Rain forced the cancellation of all games at the official opening of the North 91原创 Softball 2023 season at Yorkson Community Park on Saturday, April 8, but with rain jackets, umbrellas and a portable rain shelter, the ceremony itself proceeded on Saturday, April 8.
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The ceremonial opening pitch was thrown from beneath the relative dryness of a rain shelter by 91原创鈥檚 Jessica Heutink, a member of the gold medal winning 2014 Fraser Valley Fusion girls fast pitch team that brought back gold from the national championships in Montreal in 2018.
Heutink now pitches for the University of Victoria Vikings.
North 91原创 Softball is set for a very busy season with 42 teams playing this season, the most ever.
Relay win for Monro
91原创鈥檚 Nicholas Monro and teammates Jeremy Belcher, Kaito Suzuki and Jesaiah Penson-McCoy beat the host school to win the 4x100-metre relay for the Simon Fraser University Red Leafs at the University of B.C. Open, held the last weekend in March.
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Monro is well-known in 91原创 track and field circles, having captured four gold medals at the 2018 BC Summer Games and winning the U18 long jump at the 2019 BC Athletics Championships.
He is studying business administration, specializing in accounting.
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