The Regional Recreation Corporation of Wood Buffalo in partnership with the Fort McMurray Minor Baseball Association has announced that the 2018 Baseball Canada U18 Championships will take place in our community from August 16-20th, 2018.
The Championships host some of the best baseball players under the age of 18 from around Canada and will bring them to our community. Just a few months ago, team Saskatchewan upended team British Columbia in the 2016 Baseball Canada Cup that took place in Fort McMurray in August.
“Undoubtedly the strong community support for the recent 2016 Baseball Canada Cup held in Fort McMurray in August of this year was a key contributing factor to the success of this bid to host another national Baseball Canada event in 2018,” said Jodie Cooper, 2018 Baseball Canada 18U Championships Organizing Committee Co-Chair and Director of Sport and Recreation of the RRC. “From volunteers and community members to corporate and business partners, the 2016 Baseball Canada Cup truly showed the strength of our region and our commitment to hosting national calibre sporting events in Fort McMurray.”
The Championships are one of ten annual national Baseball Canada tournaments. The Fort McMurray Minor Baseball Association will have an opportunity to represent the region and showcase local baseball talent through a host team competing in the tournament.
The Championships will be played at the Ball-Park at Shell Place and Ross Hennigar Ball-Park in Thickwood.
“Baseball Canada is excited to bring our 18U National Championship to Fort McMurray in 2018. We were ecstatic with the job that the Regional Recreation Corporation of Wood Buffalo and Fort McMurray Minor Baseball did hosting the Baseball Canada Cup last summer and know they’ll put on another first class event in 2018.” said Jason Dickson, Baseball Canada President.
In the event that took place this past August in Quebec, the host team who finished (4-2) upset the heavily favoured (6-1) New Brunswick squad 10-7
More information on the 2018 Baseball Canada U18 Championships can be found at baseball.ca.
Stay tuned in the coming months for additional information.