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Edmonton Collegiate Hawks
May 25, 2026
LETHBRIDGE, AB—For the first time in their history, the Edmonton Collegiate Hawks baseball team will vye for a National championship. The Hawks have advanced to the Canadian College World Series on Sunday (May 24). Edmonton will battle the host Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs in the championship final at Noon MDT. The game will take place at Lloyd Nolan Yard. The Hawks eliminated defending Canadian Collegiate Baseball Conference champion Okanagan College Coyotes 21-17 on Saturday (May 23). Edmonton was playing its second straight contest after earlier losing 18-0 to Prairie Baseball Academy in a battle of two previously unbeaten team. That contest went seven innings. In the “winner take all’ semifinal against OC, the Collegiate Hawks scored seven runs in the top of the first inning thanks to a pair of two run homers off the bats of #1 Koby Smith and #11 Lucas Geisler. Smith wound up going 3-7 with four runs scored and four runs batted in. Geisler was 2 for 5 with two runs scored and two RBI. The Coyotes countered with seven runs of their own in the bottom of the first before the Hawks tallied five times in the second inning, added a single run in the third and two more in the fourth to lead 14-8. Edmonton counted once in the sixth, three in the seventh, and one more time in both the eighth and ninth innings. #51 Kyo Sakaguchi was 2 for 6 with three runs scored and three RBI for the Collegiate Hawks. #55 Caedyn Colford was three for five with two runs scored and two RBI/. Colford also hit his third home run of the World Series weekend. #25 Nick Backstrom started and earned the win for the Collegiate Hawks. He pitched five and two thirds innings , giving up 11 runs on 12 hits, striking out two and walking one. #65 Corbin Mossop was the losing pitcher, going only an inning, giving up 10 runs on eight hits and had two walks. Sunday’s matchup against PBA will be the seventh time the teams have met in 2026. The Dawgs have won five times. In Saturday’s 18-0 loss to PBA, #5 Sam Honke started and was the losing pitcher. He gave up nine runs on 10 hits in four innings of work. He also struck out five and walked one. PBA ace and CCBC First Team All-Star #32 Sean Bavis was the winner giving up only two hits through the seven-inning complete game. He struck out five and walked one. PBA was led offensively by #27 Jack Mortimer. He went 4 for 5 scoring three times and notching four runs batted in. #33 Nate Garth and #13 Will Turner each had homers for PBA. Both came in the fifth inning. Should the Collegiate Hawks win the 1 PM MDT contest, a ‘winner take all” sudden death second final contest will be played at 4 PM MDT.
