Right-hander Nolan Bigras (Burlington, Ont.) was a Terriers’ John Jepson award winner.

March 10, 2024

By Bob Elliott

Canadian Baseball Network

Three Terrier teams are enjoying the Florida sun and diving for ground balls and hit some line drives.

Coach Ryan Pollard, along with assistants Chris Black and Ian Bala, will take their college placement team to the field after the flight and unpacking. No buses for these guys.

The likes of Nolan Bigras, Russell Kwinter, Bryce Cross, Matthew Tan and Jayden Pavao lead the eldest Terrier team.

Terriers Schedules

14U:

March 8 - Two Practices

March 9 - Tournament in Orlando

March 10 - Tournament in Orlando

March 11 - Two Practices

March 12 - Doubleheader vs. Canada Reds

March 13 - Game vs Team Ontario

March 14 - Game, TBA

High School

March 8 - Practice

March 9 - Game, TBA

March 10 - Game vs. Springfield HS

March 11 - Game vs. Cheshire Academy

March 12 - Game vs. Canada Reds

March 13 - Practice and game vs. Team Ontario

March 15 - Games vs Notre Dame (PA)

College Prep Team Schedule

March 8 - Practice

March 9 - Game vs. Beloit University (WI)

March 10 - Game vs. Minnesota-Morris

March 11 - Game vs. Bethal University (MN)

March 12 - Game vs. Keystone College (PA)

March 13 - Game vs. Ripon College (WI)

March 14 - Game vs. Central (IA)

March 15 - Game vs. Knox University (IL)

Former Okotoks Dawgs product Jim Henderson (Calgary, Alta.) is the Brewers assistant pitching coach.

Okotoks Dawgs … When the Okotoks Dawgs are in the same state as a Hall of Fame Dawg, there is a good chance that they will run into each other.

Three Dawgs teams are headed to Arizona this month, the spring home of the Milwaukee Brewers. And the assistant pitching coach of the Brewers is Dawgs Hall of Famer Jimmy Henderson (Calgary, Alta.). Henderson was the first Dawg to make the majors earning his rightful place with his picture hanging behind the Bill McAlpine press box at beautiful Seaman Stadium.

Henderson is the former Brewers bullpen coach, who pitched in 155 games in the majors with Milwaukee an the New York Mets going 10-11 with a 3.61 ERA and 31 saves.

Leading the Dawgs will be the likes of RHP Michael Yusypchuk (St. Albert, Alta.), RHP Will Labonte (Montreal, Que.), RHP Robert Scalzo (Victoria, BC), Max Poirier (Nanaimo, BC), RHP Jerome Pare (Montreal, Que.), Eric Machej (Okotoks, Alta.), Eric Hartman (Okotoks, Alta.), Leo Cote (Montreal, Que.), OF Benito Bonilla (Halifax, NS) and SS Tim Piasentin (Burnaby, BC).

Jeff Duda, Tyler Hollick and Bretton Gouthro are coaching the 18U, while Tyler Milton and his pops John Milton are running the 13U Black team. Kareem (The Dream) Johnson, a former Minnesota Twins drafted by scout Howie Norsetter -- who also drafted MVP Justin Morneau is coaching the 13U Red with Aaron Ethier.

Coach John Milton is taking the 13U players and parents to see the Seattle Mariners play the Brewers March 22 in the hopes of seeing Henderson.

Okotoks Dawgs

18U

March 11 game _ vs Chandler Gilbert Community College

March 12 game _ vs Gateway Geckos

March 13 game _ vs Chandler Gilbert (DH)

March 14 game _ vs Colorado State University

March 14 game _ vs Ottawa University (AZ)

March 15 game _ vs Scottsdale Community College

13U Black

March 21 8 am game _ vs NorCal Prospects (Thompson Peak Park)

12:15 pm game _ vs T-Wolves (Thompson Peak Park)

March 22 8 am game _ vs Canes Inland Empire (Eastmark Park)

March 23 5:30 pm game _ vs Warhawks (Chapparel Park)

7:30 pm game _ vs Mile High Legends (Chapparel Park)

Red 13U

March 21 10 AM game _ vs Titans Baseball Club (Thompson Peak Park)

2:15 PM game _ vs Casper Crush Wheeler (Thompson Peak Park)

March 22 5 pm game _ vs SJ Chargers/Woolsey (Vista Del Camino)

March 23 10 AM game _ vs T-Wolves (Mesquite HS)

2:15 PM game _ vs Slammers Black (Mesquite HS)

Mississauga Tigers … Boca Raton is known for its golf courses, parks, beaches, the Red Reef Park which is home to the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center, the Museum of Art and Mizner Park Amphitheater.

