Baseball Canada handed out their Awards on Saturday, November 7 in Saskatoon.
Among their Awards Winners, we are proud to announce the following:
Lionel Ruhr Elite Coach Award – Greg Brons (Saskatoon)
– Brons is the Baseball Sask High Performance Director and has done some fantastic work in our HP Program, in particular in 2015. He lead us to a silver medal at the Baseball Canada Cup, silver at the Western Canada Summer Games and his fingerprints were all over the Sask athletes on the Prairies team that won the Tournament 12 Championship.
MLB – Baseball Canada Volunteer of the Year (Sask Recipient) – Larry Orth (Saskatoon)
– Orth has been involved as a volunteer with Baseball Sask for many years as an Umpire Director, Zone Director, Zone Governor, Senior Supervisor, Playoff Chairman, Vice-President, President, Past President and most recently as the Co-Commissioner.
Grass Roots Coach of the Year (Sask Recipient) – Matt Kosteniuk (Saskatoon)
– Kosteniuk has been Head Coach & Assistant Coach of the Saskatoon Diamondbacks Midget AAA baseball team for the past 5 years. He has worked tirelessly to develop baseball skills for the Diamondbacks as well as the Fall Ball baseball program, regularly making himself available for extra help for whoever is interested. His love of baseball and the pure enjoyment it brings to him to watch these players develop is inspirational.
The 2015 Baseball Sask season officially wrapped up on Saturday, November 7 with the Annual Awards Banquet that was held in conjunction with the Baseball Canada Awards Banquet in Saskatoon.
We are very pleased to announce the following Baseball Sask Award Winners:
Player of the Year – Carson Perkins (Bienfait)
Minor Player of the Year – Brody Alexandre (Swift Current)
Senior Team of the Year – Yorkton E & S Yankees
Minor Team of the Year – Assiniboia Midget Aces
Grass Roots Coach of the Year – Troy Casper (Regina)
Manager of the Year – Dale Berner (Assiniboia)
Joe McDonald Special Award of Merit – Rod Palaniuk
Builder of the Year – John Casavant (Melfort)
Patron of the Year – Subway® Franchisees of Saskatchewan
Senior Official of the Year – Bill Wyatt (Carlyle)
Lou Slotsve Junior Official of the Year – Ian Stewart (Oxbow)
Lifetime Achievement Award – Bob Burns (Estevan)
Congratulations to all award winners for such a successful season!
Congratulations to the Pee Wee Girls team who won the Bronze Medal at the 2015 Western Canada Baseball Championship held in Yorkton from August 21-23.
Team Sask defeated Team Manitoba in the Bronze medal game by a score of 18-4.
Saskatchewan will be hosting the following Baseball Canada and Western Canada Baseball Association Championships in 2016 and are opening up Bids to Host to our Membership at this time.
Pee Wee AAA (13U)
Bantam AAA (15U)
If you are interested in hosting any of these events please forward Bids to Host to Mike Ramage.
We are very proud to announce that Team Sask won the Silver Medal at the 2015 Baseball Canada Cup in Saskatoon.
Sask went undefeated in Round Robin play and then beat Team Ontario 4-3 in come from behind fashion before eventually losing 10-1 to Team BC in the Gold Medal Game.