Regina Red Sox take first WCBL championship since 2012

The Regina Red Sox are bringing home the Western Canadian Baseball League’s (WCBL) Harry Hallis Memorial Trophy after winning their first league championship since the 2012 season after a 5-4 victory over the Sylvan Lake Gulls on Saturday night.

The victory ended a season that started with heartbreak after Regina-born pitcher Jesse Lubiniecki was killed in a crash in Montana as he was returning to the Queen City from college. Players wore Lubiniecki’s No. 33 all season to remember their fallen teammate.

The 2025 WCBL Champions!

Congrats to the @ReginaRedSox! pic.twitter.com/t66pnYSXtD

— The WCBL (@wcbleague) August 17, 2025

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The Sox forced the winner-take-all Game 3 in dramatic fashion on Friday, after beating the Gulls 10-7 with an exciting ninth inning rally.

The deciding game in the series was a back-and-forth affair that was not decided until Ian Montz flagged down a fly ball off the bat of Simon Baker in centrefield with two men on base to preserve the victory.

Regina got the early jump on Sylvan Lake starter Matthew McKenzie, as Brady Bye laced a single to score Rafael Jackson who had reached on an error.

That lead got stretched to 3-0 in the third inning as Bye drove home Zayd Brannigan on a ground ball out, with Matthew Fox scoring moments later on a wild pitch.

The Gulls fought back to tie the game in the fifth and the lead in the sixth, but in top of the seventh Justin Simard led things off with a single. He moved to second base on a Jordan Tucker walk and, after a wild pitch moved both men 90 feet, Rafael Jackson brought them home with a base hit to give Regina the lead, helped by another outstanding pitching performance from Ayden Page.

Page came into the game to replace starter Chris Spry in the fifth inning and the senior from Southwestern Oklahoma State shut the door, striking out six in five innings of work to record the victory.

Bye was named the playoff MVP, after getting 12 hits in eight games while driving in 10, with an average of .333.