The Mississauga Tigers 17U won’t be golfing, studying nature, examining works of art or attending symphonies.

No, they will be there to play some ball on their spring trip. Coach Sean Travers can depend on RHP-3B Adyn Schell (Toronto, Ont.) who has committed to Missouri State.

The Tigers, led by the likes of INF Joey Khananisho (Kleinburg, Ont.), C Sean Bradley (Toronto, Ont.), OF Quinn Lightfoot (Caledon, Ont.) and Nathan Ayles (Mississauga, Ont.), who has one of the best curve balls in the program.

Mississauga Tigers 17U

(At Boca Raton, Fla.)

March 7, 12:30 PM _ Workout, game vs. Blacksox, Santaluces.

March 8, 8 AM-Noon _ Workout, Santaluces

March 9, 3:30 _ Workout and game vs. SOCO, Santaluces

March 10 Noon _ Game vs. Millenia Atlantic, Santaluces

March 11, 2:30 _ Scout, pro day

6:30 PM _ Game vs. Elev8, at Elev8

March 12, 4 PM _ Game vs. Post University, Santaluces

March 13, Off day

March 14, 4 PM _ Workout, Game vs. Blacksox, Santaluces

March 15, 2 PM _ Game vs. UIC, Santaluces

March 16, 1 PM _ DH vs. United International, Santaluces

March 17, Noon _ Game vs. Blacksox, Santaluces

March 18, TBD _ Game vs. Blacksox, Santaluces

March 19, 4:30 PM _ Game vs. Elev8, at Elev8

Pro-Teach Baseball’s Denny Berni will be taking his Etobicoke Rangers 18U and 17U teams to Fort Pierce, Fla.

Etobicoke Rangers _ Back when men rode horses and wore holsters, the Texas Rangers were the law ... it was long before the team after them won a World Series.

From Wichita Falls to Beaumont, Tex. ... and from Fort Bliss to Abilene, Tex.

They had a saying back then:

One riot. One Ranger.

The Etobicoke Rangers, where future Hall of Famer Joey Votto (Etobicoke, Ont.) cut his teeth from grade 9 until this off season, are sending two teams of Rangers for Fort Pierce, Fla. on their spring trip.

Denny Berni’s organization heads for Fort Pierce and Vero Beach, Fla. ... with coaches 1Geoff McCallum and Cameron Dyck with the 18U, Zach Prisciak and Andrew Hyde with the 17U and Marcus Biassatti of the 16U. Berni coaches the 15U.

Etobicoke Rangers 18U

March 9, 8-to-10 PM _ Workout

March 10, 9-to-11 AM _ Workout

7 PM game _ vs. Canterbury

March 11, 9 AM game _ vs. TBA

2 PM game _ vs. Phillips Academy

March 12, 9-11 am _ Workout

4:30 game _ vs. Govenor’s

March 13 9 AM game _ vs. Rangers 17U

March 14 1-to-3 PM _ Workout

8 pm game _ vs. Millbrook Academy

March 15 9 AM game _ vs. Ottawa Knights

You never know who you will meet an indoor facility. Levi Chau met future Hall of Famer Joey Votto.

Etobicoke Rangers 17U

March 9, 8-to-10 PM _ Workout

March 10, 8-to-10 AM _ Workout

2 PM game _ vs. Hun School

March 11, 1 PM game _ vs. Dexter Academy

3:30-5 PM workout

March 12, 11:30-1:30 _ Workout

5:30 _ John Carroll HS

March 13 9 AM game _ vs. Rangers 18U

March 14 11-to-1 PM _ Workout

5:30 game _ vs. Lincoln Park

March 15 9:30 AM _ Ottawa Knights

Etobicoke Rangers 15U

(At Vero Beach, Fla.)

March 11 9-to-11 AM _ practice.

6:45 PM game _ Vero Beach Venom.

March 12 10 AM Game _ Williston Northampton H.S.

March 13 3-to-5 PM _ Practice

6 PM game _ Ottawa Knights

March 14 3-to-5 _ Practice

5 PM _ Master’s Academy

March 15, 10-AM-Noon _ Practice

5 PM game _ vs. Etobicoke Rangers B Team

Heading to Arizona are the Langley Blaze …

Josiah Romeo, Tate Carey and Jacob Wallace are the three best draft-eligible arms on the Langley Blaze roster for their spring trip to Arizona.

