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Riverhawks lose WCL north division championship to Bells
The Edmonton Riverhawks and Bellingham Bells leave Re/Max Field in Edmonton after the Bells won the West Coast League north division championship 5-2 on Aug. 12, 2025. (YouTube/Edmonton Riverhawks) The Edmonton Riverhawks were knocked out of the West Coast League (WCL) playoffs with a 5-2 loss to the Washington-based Bellingham Bells Tuesday evening. The teams fought to maintain a lead until the seventh inning, when the Bells created a two-point gap, 4-2. A short while later, play was stopped for about an hour and a half because of lightning and heavy rain. When the teams returned to the field, the Riverhawks failed to catch up, with the Bells scoring one more point. 'Thank you for an unbelievable season, Edmonton. We couldn't do it without you,' the Riverhawks said to fans on social media. This was the first time in team history the Riverhawks earned a spot in the North Division Championship. They beat the Victoria Harbourcats twice in the best-of-three first round of playoffs. The Bells will face the 2024 champions, the Portland Pickles, who beat the Corvallis Knights 6-5 Tuesday, for the league championship on Thursday. For a third consecutive season, the Riverhawks say they set a WCL single season attendance record this summer, hosting nearly 132,000 fans.
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07-08-2025
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Riverhawks start playoffs Friday, host Saturday game vs. HarbourCats
The playoffs are set in baseball's West Coast League, and the Edmonton Riverhawks are in them for the second year in a row. The Riverhawks clinched the collegiate summer circuit's North Division second-half crown with a 7-2 win over the HarbourCats in Victoria Wednesday night. Edmonton and Victoria finished the second half with identical 20-8 records, but the Riverhawks claimed first place as they had the better head-to-head record than the HarbourCats. They'll play each other in the best-of-three divisional round as the second and third seeds in the North starting Friday night in the British Columbia capital. The series will switch to Edmonton's Re/Max Field for Game 2 on Saturday night (7 p.m.) and, if necessary, Game 3 on Sunday at 1 p.m. The rest of the West Coast League playoff slate begins Friday as well. the top North seed Bellingham Bells are in Wenatchee, Wash., to play the fourth-seeded AppleSox; the top South seed Portland Pickles are in Marion, Ore., to face the fourth-seeded Berries; and the South's second seed, the Corvalis Knights, are in Bend, Ore., to face the third-seeded Elks. All series will switch to the higher-seeded team's ballpark for Game 2 and, if necessary, Game 3. The eight teams, four from each division, that qualified for the West Coast League playoffs include each division's first-half winner and second-half winner, and the two teams in each division with the best overall records that did not win the first or second half. The Portland Pickles set the league record this year for best overall regular-season record at 43-11, while the Riverhawks set a league mark for best attendance for the third year in a row with 131,966 spectators for their 27 home games, an average of 4,887 per date at their river valley home.
