Thursday, the West Coast League announced the addition of the expansion Springfield Drifters as the league’s 16th member team. The Drifters will join the Bend Elks, Corvallis Knights, and Portland Pickles as the league’s fourth Oregon-based team. “When you look at a map,” said WCL Commissioner Rob Neyer, “adding...
The virus continues to win -- in life, and in sports. With great sadness, following extensive evaluations and consultations with Canadian West Coast League (WCL) teams in Kamloops and Edmonton, the ownership group that leads both the Nanaimo NightOwls and the Victoria HarbourCats is announcing the cancellation of...
In baseball, and in business, it's all about teamwork, and lining up key players. Ideally, those players can fill a couple of roles -- such is the case with this newest major partner for Nanaimo's new baseball team. The expansion Nanaimo NightOwls, slated to begin play this summer, have...
Island’s WCL teams go all kooky for hockey, glad to see it back March 31, 2021 NANAIMO and VICTORIA, B.C. — The two West Coast League teams on Vancouver Island found a special way to celebrate, together, the return of one sport we’ve all missed — hockey. With the...
SNUNEYMUXW FIRST NATION -- The West Coast League's newest coastal team is not just in Canada, and in British Columbia, and on Vancouver Island. This -- is Snuneymuxw territory. The Nanaimo NightOwls are also the Snuneymuxw NightOwls, and will honour the territory's rich and proud First Nations history with...
From the tumbleweeds of the Canadian prairies, to striking out Cal Ripken Jr. in the first inning of his first start, there isn't much Gorman Heimueller hasn't experienced in the game of baseball. Now, the baseball veteran, including 34 years as pitching coach or pitching coordinator combined with the...
Angela Waldick believed to be the first legally-blind team photographer in sports history. The Nanaimo-based and Island-raised photographer has been named the official photographer of the Nanaimo NightOwls (and Bars!), the West Coast League expansion team is proud to announce today. The mother of two lost sight in her...
To leave this 2020 year behind, we all need to come together — even rivals on the ball diamond. Partnering with Arbutus RV, which has locations in the Victoria and Nanaimo areas, the two WCL teams on Vancouver Island are working together on NEW YEAR’S DAY (Friday, Jan....
Team up with B+C Foods, HUB International Insurance and Arbutus RV to offer delivered food packages to fans “BEFORE AND AFTER CHRISTMAS” Presented by Arbutus RV and HUB International Insurance VICTORIA, BC – Vancouver Island’s two baseball teams will be rivals on the field starting in June 2021 –...
The West Coast League (WCL) announced their full 2021 schedule earlier today and assuming all things can proceed as normal relative to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nanaimo NightOwls will play their first ever WCL game on the road against the Wenatchee AppleSox on June 1 in the friendly confines...
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