AppleSox Reveal 2022 Schedule
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The full schedule is set for the Wenatchee AppleSox’ 2022 season, the 22nd in team history. League and non-league opponents are locked in and the countdown to the 2022 season is on.
The AppleSox open the season on June 3 on the road against the Bend Elks. Wenatchee’s home opener will be June 6 against the Port Angeles Lefties. The AppleSox will play 31 home games in 2022 with 27 of them coming in league play. All four of Wenatchee’s non-league games against three different opponents will take place in the Apple Capital.
The 2022 season represents the 17th in West Coast League history. The AppleSox, along with the Bend Elks, Bellingham Bells, Corvallis (then Aloha) Knights, Kelowna Falcons, and the now-defunct Kitsap BlueJackets (current Port Angeles Lefties) and Spokane RiverHawks, formed the West Coast League in 2005.
The League expands to a record-high 16 teams next summer. The Kelowna Falcons and Victoria HarbourCats are poised to return after sitting out the 2021 season and the two Canadian members will be joined north of the border by the Edmonton Riverhawks, Kamloops NorthPaws, and Nanaimo NightOwls, all three of whom were set to join the WCL in 2021. The Springfield Drifters from southern Oregon will also join the League as an expansion team.
The AppleSox travel to three of the four new teams in 2022. Following a three-game series against Victoria June 21-23, Wenatchee will continue its western Canada road trip by traveling from British Columbia to Alberta to face Edmonton over the weekend of June 24-26. Two weeks after their first journey of the season to Canada the AppleSox will embark on another six-game Canadian sojourn July 5-10. It begins against Kelowna and wraps up against Nanaimo. The AppleSox’ final expansion team road series comes July 29-31 against Kamloops. The NorthPaws are the only expansion team that Wenatchee hosts and visits in 2022.
Though the AppleSox open the season on the road for the first time since 2018, they end the regular season at home Aug. 5-7 against Walla Walla. Wenatchee has three different homestands of six-or-more games beginning with their first slate of home games. The AppleSox’ first three games at Paul Thomas Sr. Stadium will be June 6-8 against Port Angeles. Following a day off, Wenatchee hosts Springfield before their first non-league game of the year against the Northwest Star Academy on June 13.
The next six-game homestand stretches from the end of June into July as Kelowna and Bend visit. Finally, the soon-to-be-renamed Highline Bears visit July 12-13 and the Corvallis Knights follow in between off days on July 14 and 18. Kamloops comes to town July 19-21 to wrap up the eight-game homestand, the longest of the 2022 season.
AppleSox season tickets are on sale now for as affordable as $130. You’ll receive seats to all 31 home games as well as invites to exclusive season-ticket holder events this offseason. Season tickets are also available at no cost to AppleSox fans if they host a player in 2022.
Lock in your seats and celebrate summer with the AppleSox by calling 509-665-6900 or emailing general manager Allie Schank at allie@applesox.com.
