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WAVERLEY:<\/strong> A Waverley baseball player will get a taste of the Canada-US rivalry that is so alive in hockey\u2014but this time on the baseball field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Julia Konigshofer, a Lockview High student, was one of 20 athletes announced to represent the country at a five-game Canada\/USA Friendship Series, running July 28 to Aug. 1 in Thunder Bay, Ont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The roster was chosen following the conclusion of the Women\u2019s Invitational Championships that took place in Stonewall, Manitoba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Friendships Series will mark the first time that both nations have played in international competition since the COPABE Women’s Pan-American Championships in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”8″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The roster, selected by manager Ashley Stephenson and coaches Patricia Landry, Hannah Martensen, Anthony Pluta and Kate Psota, features a mix of veteran players with international baseball experience with a cast of newcomers who will getting their first taste of international baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m really exciting with the group we have and look forward to competing against the US on home soil in Thunder Bay,\u201d said Stephenson. \u201cGiven our (Women\u2019s National Team) program has largely been inactive for three years this series is crucial to evaluate our team in its present state and what we\u2019d like to build towards in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Canada and USA will hold workouts at Baseball Central on Wednesday, July 27 before the series begins on July 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”72″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”156″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Game Schedule:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Streaming for all Friendship Series games will be available via Baseball Canada\u2019s YouTube page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Stay up to date with Baseball Canada\u2019s and USA Baseball\u2019s Women\u2019s National Team programs by following @BaseballCANWNT<\/a> and @USABaseballWNT<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”161″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”7″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Roster<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Emma Carr – Toronto, ON *First time with Women\u2019s National Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”92″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”123″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”78″] [adrotate banner=”84″] WAVERLEY: A Waverley baseball player will get a taste of the Canada-US rivalry that is so alive in hockey\u2014but this time on the baseball field. Julia Konigshofer, a Lockview High student, was one of 20 athletes announced to represent the country at a five-game Canada\/USA Friendship Series, running July 28 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[632,1923,2350,16],"class_list":["post-30287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-canada","tag-julia-konigshofer","tag-waverley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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