The Fraser Valley Chiefs will once again be known as the Whalley Chiefs. Read the story in The Surrey Now.

IF Taylor Green (Parksville Royals) of the Milwaukee Brewers organization shared the 2011 Top Canadian hitter in the Minors award with 3B Brett Lawrie (Langley Blaze) of the Toronto Blue Jays. 2011 Top Canadian Minor League Pitcher of the Year went to RHP Mark Hardy (Parksville Royals) of the San Diego Padres organization. The Canadian Baseball Network honored these BCPBL alumni and other Canadians playing the 2011 season in the minors. [See News articles - The Canadian Baseball Network & TSN]

The PBL and all of its member teams would like to pass their condolences on to the families and friends of Mitch MacLean, 20 of Cornwall, PEI, and Tanner Craswell, 22 of Charlottetown, PEI whos lives were tragically taken yesterday on their way back from Lethbridge to PEI for the Christmas Holiday.   Mitch and Tanner were members of the Prairie Baseball Academy baseball team and graduated from the baseball program last year.   They were both completing their education at the PBA before planning to go on to other opportunities in baseball.   Our thoughts and prayers are with all the family and friends of these two young men.   I personally find this situation very difficult to deal with when two very dedicated young men have their opportunities taken away.   It is a very, very sad situation.  - Ted Hotzak – President   [See News Article]

The Executive Management Committee (EMC) of the Premier Baseball Association is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2011 PBL scholarships. After reviewing 11 applications $5100 has been awarded to 10 players from the PBL and CCBC.

Congratulations to the following scholarship winners:  Tyler Dobos (Abbotsford Cardinals); Tyler Pentland (North Delta Blue Jays); Matt Trimble (Coquitlam Reds); Brody Hawkins (Fraser Valley) ; Matt Ney and Kevin Biro (Parksville Royals); Alexander Condon, Kyle Sandulescu, and Greg Dealy from Thompson River University;  Sebastian Wong (University of BC)
 
Tyler Dobos from the Abbotsford Cardinals and Alexander Condon from Thompson River University are the recipients of the Rud Haar Memorial Scholarship for a high school and college player. Tyler receives a scholarship for $1500 and a $1000 scholarship goes to Alexander.
 
Scholarship cheques will be forwarded to recipients in February 2012 when academic eligibility to play the spring championship season is confirmed. Applications for 2012 scholarships will be accepted up to the July 15, 2012 deadline. All graduating premier players planning to play baseball in Canada and college players attending a Canadian program are encouraged to apply.

 The Okanagan College Coyotes Baseball team broke ground at historic Elks Stadium over the weekend. With a recent $900,000.00 upgrade in 2010 and 2011; which included new lighting system, backstop, seating, and press box, the Coyote baseball team, in conjunction with the City of Kelowna and Netex Canada started work on the new Netex Center for Hitting.
 
This project will add another state of the art facility at the disposal of our Coyote baseball players. “We are extremely excited to see this project come to fruition, we have been working since the program’s inception (Fall 2008)to develop a new batting cage and other training facilities at Elks Stadium,” says Head Coach Geoff White. [Read complete Press Release]

Please help us out and send us information on any BCPBL grads that are playing college baseball in the 2012 season. To update our "In College 2012" web page, we need name, postion, BCPBL team, College team, College baseball web page URL and college year of the player. Send info to admin@bcpbl.com.