The six-team final stage tournament is scheduled for the Summer of 2024. The participants will qualify in a twelve-team first stage in 2023. Thunder Bay will host one of the two groups from August 8-13, 2023.
OTTAWA – Baseball Canada is thrilled to announce that female baseball has been added to the Canada Games sport program and will make its debut at the 2025 Canada Summer Games in Newfoundland and Labrador.
THUNDER BAY, Ontario - In front of more than a thousand fans at Thunder Bay's Baseball Central ballpark, Canadian starting pitcher Alli Schroder (Fruitvale, BC) did Team Canada's batters a favour by retiring Team USA 1-2-3 to begin the fifth and final game of the 2022 Women's Baseball Friendship Series, striking out two and inducing a pop up to shortstop Ellie Jesperson (Spruce Grove, AB). While that might not sound uncommon, it was the first time the Canadian women's national team prevented the Americans from scoring in the first inning, as they had plated a total of nine runs in the first innings of the previous four games.
THUNDER BAY, Ontario - Team USA rode the arm of 18-year-old Jillian Albayati, who threw five innings of shutout baseball, allowing just four hits, striking out three, while walking four batters to lead her team to a 7-0 win over the Women's National Team
THUNDER BAY, Ontario - In a see-saw game under a hot Thunder Bay sun and swirling winds, Canada rallied for six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, and held on to win game three of the Friendship Series, 10-8.
THUNDER BAY, Ontario - Team USA earned a 7-1 victory over the Women's National Team in front of a thousand boisterous fans at Baseball Central in Thunder Bay, Ontario, for their second win in two nights in the five-game Friendship Series.
THUNDER BAY, Ontario - USA’s Women's National Team piled up 16 runs on 16 hits in seven innings, while limiting Canada's Women's National Team to just a pair of runs in game one of five at the Friendship Series being held at Baseball Central in Thunder Bay.
OTTAWA - Baseball Canada is pleased to announce the names of 20 athletes that will represent Canada at the five-game, Canada/USA Friendship Series in Thunder Bay, Ontario from July 28 to August 1.
OTTAWA – Former Women’s National Team star Ashley Stephenson will manage Team Canada at the upcoming Friendship Series against the United States with current Manager Aaron Myette unable to participate due to personal reasons.
OTTAWA – Baseball Canada and the Thunder Bay International Baseball Association (TBIBA) are pleased to announce the game schedule for the five-game, Canada vs USA Women’s Baseball Friendship Series that is set to take place in Thunder Bay, Ontario from July 28 – August 1.