A memorial baseball game has been planned to honour the Lethbridge Bulls players tragically killed last December.
The Lethbridge Bulls and Vauxhall Academy of Baseball announced last week they will be playing the First Annual Tanner Craswell and Mitch Maclean Memorial Game in May.
The game will be played in memory of the two former Bulls players and will be the team’s first and only pre-season game.
Craswell and Maclean played for the Bulls and were Prairie Baseball Academy teammates. They won the 2011 Canadian College Baseball Conference Championship. Craswell was also involved with the Vauxhall Academy of Baseball in his senior year of high school.
The VAB Jets hosted their sixth annual Awards and Scholarship Banquet last Saturday. At the event naming rights to the Tanner Craswell and Mitch Maclean Memorial Game were auctioned off.
Proceeds of the auction go to the Tanner Craswell and Mitch Maclean Memorial Fund. This fund will be used to assist aspiring baseball players, mainly from the Maritimes area, in pursuing baseball careers with the VAB Jets, Lethbridge Bulls and Prairie Baseball Academy.
The community is encouraged to come out and support the memorial game, which will be played on May 30 at 7:05 p.m. at the Spitz Stadium.