The best teams are able to find the right balance between run production and run prevention.
The Okotoks Dawgs are one of those teams, with no better example than the glove of infielder Kadyn Armitage (Surrey, BC) and the bat of Louis-Charles Larouche (Montreal, Que.).
Matt Betts of Canadian Baseball Network has more on the pair.
Read More Power and PrecisionThe Morneau Cup will reside in Okotoks.
A seven-run bottom of the third inning powered the hosts to an 11-5 victory over the Sylvan Lake Gulls Prep in the championship game of the 19U Baseball Canada Road to Okotoks national championship tournament on Sunday afternoon at Seaman Stadium.
Read More Dawgs Capture Morneau CupBaseball Canada’s Greg Hamilton says he had high expectations going into The Road to Okotoks.
With the Morneau Cup championship approaching, he says they’ve been met and exceeded.
We chat with Hamilton about his impressions and take a look back at all of Saturday’s action.
Read More On The Road with … Greg HamiltonWhen you give up five runs in the first inning of a baseball game, it would be easy to just admit it isn’t your day.
But when your team evens it up by the time you go back out for the second inning, those feelings go away pretty quickly.
Such was the case for AHP Renegades hurler Sam Davis as he took to the bump on Thursday against the Etobicoke Rangers at The Road to Okotoks.
Read More On The Road with … Sam DavisWill Zielinski can lay claim to something no one else can at The Road to Okotoks.
The Victoria native and Vauxhall Academy two-way standout was among the 12 Canadians taken in last weekend’s Major League Baseball Draft, as he was chosen in the 20th round by the Detroit Tigers.
He’s our focus as we wrap up Day #2 from the Morneau Cup championship.
Read More On The Road with … Will ZielinskiTo some, he’s Louis-Charles. To his teammates, he’s L.C. To the baseball world, he’s introducing himself as a big-time hitter.
Louis-Charles Larouche made his mark on the inaugural The Road to Okotoks on opening day, going 2-for-4 with a home run, three runs batted in and one run scored as the hometown Dawgs Academy knocked off Atlantic Frontier 11-1.
We chat with him and run down the rest of the action from Opening Day.
Read More On The Road with … L.C. LaroucheWelcome to the fork in The Road to Okotoks.
After three Regional Qualifers were held in May, 16 teams have made the trek to Alberta for the start of the inaugural 19U national championship.
Read More The Sweet 16Q&A with Baseball Canada CEO Jason Dickson about The Road to Okotoks …
Read More Dickson Takes the Road to OkotoksThey have flown onto the game’s map in a big way in a short time and hope to swoop in to snag Baseball Canada’s biggest prize.
Started in 2024 as a partnership between the Western Canadian Baseball League’s Sylvan Lake Gulls and St. Joseph High School Baseball Academy, the Gulls 19U Prep team brings together the best high school baseball players from central Alberta.
They’re now ready for their biggest challenge: The Road to Okotoks and the Morneau Cup.
Read More Gulls Prep’s Road to OkotoksThey were the only team to punch their ticket to The Road to Okotoks straight out of the Prairie Qualifiers.
With a semi-final win over Team Saskatchewan, the Vauxhall Academy Jets put themselves into the final and, with the top three teams qualifying for the main event, it guaranteed their spot.
The schedule is now set and the Jets will be looking to pick up where they left off.
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