SPRINGFIELD – Bobby Blandford’s two-out, RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning Saturday night lifted the Springfield Drifters to a 4-3 victory over the Cowlitz Black Bears at…
SPRINGFIELD – Bobby Blandford’s two-out, RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning Saturday night lifted the Springfield Drifters to a 4-3 victory over the Cowlitz Black Bears at…
LOWELL – Dexter Reservoir hosted the USRowing Northwest Masters Regional Championships for the first time last weekend. The event is normally hosted at Vancouver Lake in Washington, but due to…
LOWELL – Dexter Reservoir hosted the USRowing Northwest Masters Regional Championships for the first time last weekend. The event is normally hosted at Vancouver Lake in Washington, but due to…
Class 5A All-State Softball – All Thurston 2nd team – Bailey Tovey, SR; Sadie Decker, SR 3rd team – Gabby Montes, SO HM – Kasey Ogan, SO Millers grab Marist…
Class 5A All-State Softball – All Thurston 2nd team – Bailey Tovey, SR; Sadie Decker, SR 3rd team – Gabby Montes, SO HM – Kasey Ogan, SO Millers grab Marist…
EUGENE – The Thurston Colts were tied 1-1 with West Albany in the bottom of the 8th inning of the Class 5A State Championship game on Saturday when freshman Grady Saunders, the first batter of the half-inning, stepped up to bat. The first three pitches he watched the ball go by. On the fourth pitch Saunders swung, smacking the ball deep into right-center field.
“Right off the bat, I thought it was gone, like over the fence,” Saunders said. “I was just chuggin’. I knew it was going to be at least a double or a triple.”
Saunders’ coach Dennis Minium thought Saunders had hit a home run too. Instead the ball ended up short, with West Albany center fielder Evan Bliss diving to catch it but missing. The ball bounced off the wall at the University of Oregon’s PK Park, but Bliss mishandled it when he tried to pick it up, giving Saunders extra time to run.
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