Sweep gives junior Thunderbirds perfect start to baseball season Hamilton's Canadian Thunderbirds junior elite team had a winning start to this year's Provincial Baseball League of Ontario season with a doubleheader sweep of their hosts, the London Badgers.
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Championship dates set for Cal Ripken leagues Hamilton area Cal Ripken Baseball Leagues in Binbrook, East Hamilton / Stoney Creek and North Hamilton will run year-end City Championship tournaments for all Cal Ripken T-Ball (4-7), Rookie (8-9) and Major 12U teams.
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Stoney Creek Little League preparing for season Stoney Creek Optimist Little League (SCOLL) has now started excepting late registrations for the 2008 baseball season. Children ages four to 15 are eligible to enroll to play T-Ball to Junior Ball.
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Cal Ripken youth baseball expands Hamilton-area programs Battlefield Babe Ruth Baseball is adding two charted leagues for 2008. The Eva Rothwell Resource Centre at Robert Land joins the North America baseball program to return organized baseball to the North End; youth baseball also returns to Binbrook.
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Ancaster pitcher named to Canada's national junior team Ancaster's Brad Furdal has been named to Canada's Junior National Team as it prepares to open the annual Fall Instructional League Camp at Disney's Wide World of Sports complex in Orlando, Florida.
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Thunderbirds continue elite baseball tryouts at Bernie Arbour The 2007 World SANDLOTT Champion Canadian Thunderbirds Elite Baseball Club is conducting a series of additional tryouts at Hamilton's Bernie Arbour Stadium. Tryouts are set for Labour Day weekend and continue into next week.
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Canadian Juniors pitching silences Venezuelan bats Colin Buckborough of Niagara Falls combined with Phillippe Aumont of Gatineau and Ryan Kennedy of Calgary to hold Venezuela to one run on two hits as the Canadian Junior National Baseball Team won 3-1 at the America's World Junior Qualifying tournament.
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Thunderbirds gearing for 2008, tryouts continue Saturday The 2007 World SANDLOTT Champion Canadian Thunderbirds Elite Baseball Club will be continuing Hamilton tryouts for their elite teams on Saturday, August 18, 2007. Tryouts will also be conducted throughout the month of August in additional locations.
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Thunderbirds, Prospects elite baseball tryouts this week Elite baseball players in various age categories are invited to a number of tryout camps this week. The Champion Canadian Thunderbirds are holding tryouts for players 12 to 18 years old; the Bullett Proof Prospects are holding tryouts in Welland.
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Stoney Creek's Babe Ruth Blaze rule the Niagara Frontier League The Canada Blaze's 6-2 upset of North Tonawanda gave the only Canadian team in the 16-and under Niagara Frontier League the championship. And that was no easy challenge, considering North Tonawanda had lost only one game all season.
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