Helen’s hospitality (and cookies) helps HarbourCats players feel at home

“It's all about the cookies -- and the boys.

Helen Edwards is known for many things, her trademark red HC hat perhaps foremost among them at Victoria HarbourCats games.

But for "her boys," she's known for her cookies -- as a symbol of her hospitality.

Helen is the epitome of opening a home for HarbourCats baseball players, providing a host stay for a combined 14 players since the end of the pandemic. And each one of them has fallen in love with her baking -- chocolate chip or oatmeal raisin, the cookie jar may just be the busiest place in her Fairfield character home.”

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McFarland: Murdoch to learn from challenges in first D1 season at Marshall

“A first love, a first kiss or, in the case of Ethan Murdoch, a first NCAA Division I hit with the Marshall Thundering Herd.

Leading off the bottom of the second inning in a game against Morehead State on April 16, the Swift Current native rocketed the first pitch he saw from Ethan Davis for a no-doubt home run to open up the scoring.

It came as a massive relief for Murdoch, who was making his third start for the team and had gone hitless in his first 13 plate appearances.

“I went up there leading off the inning, really just trying to be aggressive and get on any fastball in the zone and he just happened to basically throw it middle-middle and I just reacted,” he told Saskatchewan Dugout Stories.”

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