It’s been just over a year since Hudson Nikkel moved to Vauxhall to chase his baseball dreams.
With a goal of refining his game and getting a college scholarship, even he might not have believed all he would accomplish in 12 months.
The Mordan, Manitoba native has committed to North Dakota State University.
Read More Hudson’s DaySport Calgary has unveiled its new “Keep Calgary Playing” campaign to get governments to invest in recreation and sport.
Joe McFarland shares a few thoughts on how everyone in Western Canada should be taking notice, even in baseball circles.
Read More OPINION: Keep Everyone PlayingHudson Harding could hardly believe he was there.
Under a near-perfect fall sky in Vancouver, the Calgary native was among several Albertans helping Team New Blue capture the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase championship.
Read More Hustlin’ Hard2026 will go down as a year of making memories for Reid MacDonald.
The 18-year-old was a key piece of a Dawgs Academy 18U Black team that won several major tournaments including the inaugural Morneau Cup before heading to the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase.
They were the kinds of experiences that the Long Point, Nova Scotia product hoped for when he moved west to Okotoks three years ago.
Read More Long Way from Long PointIt might have been a banner year for Alberta’s baseball teams at Baseball Canada national championships.
The province’s teams came back home with two silver and two bronze medals draped around their necks.
Read More 2026 in Review: Baseball Alberta at NationalsThere’s a growth spurt and then there’s Lucas Carroll.
Standing next to the 6-foot-1, 201-pound backstop at his first Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase, you’d never imagine that just a couple of years ago, he was a 5-foot-8, 150-pound prospect trying to make it with Webber Academy.
Yet here he was, suiting up with Team Red and facing some of the most talented high school players in Canada.
Read More Got Milk?He was on the brink of being an afterthought during the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft.
Eric Hartman has made the Atlanta Braves look really good by taking a chance on him with their 20th round selection.
And now he’s the Minor League Baseball Breakout Player of the Year.
Read More The Breakout BraveGabe Fink flew to Vancouver for the Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase with one thing on his mind: retribution.
A year earlier, the highly touted Edmonton native struggled with his command in his one outing at the showcase.
Undeterred and buoyed by being among the first 50 players invited to this year’s event, he wanted to make amends and did so in a big way.
Read More Fink Around and Find OutThey came. They saw. They conquered.
The Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase saw 150 of the best high school baseball players from across the country converge on Rogers Field at Nat Bailey Stadium in Vancouver for five days of action.
Read More The New Blue CrewHe was left almost speechless.
Dayne Liske couldn’t believe what just transpired and even his Blue Jays Academy Canadian Futures Showcase teammates were wide-eyed.
The Drayton Valley hit two home runs in two innings in Saturday morning’s Team Royal win over Team Navy.
Read More Showcasing with … Dayne Liske