NSRBL season preview: 2 NB teams for the first time
After last year’s midget AA Beavers won the provincial championship and went to the Western Canadian Championships, many graduating players weren’t quite done with baseball.
And so, for the first time in a while, there will now be two North Battleford teams competing in the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League (NSRBL), after seven graduating midget players joined forces with other local senior players to form the North Battleford Trappers. The Trappers join the Beavers, who have been in the NSRBL since its inception in 2010, as the two North Battleford teams.
Both senior teams begin league play early next week.
“Those [midget players] wanted to play ball when they came back this summer and there wouldn’t have been enough room on the Beavers,” Trapper Dillon Friesen said. “So them and a few guys that have been done for 10-plus years kind of thing came together and made another team.”