“As it turned out -- all those lonely sessions hitting off the tee, all those 1-on-1 battles with the pitching machine, all those bullpen sessions in front of maybe four or five sets of eyes and all those ground balls on cold days and hot day -- it was all worth it. The date June 12 was almost two years in the making for many in the Okotoks Dawgs Academy. After a year in which Baseball Alberta cancelled its 2020 season -- like most provinces who locked the doors to diamonds -- the Alberta government and Baseball Alberta flashed the green light to start league play throughout the province.”