Baseball Manitoba announces 2013 award winners

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Published on Wednesday, October 30, 2013

myWestman.ca

Baseball Manitoba announced its 2013 award winners recently. 

Among the winners this year include Mitch Olson of the Manitoba Senior Baseball League's Reston Rockets, who was named the senior AAA player of the year. 

Olson, from Deloraine, had a batting average of .345 with four home runs and 17 RBI during the regular season. Olson and the Rockets won the MSBL title this past season.

Meanwhile the Oak River Dodgers bantam squad was named the grassroots team of the year. The club won the Western Canadian Bantam AA Championship earlier this year. 

The Baseball Manitoba annual awards banquet takes place Saturday, Nov. 9 in Morden.

The following is a complete listing of the award winners:

Senior AAA player of the year

Mitch Olson (Reston)

Reston Rockets

Pee wee player of the year

Tristan Peters (Winkler) 

Winkler AA/South Central AAA

Bantam player of the year

Jayden Bergen (Altona) 

Altona AA/South Central AAA

Midget player of the year

Troy Blad (Mitchell)

Seine River AA/Carillon AAA

Junior player of the year

Jamieson Krentz (Steinbach)

Carillon Sultans

Senior AA player of the year

Colin Walder (Altona)

Kildonan Mudcats

Grassroots coach of the year 

Curtis Grieve (Winnipeg)

Sturgeon Heights Mosquito AA

Jason Mateychuk (Dominion City) 

Dominion City Mosquito AA

High performance coach of the year

David Nychyk (St. Andrews) 

North Winnipeg Pirates Pee Wee AAA

Volunteer of the year

Doug Quark (Winnipeg) 

Winnipeg South

Grassroots team of the year

Oak River Bantam AA 

High performance team of the year (minor)

South Central Pee Wee AAA

High performance team of the year (major)

Pembina Valley Orioles (MJBL)

Umpire award of merit

John Unger (Grunthal)

Honour society

Curtis Smith (Lorette), Tony Kalechyn (Grandview), Larry Nicholls (Killarney), Gerry Falk (Morden), Ray Mutcheson (Morden)