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Wednesday, April 11, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Outlaws battle but fall in Sky-Em openers By Tom Mauldin Correspondent The Sisters High School varsity softball team dropped its first three Sky-Em League games and saw their loss streak reach nine in a row. The Outlaws lost their league opener to No. 8-ranked Elmira, 20-5, then fell in a double-header to Sutherlin, 10-9 and 20-1. SHS has not won since opening the sea- son with an impressive and offensive win over Klamath Union, 21-15. Always finding silver lin- ings, Outlaw Head Coach Dave Smith noted that his squad had its best inning of the season against Elmira when they scored five times on six base hits in the third inning to put a scare into the 10-1 Falcons. “Our best inning at bat was the third, when Jourdan Andrews started off with a single, followed by Anessa Stotts with a single and run- scoring singles from Isabel Spitler, Sara Hartford, Keeley Malloy and Ellie Rush. “In my three years at Sisters, this was the best three innings we have played against Elmira,” said Smith. “We were playing with them all the way up until the fourth, when we made too many errors.” The eight errors coupled with 10 Falcon base hits lead to 12 runs and a run-rule defeat for the Outlaws. Behind Bethanne Yount’s first career homer, the Outlaws almost pulled off the upset against Sutherlin, los- ing the opener of a double- header, 10-9. It took three Sutherlin runs in the bottom of the sixth to decide the outcome. SHS scored three in the first, four in the second and one each in the third and sixth and led 9-7 before Sutherlin’s late-game rally. The Outlaws had plenty of offense — 18 base hits — but were doomed by six untimely errors. In addition to her homer, Young had two singles, Tatum Sitz had four hits, Stotts had two singles and a triple, and Malloy and Madi Larrabee had two hits each. Rush, Parker Warren and Nancy Montecinos added a single each. In my three years at Sisters, this was the best three innings we have played against Elmira. — Coach Dave Smith Spitler took the loss in the circle, but struck-out five and walked only two as the Outlaws out-hit the hosts, 18-10. Game two was a different story, and Smith admitted sil- ver linings were few. “We came out flat and stayed that way,” he said. “We had 14 errors in the sec- ond inning, which killed us.” The Outlaws committed 14 errors and found them- selves trailing 17-1 after two innings. The Outlaws’ only run came in the first inning when Yount doubled and scored on a single by Keeley Malloy. The Outlaws host No. 2-ranked Junction City, 10-1, and 2-5 Cottage Grove this week at Volunteer Field. Friday’s twinbill with Cottage Grove begins at 3 p.m. Smile, Sisters! We’re committed to your dental health! Exceptional Health, Prevention & Aesthetics For Your Family! Trevor Frideres d.m.d. Ben Crockett, d.d.s. p 541-549-9486 f 541-549-9110 410 E. Cascade Ave. • P.O. Box 1027 • Sisters Hours: Mon., 9 a.m.-6 p.m.; Tues.-Wed., 8 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thurs., 7 a.m.-3 p.m. 9 County, state clash over pot sites By Andrew Selsky Associated Press SALEM (AP) — A state agency has refused to provide a county sheriff and prosecu- tor in Oregon with a list of medical marijuana grow sites, marking the latest friction over marijuana between local and state officials. On March 13, Oregon Health Authority official Carole Yann told Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel and Sheriff Shane Nelson that the law doesn’t permit the agency to provide the list. Instead, local law enforce- ment — on a case-by-case basis — can verify the regis- tration status of a site through a database or call the medical marijuana program managed by Yann, she said. On Thursday, Hummel and Nelson challenged that jus- tification and said they need the list to help identify illegal grow sites. “I respectfully suggest that providing Sheriff Nelson and I (sic) with the addresses of medical marijuana grow sites does not run afoul of Oregon statutory law,” Hummel wrote to Yann in a letter that was also signed by Nelson. On Tuesday, April 3, offi- cials in another county sued the state in federal court, asserting that Oregon laws that made pot legal are pre- empted by a federal law that criminalizes it. The Josephine County Board of Commissioners in December tried to ban or restrict commercial pot farm- ing on rural residential lots, but the state Land Use Board of Appeals put the restrictions on hold. The county has petitioned the Oregon Court of Appeals and sued in federal court. The cases illustrate a con- tinuing struggle by local, state and federal officials over legalization of marijuana in Oregon and other states. In ballot measures, Oregon voters legalized medical mari- juana in 1998 and recreational cannabis in 2014. Some jurisdictions in Oregon were allowed to opt out of allow- ing recreational marijuana businesses. Deschutes County decided in 2016 to allow them after previously banning them in unincorporated areas. But county commissioners said this week they may try to prohibit new marijuana busi- nesses until the rules are bet- ter enforced. Hummel and Nelson com- plained in their February 7 letter to the health authority, which regulates medical mari- juana, that local law enforce- ment often can’t tell whether medical marijuana grow sites are legal or illegal because the agency hasn’t provided a list of authorized sites. They asked for a list of licensed medical growers. Hummel said Thursday that state law doesn’t prohibit the health authority from pro- viding the list. He asked Yann to specify if the Legislature prohibits it, or if the health authority chose to require law enforcement to make case-by- case requests for information. In their letter, Hummel and Nelson included a thumb drive containing every address in Deschutes County. They told Yann to verify whether each is a registered marijuana grow site. FURRY FRIEND S 501 ( c )( 3 ) FOUNDATION 204 W. 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