Wednesday, August 23, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters salutes…
Hodges hanging up his baseball cleats
By Rongi Yost
Correspondent
PHOTO PROVIDED
Brogan Petterson earned Eagle Scout rank.
• On August 10, Brogan
Petterson from Team 9188
in Sisters earned his Eagle
Scout Rank. His parents
are Swen and Melanie
Petterson from Sisters.
His Eagle Scout project
was to develop and build
campsites at Sisters Eagle
Airport.
• Sisters Habitat for
Humanity would like to give
a shout out to the Sisters
Community Garden for
hosting music in the park
with The Jazz Folks earlier
this month. Nearly $400 was
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raised for Sisters Habitat’s
building program! Many
thanks to all who came
out and for the generous
donations.
• Jacob Loren Jeppsen is
a 2014 Sisters High School
graduate. Last month he
graduated boot camp from
the United States Air Force
at Lackland Air Force Base
in San Antonio, Texas. He
will move on to pursuing
Special Forces as a TacP. His
parents, Monte and Jillian
Jeppsen, are very proud of
him.
Eleven years ago, Steve
Hodges took over as the boys
head baseball coach and took
a team that was going through
a few bumps to a successful,
viable program. Over the past
11 years, Hodges has led the
Outlaws to six league cham-
pionships, and nine of those
11 years they made appear-
ances at the state tournament.
His overall record is 219 wins
and 79 losses.
Hodges told The Nugget
there always has to be a
beginning and an ending, and
that he figured he’d know in
his heart when it would be
time for him to enter another
chapter in his life.
“I knew this was the time,”
said Hodges. “I’m going to be
61 in the next three weeks
and I’ve coached for over 30
years. I also referee basketball
games and officiate at football
games, and my wife has spent
many Friday nights alone. It’s
time for me to spend Friday
nights with my wife, do a bit
more fishing, work on my
golf game, and be a spectator
of the sport.”
Reflecting on the past 11
years Hodges said, “It was
gratifying to hear positive
feedback over the
years from coaches,
umpires, and the base-
ball community at large
throughout the state.
They saw how great
our kids handled them-
selves on the field and
they saw how hard they
competed. I’m very
grateful for the privi-
lege of coaching a lot of
great young men. One
of the rewards was to
watch these guys grow
up and be successful.”
Hodges Thanked
key people for their
support over the years.
PHOTO BY JERRY BALDOOCK
“I’m so thankful for Hodges led the Outlaws baseball program
Linda (wife) for her in becoming a premier competitor.
dedication and being
so supportive of my coaching knowledge and passion for
all these years,” said Hodges. the game of baseball will be
“And, there are a number of greatly missed. His accom-
people over the years who plishments as a head coach
really stepped up and helped speak for themselves, and
make field improvements, if you look at the quality of
donated equipment so we athletes he has coached that
could work on the field, and have gone on and played at
in addition donated many the next level show just how
hours of their time and effort. much of this knowledge and
A program can’t be success- passion were passed on to
ful without that support, so these players. There is a tre-
thanks to all of you who mendous amount of time,
helped out.”
effort, and sacrifice needed to
G a r y T h o r s o n , a t h - run a quality program, and I
letic director of Sisters greatly appreciate all he did
High School said, “Steve’s for Sisters athletics.”
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