One night after losing 5-0 to the dreaded Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, the boys of summer came back and shellacked the opposition, 14-0.  No typo.
So how big of a beating was that?  Well to give you an example of how unlikely it was, the biggest margin of defeat last year was 8 runs, in the back half [...]

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If there was any game that the Canadians would lose, albeit by form of a shutout, I knew it would be last night.  Last night, just 14 hours after the boys returned from a 6-hour or so bus ride back from Tri-City.  It was a good game til the 9th, but you really couldn’t expect [...]

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I didn’t want to jinx it after Sunday’s game, when Ricardo Penalba pitched arguably the best game of the season for Vancouver, but even if the young RHP pitched phenomenally, he reminded me a bit of Leo Martinez (left), the #2 starter from 2007.
Leo was a big southpaw who pitched two great games to open [...]

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It’s not often that after five games in a young season, that a baseball player already has four multi-hit games.  Not only does Nino Leyja have that under his belt, as an 18 year old, but he is third in the NWL for batting average, with one of .421 after tonight.
Leyja, along with C’s starter [...]

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Monday the 22nd:
After a tight victory to even up their season opening series against Everett, the Vancouver Canadians looked to build on their momentum gained Sunday, and defeat the Aquasox Monday night in front of a somewhat smaller crowd.
One ‘big’ lineup change occurred, in that Jose Crisostomo was inserted into RF instead of Conner Crumbliss [...]

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It may have taken two games, but the Vancouver Canadians are back in the win column, and if you go back to last season, they have won 6 of their last 8 games in total.
Last night’s offence was driven by Rashun Dixon, who accounted for the only run-scoring hit (a solo HR), and today was [...]

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In front of a sellout crowd of 5,132, the Vancouver Canadians were in it til the 6th, when Everett kicked off 8 unanswered runs, which was the difference for the Flipper Kids and the C’s.
Everett featured a roster that won’t be in tact for Tuesday, after the Vancouver series, because their mentality was pretty much, [...]

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