SPRINGFIELD – Drifters head coach Tommy Richards wears the team’s uniform at each game, just like other managers. It might be just as appropriate if he wore a white lab…
SPRINGFIELD – Drifters head coach Tommy Richards wears the team’s uniform at each game, just like other managers. It might be just as appropriate if he wore a white lab…
The high school sports season ended with a bang as the Thurston Colts baseball team grabbed the Class 5A State Championship. While the Colts’ win was the culmination of an…
The high school sports season ended with a bang as the Thurston Colts baseball team grabbed the Class 5A State Championship. While the Colts’ win was the culmination of an…
Tovey takes 4th, 17th at Nike Outdoor Nationals Last week Bailey Tovey, a rising senior at Thurston High School, competed at the Nike Outdoor Nationals, one of the nation’s premiere…
Tovey takes 4th, 17th at Nike Outdoor Nationals Last week Bailey Tovey, a rising senior at Thurston High School, competed at the Nike Outdoor Nationals, one of the nation’s premiere…
I’m standing along the wall at the Walterville Grange, looking out over 40-some people gathered for a Lane Families for Farms & Forests tour up the McKenzie, focused on working…
I’m standing along the wall at the Walterville Grange, looking out over 40-some people gathered for a Lane Families for Farms & Forests tour up the McKenzie, focused on working…
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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