There are many threads to former Canadian national team star Doug McPhail’s story, but the common thread never far from the center, has been baseball, including his newest chapter in Okotoks with the Dawgs Academy.
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Elliott: Lou Pote saved my life
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The Okotoks Dawgs announced their first player signings for the 2019 Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) season on Monday. The club has secured commitments from junior college powerhouse Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon, including the re-signing of 2018 infielder Richard Mascarenas and right-handed pitcher Brock Townsend, as well as the addition of two newcomers, right-handed pitcher Daniel Ferrario and outfielder Jacob Melton.
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Left-hander J.P. Stevenson (New Glasgow, P.E.I.) won Sport P.E.I.’s intercollegiate male athlete of the year honours on Tuesday.
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Great Lake Canadians alum Max Wright (Toronto, Ont.) had two hits for the Indiana State Sycamores on Saturday.
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Conner Morro (Cheltenham, Ont.), Carson Perkins (Bienfait, Sask.), Kyle Kush (Guelph, Ont.) and Andy Leader (Kitchener, Ont.) all played a role in helping the Canisius Golden Griffins to a season-high 10 runs in their 10-5 victory over Charlotte on Monday afternoon at Hayes Stadium in Charlotte, N.C.
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The Okotoks Dawgs are excited to share the news that Don Seaman, principal donor in the construction of Seaman Stadium and the Duvernay Fieldhouse, will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from his engineering alma mater, the University of Saskatchewan this summer.
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As he enters his third spring training and fourth professional season overall, former Okotoks Dawgs first baseman Bruce Yari (Waterloo, Ont.) still fondly remembers his time in Okotoks, and says his Dawgs experience has benefited him in his time as a Cincinnati Reds prospect.
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Former iCase Huskies 1B Jaxon Valcke (St. Marys, Ont.) hit a two-run, walk-off home run in the 12th inning of the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday as the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds edged the Concordia Cavs.
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Ontario Terriers alum Elliott Curtis (Waterloo, Ont.) pinch ran and scored a run for the University of Kentucky in the ninth inning on Wednesday as the club rallied for a walk-off win.
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Vauxhall Jets grad OF Jordan Dray (White Rock, BC) transferred from the Midland Chaparrals to join the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds. On the opening weekend, he led UBC in hits going 8-for-26 (.308) with a home run five RBIs and three walks.
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The walls of the eighth floor cardio unit at Foothills Hospital are narrow. Especially when you have rehabbing heart patients walking with their pals -- an IV with five wheels on the bottom spinning every which way -- plus beds and a mobile nurse’s station against the wall. It was an easy trip for Calgary Flames centreman Mark Jankowski, all 6-foot-4 and 212 pounds of him, as he stopped by Sunday afternoon to visit with his old baseball coach, Bob Elliott.
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Regina Expos and RBI Training Center grad Spencer Davis (Regina, Sask.) is off to pitch for the Arizona Christian University Firestorm.
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Okotoks Dawgs Academy coach Allen Cox and general manager Tyler Hollick have landed scouting gigs with the San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers respectively.
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Canadian Brent Lavallee (North Delta, B.C.) has started his third season as head coach of the LSU Shreveport Pilots. Bob Broughton, of courtesyrunner.com, recently caught up with the Canadian coach to talk with him about his career and this year’s Pilots team.
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Amateur umpire Bobby Pepall had a question about tracking outs as a base umpire. He reached out to Canada’s growing roster of professional baseball umpires for an answer. This is one example of an “umpires’ bond” being formed following the creation of the Canadian Baseball Umpire Camps (CBUC) last year.
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With Bo Levi Mitchell signing a new deal with the CFL’s Calgary Stampeders, we thought we’d dig into our vault and re-run this article that was originally published on June 25, 2018.
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This is the fifth and final story in a five-part series by Canadian Baseball Network contributor Scott Langdon called A Sport of Their Own that discusses girls’ and women’s baseball in Canada. This article shines the spotlight on some movers and shakers in Canadian women’s baseball.
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Ahead of the fourth season of the Canadian Premier Baseball League, the Ontario Nationals are excited about what they have been able to accomplish in the circuit so far and are looking forward to striving for more.
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This is the third story in a five-part series by Canadian Baseball Network contributor Scott Langdon called A Sport of Their Own that discusses girls’ and women’s baseball in Canada. This article shines the spotlight on Canada’s successful women’s national team.
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