7th Inning Stretch: Tetsu Nishida

It might be one of the most potent infields that Todd Hubka has assembled at Prairie Baseball Academy in quite some time.

Led by shortstop and leadoff hitter Tetsu Nishida, the Dawgs enter the season looking to get back on top of the Canadian College Baseball Conference world for the first time since 2017.

PBA Names 2026 Hall of Fame Class

Prairie Baseball Academy has announced its 2026 Hall of Fame class, which includes four new inductees.

One builder and three players will be recognized at the program’s annual banquet on Jan. 31, 2026.

1 Thru 9: Prairie Baseball Academy

One of the longest tenured baseball schools in Alberta is in Lethbridge, where the Prairie Baseball Academy (PBA) teaches student athletes about the sport and about life.

The team name at PBA is the Dawgs, but you’ll also find some bulls in the pack. That’s because several members of the coaching staff at the academy have played and coached for the Lethbridge Bulls of the Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL). And if you check the Bulls roster each summer, you’re sure to find some PBA players on the squad.

You can count Ryan MacDonald among those who have close ties to both the Bulls and the Dawgs. Now in his 10th year of coaching at PBA, the Nova Scotian played five years for the Bulls and coached the Lethbridge team to their first WCBL title in 2015.

MacDonald made some time for Alberta Dugout Stories so we could learn a bit more about PBA and the school’s approach to baseball tutelage.