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.
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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.
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