Romero (Caledon, Ont.) pitches for the Mississauga Tigers, while Carey (Windsor, Ont.) twirls for the Great Lake Canadians and Wallace (Pincourt, Que.) is with the Acedemy Baseball Canada.

Blaze coach and GM Doug Mathieson (Aldergrove, BC) is also a scout with the Milwaukee Brewers. His club will play first and second-year pros from the Texas Rangers, Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners and the Brewers. The Mariners-Blaze game will be the annual Wayne Norton memorial game in memory of the former Seattle scout, Norton (Port Moody, BC), a Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame inductee in St. Marys.

In addition to his own Blaze players there are 22 others Canadians, plus six American players from Alaska, Florida and Massachusetts.

Besides the pro competition the Blaze will face community colleges and universities like Eastern Arizona, Pima, Central Arizona, Benedictine, Arizona Christian, Yavapai, Cochise, Gateway, Chandler-Gilbert, Arizona Western, Park, Williston State and Ottawa University plus HR Sports Academy, Arizona Prime and SOCAL Baseball.

Pitchers

From the Blaze _ RHP Nolan Bawtinheimer (Langley, BC), LHP Sean Duncan (Port Coquitlam, BC), RHP Shaymus Dunton (Langley, BC), RHP Lucas Dykstra (Chilliwack, BC), LHP Kian Eliades (Langley, BC), RHP Owen Fernandes (Maple Ridge, BC), RHP Jacob Friesen (Langley, BC), LHP Carter Germain (Maple Ridge, BC), RHP Kyu Lumsdon (Langley, BC), RHP Macin MacDonald (Delta, BC), LHP Ryunosuke Murase (Surrey, BC), RHP Brendan Pich (Langley, BC), RHP Stefano Siniscalchi (Port Coquitlam, BC), RHP Jack Thompson (Langley, BC), RHP Tyler Trim (Langley BC) and RHP Ian Vandepol (Chilliwack, BC).

ABC _ Wallace.

Delta Blue Jays _ RHP Jake Fehr (Delta, BC).

Great Lakes Canadians _ RHP Evan Schweizer (Oakville, Ont.) and Carey.

Mississauga North Tigers RHP Josiah Romeo

Mississauga Tigers _ Romeo (Caledon, Ont.).

North Shore Twins _ LHP Shane Brinham (North Vancouver, BC).

Okotoks Dawgs _ LHP Landon Kauffman (Vancouver, BC).

Ontario Blue Jays _ RHP Owen Slater (Whitby, Ont.).

Regina Athletics _ RHP Tristan Eberle (Regina, Sask.).

Toronto Mets _ LHP Ryan Press (Toronto, Ont.).

Victoria Mariners _ LHP Reid Clague (Victoria, BC) and RHP Robert Scalzo (Brentwood Bay, BC).

Whalley Chiefs _ RHP Kai Fyke (Langley, BC).

Catchers

From Blaze _ Keegan Drinkle (Maple Ridge, BC), Noah Laird (Langley, BC), Owen Mayencourt (Langley, BC) and Sam Sugden (Langley, BC).

Red Deer Braves _ Nathan Flewelling (Red Deer, Alta.).

Watson Elite _ Sam Byers (Ottawa, Ont.).

Infielders

Blaze _ Austin Goesen (North Vancouver, BC), Ian Huang (Surrey, BC), Haruto Kishimoto (Langley, BC), Luke Laird (Langley, BC), Jack Roberts (Surrey, BC), Kason Siguenza (Abbotsford, BC) and Nolan Weinmeyer (Sidney, BC).

Abbotsford Cardinals _ Zach Cavanagh (Chilliwack, BC).

ABC _ Anthony Clavet (Quebec, Que.).

Coquitlam Reds _ Dryden Fuoco (Vancouver, BC).

Great Lakes _ Will Moore (Paris, Ont.).

Okotoks Dawgs _ Benito Bonilla (Halifax, NS)

Blaze OF Briggham Kokotailo (Langley, BC).

Outfielders

Blaze _ Logan Booth (Abbotsford, BC), Evan Dugdale (Maple Ridge, BC), Liam Hallman (Port Moody, BC), Oliver Knorn (Surrey, BC) and Briggham Kokotailo (Langley, BC).

