In an Instagram post, the Welland Jackfish of the Canadian Baseball League (former Intercounty Baseball League) announced they hired French pitcher Owen Ozanich for the 2026 season. The Welland Jackfish were added to the Intercounty Baseball League in 2019 and won two championships so far: 2023 and 2025. Ozanich was born in France before moving to Aruba and then…
According to Grandeslam.net, French national team player Owen Ozanich will return to Parmaclima for the 2020 season. Originally, Ozanich had signed with the Montpellier Barracudas for 2020 but as the French season has been cancelled due to the coronavirus, he is free to join any club he wants. It was Ozanich himself who approached Parmaclima…
Returning from Parma after his Italian adventure, one would expect Owen Ozanich to return to the Rouen Huskies. But Ozanich kind of surprised the baseball community by signing with the Montpellier Barracudas, the three-time French champion. Unfortunately for Owen, he could not finish his season with Parma as he broke his shin bone because of…
Six hits were all that L&D Amsterdam Pirates could produce against Owen Ozanich of the Rouen Huskies. The French champion, on the other hand, managed to collect twelve hits and score eight times to hand Pirates a humiliating loss: 8-1 Owen Ozainich was practically unhittable today. Only in the ninth inning, Pirates got past second base…
Until the go-ahead run in the fifth inning, Rouen Huskies was a tough opponent for Curaçao Neptunus. Only after the Dutch team took a 5-2 lead, things started to roll. Eventually, Neptunus beat the Huskies 9-3. Today’s game started better for Curaçao Neptunus than yesterday’s. With two outs, Christian Diaz hit a line drive to the…
Apparently team Europe likes to play teams from Taiwan. A few days ago, the team clinched the first win vs the CPBL team and today it beat Chinese Taipei. For a long time the game was tied. In every inning that the opponent scored the Europeans scored as many runs. But an offensive outburst in…
For 8.5 innings team Europe kept Chinese Taipei in check as the score was 2-2 after the top of the ninth inning. But eventually Chinese Taipei walked off with the win in a game in which both teams could have walked off as a victor. A day after the rained out game between Europe and…
After the Dutch won the first two games with double digits and France lost their first two games one might think that this game would be an easy win for the Kingdom of the Netherlands. And indeed the Dutch finished the game in seven mercy rule innings. France 0 – 10 Kingdom of the Netherlands…
On Thursday March 17, the WBC Qualifier 3 started with a matchup between Colombia and Spain. Later Panama and France would face each other in the night cap No surprises on this day as both favorites won easily. But also the games of this qualifier were restricted by black outs. How on earth does MLB want to…
Today not a Dutch pitcher as a starter, but one from the French competition. But nevertheless a solid outing. Owen Ozanich pitched through five innings in which he only gave up three hits and struck out four without surrendering a run. Europe on its turn scored three runs in the first two innings. With two…
