Unity’s Feser selected to 21U Team Sask. Junior Selects

“It’s nice, always,” Feser said on making the provincial junior team. “I’ve just got to go there and do my job like I always do…just do what I can.”

Before guiding the Cardinals to a championship this week, the left-handed pitcher help lead Prairie Baseball Academy to their seventh straight Canadian College Baseball Conference championship in May.

He also has previous Team Saskatchewan experience, having played at the Canada Summer Games in 2013 as a 17-year-old.

“Number one, he’s a strong, strong left-handed pitcher…that’s a big big plus,” Team Sask 21U head coach Bert Kauf said. “Plus, he’s played at a higher level of baseball throughout his career.

“He’s a great person and he’s going to be a good leader for this endeavour.”

Roughly 70 kids attended the two ID camps for the junior team, before the final 18 kids were named.

Feser is the only player named to the team from the northwest.

“He’ll be one of our starting pitchers,” Kauf said. “We’re running a six-pitcher rotation throughout the tournament and he’ll be in group one, two groups of three.”

Kauf also said expectations are high, seeing as The Regina Optimist Baseball Association hosted last year’s junior championships and the province won silver.

“We’re quite confident in the selections we made,” Kauf said. “We’re taking the best 21U players available.

“I think we’re well rounded. We have two starting left-handed pitchers, that includes Rhett. At the end of the day, we have some versatile pieces there, so we have interchangable players, and hopefully we’ll do our province proud.”

Saskatchewan’s first opponent will be Nova Scotia on Aug. 17 at 9 a.m.

They also play Quebec, Ontario, and Prince Edward Island in the round robin, as those are the teams in Pool A.

They must finish top three in their pool to make the playoff round.

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by Nathan Kanter

Unity’s Feser selected to 21U Team Sask. Junior Selects

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