Mid-Island Pirates _ Carter Cathers (Nanaimo, BC),

Okotoks Dawgs _ Tyler Hummell (Saanichton, BC).

Ontario Blue Jays _ Ryan Stalony (Mississauga, Ont.).

Victoria Eagles _ Travis Harfield (Victoria, BC).

Major leaguers to wear the Langley uniform include: Jordon Balazovic (Mississauga, Ont.), Jared Young (Prince George, BC), Edouard Julien (Quebec, Que.), Josh Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.), Mike Soroka (Calgary, Alta.), Cal Quantrill (Port Hope, Ont.), Taylor Green (Comox, BC), Brett Lawrie (Langley, BC), Tyler O’Neill (Maple Ridge, BC), Nick Pivetta (Victoria, BC), Phillipe Amount (Gatineau, Que.), Dalton Pompey (Mississauga, Ont.), Zach Pop (Brampton, Ont.), Charles Leblanc (Laval, Que.) and Scott Mathieson (Aldergrove, BC).

Drafted players and signed free agent include: Myles Naylor (Mississauga, Ont.), Sam Shaw (Victoria, BC), Jeremy Pilon (Salaberry-De-Valleyfield, Que.), Noah Takacs (Victoria, BC), Eli Saul (Vancouver, BC), Adam Maier (North Vancouver, BC), Jacob Zibin (Langley, BC), Nate Ochoa (Burlington, Ont.), David McCabe (Oshawa, Ont.), Calvin Ziegler (Heidelberg, Ont.) …

Eric Cerantola (Oakville, Ont.), Mitch Bratt (Newmarket, Ont.), Denzel Clarke (Pickering, Ont.), Jordan Marks (Bright’s Grove, Ont.), Adam Shoemaker (Cambridge, Ont.), Damiano Palmegiani (Surrey, BC), Conor Angel (Pointe-Claire, Que.), Micah Buckham (Abbotsford, BC), Dominic Hambley (Victoria, BC), Adam McKillican (Comox, BC) …

Owen Cassie (Burlington, Ont.), Noah Skirrow (Stoney Creek, Ont.), Nick Trogrlic-Iverson (Oakville, Ont.), Josh Burgmann (Nanaimo, BC), Adam Macko (Stony Plain, Alta.), Matt Lloyd (Calgary, Alta.), Antoine Jean (Montreal, Que.), Indigo Diaz (North Vancouver, BC), Owen Diodati (Niagara Falls, Ont.), Ryan Leitch (Whitby, Ont.) …

Jaden Brown (Mississauga, Ont.), Tristan Pompey (Mississauga, Ont.), Mitch Robinson (Surrey, BC), Ben Onyshko (Winnipeg, Ont.), Will McAffer (Surrey, BC), Connor Sparks (Saskatoon, Sask.), David Rhodes (White Rock, BC), Ben Abram (Georgetown, Ont.), Landon Leach (Pickering, Ont.), Adam Hall (London, Ont.) …

Clayton Keyes (Okotoks, Alta.), JD Osborne (Oshawa, Ont.), Jason Willow (Victoria, BC), Dondrae Bremmer (Toronto, Ont.), Rhys Cratty (Surrey, BC), Andrew Yerzy (North York, Ont.), Jacob Robson (Windsor, Ont.), Daniel Pinero (Toronto, Ont.), Alex Webb (Surrey, BC), Jacob Polancic (Langley, BC) …

Louis Phillipe Pelletier (Montreal, Que.), Matt Jones (Whitby, Ont.), Will Sierra (Montreal, Que.), Tyler Duncan (Sooke, BC), Tristan Clarke (Brampton, Ont.), Brayden Bouchey (Vancouver, BC), Carter Loewen (Abbotsford, BC), J.D. Williams (Brampton, Ont.), Darren Shred (Brampton, Ont.), Marc-Andre Berube (Trois-Pistoles, Que.), Owen Spiwak (Mississauga, Ont.) …

Devon Stewart (Maple Ridge, BC), Ryan Kellogg (Whitby, Ont.), Demi Orimoloye (Orleans, Ont.), Miles Gordon (Oakville, Ont.), Jeff Degano (Surrey, BC), Robert Byckowski (Georgetown, Ont.), Kurtis Horne (Sooke, BC), Austen Swift (Etobicoke, Ont.), Julian Service (Whitby, Ont.), Cody Chartrand (Nanaimo, BC) …

