N.B. Beavers set for senior provincials
It used to be that senior baseball provincials were based on population size, forcing North Battleford to enter in one of the top divisions.
That’s not the case anymore, and so this weekend the North Battleford Beavers will play in the tier four provincials in Standard Hill, along with five other teams, including the Meadow Lake Sox.
“The [Saskatchewan Baseball Association] has done some different things the past couple years in trying to get as many teams involved in provincials as possible,” said Beavers player Rory Gregoire. “Now, you enter provincials and then SBA at some point, usually about the third week in June, they take everybody’s standings and… they plunk you into one of those tiers.
“In terms of tier four and tier three, there’s not much separating us. You could flip flop teams and it wouldn’t make a difference. So it’s a little weird but I guess that’s the way they want to do it to get a lot of teams entered.”