OTTAWA – Baseball Canada would like to announce that the Weyburn Minor Baseball Association has become the seventh local association to become RBI Approved since Baseball Canada introduced the RBI Program in 2008. Weyburn also becomes the fourth association in Saskatchewan to meet the criteria.
OTTAWA – Mother’s Day is always a special day and three groups in British Columbia are combining to make the weekend a great day for moms and cancer research. The Canadian Cancer Society, Ball Park Sports, and the Lower Mainland Baseball Association are joining together to help raise funds for cancer research as the LMBA will be using special pink bats in the sixteen scheduled games on May 8th and 9th.
OTTAWA – After a rough first week of the season, Phillippe Aumont (Gatineau, QC) bounced back with authority on route to earning the Eastern League Pitcher of the Week honours for the week of April 19-25.
ORLANDO – The Junior National Team pitching staff saved its best for last, but it was not enough as the Atlanta Braves pitching staff were up to the task, matching the JNT pitch for pitch and struck the one and only blow needed in a 1-0 victory in the Disney Spring Training Camp finale.
ORLANDO – The Junior National Team erased a two-run deficit in the eighth and ninth innings and Kellin Deglan (Langley, BC) put the exclamation point on Canada’s comeback with a two-run walk off home run to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the Houston Astros at the Disney Spring Training Camp.
ORLANDO – One hiccup in what was an otherwise solid pitching performance by the Junior National Team turned out to be all the Detroit Tigers needed as the Canadians could not find any offence in a 4-0 loss to said Tigers at the Disney Spring Training Camp.
ORLANDO – The Junior National Team had no answers for the Washington Nationals offence as the extended spring team scored in seven of the nine innings on route to an easy 13-1 victory at the Disney Spring Training Camp.
OTTAWA – The dates have changed for the 2010 Mizuno Junior Elite Development Camp, which will now be held on September 8-11 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario.
DUNEDIN – The Toronto Blue Jays pitching held the Junior National Team to four hits and struck out nine on route to a 3-0 victory at the Blue Jays spring training home, the Bobby Mattick Complex, at the Disney Spring Training Camp.
ORLANDO – The Junior National Team had runners in scoring position with less than two outs in the fifth inning with the score tied and again in the eighth inning down by one, but could not convert both times and the JNT would go on to fall to the Houston Astros 4-3 at the Disney Spring Training Camp.
