Okotoks Dawgs 2025 Preview
What do you do for an encore after completing the three-peat?
The Okotoks Dawgs are about to find out as they enter the 2025 Western Canadian Baseball League season.
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Nash Smash Fever
When Nash Crowell stepped into the batter’s box for his first at-bat of a weekend series against Bryan College, he had no idea history was about to unfold.
Even after he took an offering from Ben Zyburt over the fence and started his home run trot, the gravity of breaking a record didn’t cross the Dawgs Academy alum’s mind.
Read More Nash Smash FeverBruin Bombs
Logan Grant is now the Bellevue University Bruins’ all-time home runs leader.
After a slow start to the 2025 season, the Dawgs Academy grad and Okotoks Dawgs utilityman has topped Riley Baasch on the list.
Read More Bruin BombsA Dawg’s Pedigree
There was probably no doubt in anyone’s mind that Leo Griffin was going to play baseball.
With a family heavily involved in the game, the challenge was actually in deciding where on the field he truly wanted to play.
Playing the utility role throughout his youth baseball career, the Boucherville, Quebec native moved with his family to Okotoks after his older brother joined the Dawgs Academy program.
Read More A Dawg’s PedigreeOPINION: The Nightmare in Calgary
You have to think that baseball people in Calgary look at Okotoks and wonder “what if?”
What if the city had backed the Dawgs instead of forcing them out?
With Foothills Stadium being torn down, it leaves a giant void in the city’s baseball landscape.
Read More OPINION: The Nightmare in Calgary1 Thru 9: Austin Collins
The pipeline from Dawgs Academy in Okotoks to junior college powerhouse Central Arizona College continues to be fed well.
The same school that brought Matt “Tugboat” Wilkinson and Tyrese Johnson in recent years has landed another top Dawgs product in Austin Collins.
Read More 1 Thru 9: Austin CollinsOff The Matt
Unlike a ball diamond’s basepaths, a journey in professional baseball is never a straight line.
No one knows that more than Matt Lloyd, who has endured more than his fair share of detours over the past few years as he looks to fulfill the dream of making it to the big leagues.
The Dawgs Academy alum is coming off a solid first season in the St. Louis Cardinals organization.
Read More Off The MattFive Storylines We’re Watching in 2025
What will Erik Sabrowski do for an encore? Can Michael Soroka find his way as a starter in Washington? And can the Okotoks Dawgs repeat the four-peat?
We look ahead to what promises to be another fantastic year of baseball coverage from an Alberta perspective.
Read More Five Storylines We’re Watching in 2025Top Newsmakers of 2024
It was a highly eventful year for the baseball scene in Alberta and Saskatchewan over these last 12 months.
Personal highs were reached, teams came out of nowhere to achieve fantastic results, and the game itself developed in new, exciting ways.
We count down our top-10 moments of 2024.
Read More Top Newsmakers of 20242024 Dugout Stories All-WCBL Team
What if the Western Canadian Baseball League had a team of all-stars that took part in the Major League Baseball Playoffs?
What started as a one-off idea in 2023 is now becoming a yearly tradition as we highlight the best-of-the-best from the WCBL.
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