The Okotoks Dawgs defeated the Sylvan Lake Gulls 10-5 in the first game of the WCBL’s West division finals on Friday.
Read MoreCOBA has announced its award winners for week 10 of the season.
Read MoreThe Western Canadian Baseball League All-Star Game, hosted at Seaman Stadium, home of the Okotoks Dawgs, was a huge success again this year. Joe McFarland, of Alberta Dugout Stories, takes a look at what might be next for the WCBL’s Midsummer Classic.
Read MoreCanada’s first Olympic team supported Canada’s top manager in Philadelphia at Citizens Bank Park this past weekend when members of the 1984 Olympic team joined former teammate Rob Thomson for a reunion.
Read More“The Mississauga Majors stole the Baseball Ontario 15U title at Clarkson Park.
Literally.
And it’s not like the Majors did the thievery during the dark of night, but rather in broad daylight.
The Majors entered the seventh inning of the gold medal championship game down 4-2 to the Peterborough Tigers heading into the bottom of the seventh. With a run in and two out, first Nicholas Segaric stole home for the tie and four pitches later Evan Gaudry stole home with the game winner.
The Majors didn’t walk it off. They ran it off.”
Read MoreThe Okotoks Dawgs defeated the Fort McMurray Giants 4-2 on Tuesday night to win their first-round playoff series. They will now face the Sylvan Like Gulls in the second round.
Read MoreOntario Blue Jays INF Brendan Lawson (North York, Ont.), Great Lake Canadians right-hander Tate Carey (Windsor, Ont.) and CF Daniel Nori (Toronto, Ont.) all impressed at the East Coast Pro showcase.
Read MoreThe Okotoks Dawgs beat the Fort McMurray Giants 8-0 in the first game of their Western Canadian Baseball League playoff series on Monday night at Seaman Stadium.
Read MoreIan Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, provides a rundown of the Western Canadian Baseball League’s regular season stats leaders.
Read MoreThe Ontario Blue Jays have had five big leaguers in 2023, which Bob Elliott believes might be the most from a Canadian elite program at one time.
Read MoreIan Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, shares his Western Canadian Baseball League postseason preview.
Read More“Go after the opposition. Win. Repeat.
That’s the mindset they need to have going into Game 1 of the World Cup Tuesday at Thunder Bay, according to Women’s National Team right-hander Alli Schroder.
Canada is in a talented pool of teams, first playing Mexico and then taking the field against Hong Kong-China, USA, Korea and Australia.”
Read MoreVictoria HarbourCats Player of the Year Tyler Davis had a clutch two-out RBI in the top of the eighth, and Jack Johnson had an RBI double in the top of the ninth, to give the HarbourCats all they runs they needed, in an eventual 3-0 win over the Edmonton Riverhawks Sunday afternoon in the final game of the West Coast League regular season at Re-Max Field in Edmonton.
Read MoreThe Okotoks Dawgs defeated the Lethbridge Bulls 7-1 in their regular season finale on Saturday night.
Read MoreThe Okotoks Dawgs lost 6-1 to the Lethbridge Bulls on Friday night.
Read More“Pier-Olivier Boucher is a late bloomer.
That’s how Lance Rhodes, his former coach at Southern Illinois University, describes the Quebec-born outfielder who was selected in the 10th round of this year’s MLB draft by the Atlanta Braves.
And the description seems apt when you consider that Boucher didn’t start playing baseball until he was 12, didn’t make his first elite competitive team until he was 16 and didn’t have a single offer to play college ball after high school.
None of this, however, deterred Boucher from pursuing his dream of playing professional baseball.”
Read MoreCOBA has announced their award winners for the past week.
Read MoreLondon Majors catcher Eduardo De Oleo has been named Intercounty Baseball League Batter of the Week after a five-homer week. Meanwhile, Guelph Royals right-hander Claudio Custodio (was named Pitcher of the Week, following a dominant six-inning performance against Hamilton on July 29.
Read MoreThe Victoria HarbourCats defeated the Nanaimo NightOwls 4-1 Thursday night in West Coast League (WCL) action at Wilson's Group Stadium in Victoria and in the process, set a new WCL record for home wins with 25.
Read MoreThe Okotoks Dawgs beat the Swift Current 57s 13-2 on Thursday.
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