All Halen the King

Coming off a fantastic 2022 season, it was hard to believe that Halen Knoll would be able to find a way to beat it.

Instead, the 23-year-old Edmonton product thrived with the hometown Riverhawks, winning the West Coast League’s Pitcher of the Year Award.

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The WCBL’s 16-Team Dream

Airdrie? Grande Prairie? Lloydminster? Another Edmonton-area team?

The Western Canadian Baseball League has filled a major gap in its territory by bringing Saskatoon into the mix again in 2024.

So what’s next? We asked WCBL president Kevin Kvame.

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Triple Play

In the blink of an eye, Madison Willan has somehow turned into one of the veterans of Baseball Canada’s Women’s National Team.

The multi-sport star was just getting her feet wet with the program when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

But with a young core of players coming up, the team is leaning on the Edmonton product as it looks towards the World Cup in 2024.

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Locked In

When Halen Knoll isn’t perplexing hitters in the batter’s box, he’s making people scratch their heads with his escape rooms.

The young Edmonton Collegiate Hawks and Fort McMurray Giants star put on a clinic during the 2022 baseball season.

He’s hoping to build on that as he enters the next step of his baseball journey with the University of Mary.

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Eleven Heaven

“The New Britain 11” were members of the Double-A Rock Cats who kind of won the 2001 Eastern League championship.

The final was shutdown following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the players were hungry to win a final outright.

Now members of the 2002 Edmonton Trappers, they embarked on a journey to finish what they started.

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