Brock Dykxhoorn (Goderich, Ont.), Gareth Morgan (North York, Ont.), Malik Collymore (Mississauga, Ont.), Travis Seabrooke (Peterborough, Ont.), Lachlan Fontaine (North Vancouver, BC), Morgan Lofstrom (Nelson, BC), Kurtis Kostuk (Abbotsford, BC), Dylan Brooks (Dorchester, Ont.), David Otterman (Coquitlam, BC), Jeff Gibbs (Toronto, Ont.) …

Shane Dawson (Drayton Valley, Alta.), Dayton Dawe (London, Ont.), Johnny Caputo (Etobicoke, Ont.), Eric Wood (Pickering, Ont.), Keaton Briscoe (North Vancouver, BC), Fernando Fernandez (Chateauguay, Que.), Logan Seifrit (Edmonton, Alta.), Damion Smith (Windsor, Ont.), Tom Robson (Richmond, BC), Dustin Houle (Penticton, BC) …

Kellin Deglan (Langley, BC), Vaughn Covington (Burnaby, BC), Chase Larsson (Vancouver, BC), Nic Cuckovic (Victoria, BC), Jesen Dygestile-Therrien (Montreal, Que.), Ethan Elias (Saskatoon, Sask.), Justin Atkinson (Surrey, BC), Carter Bell (Courtney, BC), Dustin Hayes (Langley, BC), Ben Dartnell (East St. Paul, Man.) …

Skylar Janisse (Windsor, Ont.), Cory Scammell (Edmonton, Alta.), Leslie Williams (Toronto, Ont.), Jalen Harris (Toronto, Ont.), Eric Brown (Thunder Bay, Ont.), Jake Eliopoulos (Newmarket, Ont.), Marcus Knecht (North York, Ont.), Joel Pierce (Windsor, Ont.), Steve McKinnon (Duncan, BC), Brandon Dailey (Brantford, Ont.), Mark Hardy (Campbell River, BC) …

Mike Ellis (Surrey, BC), Ethan Stewart (Campbell River, BC), Bryan Arthur (Abbotsford, BC), Kelly Norris-Jones (Victoria, BC), Wes Darvill (Richmond, BC), Chad Stang (Surrey, BC), David Narodowski (Calgary, Alta.), Jon Hesketh (Surrey, BC), Terrence Dayleg (Burnaby, BC), Mike Monster (Kelowna, BC) …

Colin Kleven (Kamloops, BC), David Kington (Coquitlam, BC), Bobby Wagner (Port Coquitlam, BC), Paul Barton (Qualicum Beach, BC), Rory Young (Chase, BC), Brooklyn Foster (Langley, BC), Andrew Ruck (Whitby, Ont.), Stosh Wawrzasek (Burnaby, BC), Michael Crouse (New Westminster, BC), Mitchell Delaney (LaSalle, Ont.) …

Michael Gosse (Pitt Meadows, BC), Justin Betts-Robinson (Langley, BC), Kyle Lotzkar (Delta, BC), Mitch Hodge (Vancouver, BC), Evan Hildenbrandt (Surrey, BC), Colin Buckborough (Niagara Falls, Ont.), Henry Mabee (Surrey, BC), Travis Nevakshonoff (Langley, BC), Ryan Jensen (North Vancouver, BC), Cody Phipps (Round Hill, Alta.) …

Kyle Haas (Prince George, BC), Kyle Orr (New Westminster, BC), Jon Waltenbury (Bowmanville, Ont.), Shayne Willson (Surrey, BC), Tyson Gillies (Langley, BC), Jordan Lennerton (Langley, BC), Denver Wynn (Kamloops, BC), Paul Wourms (Kamloops, BC), Phillipe-Alexan Valiquette (Montreal, Que.), Adam Parliament (Penticton, BC) …

Morgan Brinson (Victoria, BC), Chris Lemay (Winnipeg, Man.), Louis Metzner (Langley, BC), Jared Johnson (Kelowna, BC), Lyall Foran (Delta, BC), Tyler Williams (Delta, BC), Evan Bailey (Kamloops, BC), Ryan Lennerton (Langley, BC), Cooper Davis (Mississauga, Ont.), Jonah Tong (Markham, Ont.) and Dylan O’Rae (Sarnia, Ont.).

Players who made the majors in bold

Rangers, Terriers, Tigers in Florida, Blaze, Dawgs Arizona bound