Young Sudbury ball players relish the chance to hone their skills

Northern rivalries are a reality for pretty much every single sport in these parts – and certainly baseball is no different. Article content

Yet it was a prevailing sense of cooperation that would bring together 15 teams representing associations from North Bay, Timmins, the Ottawa Valley, Sudbury and Valley East this past weekend, gathering at the Terry Fox Sports Complex for a series of friendlies. Article content Article content

With the bulk of the Baseball Ontario provincial championships scheduled to take place over the next two weekends, teams from the north were taking full advantage of one last chance to tinker with details at the plate, to fine-tune their defensive positional arrangements and such.

For infielder Alys Beyers and her 15U Sudbury Shamrocks teammates, the oppo