Caribou Heights fastball diamonds renamed in honour of Eddy Moore

It’s hard to overstate just how much Eddy Moore meant to the sport of fastball in Moose Jaw.

Thousands of players learned to play the game under his tutelage, covering decades and decades of dedication that saw local athletes develop a love for the sport while becoming some of the top players in the province and beyond.

Now, his legacy will be secured forever.

The Moose Jaw Senior Ladies Fastball League held a special dedication ceremony to open their 2023 season on Tuesday night, with the Caribou Heights diamonds officially renamed to Eddy Moore Park.

That includes the main sign entering the park in addition to special plaques that will be installed on both diamonds explaining Moore’s importance and what he meant to the sport.

“When my predecessors rented the space from the city and built the diamonds, Eddy was a very influential person in that he supported the ladies and what they needed to make sure we had a place of our own,” said league president Erin Tribier. “We recognized his contributions over the years, we even had the Eddy Moore Award we’d present for contributions to the league, and with his passing, we couldn’t think of a better honour to give him than requesting Caribou Heights be renamed in his name.” as he could, and when Joelle decided to become a pitcher, he turned that aspect of the game into his focus.

The league approached the city with the idea last year, and once procedures were completed, word was received just prior to the start of this season that the renaming had been approved.

That led to Tuesday night, as the league held a special ceremony prior to the first game of the season between the Park Hotel Colts and the Heat.

“He looked up all the techniques to help her become a great pitcher and he got so good at it, he became the pitching expert in Moose Jaw and was running pitching clinics through the city program,” Tri- bier said. “He taught all those generations how to pitch, just through supporting his daughter and getting into the sport.”

As a result, for the better part of the last 40 years, if you were an elite pitcher from Moose Jaw, odds were extremely high you’d come under Eddy’s tutelage at one point or another.

“There are ladies who are 60, 65 now who learned how to pitch from Eddy, then it went to my generation and younger generations for so, so many years,” Tribier said. “And Eddy continued to coach long past his daughter stopping playing, too. He was the head coach of Colts when I came into the league in 2000 and had been the coach of the team for years before then. He continued to want to be part of the sport and was always involved.”

Moore also spent many, many an hour working on the Caribou Heights diamonds, making sure they were in as good of shape as possible to not only act as a quality playing field, but also something Moose Jaw could be proud of.

On a whole, Eddy’s passion for the sport was infectious and led to many an individual helping take up the reins and keep the park in as good of shape as possible.

“You were worried about disappointing him, and he’d tell us ‘these diamonds are yours, ladies, make sure that they look and represent what you want out of the sport’,” Tribier said. “He reminded us of that and tried to make sure we felt passion for the sport and were proud of it. He made sure we had the best diamonds and the best opportunity to play the game as we could.”

Now, generations in the future will know of the man who helped make fastball what it is in Moose Jaw.

League president Erin Tribier and for- president Caralie Wait with the new signs honouring Eddy Moore that will be placed at each diamond.

Moore first became involved in the sport back in the early 1980s when daughter Joelle started playing fastball. A neophyte at the time, Moore began researching and learning about the sport as much

“The next generation might not know who Eddy is personally, but they’ll know his reputation and love of the sport,” Tribier said. “We want to make sure they know that name and how important he was to all of us and the community,”

Ice split doubleheader with Regina Royals in U17 AA fastball action

Moose Jaw rolls 11-0 win in opener, fall 16-6 in rematch at Optimist Park

It was a bit of good and bad for the Moose Jaw 17U AA Ice in a doubleheader with the Regina Royals on Wednesday, May 25.

And when it was good, it was really good for the local squad in the two-game set at Optimist Park.

The Ice put up 11 runs in the first inning and would go on to an 11-0 win in the opening game before a couple of tough innings proved to be their undoing in a 16-6 loss in the rematch.

The first contest was decided in a hurry.

Moose Jaw sent 16 batters to the plate in the first inning, put up seven hits and took advantage of five walks and a Regina error to put up their double-digit frame.

RBI, while Abby Maczuga and Macy Litzenberger had two hits apiece.

Unser had few difficulties on the mound, holding Regina scoreless while scattering three hits and striking out three in the four-inning mercy-rule win.

Moose Jaw also got off to a good start in the rematch, taking a 5-3 lead out of the first inning, but a six-run third and five-run seventh would see the Royals take their commanding win.

Litzenberger was 2-for-3 with a run, while Mallory Tendler knocked in a pair of runs and Kadence Dansereau had a 2-for-3 showing.

Ava Unser led the way at the plate, hitting a triple in the first inning and going 2-for-3 with a run and three runs batted in.

Peyton Mengel was 1-for-1 with a pair of

Mengel got the start for Moose Jaw and was the victim of a few too many errors, giving up 11 runs in three innings work, with only four of those earned. Hai- ly Molde pitched the next three innings and allowed four runs on five hits before Unser closed the final