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Victoria HarbourCats – Touchdown Pacific game to Impact Victoria HarbourCats home playoff dates

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 28, 2024

To all our valued Season Ticket Holders, Partners and Food Vendors — and to ALL OUR FANS:

RE: Touchdown Pacific CFL game, impact on HarbourCats home playoff dates for upcoming 2024 season

The Victoria HarbourCats Baseball Club is notifying all supporters of a change to our season operations in 2024, that is out of our control.

As you may be aware, the City of Victoria and the Canadian Football League (CFL) have agreed to host a regular season football game at Royal Athletic Park on August 31, 2024, featuring the BC Lions. Due to the apparent requirements for the stadium set-up (e.g., adding additional bleachers and grassing over the baseball infield), the HarbourCats have been advised we must end our use of Royal Athletic Park this summer following our final regular season game on August 7. The WCL playoffs can run until August 16 at the latest.

This means there will be no home playoff games at Wilson’s Group Stadium at RAP this 2024 season.

In discussions with the City of Victoria, this situation is a one-time occurrence and will not happen in subsequent seasons. Those discussions are ongoing.

As our fans would expect, this is not a situation we are pleased to be in — we fully support the premise of hosting of CFL game – something that benefits all sports fans in Victoria. However, we do not understand why a date was needed that impacted our operation, the HarbourCats being a team that has worked hard to become a local staple of summer in Victoria with a history of strong representation and performance. We also apologize to the West Coast League and our league partners for any inconvenience this causes, and vow to ensure this cannot happen again.

That said, we will work to make the best of it and urge the people of the South Island to come out this season and again show their tremendous support of our games and entertainment — let’s PACK THE PARK, starting with the home opener on June 7.

We will focus on making this an opportunity to rally around the team, as a community.

This will NOT affect any of our regular season games. However, should we make the playoffs, as we have in six of the past seven WCL seasons, we will need to hold any playoff “home games” between August 10-16 in an alternate facility that meets West Coast Leagues (WCL) standards. Unfortunately, that means home playoff games cannot be played in Victoria as there is no suitable secondary option in the market.

The Victoria HarbourCats organization has notified the City of Victoria and the CFL of the profound impact of this change to 2024 playoff games. To be sure we can address this situation, we are currently researching options. This could affect as many as four playoff games.

Fans, we know you are behind us – and have been for more than 10 years.

Additional information and frequently asked questions ARE  posted on our website HERE and will be updated as more information and clarity is provided to us over the next few weeks.

We welcome all feedback from our fans and stakeholders, and ask you to please provide any such comments to the email address “playoffs2024@harbourcats.com“. We ask people to use this method rather than bombarding members of City Council, or staff, and those comments will be shared with the City of Victoria.

Sincerely,

Jim Swanson
Managing Partner
Victoria HarbourCats Baseball Club
Cell: 250-889-5204 Office: 778-265-0327
E-Mail: jim@harbourcats.com

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NightOwls flash defensive gems against Knights

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NANAIMO, B.C. — Win or lose, the Nanaimo NightOwls are certainly entertaining.

Centre fielder Andrew Ivy made three highlight reel catches, Trevor Goldenetz made a spectacular catch at the left field wall, and infielder Ryder Florence had a spinarama ground ball out — but it wasn’t enough in a 9-2 loss as the visiting Corvallis Knights took advantage of almost all their baserunners on Wednesday night at historic Serauxmen Stadium.

No less than 10 great defensive plays combined were flashed by both teams.

Catcher Nate Davis was 3-5 for Nanaimo and Goldenetz had two hits including a double for the NightOwls.

The Knights only outhit the NightOwls 10-8 in winning the second game of the series.

Both teams committed two errors.

The third game of the series is 6:35pm at Serauxmen Stadium, and its host family appreciation night.

After the series, the NightOwls go to Kamloops to face the NorthPaws for games Friday, Saturday and Sunday, the latter an afternoon game.



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Victoria HarbourCats – Cats rally late but fall short to Fish Sticks

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Tanner Beltowski was back in the leadoff spot tonight, scoring two runs (Photo: Christian J. Stewart) 

July 23, 2025

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VICTORIA, B.C. – The Dub Sea Fish Sticks survived a late push from the Victoria HarbourCats to win 10-8 Wednesday night.

