Steady As He Goes

Miguel Tetreault couldn’t help but smile as he glanced around Legacy Dodge Field in Fort McMurray in Team Alberta’s first game of the 2024 Baseball Canada Cup.

The starting shortstop was living every Canadian baseball player’s dream of representing their province on home turf.

He’s elevated his game to perform at the Canadian Futures Showcase and is now in line to join Cloud County Community College.

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Piasentin Power

Tim Piasentin put on a show at the Canadian Futures Showcase Home Run Derby.

The Dawgs Academy product blasted a total of 22 homers in four rounds to take the title belt.

Canadian Baseball Network’s Trevor Fitzpatrick has the story.

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Five-Tool Kitura

Easton Kitura still has a couple of years before he graduates high school.

The Spruce Grove native is still considered one of the best Canadian prospects eligible for the 2026 MLB Draft.

The Parkland Twins and Vauxhall Academy product is looking to turn more heads at the Canadian Futures Showcase.

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Kauff to the Races

To say that Landon Kauffman had a memorable summer might be an understatement.

The Dawgs Academy product became a contributing member of the Dawgs’ summer collegiate team that won its third-straight Western Canadian Baseball League title.

And now he has his sights set on making an impact at the Canadian Futures Showcase.

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Putting on a Clinic

Everyone had their reasons for smiling on a cold Saturday just outside Calgary.

The Blue Jays Academy National Coaches Clinic was moved to Webber Academy, where athletes and coaches were able to learn from some of the best.

Pat Borders, Devon White, Ernie Whitt, Ashley Stephenson, Buck Martinez and Chris Reitsma served as instructors for the weekend-long camp.

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Sun Devil’s in the Details

William Labonte still has a couple of years left in high school.

But the Montreal-born product has already made an impact everywhere he’s gone, including Dawgs Academy in Okotoks.

Reporter Zach Worden has more on the Arizona State University commit’s appearance at the Canadian Futures Showcase.

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Magic Machej

As Eric Machej lined up at shortstop Friday at the Canadian Futures Showcase, there was a little more fanfare in the building than there had been throughout the week at Rogers Centre.

Jose Bautista was in Machej’s Team New Blue’s dugout.

The 18-year-old St. Albert Minor Baseball Association and Dawgs Academy product went about his business by smacking an RBI double.

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Nathan Nukes

When the players, coaches and assorted baseball observers assembled for scout day at the Canadian Futures Showcase, Nathan Flewelling hit perhaps the longest home run of the outing.

It was a hard-struck ball that smacked off the face of Schneider’s Porch in the 200 level of Rogers Centre.

That was just the beginning of Flewelling’s long-ball exploits this week in Toronto.

Selected for Saturday’s Home Run Derby, the Innisfail, Alberta native cracked 11 total dingers over two rounds to secure the event’s championship belt.

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