Ball players make the switch to Fastpitch at Western Canadian Bantam Championship
From The Daily Graphic
Posted By Eric MacKenzie
The Toba U16 softball team will act as host for this weekend’s Western Canadian Bantam Boys Fastpitch Championships at the John Blumberg Softball Complex, and will feature four local residents on the roster.
Zack Waldvogel, Chad Miller, Shane Dewis and Landon Thomson have all been added to the provincial squad for the nine-team tournament, to which teams will travel from four provinces and the Northwest Territories to take part.
The players that call Portage and the surrounding area home are all baseball players-turned softball players, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have experience to draw from.
Take Waldvogel, for example, whose older brother, Tanner, and father, Gregg, are both key pieces of the Portage Phillies men’s team, while Tanner also just returned from the U19 International Men’s Softball Championship in Prince Edward Island where he was a member of Team Manitoba.
Seeing first-hand the success that his family members have had in the sport, the youngest Waldvogel said he’s looking forward to making his debut at the inter-provincial level.
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