Lefties Get Five-Year Ballpark Lease Extension

The Port Angeles Lefties (Summer Collegiate, West Coast League) open their season today with optimism and the assurance that Civic Field will be their ballpark through 2024.  Read more here.

Lefties to Host 2018 WCL All-Star Game, Plan Saltwater Splashdown Home-Run Derby

Going yard will be going splash when the Port Angeles Lefties (Summer Collegiate, West Coast League) host a home-run contest on the eve of the 2018 West Coast League All-Star Game at Civic Field this July.  Read more here.

Inaugural Home Opener for Lefties

The start-up Port Angeles Lefties (Summer Collegiate, West Coast League) fell 11-2 to its crosswater rival the Victoria HarbourCats on the team inaugural home opener at Civic Stadium on Thursday night in front of a crowd estimated between 1,500 to 2,000 people.  Read more here.  Watch video here.

HarbourCats Offer Fans Ferry Excursion for Opening Day Game Across Strait of Juan de Fuca

PRESS RELEASE – The Victoria HarbourCats have partnered with Black Ball Ferry Line to provide Victoria baseball fans an opportunity to ‘get off the rock’ and follow the HarbourCats to Opening Day in Port Angeles, WA.

Lefties Unveil Logo, WCL Adds to Front Office

The new Port Angeles Lefties (Summer Collegiate, West Coast League) have unveiled their logo, as the team prepares for its inaugural 2017 season at Civic Stadium in Port Angeles (WA).  Meanwhile, the league has announced the addition of Jonathan Hodgson to its marketing communications team.  Hodgson will act as the WCL’s Coordinator of Online Communications.  Read more here.  Thanks to Brandon Sparks for the logo heads up.

West Coast League Announces ‘Port Angeles Lefties’

PRESS RELEASE – West Coast League baseball is coming to Port Angeles, Washington in 2017. The WCL is proud to announce the birth of the Port Angeles Lefties, who will begin play in the league next season.

Name the Team Voting Underway for Port Angeles Franchise

Matt Acker, who is working to place a summer collegiate West Coast League franchise in Port Angeles (WA), has narrowed the list of potential team names to Hooks,  Pinchers, Sasquatch and Timber Giants.  Vote here.  Read background story here.  Based on a clue in the background story about a relocation and the rumor we have heard, it appears Acker is going to move his once-promising but now-attendance-cellar-dweller Kitsap BlueJackets to Port Angeles under a new name, and place the BlueJackets in the Puget Sound Collegiate League, where he serves as president.  Read about Acker’s acquisition of the BlueJackets here.

West Coast League Targets Port Angeles (WA)

The summer collegiate West Coast League is reportedly targeting Port Angeles (WA) as a new location for a baseball franchise.  The city of about 19,000 residents is just across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Victoria (BC), home of the circuit’s Victoria HarbourCats.  If a deal is secured, the team would play at Civic Stadium with its great view of the Olympic Mountains.  Read more here.  Thanks to Brandon Sparks from OlySports.com for the heads up.