For the second year in a row, a Fort McMurray Giants slugger has taken home the golden bat at the WCBL Home Run Derby.
After Peyton McDowall did the honours in 2024, Matt Rhoades followed through during a soggy Saturday afternoon in Okotoks.
Read More The Rhoades ShowThe field has been set for the Western Canadian Baseball League’s 2025 Home Run Derby.
The event – part of the All-Star Game festivities taking place on Saturday, July 19th at Seaman Stadium in Okotoks – gets underway at 5 p.m. and it will feature a dozen long-ball launchers, one from each WCBL team.
Here’s a closer look at the 12 participants …
Read More Long Ball Launchers Ready for DerbyDon Seaman, a key figure in helping ensure the Dawgs are safe at home in Okotoks, has passed away.
The baseball visionary and principal donor in the construction of Seaman Stadium and the Duvernay Fieldhouse – the headquarters of the Okotoks Dawgs of the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) and the Dawgs Academy youth baseball program – passed away on July 9th, just a couple weeks short of his 100th birthday.
Read More Remembering a Baseball VisionaryIt’s been a long time coming.
For the first time ever, female baseball has been added to the Canada Summer Games, with the debut coming August 18-24 in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Baseball Alberta has named its roster for the inaugural event.
Read More Summer Games TrailblazersThis really is Wild Rose country.
It says so on every license plate in the province.
And it has said so for years at Seaman Stadium, home of the Okotoks Dawgs, with the Rose family – the latest being long-time infielder Aidan.
Read More Wild Rose CountryLogan 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 BombsYou 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 CalgaryRepresenting his home province will never get old for Kingston Besuijen.
While the Okotoks native has done it before, the Dawgs Academy product says it went to another level when he did it on home turf with Baseball Alberta at the 2024 Canada Cup in Fort McMurray.
We get to know Besuijen in the latest 1 Thru 9.
Read More 1 Thru 9: Kingston BesuijenIt’s there for the taking and Tristan Peters is ready to grab it.
The outfielder made a name for himself with the Triple-A Durham Bulls by making spectacular diving catches in the International League this year.
In 2025, he wants to make the jump to Major League Baseball (MLB).
Read More Might As Well JumpThe Canadian Baseball Network and Okotoks Dawgs have unveiled their annual scholarship award winner.
Pitcher Trey Mackwood is set to head to Panola College in 2025.
CBN’s Bob Elliott has more on the right-hander’s baseball journey.
Read More Mackwood Named CBN/Dawgs Scholarship Winner