May 17, 2026

Hawks Split With First Place PBA

EDMONTON, AB-The Edmonton Collegiate Hawks started the final weekend of the 2026 Canadian Collegiate Baseball Conference regular season with a split of a doubleheader. The Hawks met up with the first place Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs of Lethbridge, Alberta at RE/MAX Field on Friday (May 15). The Hawks took the opener 11-8 before bowing 9-8 to the Dawgs in the nightcap. That second game went 11 innings. The results leaves PBA leading the league at 24-10 while Edmonton’s record is 19-15. SERIES SUMMARY: Game 1-Friday, May 15-Edmonton Collegiate Hawks 11 Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs_8 RE/MAX Field The Hawks collected two homers in this contest as they upped their CCBC single season record to 34. # 24 Jake Roggensack and #1 Koby Smith each had two run dingers for Edmonton. Roggensack hit his in the second inning while Smith did the damage in the third inning. Roggensack went 2 for 4 with three RBI and two runs scored. He upped his RBI seasons total to 14. Smith was 4 for 5 in the ball game with three runs scored. Smith with 17 RBI in 2026. #2 Colby Tessier was 1 for 5 with two runs scored and a run batted in. # 20 Logan Heaney hit a grand slam for PBA in a five run seventh inning . Heaney upped his RBI season total to 29. # 32 Logan Colville got the start for the Collegiate Hawks and upped his record to 5 and 1 on the year. Colville went six and two thirds, giving up eight runs on six hits, with 10 strike outs and two walks. # 12 Riley Starko came on in relief and pitched an inning for his sixth save of the campaign. He struck jout two. #34 Zach Willard started and lost for the Dawgs. He went four innings giving up six runs on nine hits, with two walks and two strikeouts. Game 2-Friday, May 15-Prairie Baseball Academy Dawgs_9_Edmonton Collegiate Hawks_8_RE/MAX Field The Collegiate Hawks got on the board in the bottom of the third inning. With two out and the bases loaded, #55 Caeden Colford stroked a two run double to left center field. Those were his 38 th RBI’s of the year. He was followed by # 16 Jace Daku who placed a great ball to right centerfield. That brought in two more runs to give the hometeam a 4-0 advantage. The Dawgs battled back. In the fifth, they got on the board courtesy of the two run standup triple to the gap in right field by #4 Nathan Webb off Edmonton starter #50 Lucas Webber Kitching. He went five innings, giving up five runs on five hits, with seven strike outs and walking two. Then in the sixth, #33 Nate Garth slammed a three run homer to right center field off Reliever #41 Ayden Cote. That put PBA up 6-4. Down 7-4 in the eighth, the Collegiate Hawks will tie things up with three runs . First, Daku will hit the ball up the middle scoring #18 Simon Virostek from third. Two batters later, Smith will plate #23 Brayden Morris and #8 Shea Koller (both of whom came into the game as pinch runners) to make things 7-7. For the first time this season, Edmonton goes to extra innings. In the 10 th, #13 Will Turner of PBA started at second and scored when Garth hit a double into left field off Starko. In the Collegiate Hawks half of the 10th, Koller started at second base and was cashed in with a one out single to left off the bat of Daku to knot things up at 8. The Dawgs regained the lead in the bottom of the 11th. Pinch runner #7 Aiden MacKenzie scored on a wild throw by Daku. MacKenzie had started the inning at second base. COMMENTS FROM COACH JAKE LANFERMAN: “Game two was so much like a playoff game. We were playing the number one seed and it goes to 11 innings. I thought we did a great job of playing quality baseball in both games. We worked really hard this week after a set back last weekend (losing four straight to Vancouver Island University). We are back competing the way we should be.” On Similarities in both PBA games with strong starting pitching and timely hits: “ 19 hits in the first game gave our pitchers some quality support. We could have taken care of the baseball a bit more in that first game. In the second, we got out to a 4-0 lead, they win the middle innings (5, 6, 7 ) and they are up 7-4. It was ‘grindy’ for us to tie things up at 7 and force extras. I thought the compete was outstanding. Even in the end of the second game, balls weren’t going our way. We didn’t have the luck in that one. Hopefully we will next weekend in the CCBC Championship.” NEXT UP FOR THE COLLEGIATE HAWKS: The Collegiate Hawks will conclude the 2026 Canadian Collegiate Baseball Conference regular season on Sunday (May 17th) when they entertain the University of Calgary Dinos. This will be the second series of the year between these two teams with Edmonton winning three of four in Calgary in April. Calgary won the first game 11-3 before the Collegiate Hawks took the remainder of the series by scores of 14-10,11-0 and 9-5. Edmonton leads the historical ‘head to head’ matchup 9-5. Game times on Sunday will be 1 PM and 4 PM MDT. The Dawgs will head down the QE II and meet up with the Dinos in a doubleheader on Saturday (May 16th). The top six teams in the CCBC will head to Lethbridge for the Canadian College World Series May 21-24th at Spitz Stadium.