The 2017 Border West Baseball League season finds all seven teams returning to compete for the WG (Gerry) Coulthard Trophy.

This week the league announced it's regular season schedule and it can be found here. The schedule will feature a balanced scheduled with teams facing off against each other three times each, for a total of an 18-game schedule. 

The Pilot Mound Pilots, who captured their first ever BWBL championship, will kick off their title defence on opening night, May 19th with a road game against Cartwright. This will be a rematch of last year's semifinal series that went the distance. 

The league's runner-up Winkler Whips are back for their second season in the league and will look to improve on last year's impressive run to the final, falling just 2 wins short of a title in their debut season. They will welcome their closest rivals, the Morden Mohawks, to town to begin their season. 

The Mohawks saw their three-year run atop the league come to an end after being upended by Cartwright in the wildcard game last fall.  

After having their streak of nine straight championship series appearances snapped by the Whips last year the Baldur Regals will also be looking to rekindle their dominance of the league. They fell one win shy of a full decade of being in the finals after Winkler dumped them in the decisive game of their semi-final series.  

The Killarney Lakers will look to improve on their six win season as they faded down the stretch last year going just 2-8 in their final 10 games before being ousted in their wildcard match up with Baldur.

Clearwater will return as one of only two teams that have played every season of the league's existence (Cartwright Twins being the other).

A new playoff format will be used this year with all 7 teams making the playoffs. First place team will receive a bye to the semi-finals while the remaining six teams will play a best of 3 quarter-finals (2v7, 3v6, 4v5). The three advancing teams will be reseeded and will join the top-seeded team in a best of 3 semi-finals with the winners advancing to a best of 5 final.