Summer Collegiate

Victoria HarbourCats | Golden Tide Forming Booster Club for 2021-2022 Season

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3 years ago

July 2, 2021

Dugout Wire Service

Roll Tide! New CCBC team looking for their ultimate supporters!

July 2, 2021

Victoria, BC – The Victoria Golden Tide of the Canadian Collegiate Baseball Conference (CCBC) are getting ready to play their first games at Wilson’s Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park in September and they are looking for fans to come out and support the team.

In particular, the club is now seeking their ultimate fan base and is forming the Golden Tide Booster Club, a fan booster club who can set the mood for the team and cheer the players on in their first year in the CCBC.

Booster Club membership is available for $200.00 per seat and benefits include:

FREE admission to all Golden Tide Games at Wilson’s Group Stadium in the Fall of 2021 and Spring of 2022 (approximately 30 games including all fall inter-squad games)(Regular admission anticipated to be on the order of $5-10).
Priority seating in our Diamond Club (field level) or Campbell Club seating areas (Note: HarbourCats season ticket holders who become Golden Tide Boosters will have priority for their own seats)
A free Golden Tide T-Shirt
A free Golden Tide baseball cap
Booster Club Member special events other offers

If you are interested in becoming a Golden Tide Booster Club member, please contact chris@harbourcats.com or call the HarbourCats office at 778-265-0327 to get set up.

About the Golden Tide

The Victoria Golden Tide are the most recent entry in the Canadian Collegiate Baseball Conference (CCBC),which is an eight-team domestic league for university students that in addition to Victoria, has teams in Nanaimo (Vancouver Island University), Kelowna (Okanagan College), Kamloops (Thompson Rivers University), Chilliwack/Abbotsford (University of the Fraser Valley), Calgary (University of Calgary), Lethbridge (Prairie Baseball Academy) and Edmonton (Edmonton Collegiate Baseball Club).

The team is scheduled to begin their fall exhibition season on September 11, with 11 home games, plus inter-squad games at Wilson’s Group Stadium at Royal Athletic Park in Victoria. The CCBC regular season will happen in April of 2022, with approximately 18 home games to be scheduled.

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Summer Collegiate

VISL, and HarbourCats/NightOwls, enter strategic partnership

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6 hours ago

November 21, 2024

Dugout Wire Service

Different sports, but the same community ideals.

The Victoria HarbourCats and Nanaimo NightOwls, of baseball’s West Coast League, and the Vancouver Island Soccer League, have entered into a strategic partnership intended to assist the entities in growing grassroots sports and improving facilities on Vancouver Island.

The VISL provides programming and championships on the Island and leads leagues which give the best soccer players an avenue to play the sport for life. Championships such as the Jackson Cup, with many finals played at Royal Athletic Park in Victoria, serve as the crown jewel of the VISL.

More than 6,000 participants are involved with the VISL — sports fans, who will keep track of the Island’s top baseball programs, the HarbourCats and NightOwls, who combined to draw more than 100,000 spectators in 2024.

The baseball teams and VISL will jointly promote each others’ schedules, and provide opportunities for youth participation.

“Baseball fans are soccer fans, and soccer fans are baseball fans — it’s about supporting quality programs on the island and furthering awareness. Adding youth opportunities between the two will be the cherry on top.”

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Summer Collegiate

Victoria HarbourCats – You’re Invited! Christmas Open House, November 28-29

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2 days ago

November 19, 2024

Dugout Wire Service

Please join us as we usher in the Holiday Season with our annual Christmas Open House!

When: Thursday and Friday, November 28 and 29
Time: 12 Noon to 7 PM each day
Where: HarbourCats office 101-1814 Vancouver Street.

Come by to say hello and enjoy some hot cider and other beverages and snacks and talk about our upcoming 2025 season!

Plenty of merchandise on hand for the HarbourCats fan on your Christmas list – all at 20% off for the month of November! Plus plenty of HarbourCats and Victoria Golden Tide items available on our special $10.00 clearance rack!

Season tickets and 10-game flex packs will also be available for sale and as a special BLACK FRIDAY bonus, we will throw in a free-gift with the purchase of any 10-pack or season ticket package.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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A top-end catcher and four arms to throw strikes to him make up the latest signings for the Nanaimo NightOwls.

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3 days ago

November 19, 2024

Dugout Wire Service

Wirthgen has MLB bloodlines as the nephew of former MLB slugger and manager Phil Nevin, the first overall pick in the 1992 draft who played for six teams and hit 41 home runs for the Padres in 2001 as part of a 1,200-game career. A strong defensive catcher with power potential, Wirthgen played in the Alaska summer league in 2024.

Teper, also from D1 powerhouse Cal Baptist, is an aviation major who plans to fly planes once his days in pro baseball are over. The lefty will be counted on in key situations this summer, and made 11 appearances, including three starts, in the Alaska league in 2024.

Three players will arrive from the University of Pikeville, where they play for new NightOwls coach Cody Andreychuk — including returning lefty Richtter Castillo, a Venezuelan fan favorite who pitches with a lot of emotion and did strong work out of the bullpen for pitching coach Gorm Heimueller in 2024. Castillo was 1-1 with a 3.75 ERA and 17 strikeouts in 12 innings.

Shaye McTavish, a Canadian addition from Lethbridge, has been a starter at UPike and in the Western Canada summer league. Schultz, another power arm from Lethbridge, has summer experience in the WCBL in Swift Current and is developing into a high leverage righty for Andreychuk.

Season tickets and 10packs are available for 2025 and information can be found by emailing GM Tina Cornett — tina@nanaimonightowls.com

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