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The Thunder Bay Chill are headed to Portland, Ore. As expected, on Sunday the Premier Development League announced the Portland U23s, undefeated and untied in 18 regular season and playoff games, will host the league championship next weekend.

Against a team like the powerful Cubans, all it takes is one mistake to let the game get away. Tom Robson made that mistake in the fourth inning, and No. 9 hitter Andy Ibanez made him pay. Ibanez, hitting just .

Canada’s Cinderalla story has come to an unhappy ending at the World Junior Baseball Championship in Thunder Bay.

The Border Cats hitters on Saturday showed they could climb out of a hole, but the pitching staff, on the other hand, showed they could put the team right back in it.

The baseball gods giveth and they taketh away.

Brandon Swartzendruber is as clutch as they come.

By the time this one ended, Thunder Bay Chill striker Brandon Swartzendruber had nothing left to give.

Rowan Wick has ensured Team Canada will play for a medal at the World Junior Baseball Championships.

The Cubans ran the American’s blockade to a World Junior Baseball Championship on Friday, taking down the United States with some ninth-inning heroics.

Lesson learned for Team Canada. Needing a win over the winless Czech Republic on Wednesday to clinch the Pool B round-robin title, it took a two-run Dalton Pompey double in the bottom of the ninth to eke out an 8-7 win and avoid a third-place finish.