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(PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia) – Rick Hague (Rice), Bryce Brentz (Middle Tennessee State) and Michael Choice (UT Arlington) each hit a home run in the fifth inning and Team USA beat British Columbia 12-2 in eight innings at the 2009 Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline World Baseball Challenge at Prince George Citizen Field.

Devon Franklin hit a home run over the left field fence in the first inning and Mike Collins hit a homer in the fourth to lead 2-0 on Team USA starter Cody Wheeler (Coastal Carolina).

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The USA National Team continues their play in the 2009 Enbridge Northern Gateway World Baseball Challenge tonight with a game against British Columbia. Team USA enters the game with a 3-1 record after winning their opening game against Canada 5-2 (Recap), then losing to Germany 6-3 (Recap), picking up a victory over The Bahamas by a score of 8-1 (Recap) and finally a victory yesterday over The Prince George Axemen by a score of 10-2 (Recap). The British Columbia club enters the game with a 3-1 record in the tourney with a loss to Team Canada. The game is set to start tonight at 6 PM Eastern/3 PM Pacific time. You can check out the video below.

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PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia — Rick Hague (Rice) went 3-4 with one of three U.S. home runs and Team USA defeated the host Prince George Axemen, 10-2, at the 2009 Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline World Baseball Challenge at Prince George Citizen Field.

The Axemen (2-2) got on the board in the bottom of the first inning with a double to right center by Darrin Doucette to take a short-lived one-run lead.

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The USA National Team continues their play in the 2009 Enbridge Northern Gateway World Baseball Challenge tonight with a game against the Prince George Axemen. Team USA enters the game with a 2-1 record after winning their opening game against Canada 5-2 (Recap), then losing to Germany 6-3 (Recap), and picking up a victory over The Bahamas by a score of 8-1 (Recap). The Prince George Axemen enter the game with a 2-1 record after defeating Germany 8-4 and The Bahamas 13-3 while picking up a loss to Team BC 10-4. The game is set to start tonight at 10 PM Eastern/7 PM Pacific time. You can check out the video below.

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(PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia) – Asher Wojciechowski (The Citadel) struck out nine batters in seven innings and Team USA beat Bahamas, 8-1, at the 2009 Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline World Baseball Challenge at Prince George Citizen Field.

Kolten Wong (Hawaii) hit a double down the right field line to score Tyler Holt (Florida State) in the first inning and Matt Newman (Arizona State) stole home in the second for a 2-0, Team USA lead.

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The USA National Team continues their play in the 2009 Enbridge Northern Gateway World Baseball Challenge. Team USA opened up play on Sunday with a 5-2 victory over the Canadian National Team. (FULL STORY). They followed that up with a surprise loss to the German National Team by a score of 6-3. (FULL STORY). The team from The Bahamas has struggled in this tournament as they have lost to Prince George Axemen by a score of 13-3 (Box Score), Germany 20-3 (Box Score), and got no-hit by the Canadian National Team in a 14-0 defeat. (Box Score). You can check out live video of the game which starts at 10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific below.

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(PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia) – Team USA pitchers surrendered three home runs and German pitcher Tim Henkenjohann pitched 8.2 innings as Team Germany beat the U.S., 6-3, at the 2009 Enbridge Northern Pipeline World Baseball Challenge at Prince George Citizen Field.

USA starter T.J. Walz (Kansas) surrendered a solo home run to Jendrick Speer and a two-run shot to Simon Guerhing in the bottom of the fourth inning as Germany (2-1) went up 3-0 on the U.S.

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Team USA will be taking on the German National Team in their second game of the Enbridge Northern Gateway World Baseball Challenge in Prince George, British Columbia. Team USA opened up the tournament with a 5-2 victory over the host Canada on Sunday evening while Germany destroyed the Bahamas 20-3. The game is set to start at 10pm eastern time while starting at 7pm Pacific. You can check out Live Video with audio below. Read the rest of this entry »

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(PRINCE GEORGE, British Columbia) – Christian Colon (Cal State Fullerton) and Yasmani Grandal (Miami) hit a home run each and Team USA opened the 2009 Enbridge Northern Pipeline World Baseball Challenge with a 5-2 victory over Canada at Citizen Stadium.

Christian Colon (Cal State Fullerton) hit a solo home run over the wall in left field in the first inning to put the U.S. up front early, 1-0.
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Team USA continues their international baseball tour tonight against Team Canada in the World Baseball Challenge in Prince George, British Columbia. Team USA is coming off a five game series where they lost three out of the five games against the Japanese Collegiate Team. Read the rest of this entry »

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(TOKYO) – Japan took advantage of back-to-back errors in the bottom of the 11th inning to clinch the 37th Annual USA vs. Japan Collegiate Championships with an 8-7 victory at Jingu Stadium.

With the game tied at seven, pitcher Sonny Gray’s (Vanderbilt) errant pickoff attempt moved Shota Kioke to third base with two outs. Christian Colon (Cal State Fullerton) then misplayed a ground ball at shortstop that scored Kioke from third base to seal the game and best-of-five series. Read the rest of this entry »

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(TSURUOKA, Japan) – Team Japan struck out 14 U.S. batters and Team USA stranded 16 runners on base as it fell to Japan 8-3 in game four of the 37th Annual USA vs. Japan Collegiate Championships in Tsuruoka, Japan.

Takahiro Araki hit a two-RBI single to left center in the first inning and Shota Ishimine followed with an RBI single in the second for a 3-0 lead on USA starter Trevor Bauer (UCLA). Read the rest of this entry »

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