OC Coyotes hosting championship starting today

Spring in the Okanagan can mean only one thing — championship baseball.

The Okanagan College Coyotes are hosting the 2017 Canadian College Baseball Conference Championship starting today, with the final Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

The Coyotes went 15-13 this season, but an 8-2 run over their last 10 games has the team looking to make a run this week.

“We have been working hard all year for this weekend, we had some bumps and bruises along the way, but we have been playing better baseball of late. If we pitch well and to our capability we will have a chance,” said head coach Geoff White.

The Coyotes open against Fraser Valley tonight at 7:30 p.m., then play Vancouver Island on Thursday (7:30 p.m.), Pacific Baseball Academy on Friday (7:30 p.m.) and Calgary on Saturday (1 p.m.)

All games are at Elks Stadium, starting at 10 a.m. today. There will be 12 games in total.

For more information and the complete schedule, go online to www.okanagancollegebaseball.ca.

The 2017 Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg are fast approaching and sports are selecting the athletes to represent Team BC.

The following Kelowna athletes have been named to Team BC:

Volleyball (female): Gammel. Volleyball (male): Bobby Blaskovitz. Basketball (female): Kennedy Dickie, Rachel Hare. The athletes named to the other 13 sports will be announced over the next two months.

The complete list of Team BC athletes going to the Canada Games will be available by July 14. The Games take place July 28-Aug. 13 in Winnipeg. Sadie Taylor-Parks, Avery

Max French of West Kelowna, who played for the West Kelowna Warriors, was selected for the Edward J. Powers Scholar Athlete Award as Bentley University’s premier senior scholar-athlete.

French, who is at the Waltham, Mass., school working on his masters in accountancy after graduating summa cum laude a year ago, is a two-time first-team All-Atlantic Hockey honoree. He led the Falcons in scoring this season with 17 goals and 22 assists for 39 points, ranking fourth in Atlantic Hockey.

Among Division I players who competed this season, French ranked fourth in career goals (67) and fifth in points (143).

French, who has achieved a GPA over 3.8, has made three appearances on the AHA All-Atlantic team and will add to that total when this year’s team is announced this summer.