Several Canadians are among the best incoming freshman to junior colleges, according to Perfect Game.
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Cocnordia Stingers score dramatic win over top ranked Waterloo
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“Patriotes come in all shapes and sizes.
And ages.
There are young’uns, like shortstop Hugues Marineau, 21, of the University du Québec Les Patriotes.
Or mature students like Antoine Gervais, 27.
Or his young teammate Jean-Sébastien Dessureault, 52.”
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“Merek Yeager can’t help but laugh about his first experience in Toronto.
Invited to the 2023 Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase, he checked into his hotel then tried to figure out how to get to Rogers Centre.
With all of the skyscrapers, traffic, train stations and tourist attractions in front of him, Yeager started zig-zagging through a 20-minute walk which felt more like an hour.
It didn’t take long for the young hurler to realize he was a long way from home.”
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The Canadian Baseball Network is proud to announce its 2024 All-Canadian college Second Team.
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"The black and gold of Nashville's prestigious private university was a part of Sean Duncan’s attire long before he accepted an offer there.
Growing up a B.C. boy with a dream of playing a high level of baseball, he had a Vanderbilt sweater in his closet as early as nine-years-old, he said.
Now, he’ll be able to put on a jersey and represent the Commodores not as a fan, but as a recently committed member of their baseball team. "
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"After seeing all that Western Canada has to offer, Max Poirier is ready for something different.
In fact, the young hurler is heading to the opposite coast to continue his baseball journey.
After living and playing the game in Canada’s three western-most provinces – suiting up in some major tournaments and playing for Baseball Canada’s Junior National Team – the 17-year-old has committed to the University of Miami."
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The Canadian Baseball Network unveils its 2024 All-Canadian college Third Team.
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Here is a list of all of the former CBN all-Canadian Team members — 231 in all — who have reached the next level, or are on their way to proceeding further down the road than most before retiring. It has been updated to include how they performed in 2024 (if they are still active).
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Canadian Baseball Network contributor Melissa Verge writes about the trail that Women National Team members Jaida Lee (St. John's, Nfld.), Raine Padgham (Abbotsford, B.C.) and Michelle Roche (Burnaby, B.C.) are blazing on the ball field at the University of British Columbia.
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Left-hander Wil Yamka (Oakville, Ont.) writes about his memorable summer with the Kingman Islanders in Kansas.
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The University of British Columbia Thunderbirds retired former right-hander Brooks McNiven’s No. 19 on Saturday.
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Travis Bazzana, the top pick in this year’s MLB draft, and his Oregon State Beavers teammates spent 10 days training at the Seaman Stadium Complex in Okotoks, Alta. last fall. Ian Wilson, from Alberta Dugout Stories, wrote about it.
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“Inspiration was everywhere for Jimmy Dionne.
It was in the crowded stadiums, the road-trips to new places, the talent of the Quebec Capitales players that Dionne had front row seats to growing up as son of a Capitales coach.
The life of a pro baseball player surrounded him, and it was a dream he wanted a part of.
The now 6-foot-4 19-year-old would jump into his dad’s vehicle as a four and five-year-old en route to ball fields in Boston and New York. When the Capitales went on the road, his dad, Stephane Dionne coached, and Jimmy, too young to play and too young to coach — took it all in.”
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Longtime college coach Mike McRae (Niagara Falls, Ont.) has been hired by Rutgers to be their new pitching coach/associate head coach.
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Two more Thunderbirds have earned their opportunity to go pro, as UBC ace Sean Heppner and fireballer Vicarte Domingo have both been selected in the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft. Heppner was taken in the 12th round, 355th overall, by the Cleveland Guardians. Domingo was chosen in the 19th round, 570th overall, by the San Diego Padres. The two pitchers are the 32nd and 33rd players in program history drafted to or signed by an MLB team.
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Purdue catcher Connor Caskenette (Duncan, B.C.) was drafted by the Miami Marlins on Tuesday.
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Right-hander Cohen Achen (Calgary, Alta.) was selected in the 14th round of the Major League Baseball Draft on Tuesday.
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Grand Canyon senior outfielder Tyler Wilson, who is the son of former big leaguer Steve Wilson (Victoria, B.C.), was picked by the New York Yankees in the eighth round of the 2024 MLB Draft on Monday.
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All-American pitcher LP Langevin (Quebec, Que.) became the second Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns player in as many days selected in the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft when he was a fourth-round (No. 105 overall) selection on Monday by the Kansas City Royals.
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