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SPORTS SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2015 HERMISTONHERALD.COM A7 SOFTBALL • SCHEDULE More than a game The coach I’ll always have Brandi Howard still spreads her husband’s message 6 years after losing him to cancer SAM BARBEE FROM THE SIDELINES Sports reporter The memory is clear. 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Sunday, June 21 Softball For the Love Tournament, 8:30 a.m., Theater Sports Park Monday, June 22 Baseball Stan¿eOd # ,rriJonRiverside, p.m. TR&,-ava -unkies at 8ntouFhaEOes, :30 p.m. North softEaOO ¿eOd Purosho at 8ntouFhaEOes, :30 p.m. South softEaOO ¿eOd Tuesday, June 23 Coed softball 8ntouFhaEOes at TR&,-ava -unkies, p.m. North softEaOO ¿eOd, Theater Sports Park Riverside Sports %ar at Purosho, p.m., South softEaOO ¿eOd, Theater Sports Park Baseball Hermiston vs. Stan¿eOd 'H, p.m. Men’s softball (Oite at Purosho, p.m., North softEaOO ¿eOd, Theater Sports Park Purosho at (Oite, :30 p.m., North softEaOO ¿eOd Wednesday, June 24 Men’s softball Shearer¶s at '4, p.m., North softEaOO ¿eOd, Theater Sports Park Preferred ReaOt\ at && &onstruFtion, p.m., South softEaOO ¿eOd, Theater Sports Park '4 at Shearer¶s, :30 p.m., North softEaOO ¿eOd && &onstruFtion at Preferred ReaOt\, :30 p.m., South softEaOO ¿eOd