It’s an off-season makeover for the city’s top baseball program that better reflects its overall geographical representation.
The B.C. Premier Baseball League’s North Delta Blue Jays and the Delta Tigers will now be known as the Delta Blue Jays starting in the 2022 season.
“We realize that our team’s name can’t encompass every single person who will suit up in the ‘Jay’ blue, however we feel changing our name to the Delta Blue Jays will make us much more inclusive, and better reflect the overall makeup of our club‘s Bantam, Junior and Senior teams,” stated a club release.
“This will also align us with other programs within the PBL. We will be proudly developing players from all three Delta’s - Ladner, Tsawwassen, North Delta, as well as Richmond and other communities.”
The name change also makes it much easier to recognize the partnership between the Blue Jays and Tigers that was initiated in 2019 and brought the programs together under the same umbrella.
While the Blue Jays have been playing almost exclusively out of North Delta’s Mackie Park, the Tigers make their home at Winskill Park which reflected their support from Tsawwassen Amateur Baseball Association.
The final season known as the “Tigers” concluded with capturing the PBL Bantam Prep playoff championship back in August under longtime head coach Cam Frick who launched the program.
“The Bantam program has been a pillar of success at the Bantam level over the years, and have been an essential partner with the Junior & Senior Blue Jays in the development of these hard working kids, even long before the Tigers and the Blue Jays officially became one in 2019,” the club added.
“We look forward to the continued accomplishments of our Bantam Prep, Junior BCJPBL, and Senior BCPBL Delta Blue Jays - working with our community’s kids, helping them grow into fine, young adults who will have earned the opportunity to continue playing baseball after their high school years are done.”
The club’s updated logo is described as ‘a dash of the old, crafted into exciting and new, a tiny bit borrowed - all in our familiar blue’.
The Delta Blue Jays will field teams at the Senior, Junior and Bantam levels in 2022.
