OTTAWA-The 2012 Baseball Canada National Teams Awards Banquet and Fundraiser on Saturday January 14th at the Renaissance Toronto Downtown (Rogers Centre) is shaping up to be a star studded event with many high profile major league players and front office personnel already confirmed to attend.
OTTAWA-Baseball Canada would like to express their deepest sympathies to the families and friends of Tanner Craswell and Mitch MacLean of Charlottetown and Cornwall, PEI. Tanner and Mitch were fatally shot on Highway 2 near Claresholm, Alberta early Thursday morning. Tanner just turned 22 years old while Mitch was 20.
OTTAWA-For only the third time in history, there is a tie for the Tip O’Neill Award, given out annually by the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame to the ‘player judged to have excelled in individual achievement and team contribution while adhering to baseball’s highest ideals’.
OTTAWA-The 2010 World Junior Baseball Championship was a resounding success on and off the field in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Team Canada played its way to a fourth place finish in front of capacity crowds each game at Port Arthur Stadium.
OTTAWA-The Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games Organizing Committee recently announced a 10-person Athlete Advisory Council which includes former National Team player Warren Sawkiw of Mississauga, ON.
Cartagena, Colombia-The Junior National Team gave-up seven runs in the bottom of the first inning and the deficit was too much to overcome as they dropped a 12-2 decision to the United States in the final game of the Americas World Junior Qualification Tournament.
Cartagena, Colombia-In front of a raucous, pro-Colombian crowd, the Junior National Team played some old-fashion Canadian baseball and earned a 4-3 win against host Colombia. The win clinches a berth in next year’s IBAF World Junior Baseball Championship slated for Seoul, South Korea and also sets-up a first-place showdown with undefeated USA tomorrow (the game will begin 30 minutes after the completion of the 10am ET game).
Cartagena, Colombia-Mexico scored the eventual game winning run on a squeeze play with one out in the top of the ninth and held off Canada in the bottom of the inning to win 3-2. The loss, Canada’s first of the tournament, puts their record at 2-1 in round two of the Americas World Junior Qualification Tournament.
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