The Lethbridge Bulls are a Summer college
baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding ...
team playing at
Spitz Stadium in
Lethbridge,
Alberta
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. The team is a member of the
Western Canadian Baseball League, a
collegiate summer baseball league operating in the prairie provinces of
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tota ...
.
History
The team was founded in 1999 by Doug Jones, mayor of the town of
Oyen. Kevin Kvame has been the President and General Manager of the Bulls since 2005 and was the GM for the 3 preceding years as well. Kregg Snook became the current head coach in 2019.
He was the team’s pitcher in 2014 and 2016.
The club played out of Henderson Stadium following the relocation of the Pioneer League franchise
Lethbridge Mounties and
Lethbridge Black Diamonds to Missoula in the fall of 1998 becoming the
Missoula Osprey and then the
Missoula PaddleHeads
The Missoula PaddleHeads are an independent baseball team of the Pioneer League, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball (MLB) but is an MLB Partner League. They are located in Missoula, Montana, and play their home games at Ogren Par ...
.
Current
The Bulls have won the Western Division title on 4 occasions and the League Championship twice, in 2015 and in the 2021 shortened season due to COVID-19.
They have been 1st overall in the regular season of the WMBL on 3 occasions.
2011 Highway Shooting
In 2011, two players from the Lethbridge Bulls (20-year old Mitch Maclean and 22-year-old Tanner Craswell) from
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", ...
lost their lives due to a triple murder-suicide along the
Alberta Highway 2
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 2, commonly referred to as Highway 2 or the Queen Elizabeth II Highway, is a major highway in Alberta that stretches from the Canada–United States border through Calgary and Edmonton to Grande ...
near
Claresholm Alberta
Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...
.
It has since been referred to as the “
Claresholm highway shooting
The Claresholm highway shooting was a murder–suicide that occurred on December 15, 2011, on Alberta Highway 2, just north of Claresholm, Alberta, Canada. The suspect, 21-year-old Derek Jensen, killed three people with a Heckler & Koch 9mm han ...
”.
See also
*
List of baseball teams in Canada
References
² Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/killer-rammed-suv-in-alberta-shooting-1.1026077 - CBC (2011)
Baseball teams in Alberta
Sport in Lethbridge
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