ontario Minor Hockey Association under-18 Tier 2 championship in Halton Hills, Ont. “
Read MoreFieldhouse Pirates grad Simon Grinberg (Kitchener, Ont.) has been named SUN Conference Player of the Year after his outstanding season with Keiser University.
Read MoreGreat Lake Canadians grad RHP Tate Carey (Tecumseh, Ont.) and former Terrier Keegan O’Hearn (Oshawa, Ont.) led Michigan to a 13-3 victory over Ohio State on Sunday.
Read MoreDawgs Academy grad Jimmy Dionne (Quebec, Que.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network college Player of the Week after he belted four home runs in four games for Howard College.
Read MoreTerriers alum Keegan O'Hearn (Oshawa, Ont.) belted his first collegiate home run with the Michigan Wolverines on Sunday.
Read More“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.”
Read MoreWindsor Selects alum Kurt Barr (Saint Joachim, Ont.) and Terriers grad Keegan O'Hearn (Oshawa, Ont.) helped the University of Michigan rout the Ohio State Buckeyes 23-1 on Saturday.
Read MoreThe University of British Columbia Thunderbirds suffered their first loss of the 2025 Cascade Collegiate Conference Baseball Tournament, a 5-3 decision against Lewis-Clark State Saturday afternoon at Tourmaline West Stadium.
Read MoreThe host University of British Columbia Thunderbirds earned a convincing 11-1 decision over the College of Idaho Yotes to open up play Friday night at the Cascade Collegiate Conference Tournament.
Read More“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.”
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts summarizes the top performances by Terriers alum in the U.S. college ranks from the past week.
Read More“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. “
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