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Mar 28/24
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2011 World
Baseball Challenge
HR DERBY
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Prince George
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COLLINS WINS FIRST-EVER WBC HR DERBY


On a cool night at the ballpark, Mike Collins got hot at just the right time.
The six-foot-two, 240-pound firstbaseman/DH brought his Team B.C. clout to the plate and won the Enbridge Northern Gateway World Baseball Challenge home run derby with eight fence-clearing shots in the final round.
“I saw the pitches down the middle and just swung away,” said Collins, who plays senior baseball for the Nanaimo Coal Miners. “It must have been that cool air that helped.
“The first two rounds were tough but the pitcher started to groove ‘em in there. I was getting jammed a couple times but I was able to get barrel there at the end.”
Collins won the last home run derby he participated in five years ago in Lethbridge.
Collins’s hot stick eclipsed the efforts of hometown heroes Brandon Hunter and Adam Norn, who both made the final round along with Germany’s Dominik Wulf. Hunter, who won the second round with six home runs, finished with two, while Norn and Wulf each clubbed a single shot.
Phoenix Coyotes goaltender Jason LaBarbera, the former backup for the Vancouver Canucks, also took part but none of his hits left the park.
Collins was fed pitches by Team BC teammate Devon Franklin, a former Prince George resident.




 


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