Pahl to step down as league president

Steve Pahl who has watched over the league while his team has won every championship will step down after this spring’s meeting, opening the way for a new era of the Powerline Baseball League.

Pahl released a draft schedule based on the same seven teams as last year and set a tentative date for the annual spring meeting of Marh 27.

“I will also be stepping down at the end of the meeting as one presidential term is enough and it’s time to get some fresh ideas,” he wrote in an email to the league reps. “So if you or any of members of your teams wants to step up that would be great.”

During Pahl’s tenure, the league added a team in Beaumont and joined Baseball Alberta. The league saw its greatest parity in recent memory with Tofield moving to Camrose and qualifying for the playoffs while Armena and Holden came of age. Leduc still would win the playoffs, however.

Still, the league remains what it once was with a limited schedule, teams scheduling their own umpires and a collective of teams that generally patrol themselves. Whether or not any new president will want to push this remains to be seen.