Sask Baseball is pleased to announce that Nathan Bourassa has committed to coach a Team Sask Women’s Team that will hopefully participate in the 2013 Senior Women’s Baseball Canada Championship in Granby, Quebec from July 11-14.
We will need to find at least 15 committed players to play on the team and we are hoping to create enough interest to have a selection camp.
All female athletes are welcome to tryout for this team, however, we would prefer athletes who have a background playing baseball, softball or fastball.
All teams competing at the Women’s Nationals will be scouted by Baseball Canada and will have the potential to be selected to the Baseball Canada Women’s National Team.
Sask Baseball will be providing a travel grant to help offset some of the costs associated with travelling to Quebec.
Tryout information will be available in a couple weeks depending on weather. In the meantime, if you are interested please e-mail Mike Ramage and we will keep you posted on any new information.
Sask Baseball would very much like to congratulate two members of our Team Sask Alumni, Andrew Albers (North Battleford) and Dustin Molleken (Regina) for being selected to Team Canada at the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Both Albers and Molleken had strong performances over the three round robin games against Italy, Mexico and USA.
Albers pitched 3 innings against Mexico where he allowed 2 runs and struck out 3 batters, including MLB superstar Adrian Gonzalez.
Molleken pitched 4 innings over two games agaist Italy and USA. He allowed a total of 2 hits and had a 0.00 ERA. In his 2 innings against Team USA, Molleken retired in order Jimmy Rollins, Brandon Phillips and Ryan Braun and then the next inning he retired Joe Mauer, David Wright and Adam Jones only giving up an infield single to Ben Zobrist!
Albers now heads back to pitch in the Minnesota Twins farm system and Molleken will now go back to Japan to pitch for the Nippon Ham Fighters. Good luck this season guys!
Jordan Schulz (Strasbourg) and Jager Toffan (Regina) have signed on to attend college baseball programs in the Fall.
Schulz will be attending NCAA Division 1 Stetson University in Florida and Toffan will be attending Blinn Junior College in Texas.
Congratulations to both of you!
Sask Baseball is sending thoughts and prayers to the Brennan Luffman family in his tragic loss. Brennan was a talented and spirited outfielder and LHP with the Team Sask program. He was part of the 2005 Canada Cup team that lost a heartbreaking extra inning game to Team Alberta for the Bronze Medal. He played his midget baseball in Weyburn for the Beavers and will always be remembered for making the game look easy and having fun while playing as he was a great teammate.
In this tragic time, Charlene Luffman, the mother of Brennan, would like to let everyone know that in lieu of flowers people are welcome to donate in the memory of Brennan Luffman by donating to Sask Baseball’s Sport Legacy Fund. A cheque can be mailed to either the Regina office or Saskatoon office. Cheques can be made out to “Sport Legacy Fund” and please include a note saying in memory of Brennan Luffman. Once donations have come in Sask Baseball will meet with the Luffman family and decide how best they would like to have Brennan’s memory preserved through the sport and teammates he cherished and inspired. Please include your name and mailing address along with your cheque or money order in order to receive a tax deductible receipt. Thank you for your generosity and your thoughts and prayers for the Luffman family.