Ontario is Golden at Canada Summer Games
Team Ontario wins the gold against a tough Team Alberta in the final game of the 2022 Canada Summer Games baseball competition. Ontario's seventh Canada Games gold medal in history and first since 2005. They finish the competition with six wins and three losses in a wild roller coaster journey to victory. Finishing the group stage 3-3, Team O would not look back and win three in row, including a quarter final game against Team Québec, a Semi-Final game against Team Saskatchewan, and the gold medal game against a hot Team Alberta.
Preston Barr was one of many Ontario players who could be considered the MVP. During the Canada Games competition, Barr finished with a .696 batting average and a 1.504 OPS producing 15 RBIs, the most ever in Canada Summer Games history, breaking the record previously set by Eric Hartman (St. Albert, AB) who finished the competition with 13.
*2022 CANADA SUMMER GAMES BASEBALL LIVESTREAMS*
17U Ontario Youth Team Announced
Congratulations to the 20 players who have made the final 17U Provincial Team that will compete at this year's Canada Games!
Held every two years, alternating between winter and summer, the Canada Games are the country’s marquee event for amateur sport representing the highest level of national competition for thousands of up-and-coming Canadian athletes. As the best in their age group, these young competitors come to the Games having trained long and hard to be among those chosen to represent their respective province or territory.
From August 6 to 21, the Niagara Region will welcome more than 5,000 participants (including athletes, coaches and support staff) to compete in the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games. The competition will feature 18 different sports.
The Ontario Youth Team is a 17U team comprised of the top players in the Province, which will represent Ontario at the 2022 Canada Games in Niagara. All players born in 2005 and younger, who are on a 2022 Baseball Ontario Rep roster, are on a roster with a PBLO team, or are part of a 2022 Baseball Ontario recognized program, are eligible to try out.
