The Lethbridge Bulls are a Summer college baseball team playing at Spitz Stadium in Lethbridge , Alberta . The team is a member of the Western Canadian Baseball League , a collegiate summer baseball league operating in the prairie provinces of Canada .
9-738: The team was founded in 1999 by Doug Jones, mayor of the town of Oyen . Kevin Kvame has been the President and General Manager of the Bulls since 2005 and was the GM for the 3 preceding years as well. Kregg Snook became the current head coach in 2019. He was the team’s pitcher in 2014 and 2016. The club played out of Henderson Stadium following the relocation of the Pioneer League franchise Lethbridge Mounties and Lethbridge Black Diamonds to Missoula in
18-484: A 2.9% change from its 2011 population of 973. With a land area of 5.28 km (2.04 sq mi), it had a population density of 189.6/km (491.0/sq mi) in 2016. Oyen has a golf course and a local museum . Oyen also contains an arena, curling rink, and outdoor pool. Oyen is also home to the Badlands Badgers baseball academy for high school students. A major highway rest stop is located north of
27-503: A land area of 5.15 km (1.99 sq mi), it had a population density of 178.1/km (461.2/sq mi) in 2021. The population of the Town of Oyen according to its 2017 municipal census is 1,022, a change of 1.6% from its 2015 municipal census population of 1,006. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Town of Oyen recorded a population of 1,001 living in 400 of its 422 total private dwellings,
36-546: A triple murder-suicide along the Alberta Highway 2 near Claresholm Alberta . It has since been referred to as the “ Claresholm highway shooting ”. ² Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/killer-rammed-suv-in-alberta-shooting-1.1026077 - CBC (2011) This article about a baseball team in Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Lethbridge -related article
45-474: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Oyen, Alberta Oyen is a town in east-central Alberta , Canada near the Saskatchewan boundary and north of Medicine Hat . It is on Highway 41 , 4 km (2.5 mi) south of its junction with Highway 9 . Early name, Bishopburg, was changed in 1912 to honour Andrew Oyen, an early settler who sold his homestead for the townsite. Oyen
54-403: Is heavily concentrated in the warmer months. Oyen's precipitation is narrowly below being a humid continental climate , a type it closely resembles in terms of yearly temperatures. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , the Town of Oyen had a population of 917 living in 352 of its 404 total private dwellings, a change of -8.4% from its 2016 population of 1,001. With
63-404: Is the service centre for a large but sparsely populated dryland farming area. In the surrounding area wheat , barley , and canola are important crops, and beef cattle are raised. Oyen experiences a semi-arid climate ( Köppen climate classification BSk ). Winters are long, cold and dry, while summers are short and warm. Precipitation is low, with an annual average of 322 mm, and
72-869: The fall of 1998 becoming the Missoula Osprey and then the Missoula PaddleHeads . The Bulls have won the Western Division title on 4 occasions and the League Championship twice, in 2015 and in the 2021 shortened season due to COVID-19. They have been 1st overall in the regular season of the WMBL on 3 occasions. In 2011, two players from the Lethbridge Bulls (20-year old Mitch Maclean and 22-year-old Tanner Craswell) from Prince Edward Island lost their lives due to
81-669: The town at the junction of Highway 41 and Highway 9. It is developed with a service station, A&W restaurant, a motel and a visitor information centre operated by Travel Alberta. There is Oyen Municipal Airport nearby. Oyen also has a hospital. Oyen is home to a regional public high school and a small Catholic elementary school. The high school is known as South Central High School (SCHS) with students grade seven to twelve. Oyen Public School (OPS) hosts students from kindergarten to grade nine. Assumption Roman Catholic school has students from kindergarten to grade six. Oyen Municipal Airport Oyen Municipal Airport ( TC LID : CED3 )
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