For the second straight night, the Fish Sticks got on the board in the opening frame, and it was once again Matt Churchill who did the damage. The slugger drove in a run with a single to give the visitors a 1-0 lead. He had five hits and five RBIs in this two-game series.

The HarbourCats didn’t waste any time responding, scoring three runs in the bottom half of the first. Jake Butler (George Mason) and Declan Brown (Wenatchee Valley) both hit RBI singles to give the Cats a 3-1 advantage.

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Fish Sticks’ left fielder Kai Gonzaga hit a solo home run in the top of the second inning to cut the deficit in half, making it 3-2. Dub Sea added two more in the inning to turn the game around and give them a 4-3 lead.

Declan Brown had three hits and three RBIs in the two games against Dub Sea (Photo: Christian J. Stewart)

Wyatt Hurley blew the game wide open with a three-run home run in the top of the third inning, extending the Fish Sticks’ lead to 7-3.

Dustin Davidson (Freed-Hardeman U) started for Victoria and threw three innings. He was replaced by Dillon Dibrell (Rogers State), who pitched two shutout innings while striking out six batters. Tristin Thomas (West Texas A&M) took over from there, pitching two innings of his own, giving up one run on two hits while striking out a pair.

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Dub Sea extended their lead to 10-3 in the top of the eighth, but the home team did not go away quietly in the bottom half. A Butler RBI single, his third hit of the night, got things going, and Liam Fast then followed it up with a two-run single. Jai Berezowki and Dominic Biello, both from the Victoria Golden Tide, also hit RBI singles to cap off the five-run frame and make it 10-8.

The Cats rally did not continue into the ninth inning as the Fish Sticks were able to hold on for the victory.

Cade Rusch (Bellarmine) pitched the final two innings for Victoria, striking out six and giving up two runs.

Jake Butler had three hits tonight (Photo: Christian J. Stewart)

Tomorrow, the HarbourCats take on the Victoria Mavericks, and it is the first-ever Country Night! Get yourself gussied up in your country outfits and come on down to the ballpark for a night of all things country. Rob Curtis will be performing on the field when the gates open at 5:30 PM. Friday is the start of Peninsula Co-op’s Kids Free Weekend! Friday, Saturday, and Sunday’s games are free for kids 12 and under.

Due to popular demand, we are expanding our $12 Tuesday seats. All remaining Premium Reserved seats (normally $22 per seat) for the July 29 game against Kamloops are now just $12. PLUS, WE NOW HAVE $12 THURSDAYS! All remaining Premium Reserved seats for our Thursday games on July 24 and July 31 are now just $12. Come watch the best baseball in town for the best price anywhere!

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Tickets and merchandise can also be purchased in person at the HarbourCats office at 101-1814 Vancouver Street or by calling 778-265-0327.

For more updates, be sure to follow @HarbourCats on all social channels (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram).

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Opportunistic Knights take first game

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NANAIMO, B.C. — The Corvallis Knights got hits when it counted, the Nanaimo NightOwls did not.

In the first ever visit by the Knights to historic Serauxmen Stadium, Corvallis narrowly outhit the NightOwls 10-8 in a 10-3 victory on Tuesday night with the Island Savings Christmas in July promotion keeping fans entertained. Game 2 in the series hockey jersey night goes Wednesday night, with the final game billet appreciation night set for Thursday, both 6:35pm starts.

Ryder Florence was 2-4 and was robbed of extra bases with a spectacular diving catch with the bases loaded and two outs, or this game could’ve turned back to the home club.

Jacob Hayes gave Nanaimo a 2-1 lead in the first inning with a two-run blast to left, the all-star’s eighth homer of the year, giving him 30 runs batted in on the season.

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Moosa Nonomiya was the notable pitching outing of the night, with 3.1 scoreless innings and just one hit allowed. Starter Blake Hager walked six and avoided bigger damage, while reliever Dylan Thompson came in and let the lead grow to the point it was tough to mount a comeback.



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