updated October 23

This website archives the activities of the North York Blues Midget baseball team from 2004-2011.  For information on current North York Blues teams visit the North York Baseball homepage.
 

TEAM HIGHLIGHTS and WEBSITE UPDATES

• Oct 23 - Congratulations to Steve Hersch ('04-'06) and the University of Toronto Blues who won the OUA Championships this weekend. Steve walked and stole second in a 5-run 8th inning on route to a 8-4 UofT victory over Western.
• Oct - Congratulations to James Wakutz ('11) and the Durham Lords who won the CIBA Championships this weekend in Moncton, New Brunswick.  Durham defeated Humber 6-1 in the final.
• Oct 23 - Four NY Midget graduates participated on OUA baseball teams this season - Steve Hersch ('04-'06) at the University of Toronto, Justin Firth ('09) at Queen's, and Justin Newbold ('07-'09) and Andrew Ziedins ('09-'11) at Wilfred Laurier.  Two NY Midget graduates participated on a CIBA baseball team - Justin Simon ('09) at McGill and James Wakutz ('11) at Durham.
• Sept 6 - Howie Birnie Challenge Cup page added.
• Aug 27 - NY Midgets returned from Brantford after three games - defeating Pickering but losing to Guelph and London.  Daniel M had an amazing tournament going 5-6 with three RBI.  NY concluded a generally successful season with a surprisingly disappointing showing at the OBAs.  OBAs Results.
• Aug 27 - Statistics updated.  Notably, Owen faced 179 batters and only allowed two extra base hits.  Records will be updated in the new year.
• Aug 27 - There were 79 practices/games for the NY Midget team - dating back to Sept 22nd of 2010 (an exhibition game against EOBA Allstars) and including indoor training.  Of those 79 gatherings, Allan led the team with an attendance rate of 93.67% - missing only five activities.  Marlon attended the second-most events (87.34%) and missed only ten activities.  Though Thomas had the team's highest on-base percentage, he also had the lowest attendance (58.23%) and missed thirty-three activities.
• Aug 25 - Game #5 of the Howie Birnie Challenge Cup, against North Toronto, was never played and NY won the multi-game challenge series 4 games to 0.
• Aug 12 - NY Midgets mourn the passing of Randy Echlin - our team's biggest fan between the years of 2005 and 2007.  Randy was a great friend and a faithful supporter of our team.  Always positive and sincere, Randy had frequent words of encouragement for players and for coaches too.  Plus he was always ready to talk baseball - and one time he brought Maury Wills to our practice!   Randy: Kevin and Glen will never forget you.  Thanks.
• Previous Updates/Highlights

2011 TOURNAMENTS