Canadian Baseball Network writer Matt Betts summarizes the top performances by Canadians in the U.S. college ranks from the past week in his latest “Big Man on Campus (BMOC)” column.
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Malik Williams (Toronto, Ont.) belted his first home run of the season for the Ottawa Titans to help them to a 6-3 victory over the New Jersey Jackals in their first game of a doubleheader sweep over the Jackals on Sunday.
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The Okotoks Dawgs defeated the Lethbridge Bulls 12-4 on Sunday in front of more than 5,000 fans at Seaman Stadium.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s latest “But What Do I Know?” discusses Tyler O’Neill, Cal Quantrill, James Paxton, Cade Smith and Bill Atkinson.
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“It was a baseball-bashing bonanza in Brooks.
When the dust finally settled – shortly before 11 pm on Tuesday, June 4th at Elks Field – the Lethbridge Bulls and Brooks Bombers had produced a Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) record 57 runs during the 31-26 victory for the Bulls.”
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“When this grey-haired baseball has been walked into Harvey Jackson Memorial Park in the sleepy hamlet of Kendal recently - to see my son’s Kingston Thunder U-18 team play in a tournament – it was, to quote Yogi Berra, “like deja-vu all over again.”
I was a member of the 1972 Kingston Lions junior squad when I first played at the quaint old ballyard. Yet once I stepped down the narrow cement steps of the dugout, 52 years washed away in a flood of memories.
The ballpark in Kendal, 170 km west of Kingston in the Municipality of Clarington, is a throwback to yesteryear. It’s steeped in character and pleasant reminders of a time when baseball was king of summer sports in cities such as Kingston and in rural areas everywhere.”
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Former Okotoks Academy Dawgs C-OF Logan Grant (Chestermere, Alta.) is back with the Dawgs after a breakout season with the Bellevue Bruins. Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott caught up with Grant on Saturday.
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ABC alum Emilien Pitre (Repentigny, Que.) hit a two-run double to help the Kentucky Wildcats to a 10-0 win over Oregon State in game one of the Lexington Super Regional in front of 7,441 fans at Kentucky Proud Park on Saturday.
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The Toronto Blue Jays designated INF/OF Cavan Biggio for assignment on Friday and called up 1B/DH Spencer Horwitz from triple-A Buffalo.
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The Intercounty Baseball League has announced its Players of the Week for Week 3 of the 2024 season.
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“The uniform colour black is in at the Okotoks Dawgs Academy.
There are different teams of different colors but the one all teenagers want to wear is the Vanderbilt Commodores-style black uniforms.
There is a Dawgs Red team, a Dawgs White team, but THE most desired team is Dawgs Black.
So, how to explain the Okotoks Dawgs starting catcher on Friday night against the Lethbridge Bulls at Spitz Stadium?
Jacob Wrubleski played eight years at the Dawgs Academy. Only in his final year did he wear black. He wore red normally or white the other seven years.”
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Former Team Ontario, Brampton Royals, Oakville A’s and Georgetown Eagles right-hander Lucas Wepf (Georgetown, Ont.) has been named the Canadian Baseball Network minor league Player of the Week.
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The Boston Red Sox have reinstated Tyler O’Neill (Maple Ridge, B.C.) from the 10-day injured list.
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Guelph Royals slugger Joshua Garton (Guelph, Ont.) has been named the Intercounty Baseball League’s Player of the Month for May.
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Matt Betts highlights the top Terriers players from the past week.
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Seven Canadians were on the rosters as season kicked off in the six-team MLB Draft League.
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“OBA is saddened by news of the passing of former Chicago Cub and long-time Windsor area coach and 2021 OBA Hall of Fame inductee, John Upham.
The Windsor, Ont., native was 83.”
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The Okotoks Dawgs defeated the Brooks Bombers 12-11 on Wednesday night for their eighth straight win to open the season.
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“Way back in 1999-2000, Jose Bautista was a two-way man for coach Jeff Johnson’s Chipola College Indians.
Bautista filled the gaps with line drives, showed light-tower power to left and if needed would be used as a closer in the Florida state JUCO championships ... hitting 96 MPH.
And now all these home runs later, all these teams later (eight ... but he is really only associated with one) and all these years later, he is still a two-way man.”
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“The friends he surrounded himself with growing up didn’t play baseball, but Ryan Asis drew all the inspiration he needed from the Toronto Blue Jays.
Standing in front of the TV as an eight-year-old, he’d come set like the pitchers, and swing for the fences inside his childhood home.
“I fell in love with it that way,” said Asis (Mississauga, Ont.).
Back then, he was an eight-year-old with a baseball dream, fueled by the golden years of the Blue Jays winning the World Series in 1992 and 1993. If the Jays hadn’t been good, he probably would have retired as a kid in the 90’s, he said, but they were on fire, and became Asis’s motivation.
Thanks to that incredibly talented roster, including manager Cito Gaston, he now has a dream of helping grow the game for other members of his Filipino community. He’ll be taking 40 players with the Philippines Baseball Group to the Blue Jays game against the Baltimore Orioles Wednesday at Rogers Centre as the director of the Canadian chapter.”
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